Dawat vs Appy Couple
Short answer: One package covering website, guest app and digital invites at $99 per year or $12 per month, cancellable any time; custom domains cost extra, most about $19.99 per year. Dawat's core product is free at every guest count. Appy Couple is the better pick if you need single flat price covers website, native guest app and digital invitations.
Dawat is free at every guest count: 53 card designs, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking with your own questions, and a personally addressed link for each guest. The only paid item is a Dawat Signature cinematic experience at $89 once per event.
Paid wedding website and native guest app with matching digital stationery, multi-event RSVP tools and shared photo streams. This page compares it with Dawat on what the free tier actually covers, on how invitations reach guests, and on which parts of the wedding stack you would still be paying for.
Appy Couple pricing checked 2026-09-16 against its own published pages. Sources · Method
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Side by side
| Dawat | Appy Couple | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Subscription |
| What the free tier gives you | Everything except Signature: all card designs, party pages, unlimited guests, sends, RSVP tracking and analytics. | None; you can browse designs, but publishing requires the paid plan. |
| Cost for 100 guests | Free | $99 (annual plan) |
| Cost for 250 guests | Free | $99 (annual plan) |
| Charges per recipient | No | No |
| Guests need an account | No | Not published |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
Where Dawat is different
- What it costs to send. One package covering website, guest app and digital invites at $99 per year or $12 per month, cancellable any time; custom domains cost extra, most about $19.99 per year. Dawat's core product is free, and no card is required to create or send.
- Free to send. Dawat includes sending invitations without paying. Appy Couple does not.
- Custom RSVP questions. Dawat includes asking your own questions. Appy Couple does not publish whether it supports this.
- Per-guest personal links. Dawat includes a personally addressed link per guest. Appy Couple does not publish whether it supports this.
- Open tracking. Dawat includes seeing who opened the invitation. Appy Couple does not publish whether it supports this.
- Animated envelope. Dawat includes an animated envelope opening. Appy Couple does not publish whether it supports this.
- Guest account required. Dawat never does this. Appy Couple does not publish whether it does.
- Ads shown to guests. Dawat never does this. Appy Couple does not publish whether it does.
Create your invitation — free →No card required. Unlimited guests. 53 designs.
When Appy Couple is the better choice
Dawat covers the invitation, not the whole wedding. Appy Couple covers more of the planning, and for some couples that settles it: Couples with multiple wedding events who want a designed guest app plus website for one predictable annual fee.
- Single flat price covers website, native guest app and digital invitations
- Unlimited storage for guest list entries, RSVPs, messages and photos
- Hundreds of boutique designs that coordinate across app, website and stationery
- Design can be changed at any time after publishing
- Monthly option at $12 avoids a large upfront commitment
Where Dawat does not compete with it:
- Digital only: Dawat does not print or mail paper stationery
And where Appy Couple will cost you something:
- No free tier; publishing requires a paid subscription
- Custom domains cost extra, most around $19.99 per year
- Coordinating printed invitations and monograms are sold separately
- Guest app model asks guests to install or open an app experience
- Feature-level detail such as RSVP question customisation is not documented on the pricing page
What Appy Couple costs, in dollars
As of September 2026: One package covering website, guest app and digital invites at $99 per year or $12 per month, cancellable any time; custom domains cost extra, most about $19.99 per year.
18 of the 33 platforms tracked here can send an invitation without payment. Appy Couple is one of them, and Dawat is another.
| Dawat | Appy Couple | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Subscription |
| 100 guests | Free | $99 (annual plan) |
| 250 guests | Free | $99 (annual plan) |
| How that is worked out | Dawat has no per-guest or per-send charge, so the guest count does not change the price. | Pricing is a flat subscription with unlimited guest list entries and RSVPs, so cost does not change with guest count. |
Dawat is free to send. Appy Couple has no equivalent free path at a real guest count.
The guest experience compared
A wedding guest is usually being asked to do three things at once: read the details, reply, and find the registry. How many taps that takes is the difference between a finished guest list and six weeks of chasing.
| Feature | Dawat | Appy Couple |
|---|---|---|
| Guest account required | No | Not published |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
| Animated envelope | Yes | Not published |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | Not published |
| Open tracking | Yes | Not published |
| Calendar file | Yes | Not published |
| Multilingual & right-to-left | Yes | Not published |
On Dawat, the link is addressed to the person holding it. The envelope opens with their name on it, their RSVP is already prefilled, and answering is one tap. Appy Couple does not publish whether it addresses each guest individually.
What happens as the list grows
Guest count is not the axis here — Appy Couple does not bill per recipient. The thing that changes as the list grows is administration: chasing replies, keeping a headcount honest, and knowing who never opened the thing. Dawat gives every guest their own link, so the dashboard shows sent, opened and answered per person instead of a pile of replies you have to reconcile.
Switching, or running both
Running both is normal. Keep Appy Couple for the registry and the planning tools, and use Dawat for the invitation itself and the guest list, which is the part that has to work on a phone.
If you are moving across, the fastest route is Dawat's import: paste the link to your existing invitation and Dawat reads the wording, date, venue and colour mood off the page and rebuilds it as a prefilled draft you can edit. Guest lists come in from your phone's contacts, a .vcf file, or pasted text.
What does not come across: Appy Couple's designs, and any replies already collected there. Export your RSVPs before you switch, and send the Dawat invitation only to the people who have not answered.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Dawat | Appy Couple |
|---|---|---|
| Free to send | Yes | No |
| Per-guest fees | No | No |
| Unlimited guests | Yes | Yes |
| RSVP tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Custom RSVP questions | Yes | Not published |
| Email delivery | Yes | Yes |
| SMS or WhatsApp | Partial | Not published |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | Not published |
| Open tracking | Yes | Not published |
| Animated envelope | Yes | Not published |
| Printed cards | No | Partial |
| Guest account required | No | Not published |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
| Event website | Partial | Yes |
| Registry links | Yes | Not published |
| Meal choice or seating | Partial | Not published |
| Calendar file | Yes | Not published |
| AI wording help | Yes | Not published |
| Works inside ChatGPT / Claude | Yes | Not published |
| Multilingual & right-to-left | Yes | Not published |
"Not published" means no vendor documentation could be found either way, not that the feature is missing. How this grid is built →
Questions
How much does Appy Couple cost?
Appy Couple's pricing page lists a single package covering the wedding website, guest app and digital invites at $99 per year or $12 a month. You can pay annually or monthly and cancel at any time. Custom domains are an additional cost, with most domains around $19.99 per year.
Is Appy Couple free?
No. Appy Couple is a paid product with no free publishing tier. The published price is $99 per year or $12 per month for the website, app and digital stationery bundle. Coordinating printed invitations and monograms are sold separately.
Does Appy Couple charge per guest?
No. The pricing page describes unlimited access and storage for guest list entries, RSVPs, messages and photos, so the $99 per year price is the same for 50 guests or 500. Additional costs come only from a custom domain or printed stationery.
Does Appy Couple include digital invitations?
Yes. Digital invites are part of the same package as the website and app, with hundreds of boutique designs for wedding app, website and digital stationery that can be changed at any time. Matching printed invites are a separate purchase.
Is Dawat free?
Yes. All 53 card designs and every party-page theme, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking, custom questions and the per-guest analytics cost nothing, and no card is required. The only paid item is a Dawat Signature cinematic experience at $89 once for that event, and it is labelled as paid before you publish.
Does Dawat have designs as good as Appy Couple?
Dawat's 53 designs are animated card experiences with an envelope opening, plus 8 long-scroll Signature experiences. Whether that beats Appy Couple depends on whether you want a designed occasion or a quick notice.
Can I send printed invitations from Dawat?
No. Dawat is digital only. Appy Couple does not print either.
Create your invitation — free →Takes about ten minutes. Sign in only when you publish.
Other comparisons
Appy Couple alternatives
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How these figures were checked
Every figure above was read from Appy Couple's own published pricing or help pages on 16 September 2026, and each source is linked below. Coins, credits and per-card rates are converted into dollars at a real guest count, because that is the number you are deciding with. Full methodology and the open dataset →
Reading this through an AI assistant? Dawat runs an MCP server, so ChatGPT or Claude can choose the design, write the wording, add your guest list, publish the invitation and send it without you leaving the conversation. Appy Couple does not publish one.
Sources
- Appy Couple pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- Appy Couple homepage — checked 2026-09-16