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SimpleInvite and Evite

SimpleInvite never puts an advertisement in front of your guests, and an event without one costs $5 at most, where Evite charges by the size of the list. Evite is the better pick for a free list in the hundreds, or when you want the widest choice of designs.

Checked October 4, 2026

Which one to pick

Pick SimpleInvite if

  • Your guests see no advertising.Free Evite invitations carry ads, and removing them is a premium upgrade. No SimpleInvite event shows an advertisement, free or paid.
  • Your event is 30 guests or fewer.It is free here, with no ads. At Evite, a 30-guest invitation without ads is $36.99 (Gold).
  • Your event is bigger.Up to 150 guests is $5 here. At Evite, Platinum, up to 75 guests, is $68.99, and Diamond, up to 750, is $99.99.
  • You host often.The year is $39, paid once, for every event up to 150 guests, and it doesn't renew on its own. Evite Pro is $249.99 a year.
  • You want to word the reminder yourself.Your nudge opens with a plain question you can rewrite before it goes. Evite's reminder messages can't be changed.

Pick Evite if

  • A big list for nothing.A free Evite invitation takes up to 750 guests if you accept advertising on it. A free SimpleInvite event stops at 30.
  • A design for every occasion.Evite's catalogue of free and premium designs is far larger than our eight looks.
  • Texts today.Evite sends invites and reminders by text from its own number now. Ours are not live yet.
  • Large events.Evite Pro takes up to 2,500 guests an invitation. We stop at 150.
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A fortieth birthday for 45

Friends and family, one Saturday night, and you would rather they saw no ads.

On SimpleInvite

  • Make the invite, add a photo and pick one of the eight looks.
  • Add the people. We email everyone with an address; the rest get their link in a text from your phone.
  • Pay $5 when you send, because the list is over 30.
  • Anyone still pending gets a nudge on its own, and everyone coming gets a reminder on the morning of the party.

What it costs$5 for this event.

On Evite

  • Pick a design. A free design shows ads unless you upgrade it.
  • Removing the ads makes it a premium invitation, priced by the size of the list: Platinum covers 75 guests.
  • Send by email, text or a shareable link.
  • One reminder goes two days before, to everyone except those who said no. You can schedule up to five, with Evite's wording.

What it costsFree with advertising, or $68.99 without.

Side by side

Their prices and limits are from their own pages, checked October 4, 2026.

For the hostSimpleInviteEvite
What it costsSimpleInviteFree to 30 guests, $5 an event to 150, or $39 for a year, paid onceEviteFree with advertising, or a premium invitation from $17.99 to $99.99 by the size of the list
An event for 30 guests, without adsSimpleInviteFreeEvite$36.99 (Gold, up to 30 guests)
An event for 100 guests, without adsSimpleInvite$5Evite$99.99 (Diamond; Platinum stops at 75)
Hosting all yearSimpleInvite$39 once, for 12 months, up to 150 guests an event. It doesn't renew on its own.EviteEvite Pro, $249.99 a year, up to 2,500 guests an invitation
Advertising on the guest's pageSimpleInviteNever, on any eventEviteOn free invitations. Removing it is a premium upgrade
RemindersSimpleInviteA nudge on its own to everyone pending, two more you can send, and a reminder at 9 am on the day to the people comingEviteOne automatic reminder two days before, and up to 5 you schedule, to everyone except those who said no. The wording can't be changed
TextsSimpleInviteNot from us yet. You can text anyone their link from your own phoneEviteInvites and reminders by text from Evite's number, in the US and Canada
Most guests on one eventSimpleInvite150Evite750 on a free invitation, 2,500 with Evite Pro
DesignsSimpleInviteEight looks, and your own photoEviteA large catalogue of free and premium designs

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