I don't have web on my phone, so I don't care about that, but I have moved on from evite - I finally came to terms with the fact that an rsvp on evite has no connection with reality, and I'd rather just send invitations directly by e-mail.

I moved on from evite after the last time they "upgraded" their site. The site became practically unusable. I emailed their customer service and made suggestions. I even went so far as to make a long detailed list of problems with their site that made it hard to use. I never got a response.

I just send emails now.

Very annoying.

Hey Rob this is Alex Chizhik from Planypus... Evite does not serve the need to plan events together, such as a hiking trip, a social night out, or even a party where people ask "what can I bring?" Therefore, we treat planning as if it is happening in real life, our planspace is a wiki, and were focused on the discussion that revolves around various aspects of a plan. I am a local entrepreneur, living in Bethesda, and would love to elaborate more. Please contact me at-- alex AT planyp DOT us.

I use evite to organize attendance for my hockey team's games. The site has some strange quirks with respect to copying invites, and I have problems in my MacBook's Safari (I just have to remember to create/copy invites in Firefox instead). That could be an issue for iPhone; you can still check your invites and RSVP through Safari though.

Overall the team likes (and uses it) better than using our Yahoo group for email RSVP's or polls.

Evite stopped being the plan making site of choice for me years ago, and so I helped make a new service that filled my needs. If I want RSS and webcal feeds, a mobile platform, and SMS I just use Planypus. Plans are usually collaborative in nature, and with this site my friends can vote on places and suggest times.

Hi Rob. I sent you an email.

Regarding your mention of Eventful, FYI, we have over 2 million users and are growing at around 100,000 new users per week. So I'd say we have a bit of traction.

However, as I explained in my email, Eventful has a different focus and mission than services like Evite, Planypus, or Google Calendar. We're an event discovery service -- we help people search, track, discover, share, and demand events. I don't think that's what Evite, Planypus, or these other services is about. Lumping us in with that list is pretty much comparing apples and oranges.

I have not used Evite for quite some time mostly because i feel the site could use some serious rethinking on how to approach planning and execution of parties. I really think the "static" boring looking pages really take away from the web 2.0 (its all about customization) generation of sites. It seems they have upgraded some things but it is not enough to entice me back

Zvents!! They have alot more breadth and the results for a search are varied and accurate. I haven't found another service as helpful. My only criticism is they seem to be slow lately.

And, ironically (or coincidentally??), they have a message on their site saying it is optimized for iPhone.

I have used evite for a big party I have annually for the last oh, 5 or so years? It used to be be very easy to copy over the previous year's invite to the current year, make a few modifications, and send for the new year. But this past May, it was a real pain! Although the site said it would copy everything from last year, I couldn't get it to work and basically had to reconstruct my entire invite and guest list by cutting and pasting from last year. And I wanted to do my own design, and that seemed a lot harder this year than in previous years. I don't think I'll go back next year, unless I really can't find another option out there. Sad.