Evite and TinyCard both produce shareable links. Both let you skip physical mail. Both are used around occasions and celebrations. The similarity stops there, because these products are designed for entirely different situations.
Understanding the difference before you spend time in either product will save you frustration.
What Evite is for
Evite is a party invitation platform. Its core features are built around the workflow of organizing an event: you create an invitation with event details (date, time, location), add a guest list, send invitations, track RSVPs, and send reminders to people who haven't responded.
The product is optimized for the sender managing a list of people. When you use Evite, you're working with a guest list, not crafting an individual message. The recipient experience is "you've been invited to an event," not "someone made this specifically for you."
This is exactly right for organizing a birthday party, a baby shower, a reunion. You need to coordinate attendance and communicate logistics. Evite handles that well.
What TinyCard is for
TinyCard is for one person sending something personal to one other person. There's no event to manage, no guest list, no RSVP to track. There's a message — from you, to them — paired with an image and a small moment of opening.
The recipient experience is different in kind, not just in degree. Opening a TinyCard is like opening a card: there's a reveal, a pause, then the message. Opening an Evite is like receiving an invitation: there's event information and a button to click to confirm you're coming.
The free tier reality
Evite's free tier includes advertising. Those ads appear in the invitation the recipient sees. That matters if you're trying to send something that feels personal and thoughtful — having a banner ad appear alongside your message undermines the tone.
Premium Evite plans remove the ads but add a per-event cost on top of an optional subscription. If you're planning one event per year, the math on whether this is worth it is not straightforward.
TinyCard has no ads at any tier, free or otherwise.
Design approach
Evite's designs are oriented toward event announcements — bold typography conveying the event name, date, and location prominently. They look like what they are: digital invitations.
TinyCard's cards are oriented toward personal messages — a full-bleed photograph, your words in clean typography, an animation that creates a moment of experience. They look like what they are: cards.
When the confusion arises
The two products get searched together because people type "digital card" or "online card" when they mean different things. If you're sending a birthday card to a friend, you mean a card. If you're inviting people to a birthday party, you mean an invitation. Both are "online" and both are related to birthdays, but they're solving different problems.
If you've landed on Evite looking for a way to send a personal card to someone, the short answer is that it's not designed for that. TinyCard is.
If you're planning an event and need to manage invitations, RSVPs, and guest communication, TinyCard is not designed for that and Evite (or Greenvelope for more formal occasions) is the better fit.