Apple Invites vs POOK

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.

POOK is a browser-based invitation maker for publishing an event page as a share link and matching QR code, then collecting RSVPs. Guests can respond without an account, password, phone number or app installation; they choose attending, still deciding or unable to attend, and may add a note of up to 120 characters. Each invitation includes 30 guests, with additional capacity available in blocks of 30 for $0.90 each up to 450 self-serve guests. The gallery contains 450 editable templates, and paid invitations add AI drafting that produces three directions per generation. They also open gathering features including group chat, shared photos, Mood Pulse, Moment Room and 32 Play Kit activities. A Google Calendar link and an.ics download include alarms set for 24 hours and two hours before the gathering. Participant-level data, including chat, photos and individual game records, is deleted 48 hours afterward; the host keeps an aggregate recap. POOK supports eight languages. Plans range from Free at free to Studio at $19.99 a month.