As someone who loves to throw parties sometimes 3 in one year, Hobnob has been a lifesaver. I’ve been using the app for a year or two now to make invite flyers but this year I needed it for RSVPS. I had a decent party size for my baby shower and I didn’t feel like texting everyone in singles during such a busy time in life. The app made it so EASY for me to add my contacts and communicate with them through it as well. Updating my guest was very easy and it even sent reminders on my behalf as the time got closer. I truly appreciated that because with my pregnancy brain, I cannot remember a lot lol. Also, the pricing for the basic package membership is affordable and you can cancel anything once you are no longer using their services. I would 100% RECOMMEND Hobnob for folks like me who love to throw shindigs but without the invite headache.

When cancelling an event (per the instructions on hobnob’s site) you send a message to the folks invited and then delete the event. The trick is, since the message isn’t sent in it’s entirety via text to folks (or at all to app users), and apparently no “this event has been canceled” message is sent to folks… the result is chaos. Some folks got a preview of the message other just got a link that an update had happened in a push notification, fortunately a few good friends helped me troubleshoot and so we have the workaround. Thus in order to send a message to the same invite base of 30+ people. I’m using hobnob for just one more event, rewriting my cancellation message, hoping folks, ya know, READ and understand… Then after this last event I’m switching to a different platform. The visuals are polished, but the UX is quirky in one too many ways and since I’m paying money I expect my needs to be better managed than this.

I’m using this to invite people to my wedding and it has been really great. However, one of the biggest flaws of this app is it’s inability to add guests yourself as the Host of an event. For example: My aunts and uncles are all in their 60’s so they are not very tech savvy. Almost none of them fill out the RSVP but as you might guess I need a list of everyone’s name. The simple solution would be to add people myself, since I am the host. However, Hobnob has made it impossible for the host to add “attendees” themselves. The system actively works against it. I’m not sure if this inability to add “attendees” is because they don’t get money when the host does not send out invites but it sure does defeat the purpose of a list. I now have to use my notes app as the guest list, which is much more work. This practically makes hobnob a disposable, digital “Save the Date”. I would not recommend the use of Hobnob for weddings.