Alternatives to the big invitation sites
Friends RSVP is a free alternative to Evite and Partiful for one specific reason: no advertising runs on the invitation your guests open, and nobody — host or guest — has to create an account or hand over a phone number to reply. It is 571 hand-drawn designs across 50 occasions. Below is an honest comparison of each, including where the other product is the better choice.
Alternatives to Evite
The original online invitation service. Running since 1998, with the largest template library in the category and printed cards you can order.
- You want the largest possible choice of designs — Evite has thousands, built up over 25 years, and its own site describes it as "thousands of professionally-designed, on-trend digital invitations".
Alternatives to Partiful
A modern, free, mobile-first invitation app. Popular for casual parties and nights out, with a strong social feel — guest lists you can browse, comments, and reactions.
- Your event is casual, your guests are all on their phones, and you want the party energy — comments, reactions, a guest list people browse. That social layer is genuinely good and we do not have it.
What both have in common
Partiful and Friends RSVP both put no advertising on the invitation, and both are free — so if escaping ads is your only reason for leaving an incumbent, either will do. The difference is the reply step: a Partiful guest signs in with a phone number before responding, and one of ours opens their personal link and replies immediately. Evite is the one that still carries advertising on its free tier.
Competitor claims checked against their own published documentation on September 23, 2026. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners.