Evite vs Partiful

Evite is an online invitation and event-planning service for sending invitations and coordinating guests. Hosts can customize invitations, send them by email, text, or link, track RSVPs, message guests, and send automatic reminders. Free Event Pages provide textable invitations for casual gatherings; hosts and guests can create or respond in a browser without downloading an app. Pages can include sign-up sheets for guests to claim items or tasks. Evite also offers digital greeting cards that can be scheduled or sent instantly and a free tool for coordinating what guests bring and volunteer arrival times. Hosts may upload custom invitation designs, and Evite says its Canva app can send a design directly to Evite. Premium invitations are ad-free and include a matching envelope, stamps, and additional photo and text cards; prices depend on guest-list size. Listed single-event packages range from $17.99 a month for Silver, covering 12 guests, to $99.99 a month for Diamond, covering 750. Evite Pro costs $249.99 a year for up to 2,500 guests per invitation.

Partiful helps people invite guests, track RSVPs, and share updates through an event link. Hosts can customize invitations with backgrounds, fonts, animations, and posters, then contact guests through text blasts. Guests can RSVP with a phone number and add photos to the event page after the party. Hosts can make events public or private, hide the guest list, require a password, or enable guest approval. Events can sync with Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar, although Google Calendar event information updates roughly every 24 hours. Hosts can collect money through Venmo, CashApp, or PayPal, and sell tickets through Partiful. Ticketing fees depend on event size and ticket price; free tickets have no fees, and hosts can choose whether to cover fees or pass them to guests. The core platform is free on Android, iOS, and the web. Optional premium invite designs cost extra. Partiful sends reminders to invited users who have signed up: two hours before for guests marked Going and one week before for guests marked Maybe or not yet RSVP'd.