Easy Vite vs Greetings Island
Greetings Island is an enormous design library with an invitation maker attached, and if you want a printable card as well as a digital one it is a sensible place to start. The thing to know before you invest an hour in the editor is what free means there: free designs carry a small Greetings Island watermark in the corner, and removing it costs either a one-off fee or a premium subscription. Easy Vite has no watermark to remove and no premium catalogue to unlock. This page sets out the differences and is honest about where the bigger library wins.
Greetings Island details checked 2026-08-25. Pricing and plans change, so verify anything that matters to you on their site before deciding.
Side by side
| Feature | Easy Vite | Greetings Island |
|---|---|---|
| Price to send | Free at every guest count | Free designs are free to edit and share; premium designs, watermark removal and premium layouts are paid |
| Watermark on free designs | None | Yes. Free invitation designs carry a small Greetings Island watermark in the bottom right corner |
| Cost to remove the watermark | Nothing to remove | A one-time purchase per design, or a premium subscription |
| Subscription price | None | Premium membership around $3.49 a month, or about $26.99 a year which works out near $2.25 a month |
| Ads | None | Ads are shown on the free tier and removed with premium membership |
| Designs | 1,332 designs, all free, none locked | A very large catalogue, with 5,000 or more designs reserved for premium members |
| Printable output | No. Digital only | Yes, designs can be downloaded and printed |
| RSVP tracking | Built in, free, with a dashboard | Available, with the invitation maker |
| Guest needs an account to RSVP | No | No |
| Guest cap | No cap | Not published |
| Languages | 99 | Not published |
| Adults and children counted separately | Yes | Not published |
| Headcount cap with automatic cut-off | Yes, per event and per invitation | Not published |
| Automatic reminders | Yes | Available |
| Opening animation | Envelope with 20 opening effects, free | Not the focus; the product is card-design first |
| Greeting cards as well as invitations | No | Yes, a large greeting card range |
Where Easy Vite is different
- Free Greetings Island invitation designs carry a small Greetings Island watermark in the bottom right corner. Easy Vite puts no mark of its own on your invitation. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Removing that watermark requires either a one-time purchase for the individual design or a premium subscription. On Easy Vite there is nothing to buy because there is nothing to remove. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Greetings Island premium membership is priced around $3.49 a month, or about $26.99 a year, and unlocks thousands of premium designs and removes ads and watermarks. Easy Vite has one tier and it is free. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- A substantial part of the Greetings Island catalogue is premium-only, so the design you like may not be one of the free ones. Every one of Easy Vite's 1,332 designs is free. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
- Greetings Island is a design tool that also sends invitations; Easy Vite is an invitation and RSVP product that also has a design studio. That difference shows up in the guest list, reminder and headcount features rather than in the editor. (source, checked 2026-08-25)
When Greetings Island is the better choice
They genuinely do these better
- The catalogue is genuinely huge, across invitations, greeting cards, flyers and announcements, and covers occasions that smaller libraries simply do not have art for.
- You can download and print, which matters if you want a physical card for the grandparents and a digital one for everyone else.
- The editor is capable, with a good font library and real layout control for people who enjoy designing.
- Greeting cards for occasions you are not hosting, so a subscription covers more than parties.
- The premium price is genuinely low compared with per-guest models: around $26.99 a year is less than one mid-sized send on several competitors.
Choose Greetings Island when the artwork is the point and you want the widest possible design library, when you need something printable as well as digital, or when you also want greeting cards and a cheap annual subscription covers all of it. Choose Easy Vite when you want the invitation to be free and unmarked without a subscription, and when the part you actually care about is the guest list: who has replied, how many adults and children, a headcount cap and automatic reminders.
Try it without signing up
Pick a design and customize it first. You only make an account when you are ready to send.
Browse 1,332 free designsWhat the watermark actually means for you
A watermark in the corner of an invitation is a small thing and a large thing at once. It is small because it is discreet and most guests will not comment. It is large because it is the point at which a product that felt free turns out to have a price.
Greetings Island documents this clearly: free designs are free to edit and share, and removing the watermark requires either a one-time payment for that design or a premium membership. That is a fair model. It is simply a different model from Easy Vite, where the invitation your guest opens carries nothing but your event.
The relevant question is when you find out. On Greetings Island you typically discover it after you have chosen a design and spent time in the editor, which is the moment when paying feels least optional. Easy Vite has no such moment because there is no upgrade in the product to arrive at.
Design library versus event tooling
These two products are strong in different halves of the job. Greetings Island is the better design tool. Easy Vite is the better event tool.
Greetings Island's library spans invitations, cards, flyers and announcements, with thousands of premium designs on top of the free ones, and an editor that gives you real layout control. If you enjoy designing and want the widest choice, that is a genuine advantage and worth the low annual price.
Easy Vite's 1,332 designs across 22 categories are fewer, and all free. What sits behind them is the event machinery: a dashboard of who has replied, adults and children counted separately, a headcount cap for the event and for each invitation, automatic reminders you can retime, messages to everyone or only the people who have not answered, co-hosts, a photo album and up to three registry links.
If you have already made your card somewhere else, you can upload it to Easy Vite as a PNG, JPG or WebP and use it as the invitation. That combination, their editor and our RSVP tracking, is a perfectly reasonable way to work.
Printing, which Easy Vite does not do
Greetings Island lets you download a design and print it. Easy Vite does not: it is a digital-only product and there is no print output.
For a lot of family events that matters. Elderly relatives who will never open a link still want something on the mantelpiece, and a printable card solves that in a way a web page does not.
The common pattern is to print a handful for the people who need paper and share a link with everyone else. If you do that, the RSVP tracking still works for the link recipients, and you can add the paper recipients to the guest list manually and mark their replies yourself as they phone you.
The subscription maths
At roughly $26.99 a year, Greetings Island premium is one of the cheaper subscriptions in this category, and if you use the greeting cards as well it is easy to justify.
The comparison that matters is not against other subscriptions, though, it is against zero. If the only thing you want is for one invitation to go out without a watermark, a year's subscription for one party is a poor shape, and a per-design purchase for a single card is worse value per use than most people expect.
Easy Vite's position is that the invitation should not be the thing you pay for. There is no subscription, no per-design fee, no watermark and no card required at any point in the flow.
Moving a design across
If you have already designed something on Greetings Island and want to run the RSVPs on Easy Vite, export or screenshot the finished card and upload it. Any PNG, JPG or WebP becomes the invitation that comes out of the envelope.
Easy Vite runs OCR on uploads and, if it detects that your image already has words on it, leaves its own text layers switched off so the date does not get printed twice. You can turn them back on if you want to add something.
From there the rest is the usual flow: share one link, or add guests and send each a private link, or import from Google Contacts on the web. Replies land on the dashboard with adult and child counts and the first reminder is already scheduled.
Questions
Is Greetings Island really free?
Free designs are free to edit and share, but they carry a Greetings Island watermark. Removing it costs a one-time fee for that design or a premium subscription, and a large part of the catalogue is premium-only. Checked 2026-08-25.
How much does Greetings Island premium cost?
Around $3.49 a month, or roughly $26.99 a year which works out near $2.25 a month. That unlocks premium designs and removes ads and watermarks. Verify on their site before buying.
Does Easy Vite put a watermark on invitations?
No. Nothing is added to your invitation and there is no branded mark on the page your guests open.
Can I print a Easy Vite invitation?
There is no print product. Easy Vite is digital only. If you need paper, design elsewhere and print there, or print the invitation image yourself.
Can I upload a design I made on Greetings Island?
Yes. Upload the finished card as a PNG, JPG or WebP and it becomes your invitation. Easy Vite detects existing text on uploads and keeps its own text layers off so nothing prints twice.
Which has more designs?
Greetings Island, by a lot, once you count premium. Easy Vite has 1,332 designs across 22 categories, all of them free.
Which is better at tracking RSVPs?
Easy Vite. Adults and children are counted separately, there is a headcount cap per event and per invitation, reminders are automatic and retimable, and you can message only the guests who have not replied.
How current is this comparison?
Greetings Island's pricing and watermark policy were checked on 2026-08-25 against their own help centre. Subscription prices change, so verify on greetingsisland.com before deciding.