Evite vs POOK

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.

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.