# The Best Free Evite Alternatives in 2026

> Eight Evite alternatives with a genuinely free tier, compared on price, advertising, guest caps and what a guest has to hand over. Every price checked 25 August 2026.

Source: https://rsvora.com/blog/best-free-evite-alternatives
Publisher: RSVora (https://rsvora.com)
Updated: 2026-08-25

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**Short answer:** the best free Evite alternative for most hosts is **RSVora** — unlimited guests, no advertising anywhere, no watermark, no subscription, and nothing for a guest to sign up for. **Partiful** is the better pick if your guest list is young, entirely mobile, and you want date polling or a waitlist. **Mixily** is a solid ad-free choice for small events. **Facebook Events** is free and fine if everyone you are inviting is genuinely on Facebook. Everything else in this category is free in a way that has a catch, and the catch is worth understanding before you send.

## The four ways "free" stops being free

Almost every invitation product advertises a free tier. There are only four ways they get paid, and knowing which one you are looking at tells you more than any feature list.

1. **Your guests see advertising.** The invitation is free because the page your guests land on is an ad slot. Evite shows ads on free designs. Punchbowl shows advertising to you and your guests on every membership except Platinum. Greetings Island shows ads on its free tier.
2. **The price is per guest.** The send is free up to a number, then it scales with your list. Paperless Post charges Coins per recipient. Evite prices Premium in guest-count bands, so a single extra guest can move you up a band.
3. **Free is a trial or a cap.** Punchbowl no longer offers a permanent free plan — new customers get a seven-day trial that takes a card. Mixily's free plan stops at 40 RSVPs per event. RSVPify's free plan stops at 100 invited guests and one event at a time.
4. **Free output is marked.** Greetings Island watermarks free invitation designs. Smilebox watermarks creations without a subscription.

RSVora is none of those. There is one tier, it is free, and it stays free at 12 guests and at 750.

## The comparison

Every figure below comes from the other product's own pricing or help pages, checked on 25 August 2026. Each row links to a full side-by-side page where the source for every claim is cited.

| Product | Price | Ads shown to guests | Guest cap on the free tier | Guest needs an account |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [RSVora](/compare/evite) | Free, one tier | None | None | No |
| [Evite](/compare/evite) | Free designs free; Premium $17.99 (12 guests) to $99.99 (750) | Yes, on free designs | 750 per Premium invitation | No |
| [Partiful](/compare/partiful) | Free, no paid tier | None | None | Phone number plus a texted code |
| [Mixily](/compare/mixily) | Free plan; Lite $19/mo, Pro $29/mo | None on any plan | 50 invites, 40 RSVPs, 2 active events | No |
| [Paperless Post](/compare/paperless-post) | Coins per recipient, about $0.50 to $1.44 a guest | None | First 50 invitations on free designs | No |
| [Punchbowl](/compare/punchbowl) | No permanent free plan; 7-day trial, then $5.99 to $11.99/mo | Yes, unless you are on Platinum | Trial only | No |
| [Greetings Island](/compare/greetings-island) | Free designs; premium about $26.99 a year | Yes, on the free tier | Not published | No |
| [Hobnob](/compare/hobnob) | Free to start, in-app purchases | None | A limited number of invites | No, but it is an app you install |
| [Facebook Events](/compare/facebook-events) | Free | Facebook is an advertising product | None | Yes, a Facebook account |

## Where each one actually wins

**RSVora** — free at any size with no advertising, no watermark and no card on file. Guests open a link and reply; there is no app, no account and no verification code. The host dashboard counts adults and children separately, which is the number you need for catering, and the guest list exports to CSV. It does not do date polling, payment collection or video invitations.

**Evite** — brand recognition nothing else in the category comes close to. When an Evite lands, most American guests already know what it is, and that lifts reply rates on its own. Nearly three decades of scale means the deliverability is mature and a 700-person send does not fall over. The licensed and animated Premium designs are genuinely good. The cost is that on a free design, your guests are shown advertising.

**Partiful** — the best sense of humour in the category, and free with no advertising and no premium tier. Date polling, capacity limits with an automatic waitlist and payment collection are all built in. The trade is the RSVP flow: a guest enters a name and phone number and then types a code texted to that number, and Partiful uses collected numbers to send reminders, host text blasts and events that a guest's mutuals are invited to. For a young mobile-native list that is nothing; for a mixed list with colleagues and grandparents in it, it is where people stall.

**Mixily** — ad-free on every plan, including the free one, and it has date polling and custom RSVP questions that RSVora does not. The limits are the thing to check: 50 invites and 40 RSVPs per event, two active events at a time, 200 emails a week. A 40-RSVP cap bites before a 50-invite cap does, so a party of sixty can run out of replies while people are still answering.

**Paperless Post** — the best design catalogue in the category by a wide margin, with real stationers and artists behind it, and the envelope, liner and stamp treatments give a digital card the ceremony of a paper one. It also prints, so one design can carry across paper and screen. The model is Coins charged per recipient, and the design decisions that make a card look expensive are exactly the ones that cost more of them.

**Punchbowl** — licensed designs: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Sesame Street. For a child who has asked for a specific character, that is often the whole decision. Two things to be clear-eyed about first: the seven-day trial takes a credit card, and unless you are on Platinum your guests are still shown advertising on a plan you are paying for.

**Greetings Island** — a genuinely huge catalogue across invitations, cards, flyers and announcements, and you can download and print as well as send. At around $26.99 a year the premium tier is cheap compared with per-guest models. Free designs carry a small watermark in the bottom right corner.

**Hobnob** — text message delivery done properly, with a decade of refinement behind it, plus video and photo invitations and a group chat on the event. It is an app you install, and the host experience lives on a phone.

**Facebook Events** — unbeatable for public discovery. If you want strangers to find your gig, market stall or community meeting, no invitation product competes. For a private list it has three real problems: anyone not on Facebook cannot reply, you cannot convert a public event to a private one after creating it, and it counts people rather than headcounts, so there is no way to record that one invitee is bringing two adults and three children.

## How to choose in one minute

- **Mixed guest list, any size, and you want it to cost nothing** — RSVora.
- **Young, mobile, and you need date polling or a waitlist** — Partiful.
- **The card itself is part of the occasion** — Paperless Post.
- **Your child asked for a specific licensed character** — Punchbowl.
- **You want strangers to find the event** — Facebook Events.
- **You need custom RSVP questions and your list is small** — Mixily.

## Sources

Prices, caps and advertising behaviour above are taken from each company's own pricing or help documentation and were checked on 25 August 2026. Every claim is cited with a source link on the matching comparison page — for example [RSVora vs Evite](/compare/evite) and [RSVora vs Paperless Post](/compare/paperless-post). Each of those pages also has a section on what the other product does better, because a comparison that pretends otherwise is easy to discredit.

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## Common questions

### What is the best free alternative to Evite?

RSVora is the closest thing to a straight replacement: unlimited guests, no advertising on any page, no watermark, no subscription and no account required for a guest to reply. Partiful is the strongest alternative if your guests are young and mobile-first and you want date polling; Mixily is a good ad-free option for small events that fit inside its 40-RSVP free cap.

### Is Evite actually free?

Evite has a real free tier, but free designs display advertising to your guests, and Evite lists ad removal, gifting-suggestion removal and shareable links among the upgrades that convert a free design into a paid Premium send. Premium is priced by guest count from $17.99 for up to 12 guests to $99.99 for up to 750, checked 25 August 2026.

### Which invitation site does not show ads to guests?

RSVora, Partiful, Mixily and Hobnob show no advertising to guests on any tier. Evite shows ads on free designs, Punchbowl shows them on every membership except Platinum, and Greetings Island shows them on its free tier.

### Do free invitation sites limit how many people you can invite?

Most do. Mixily's free plan allows 50 invites and 40 RSVPs per event. RSVPify's free plan allows 100 invited guests, one event at a time. Paperless Post gives you the first 50 invitations free on free designs. RSVora has no guest cap and no event cap.

### Do my guests need an account to RSVP?

On RSVora, Evite, Paperless Post, Punchbowl, Mixily and Hobnob, no. On Partiful a guest enters a phone number and types a code texted to it. On Facebook Events a guest needs a Facebook account to see or answer the invitation at all.

### Which free invitation makers add a watermark?

Greetings Island puts a small watermark in the bottom right corner of free invitation designs, removable with a one-time purchase or a premium subscription. Smilebox watermarks creations without a plan. RSVora adds no mark of its own to any invitation.