Evite: Online Invitations, RSVPs and Photo Sharing for iOS

Evite for iPhone, Evite.com's companion iOS app, is incredibly useful for creating, sending, and tracking visually striking invitations for all of your milestone events -- from birthday parties to weddings and more.

Pros

Easy to navigate: The barebones Evite for iPhone app is easy to get around. On the default homepage, you can toggle between your Upcoming and Past invites up top, so they're at your fingertips. Tap Create Invitation in the center of the page or the plus sign at the bottom to begin generating or selecting your invite. Tap Notifications on the top right to see any alerts.

Highly searchable: Once you tap the Create Invitation button, you can search the app's thousands of invitation designs by scrolling down the page through popular templates, doing a keyword search, or tapping Browse and exploring the alphabetized categories -- everything from Activism to Winter Games.

Thousands of invitation designs: We can't say enough about Evite's extensive array of stylish and sophisticated design templates. Better yet, new ones are added all the time, and many of them are free. If you want to up the fancy factor, you can opt for premium evites, which range in price from $12.99 for up to 15 guests to $49.99 for up to 750 guests.

Easy to create and customize invites: Create your own invitation from scratch or tap on any existing invitation template and add your event details, such as Title, Date, Location, and Message. You can personalize them further with your camera roll photos.

Tap the More Options button on the top right to do things like allowing guests to bring people with them or alternately limit the guest list. You can also hide the guest list from attendees. You can also choose to get emails to alert you when guests RSVP or comment. If certain guests are slacking on RSVPing, you can send them nudges in the form of reminders. You can also send guests any updates, like a change in time or location.

Google Maps integration: With Evite's new Google Maps integration, the app can save you time by pre-populating addresses as you begin entering a location for your event.

Email or text invites: The ability to invite your phone or Evite contacts to your event by email or text message can't be discounted in this day and age when you may only have email addresses for coworkers and family and texting info for friends.Real-time tracking: You can see who's viewed and RSVPed to your event in real time.

Cons

No autosave: After spending an hour creating or customizing that perfect invitation and adding your guest list, you don't want to lose all that hard work should you lose connectivity or accidentally close your invite before saving. So make sure you tap the Save Draft button as frequently as possible while working on your invite. But it would be great if the app autosaved your invites as you went along.

Bottom Line

Twenty years after Evite.com's initial launch, Evite for iPhone has managed to weather competition from apps like Paperless Post and Facebook Events to remain a trusted app for event creation and organization.