A Paperless Post alternative, and where Paperless Post still wins

Paperless Post makes the most beautiful digital cards there are, and if the card itself is the point you should use them. The difference here is arithmetic: they charge by the guest and by the send, and this is one price for one address that carries you from the first guess to the first birthday.

Prices, side by side

Paperless Post’s prices read from Paperless Post's own pricing page in September 2026. If they have changed since, theirs is the page to believe.

	Paperless Post	tinynewlife
Free	First 50 invitations sent by email or phone, with free designs	Build the whole page free. It cannot go live until you publish.
Basic	$0.50 a guest	$99 up to 250 replies, $199 beyond
Premium	$1.05 a guest	$99 up to 250 replies, $199 beyond
All Access	$1.44 a guest	$99 up to 250 replies, $199 beyond
A hundred guests, Premium	About $105 for that one send	$99, and the next two occasions are on the same page
Unlimited sending	Paperless Pro, from $250 a year	No subscription

Where Paperless Post is genuinely better

The designs are better, and it is not close. Envelopes, liners, stamps, the animation as a card opens — it is genuinely lovely craft, and nothing here tries to compete with it.
They do every occasion. Weddings, dinners, birthdays, anything. This site does four things, all of them about a baby.
Free for a small send. The first fifty invitations by email or phone cost nothing.
Cards you can also print. Some of their designs exist on paper, which matters if you want something for the fridge.

Where this one fits instead

A page, not a card. Paperless Post's unit is the send — you make a card and post it to people. Here the unit is an address that stays up, collects replies and guesses, and is still there in a year.
One price rather than a price per guest. At $1.05 a guest, a hundred and twenty people is about $126 for one send, and you pay again for the next occasion. Here a hundred and twenty people is $99, the same as nine; past 250 replies it is $199 with no limit.
The same link becomes the announcement and the birthday, keeping the photographs, the messages people left and the guest list.
The guessing is the event. Pink or blue on the reply form, a tally that builds, an answer sealed on the server until you unlock it, and a reveal that plays for everyone who opens the link.
Messages that stay somewhere. What family write on the page keeps, at the address, rather than living in a thread that scrolls.

Build one free See the pricing

Questions

Are Paperless Post's designs nicer?

Yes. They make the best digital cards there are and this page is not going to argue with that. What is on offer here is a different object — a page that lasts rather than a card that is sent.

How does the per-guest pricing compare?

Their Coins are priced per guest, so the bill grows with the list — about $1.05 a guest on Premium, which is roughly $105 for a hundred people on one send. Here it is $99 up to 250 replies, $199 beyond, and either covers the whole journey rather than one send.

Is there a free option on both?

Yes, and they work differently. Paperless Post gives you the first fifty invitations free. Here, free builds the entire page — every design and section — and publishing it at your own address is the paid step.

Can I use Paperless Post for a gender reveal?

You can send a lovely invitation to one. What it will not do is collect the guesses, keep a running tally, hold the answer back until you are ready, or become the birth announcement afterwards at the same address.

What you would be making

A gender reveal website, a baby shower page, a birth announcement or a first birthday invitation — in one of fourteen designs, at one address that carries all four.

Other comparisons

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