SimpleInviteStart an invite

SimpleInvite and Google Forms

A form collects the answers that come in. SimpleInvite knows who you invited, so it knows who hasn't answered, and it asks them again for you. A Google Form is the better pick when you need to ask more than whether people are coming.

Checked October 4, 2026

Which one to pick

Pick SimpleInvite if

  • You need to know who hasn't answered.SimpleInvite keeps everyone you invited, with the people still pending on top. A form has no guest list: it holds the answers that arrive, so finding who is missing means checking the sheet against your own list.
  • You'd rather not chase people.The people still pending get a nudge on their own, and you can send two more. Google Forms has no reminder of its own.
  • It should look like an invitation.The date, the place and your photo, in one of eight looks, on a page that opens from a message as a card.
  • Plans change.Send an update in your own words, and when the date or the place moves, everyone who answered is asked again. Each guest changes their answer on the same link.

Pick Google Forms if

  • You need more than yes or no.Meal choices, T-shirt sizes, who brings what: a form asks anything. SimpleInvite asks whether they're coming and how many.
  • It's big, and it has to be free.A form costs nothing with a Google account, at any size. SimpleInvite is free to 30 guests, then $5 an event.
  • You live in spreadsheets.Link the form to a Google Sheet and every answer lands there, to sort and share.
Start an invite

A class reunion for 60

Sixty classmates, a date three months out, and a venue that needs a count a week before.

On SimpleInvite

  • Add the classmates with an email or a mobile number. 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.
  • The people still pending get a nudge on their own. You can send two more, and each one goes only to the people who haven't answered.
  • The count, partners included, is on the event page. Download the list for the venue.

What it costs$5 for this event.

On Google Forms

  • Make a form with a name, a yes or no, and how many are coming.
  • Email it from Forms, or post the link where your classmates will see it.
  • Answers collect in the form, or in a linked sheet. To find who hasn't answered, check them against your own list.
  • Write to the missing people yourself, and add up the count.

What it costsNo charge with a Google account.

Side by side

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

For the hostSimpleInviteGoogle Forms
What it costsSimpleInviteFree to 30 guests, $5 an event to 150, or $39 for a year, paid onceGoogle FormsNo charge with a Google account
What the host needsSimpleInviteAn email address. You sign in with a code we email you, on any phone or computerGoogle FormsA Google account
What the guest needsSimpleInviteNothing. Their own link opens the invite, and one tap answersGoogle FormsA link. If you limit it to one answer each, every guest signs in to a Google account
Who hasn't answeredSimpleInviteEveryone pending, on top of your event pageGoogle FormsNot known: a form has no guest list
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 comingGoogle FormsNone of its own
How the invite reaches peopleSimpleInviteWe email it. Anyone without an email gets their own link from you, texted from your phone with one tap eachGoogle FormsEmail from Forms, a link you share, or the form embedded on a page
Questions you can askSimpleInviteWhether they're coming and how many, and anything they write backGoogle FormsAny question you write
Where the answers goSimpleInviteYour event page, and a spreadsheet to downloadGoogle FormsThe form's responses, or a linked Google Sheet

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