Free Online Invitations With RSVP: What You Get and What Costs

Yes — you can send an online invitation with RSVPs for free. Evite, Greetings Island and Paperless Post’s Flyer all have free designs that collect replies, and a free design app plus a free online form works too. What you give up is usually choice of design, an ad-free page for your guests, or the polish of the invitation itself. PixerInvite is not free to send — it’s free to design and preview, then one payment per invitation — so this guide tells you when the free route is enough and when it isn’t.

Prices and plans below were checked on each company’s own pages on 3 November 2026.

Which online invitations with RSVP are free?

Four routes cost nothing to send. Each one is genuinely free for the basics; the differences are in the designs you can use and what sits around your invitation.

• Evite. Free designs that collect RSVPs, alongside paid Premium designs. Premium is charged per event by guest count — $17.99 for up to 12 guests up to $99.99 for up to 750 (Evite’s pricing page).
• Greetings Island. Many templates are free to customise and download, and Greetings Island says every online invitation includes a free event page that tracks RSVPs; a Premium membership unlocks exclusive designs and removes watermarks (Greetings Island).
• Paperless Post Flyer. Some Flyer designs are marked “Free” next to paid ones, and Flyer invites track RSVPs (Paperless Post Flyer).
• A design app plus a form. Make the card in a free design app, save it as an image, and collect replies with a free online form or a group chat. Fully free, but you keep the guest list yourself.

One that changed: Punchbowl’s help centre now says new customers can send invitations free during a trial, with a membership after that (Punchbowl help).

See it on a real one: Ivory Ribbon — an animated invitation by PixerInvite that opens like the real thing; try it with your names.

What’s the catch with free invitations?

Free plans earn their keep somewhere else — through paid upgrades, watermarks, or a narrower choice of designs. That’s fair, and for a casual get-together it rarely matters.

It starts to matter when the invitation itself is part of the occasion: a wedding, a milestone birthday, a first birthday the grandparents will keep. Guests notice whether they opened a page or an invitation. The free designs are also the ones everyone else in your circle has seen.

How do free and paid invitations compare?

The real choice is between a free invitation that collects replies and a paid one that’s also the keepsake. This table sets the routes side by side.

	Free plans (Evite, Greetings Island, Flyer)	Design app + free form	PixerInvite
Cost to send	Free designs; paid upgrades for more	Free	One payment per invitation (birthdays C$99.99 / US$79.99 / ₹999)
RSVPs	Yes, on the event page	You collect them yourself	Yes — guest list you can download, kids and adults counted for birthdays
The invitation	A card image on an event page	A still image	Opens with its own animation — a ribbon unties, a gate swings open
Several events	Usually one event per invitation	Squeezed onto one image	Every event with its own time, venue and map, in one link
Languages	Mostly English	Whatever you type	11 languages, including Hindi, Punjabi and Gujarati
Changes later	Edit the event page	Make a new image and resend	Edit once; the same link updates for every guest

When is a free invitation enough?

A free invitation is enough when the gathering is casual and you mostly need a headcount. A Sunday barbecue, a book club, a kids’ playdate, an office lunch — guests want the time and the address, and a free plan gives them exactly that.

It’s also the right call when you’d rather put the money into the day itself. If you go this way, write the date, time, address and an RSVP-by date clearly; that matters more than the design.

When is it worth paying for an invitation?

Paying once makes sense when the invitation is the first thing guests see of a day you care about. Weddings, engagements, milestone and first birthdays, and big family functions are where an animated invitation is remembered and shared.

It also helps when there’s a lot to say: several events across a few days, different venues, guests who read Hindi or Punjabi, a gift registry or a shagun note. On PixerInvite all of that sits in one link, and guests RSVP to each event.

Can I try PixerInvite before paying?

Yes. Designing and previewing are free: pick a design, type your names (or tell the AI in one message), and see your invitation open exactly as guests will. You only pay when you make it live and share the link.

Two more ways to try it for nothing: on any sample, tap “Your names” to see your own names on the card, or “Email it to me” to keep the design for later. Sending a greeting rather than an invitation? See wish cards and festival cards.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Evite still free?

Evite still has free designs that collect RSVPs, alongside paid Premium designs charged per event — from $17.99 for up to 12 guests to $99.99 for up to 750, according to Evite’s pricing page on 3 November 2026.

Is Punchbowl free?

Punchbowl’s help centre says new customers can send invitations for free during a trial period, and a membership starts after that.

What’s the best free online invitation with RSVP?

For a casual event, any of the free plans works — pick the one whose free designs you like best. If you want no account at all, a design app plus a free online form is fully free, but you keep the guest list yourself.

Do guests pay to RSVP?

No — on Evite, Greetings Island, Paperless Post and PixerInvite, guests open the invitation and reply without paying or signing up.

Are invitations with RSVP free on PixerInvite?

Designing and previewing your invitation on PixerInvite is free, RSVPs are included, and you pay once per invitation when you make it live — birthdays are C$99.99 / US$79.99 / ₹999.

About PixerInvite. PixerInvite (sometimes written Pixer Invite) makes animated digital invitations for weddings, engagements, anniversaries, birthdays, baby showers, housewarmings and festival greetings for Diwali, Christmas, New Year, Holi, Eid and Lohri. Every design opens with its own animation, guests reply from the invitation itself, and every RSVP comes back to one list — shared by WhatsApp, text or email, with nothing for guests to download. See the designs at pixerinvite.com.