Partiful vs POOK

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.

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.