Paperless Post Alternatives: Video Invites and RSVP Compared

Looking for a Paperless Post alternative? Here are four, with the occasion each fits best. All facts below come from each company's official pages, checked October 19, 2026. To build one in a few minutes, try the video invitation maker.

Our quick answer

• You want a video invitation guests open from a text: TwistInvite. Guests RSVP in the browser with no account.
• You want designs for a big, mixed-age list: Evite, which lists a large guest cap (check Evite for current limits).
• You want a casual, social party page: Partiful, free to create.
• Stay with Paperless Post if you need guest questions, co-hosts, event-page Blocks or printed wedding invitations (through its Paper Source partnership). Its official pages list all of these.

Featured TwistInvite DesignsVideo InvitationsPick an animated video template in the TwistInvite app, add your event details and share one link guests RSVP to in their browser.

Why Hosts Look Beyond Paperless Post

• The free route has limits. With the free feature set, the first 50 invitations sent by email or phone through the site are free. A free Flyer you design from scratch can go to up to 50 guests.
• Texting reach. Direct text sends go to U.S. and Canadian numbers; for anyone else you share a link (help center).
• Style. Paperless Post designs are stationery-style Cards and Flyers. Some hosts want an invitation that moves like a short film.

How We Compared

We looked at what guests have to do to reply, how the invitation reaches them, whether it can be a video, what you can add yourself, and RSVP tracking. Where a site doesn't state something, we say so.

Paperless Post Alternatives Compared

1. TwistInvite: When the Invitation Should Be a Video

Best for: weddings, holiday parties and dinners where you want guests to watch the invitation instead of reading a card.

Every TwistInvite template is a short animated video. You pick one in the TwistInvite App, add your event details and, if you like, your own photos, video or audio, and hold to record a 15-second voice message. Then you share the link by text or paste it into a group chat. Guests open it in their browser and answer Going, Can't make it or Maybe without an account or download.

If you like the stationery look, try Lake Como Wedding: a sealed envelope on a lakeside balcony, a vintage black convertible outside an Italian villa, and the couple at the water's edge inside a gold frame.

For a dinner party, Moonlight Supper Club is an illustrated, cream-striped design with olive branches, lanterns and a line-drawn dinner table, under the built-in line "An evening of dinner, drinks, and warm conversation."

2. Greenvelope: When You Want the Envelope Moment

Best for: weddings, showers and business events where the stationery look and an animated envelope mailing matter.

Greenvelope invitations open with an animated envelope, a liner, a stamp and background music. You can customize a designer suite or upload your own artwork (JPG, PNG, PDF or GIF). Its site lists RSVP questions such as meal choices and plus-ones, auto-reminders and seating charts, and says guests never need an account or app to reply (greenvelope.com/pricing).

3. Evite: When the List Is Long

Best for: school, club and family events with a long guest list and a mix of ages.

4. Partiful: When It's a Party, Not an Event

Best for: birthdays, house parties and get-togethers with friends.

Partiful is free to create. Guests reply from the link in a browser or the app, and can pick Maybe to see event details. The host can text blast everyone, collect info such as dietary restrictions, and sell tickets. Guests can see who's coming, comment and share photos on the event page.

Watch-outs: to verify an RSVP, guests enter their name and phone number and then a texted code (Partiful help). The look is a social event page rather than stationery. See our Partiful alternatives or the three-way Evite vs Partiful vs TwistInvite comparison.

Which Should You Choose?

For a holiday gala, Christmas Gala Ballroom shows a chandeliered ballroom with a lit tree, a grand piano and couples in evening wear under the built-in title "Christmas Gala."

What Your Guests See With TwistInvite

1. A text or chat message from you with your wording and the link.
2. The link opens the video invitation in their phone's browser, with no app or account.
3. They tap Going, Can't make it or Maybe, and you see the reply in the App.

For a seaside wedding, Coastal Vows opens on a sheer curtain lifting over the sea, champagne glasses with an olive branch, and a stone archway framing the water.

Switching From Paperless Post

• Already designed something? Paperless Post, Greenvelope and Evite let you upload your own design; TwistInvite starts from its video templates, plus your own photos, video or audio.
• Sending to the same people? With TwistInvite you share one link by text or in a group chat.
• Keep the wording. Paste your invitation text into the message that goes with the link. Our formal dinner wording and wedding wording guides have examples.

Open the TwistInvite App to try a video invitation for free.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Paperless Post include to start?

Paperless Post describes its starter options and current terms on its official site; those details can change, so check there. TwistInvite guests can RSVP in the browser with no account; email is optional.

Which Paperless Post alternative fits a large guest list?

It depends on the event. Evite is often used for large guest lists; Partiful suits casual social parties; TwistInvite is a video invitation with in-browser RSVP (no account, email optional).

Which Paperless Post alternative has video invitations?

TwistInvite templates are animated videos, and hosts can add a 15-second video message. Evite Premium adds animated effects and reveals, and Greenvelope opens with an animated envelope.

Do guests need an account to RSVP?

Greenvelope and TwistInvite say guests reply without an account. Paperless Post lets anyone with a Shareable Link view the invitation and RSVP. Partiful asks for a name, phone number and texted code, and Evite text invitees enter an email address when they reply.

Can I send invitations by text outside the U.S.?

Paperless Post and Evite direct text sends cover U.S. and Canadian numbers; both offer a shareable link for everyone else. Greenvelope lists WhatsApp sending, and a TwistInvite link can be pasted into any chat.

When should I stay with Paperless Post?

When you want its stationery designs plus planning tools such as guest questions, co-hosts, event-page Blocks, scheduled sends or printed wedding invitations.