About Friends RSVP
Friends RSVP is a small, independent invitation service: 571 hand-drawn designs across 50 occasions, no advertising on the invitation your guests open, and no account required — not for the host and not for the guest. It is built and run by a tiny team, and it is funded by an optional paid plan plus optional business arrangements, which the Privacy Policy describes in full.
Why this exists
Because sending an invitation had become worse than it needed to be. The free options put advertising on the page your guests open — a casino banner underneath a photograph of someone's grandmother at a memorial, a car commercial above a wedding invitation. The good options charged per event, tiered by guest count, so the price went up as the party got bigger. And almost all of them wanted an account from the guest before the guest could say yes.
None of those are unsolvable problems. They are choices, and they are profitable choices for a large company. So this is the version where the choices went the other way: no ads on any plan, no account to create or reply, and a design catalogue drawn by hand rather than licensed in bulk. 50 occasions, from a Halloween party to a memorial, and the same artwork reaches your guests' inboxes as appears on the page.
If you want printed cards in the post, or thousands of templates to browse, Evite is the better tool and we say so on the comparison page. If you want a phone-first party with a group chat, Partiful is genuinely better. We are for the events where the invitation itself should look like it was made for the occasion, and the reply should take one click.
What it does
- Pick a design and send it — or send one link and let people find it.
- Every guest gets their own personal link, so replies are attributed without anyone signing in.
- Track replies, headcount, dietary requirements, plus-ones and gifts in one place.
- Collect a bring-list, where guests claim what they are bringing and two people cannot claim the same thing.
- Keep a gift wishlist guests can reserve from, without the host seeing who reserved what.
- Privacy controls per event: who appears on the guest list, whether totals are visible, and what guests can see before they reply.
Who runs it
Friends RSVP is operated by JetFuel AI. It is not a large company, and there is no executive team page to show you — the honest version is that a small group builds and maintains this. What that buys you is a product that can change in a week rather than a year, and what it costs you is the brand recognition the incumbents have. Both of those are on the comparison pages too.
Anything that goes wrong, or any question at all, reaches a person at [email protected].
What it does not do
No printed invitations. No shared photo album from the event. No ticketing or payment collection. Text-message invitations are a paid add-on, because sending SMS means a registered messaging service; email invitations are free. The site is also young, so the design catalogue is a few hundred pieces rather than a few thousand — it grows, but it is not there yet.
Try it
Create an invitation, add your guests, and send it — no account needed to start, and nothing to pay to remove advertising from your guests' view, because there is none.