Addressed is a text-message-first guest list tool: it texts your guests, collects RSVPs, mailing addresses and meal choices, and reminds the people who haven't answered. Most of the products below do something different, such as wedding websites, registries, vendor search or designed invitations, and plenty of couples use one of them alongside Addressed. These pages explain where each one fits.
Comparisons
- Addressed vs Zola: Zola is an all-in-one wedding planning brand best known for its registry, wedding websites and stationery. Addressed does one narrower job: it texts your guests and collects RSVPs, mailing addresses and meal choices for you. They overlap on the guest list and RSVPs, and they work well together.
- Addressed vs The Knot: The Knot is one of the best-known wedding brands, with a vendor marketplace, planning tools, wedding websites, a registry and invitations. Addressed focuses only on reaching your guests: it texts them and collects RSVPs, addresses and meal choices.
- Addressed vs Joy: Joy (withjoy.com) offers wedding websites, a registry and an app for guests, along with guest list and RSVP tools. Addressed takes a different approach to the same guests: it texts them, so nobody has to open a website or install anything to answer.
- Addressed vs Paperless Post: Paperless Post is known for beautifully designed digital invitations and cards, with RSVP tracking on each invitation. Addressed is less about the invitation design and more about the follow-through: texting guests, collecting addresses and getting every RSVP back.
- Addressed vs Partiful: Partiful is a free, casual event-invite app that's popular for parties: you share an event page and guests RSVP on it. Addressed is built for events where the details matter, like weddings, where you need mailing addresses, meal choices, plus-ones and a confirmed headcount for each event.
- Addressed vs Evite: Evite is one of the longest-running online invitation services, used for birthdays, showers and parties. Addressed is a guest list tool for events that need more than a headcount: it texts guests and collects RSVPs, mailing addresses and meal choices.
- Wedding Spreadsheet vs Addressed: Most guest lists start in a spreadsheet, and for good reason: it's free and flexible. The trouble starts when you have to fill it in. Every address, RSVP and meal choice has to be chased by message and typed in by hand. Addressed does the chasing and the typing for you.
What Addressed does
- Guests RSVP by replying to a text message. No app, account or login for guests.
- An AI reads replies like "yes, two of us, fish please" and records the RSVP, party size and meal choice.
- Collects guests' mailing addresses by text, ready for save-the-dates, invitations and thank-you cards.
- Automatic reminders go only to guests who haven't answered yet.
- WhatsApp messaging on every paid plan, with automatic fallback to SMS when WhatsApp can't deliver.
- Multi-event weekends: welcome drinks, rehearsal dinner, ceremony and brunch, each with its own RSVP.
- CSV exports of addresses, headcounts and meal choices for stationers, caterers and resorts.
- Free for one event with up to 75 guests; paid plans per event or monthly.