Short answer: yes. RSVora has one tier and it is free. There is no paid plan, no premium design set, no per-guest price, no guest-count band, no subscription, no trial, and no payment method held anywhere in the product. Your guests are shown no advertising, nothing is watermarked, and no guest data is sold. The real limits are on scope — there are things it deliberately does not do — not on how much of it you get.
What RSVora is
A free online invitation maker with RSVP tracking. You create an event, pick or upload a design, share a link, and watch the replies land in a dashboard. It runs in any modern browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. There is no app on either side.
Hosts use it for birthdays, baby showers, weddings, baptisms, graduations, dinners, potlucks, game nights, class reunions and about eighty other occasions.
What "free" covers
Everything the product does:
- Any number of guests. No cap, no bands, no upgrade prompt at 13 people.
- Any number of events, running at the same time.
- Every design. Nothing is held back for a paid tier, and nothing is watermarked. You can also upload your own image up to 8 MB.
- Per-guest private RSVP links, or one public link for a group chat, or both on the same event.
- The full dashboard — yes / no / pending, adults and children counted separately, sent-and-opened per guest, CSV export.
- Automatic reminders on the RSVP-by date.
- Guest-facing translation into the language the guest's device is set to.
- Text and email delivery, host-initiated.
What it does not do
This is the part most "is it really free" pages leave out, and it is the actual answer to "what's the catch".
- No date polling. If you need to settle on a date with the group before the event exists, Mixily and Partiful both do this and RSVora does not.
- No waitlist or capacity cap. Partiful has it.
- No payment collection from guests. Partiful and the ticketing platforms — Eventbrite, Luma — have it.
- No video or music invitations. Hobnob and Smilebox do.
- No printing. Paperless Post, Minted and Basic Invite all print.
- No custom RSVP questions. The RSVP captures yes/no, adults, children and a free-text note, and that is fixed. Mixily and RSVPify let you ask anything.
- The design catalogue is not the biggest. Paperless Post and Greetings Island have larger and, for a formal card, better libraries.
If one of those is the reason you are choosing a tool, choose the tool that has it. There are 30 side-by-side comparisons, each with a section on what the other product genuinely does better.
How a free product stays up
Three honest reasons.
It is cheap to run. An invitation is a web page and an RSVP is a row in a database. There is no marketplace to operate, no printing, no payments to reconcile and no sales team. The marginal cost of one more invitation is close to nothing.
Growth comes from the invitations themselves. Every guest who opens a link sees the product working. Some of them go on to host something. That loop is the entire marketing budget, and it only works if the guest experience is clean — which is precisely why there are no ads and no gift guides on it. Advertising to guests would trade the growth engine for a small amount of revenue.
There is no paid tier to protect. Products with a premium plan have to make the free plan slightly worse on purpose, which is where guest caps, watermarks and ads-until-you-upgrade come from. With one tier there is nothing to hold back.
What happens to your data
- The host's contact list is private to the host.
- No guest data is shared with or sold to third parties.
- No advertising, tracking pixels or third-party analytics run on the pages guests see.
- Guest RSVP pages sit at unguessable token URLs and are disallowed in robots.txt, so they are not indexed.
- Invitations are not listed in any public gallery.
- The guest list exports to CSV, so it is yours to take.
Full detail in the privacy policy.
One caveat worth stating plainly: a link is a link. Anyone you send one to can open it, and can forward it. If the guest list itself is sensitive — a surprise party, for example — use per-guest links rather than the public one, and treat the link the way you would treat the guest list.
Is it worth trying?
It takes about a minute to find out, and you do not need an account to start — you can design the invitation and only sign in when you want to save and send it. Start one.