Apple Invites vs InvitiApp

Apple Invites lets people create party invitations, manage RSVPs, and host events. Hosts can personalize invitation backgrounds with a library photo or an image created with Image Playground, then add details using Apple Music, Photos, Maps, and other features. Each event can have up to 100 guests, and hosts can create unlimited events. Invitations can be sent by email, link, or SMS. Guests can RSVP in the iPhone app or at iCloud.com without needing the app, an Apple device, or an Apple Account. Hosts can add a Shared Album for guests to contribute event photos and videos. Guests with an Apple Music subscription can add songs to a collaborative event playlist. Hosts can require approval before guests join and choose whether the invitation cover is visible only to joined guests. Creating invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription. The listed 50GB iCloud+ plan is $0.99 a month and includes access to Apple Invites; plans can be shared with up to five additional family members at no extra cost, with personal information kept separate.

InvitiApp creates digital invitations as interactive web pages that guests open in a browser to respond to an event. Templates cover weddings, birthdays, baby showers, graduations, anniversaries, first communions, Christmas parties, dinners, and other occasions. Hosts can personalize invitations with photos, text, fonts, music, background video, and interactive maps, then share a link through WhatsApp, email, or social networks. Guest confirmations appear in real time, and hosts can add custom RSVP questions or import and export guest lists in CSV or Excel formats. Each guest receives a QR code for phone-based check-in, with live arrival statistics; invitations and QR codes can also be saved to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Gift links and collaborative song suggestions are available, while InvitiApp says it does not handle gift money. The free plan allows five invitations per account and ten unique guest views per invitation, with a watermark. Paid plans start at $19.99, paid once and are activated per invitation.