Evite: Party Invitation Maker Reviews

by Ellyse88

I used their virtual video chat for my virtual baby shower and it was a disaster. It kept kicking my family and friends off the chat, some of my family and friends couldn’t sign in on the chat, and they only display 12 people at a time during the chat. The rest of your guests would have wait until someone signed off for them to get that slot (i had 75 guests trying to attend).
I also had issues with audio going in and out as I’m trying tell people about my gifts which was very frustrating. I got knocked out the chat twice and when I tried to get back in the chat, i had to wait until someone turned off their camera so i could back on which doesn’t make sense since IM THE HOST smh. Overall, you would be better off using zoom. I was highly disappointed and upset because I was already bummed I couldn’t have a real shower because of COVID and this experience didn’t make it any better. I will never use their service again!

by Territown

I’ve never used this app before and after reading many reviews I was excited to give it a try! Especially since I see that Evites can now be sent via text. I need to reschedule an event that we had to postpone due to hurricane Florence, so I really don’t have time to mail out new invitations. I figured using this app would be faster. I downloaded Evite , entered my first and last name, my email address and a password then hit the register button, then nothing. I keep getting a pop up window that says “Registration Error, Please try again”. So I click “ok” and try again only to get the same error message over and over again. What could I have possibly done wrong? Please get back to me with a way to fix this. I’d love to update my review with 5 stars!!

by $7$100

The reason I considered Evite is to try it out... based on the reviews I went for it, but one can’t go by “5 star” reviews alone anymore. Evite was fine in terms of having more invitation options and no advertising... but other than that which was fine for the time frame I needed Evite to be advertisement free, it didn’t make much more of a difference.

I’m not upset because of my results during the 3 month subscription but rather that my account was billed for another 3 months. I knew I didn’t want Evite for more than three months so I never hit the auto renewal, I opted out. When I saw my email that I have approved the charges I went into my account to cancel. It was easier to subscribe than to cancel. This is how that make money, I suppose. If you choose to try Evite make sure to set a reminder to check your account to avoid “auto renewal”.

by Bec1039384756

Evite changed recently and I am no longer able to login. I keep getting an error message. I can login via web page on my phone without a problem. I emailed customer support. I got one reply and nothing since then. They don’t answer. I’ve used this company for years, maybe it’s time for a change

Update 1/1/20
Dear this app Team,
Thank you for responding to my review and your invite to email my issues to you for resolution. Unfortunately, I HAVE emailed. In fact, i have followed up several times without any further response from your Support team. Hence my reviews of your app because it does not work nor can I get help in it. I deleted Evite from my phone. Hopefully, one day, you will fix it so others can use it without the same issues and with better support than I have experienced.

by Krispyk61

This is a good concept, but no parts of this free app work the way they’re supposed to. Many people didn’t receive the this app via text, and many couldn’t RSVP. When people did RSVP, it didn’t show up or their name would be on the YES or NO list and also still in the NO REPLY list. Impossible to know how many people are really invited or coming to my party. The invite also could be a little more flexible as to wording, etc. I would be willing to pay to make and send out an invitation, but I don’t want to subscribe to something I use every 2 years. You guys could do so much better and probably make more money to charge per invite or per party!

by Happy Writer

I used to use Evite and it looked nice. Now the cards are so hard to see to pick from so kind of just picking. The ads are awful and when the invite goes out its so small cheap and tacky adds all over. When I get my replies in. I'm going to look for something different.
Too cheap looking ... And no preview anymore..
But I did check on my lap top after reading other reviews and yes it's much nicer there then on phone.. Unfortunately most people are reading on mobile .. I'd pay my .99 to get those adds off like other apps.
I just got a credit report 2019 and my email with my password was compromised from this site. So anyone using this with a password should check your acct...

by Lane KT

It’s been a couple of years since I entertained and needed to send an invitation and in that time, Evite lost helpful functions and is clunky to navigate with large amounts of screen used for nothing. A previous reviewer noted the functionality across platforms should be the same and it’s vastly different. Ex: I couldn’t change guest options in Evite to show adults vs kids after the invite was created. And when I tried to log into the website from a mobile browser it repeatedly opened Evite . I wanted to view the desktop version of this app so I could make the change since Evite didn’t offer the function I needed. Additionally, on Evite I used to be able to see when guests opened the invite - now it tells me someone opened the invite “yesterday” but I only sent the invite today-! Lastly, Evite is clearly so commercialized now that it’s distracting - each time I went in to update a draft, I was given a barrage of ads - “you’ve earned $40 for wine club this and meal prep kits that” - it’s just not what I came here to do. I miss the days of simpler screens with more functionality and a more seamless mobile to desktop experience.

by MDZvi

Functionality between app, desktop web access and phone web access is ALL different. It should be the same. On some platforms I can edit guests’ status, others I cannot. On one platform, I can see if it’s a phone number or email associated with the guest. On the other two I cannot.

Adding the text ability for this app is great, but you need to work out the bugs. Many of my guests could NOT rsvp to this app with out entering email (after I invited everyone via text). This caused MAJOR problems because I ended up with multiple entries for the same person. There HAS to be a way to add phone number AND email to a guest’s profile so that you don’t get duplicates...one guest profile with phone number, duplicate guest profile with email.

Not well designed from a programming point of view. You need to anticipate problems and design solutions that avoid them

by Kagogo

I recently downloaded Evite after using the web service for a few years. In the past, as a sender and a recipient of evites, I have been frustrated by being limited to email, since many people, including myself, tend to ignore email, or have filters to weed out the junk mail. So - I was happy to be able to send my most recent this app in the form of a text message, since text is more direct. However - most of my invitees completely missed it, since it came from a strange number (not from me, who is one of their contacts).
My husband forwarded me the text he received, and honestly, it comes across like spam or phishing.
One last minor comment: My friend asked me when I had sent the this app, and when I went into Evite to check, I couldn’t find a record of the “sent date”.

by Sillygardener2

I’ve been using Evite weekly for 7+ yrs and I think I only stay because I can’t find a better alternate. My frustrations are with the following unfixed bugs: Evite duplicates rsvps for those who reply via text and also email so you will get an error inflating the totals. This has gotten me in trouble on several occasions from sports teams to dinner reservations. The copy feature from paste events is a major time savor. However, the images get mixed up between old and new events so I’m finding it’s better to just start over.

Obviously there is a reason I keep coming back. It does a great job saving all my contacts and the images and concepts are great!!!!

by Lanarei

This is a review for Evite , not the this app service, which I enjoy. Evite itself has very limited capabilities in terms of managing the this app. There is also no way to edit the this app contacts through Evite , which is bizarre, as it would be convenient to sync them with your phone contacts. The biggest frustration of all is that there is no way to get app notifications from your this app without also getting email notifications. The whole point of an app for me would to be able to receive notifications via Evite without this app blowing up my email. Or being able to fully edit and manage my this app. I can do neither of these things so Evite is essentially useless.

by Jenweb325

Really fun app that I love to use, however I switch out of Evite for 2 seconds to look up my friends info and when I come back the invite I just spent 30 mins crafting is gone. That’s unbelievable. Please fix this very upsetting issue.
Additionally, In the “message” section, while typing on my iPhone it does not give the option to “shift” down to a new line, to create space between paragraphs. This would be a nice feature. It’s interesting that you guys push Evite so much, but in fact on the browser you are able to edit the font format a lot, where you’re not able to on Evite :/

by Cruiser175

Entering and importing contacts does not always work as smoothly as I would like and I have to edit the contacts because they are listed as the email is listed versus how I would like them presented, which is last name first, first name last. Once it is edited, it usually works so it is not perfect but it is a great option once the set up is in the form that I like it. I will keep using it. I tried to upgrade to an ad free version for my guests so I hope that works this time. When I was setting up my latest this app I kept getting a pop up then I won some prize and I couldn’t figure out how to get out of it so I had to keep exiting out and logging back in so I was very frustrated.

by Ocdboyyyyhey

Evite is great and I’ve easily been able to plan parties and get togethers and also been able to rsvp to them. The problem is that the online version allows you to add a “sign up to bring something” list, but Evite version does not. I’d expect Evite version to have the same and even more options than the online version, but I guess not. It would be so much more easier and better if there was the same options in Evite as the online version so that it would be less frustrating. Overall this is a great app for online invitations and I would recommend this to anyone.

by Bebesita_94

You can create custom invitations to parties so easily! I did it and sent it out to people in 10 mins!
They have so many templates to choose from and you just add your details and boom you’re done. Oh and did I mention ITS FREE?! Best part. You can choose extremely extravagant and animated templates for some dollars but all the free stuff they have is really great. And I really like how the guests can rave and tell how many people will be coming. It makes it easy for purchasing food. I’m definitely gonna be not only using this forever but

by GettinFit13

Just opened my app to view a new invitation and it asked me to sign in, which is weird b/c I was just on Evite a week ago I was already signed into my account and could view all my invitations and account, now I have to sign in and when I do it takes me right into making a new invitation and if I choose the settings button it just brings me to the specifics for that invite, if I press the back button it takes me back to the sign in screen ... didn’t find anything about a recent issue and I have the recent version! I closed Evite on my phone and reinstalled, still doing it! Super frustrating! What’s going on ?

I love Evite and prefer it over online version any day but just want to fix this issue

by Nicole Corin

Evite is great.
Free and easy to use. They have lots of great invitation layouts to choose from.
If I didn’t have this app then I would have 0 guests coming to my daughters birthday party, I have handwritten all the invites and still haven’t sent them out due to not having people’s home addresses.
With this app you can send them by email text or any social media platform and you get rsvp notifications right on your phone 👌🏼
Even as a back up to hand written invites it’s nice to see all the guests laid out in front of you and how many yes maybe and no’s there are.

by Real Leal

Evite allowed my daughter and I the opportunity to invite and make aware of our special celebration to our friends and family around the country. It is user friendly and it does all the work at just a few clicks of a text. Amazing and free for beautiful designs of wonderful invitations and thank you cards all sent through the internet and your personal contacts. Also one may edit the information if needed, choose the design amongst many, personalize the invite or not, and interact with replies to and from your contacts! Awesome!!!

by Shannette Q

My daughter received her Bachelors Degree from UNLV and was scheduled to graduate in May of 2020. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, it didn’t happens. Therefore, I decided to give her a party at home and wanted to reach my family and friends in and out of State immediately. My daughter created the invite in minutes added the details, uploaded her photo and it was ready to be sent in multiple ways. I love Evite and will continue to use it for every future event. Not to mention is saved me so money in stamps, time and addressing the envelopes😍 this app is the only way to go❤️

by Turloiu

Evite took my stress away from creating invitations for my baby shower. I just scrolled over the premade templates, picked one that resonated with my theme and party type and then added some basic info (party title, host names, location) then added a message and selected my guests from my phone book and hit send. Then kicked back and waited for replies to the invite. My guests had an easy time receiving and replying to the invite and its nice to see who is able to come and who may not be able to. I sent it to my husband’s phone to see what a guest receives and its a message with the name of the host and a link to the e-invite that has all the info. I’m grateful for this free app. Now i can focus on putting the rest of the party together 😅

by MrsJohnson912

I made my this app just fine, and I love it. I wish I could have sent it to more email accounts but the fact that it synced with my contacts made it so easy to send them out via text. However, some of my family are having trouble rsvping. It won't go through is what they've told me. My husband thinks it might be the combination of using an iPhone and putting in a gmail address to rsvp. At least that was the problem with both my in-laws. I'm not sure why they need to put in an email to rsvp, but most of them have come through just fine.