What Kiekje does well
Kiekje is made for the hours of the party. Guests scan the QR code on the table or open a link, take a photo or pick one from their phone and upload it in the browser, without installing an app or creating an account. If the venue's network drops, uploads wait on the guest's phone and go out again once it is back. On a TV or a projector, the live slideshow shows new photos as they arrive, with guestbook messages and challenge photos in between, and guests send emoji reactions that move across the screen. Photos are kept in the resolution they were taken in, and the whole album downloads as one ZIP file.
Some of what Kiekje does, EventAssets does not do. Photo challenges give guests small assignments, such as a selfie with the couple or a wild dance move, from ready-made lists or your own, and every photo is filed under its challenge. Guests can also request songs and vote on the requests of others, while the DJ follows the list on a link of its own and marks each track as accepted, declined or played. Guests vote for their favourite photos with hearts, and a live ranking shows the favourite of the evening.
The guestbook takes written messages, a message with a photo, or a spoken one recorded in the browser, and downloads as a laid-out PDF to print. On its Premium plan, photo sets group the album into tabs such as the ceremony and the dinner, and your own logo and colours appear on the QR code, the guest page and the slideshow. For a memorial, Kiekje has a sober variant without emoji, games or festive wording, with a condolence register and a book of remembrance as a PDF. And its support answers in Dutch over WhatsApp, also in the evening and at weekends during events.
Where EventAssets offers more
EventAssets starts before the party. Each event has its own page with the schedule, the location on a map and what guests should know, and the same page collects the replies: guests find their name, answer for their whole party and fill in your own questions before the deadline you set. The guest list feeds the seating chart, where you place tables and seat parties together, and guests later look up their table on the same page. Budgets with planned and actual amounts sit beside it, so the costs of the day are planned in the place where the guests are. Kiekje's guest page can show the programme of the day from its Party plan; its pages mention no replies, seating or budget.
The guestbook takes written messages and voice recordings on every plan, signed with a name from the guest list or left anonymous, and you can review entries before they appear. In the gallery, guests react to photos and videos and comment on them, so the conversation of the evening stays beside its pictures, and albums keep the ceremony, the dinner and the party apart on every plan. Guests can keep uploading for months after the day without anyone asking for more time, and the guest pages come in more languages than Kiekje offers. Hosts run all of it from the web or from the apps for iPhone and Android.
A tool for the party, or a home for the event
The core difference is where each one begins and ends. Kiekje begins with the QR code on the evening itself: the slideshow, the challenges, the song requests and the guestbook make the party livelier, and guests can upload for a few days after the event day, longer if you ask Kiekje for it. EventAssets begins with the page you send with the invitation, holds the replies, the seating and the budget, and keeps the photos, videos and messages long after the day.
The plans are built differently as well. Kiekje opens its features plan by plan: its smallest plan holds the gallery for a small party; the guestbook, the slideshow, the challenges and the song requests come with its Party plan, and photo sets and your own branding with Premium. How long the album stays online grows with the plan and can be extended for a fee. On EventAssets, the free plan already includes the event page, RSVP, the seating chart, budgets and the guestbook, every plan has the same windows for uploading and storage, and one payment per event lifts the caps on photos, videos, storage and voice recordings. Both charge once per event instead of by subscription; the table above sets the plans and windows side by side.
What to check before you decide
Think about how long your guests need. If the photos come in on the evening and the next day, a short upload window is enough; if some guests will only get round to their photos weeks later, look at the upload row in the table. Decide whether games and song requests belong to your party, whether wishes should be written or spoken, and whether the replies, the seating chart and the costs belong in the same place as the pictures. Then compare the plans that cover it. Kiekje's free demo lets you try the upload flow; with EventAssets, the event page, the guest list and RSVP, the seating chart and the guestbook are yours to set up on the free plan before you pay anything.
