Evite Alternatives: 5 Online Invitation Tools Compared (2026)

Evite has been the default online invitation service for years, and its free plan is generous on guest numbers. The most common complaints are about what guests see and what it costs to change that: free invitations show third-party ads and gift suggestions, and removing ads or adding features such as envelopes triggers Premium pricing based on the size of your guest list. A host gallery for photos is also part of Premium.

So the questions most hosts ask are: Can my guests reply without ads, apps or accounts? What will a full guest list cost? Can I collect photos from the event in the same place? The tools below answer those differently.

Paperless Post is known for its designer stationery, animated envelopes and polished cards, which makes it popular for formal weddings and corporate events. Pricing is per recipient: each design costs a number of Coins per guest, and a flat 200 Coins adds premium features such as a photo gallery and custom URL. Frequent senders can choose an annual Pro subscription priced by yearly guest count, starting at $250 for 250 guests (Paperless Post pricing).

Choose it if design is the priority and you send mostly by email. The per-recipient model adds up for large guest lists.

Partiful is a free, social-style party invite app. You share one link anywhere; guests reply in the browser with their phone number, which lets the host send text updates to everyone and gives guests automatic reminders. After the event, guests can add photos to the event page (Partiful help center).

Choose it for birthdays and house parties with friends. The casual, meme-friendly style fits less well with formal weddings, and asking guests for a phone number to RSVP is not to everyone's taste.

Apple Invites is Apple's own invitation app for iPhone and the web. Creating invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription; guests can reply from the app or on the web without an Apple account. Events can include a shared album in Apple Photos and a playlist in Apple Music (App Store listing).

Choose it if you already pay for iCloud+ and most guests have Apple devices. Guests on Android can reply, but the shared album and playlist work best inside Apple's ecosystem.

Greenvelope recreates traditional stationery — envelope, liner, stamp and enclosure cards — in digital form, and many wedding planners use it. Instead of per-guest pricing it charges a one-time fee per mailing by guest tier: $19 for up to 20 guests, $99 for up to 100 and $249 for up to 250, with optional annual memberships (Greenvelope pricing).

Choose it for a classic wedding invitation suite delivered by email. It is less suited to quick, casual events.

Inviteroll is the tool we make, so here is what it does and does not do. It is built for hosts who send invitations by message — especially on WhatsApp. Each guest gets a personal link: the invitation opens from an envelope, the RSVP section greets them by name, and they answer Going, Maybe or Not going with the number of people and a note, in the browser, without an app or an account. You can also turn on an open link for group chats. During the event guests add photos to a shared wall from the same link or a printable QR code, and afterwards you can turn the best ones into a 1080×1920 story or video. There are no ads on invitations, and location data is removed from every photo.

Your first event is free with up to 20 guests and 5 photos (with a small watermark). Plus is a single payment for that event — USD 10.99 in the US, with local prices in other currencies — for up to 300 guests and 300 photos, no watermark, nothing that renews. An optional Pro subscription unlocks Plus on all your events. What Inviteroll does not do: it does not send invitations by email for you, it has no automatic reminders to guests and no RSVP-by date — you send links and reminders yourself from your phone. Open a sample party invitation to see what guests get.

Start from how you will send the invitation and what you need back. If you will send by email and design matters most, look at Paperless Post or Greenvelope. If everyone is in a group chat and it is a casual party, Partiful or an open Inviteroll link is quickest. If you want each guest's answer matched to their name, a headcount you can trust and the guests' photos afterwards, a personal-link tool such as Inviteroll fits best.

For weddings specifically, see our guides to making a digital wedding invitation and collecting guest photos with a QR code. For parties, our birthday invitation wording has texts you can copy.