What Wedibox does well
Wedibox covers much of the same ground as EventAssets. Guests scan a QR code or open a link and upload photos, videos and voice messages in the browser, with no app and no login, and the files are kept in original quality. Next to the gallery sit a guestbook for written messages, a live slideshow, a wedding page with the schedule of the day, replies with meal choices and plus-ones, and a seating chart.
Some of what Wedibox does, EventAssets does not do. Guests can attach a video clip from their phone to a guestbook message, so the wishes of the evening can be seen as well as heard. A photo scavenger hunt gives guests a list of shots to capture, and each challenge on the page opens the uploader directly. A section of the page gathers the links to gift registries and honeymoon funds held elsewhere, so guests find the right list without asking.
The guest pages also come in more languages than EventAssets offers, which matters at an international wedding where not everyone reads the language of the couple. And for couples who already have a wedding website, Wedibox offers a photo gallery as a widget to embed in it, so the photos live on the site the guests already know.
What EventAssets offers
EventAssets starts with the event page you send with the invitation: the schedule, the location on a map, cover photos and what guests should know, with a button to add the date to their calendar. The same page collects the replies. Guests find their name, answer for their whole party, plus-ones and children included, and fill in your own questions before your deadline, while the statistics update as the answers come in and the guest list exports as a CSV file.
From the guest list you build the seating chart: tables on a canvas, parties seated together, and guests look up their table on the event page. Beside it, budgets hold the line items of the day with planned and actual amounts, due and paid dates. The guestbook takes written messages and voice recordings made in the browser, signed with a name from the guest list or left anonymous, and you can review entries before they appear. Uploads to the gallery can wait for your approval in the same way, albums keep the ceremony and the party apart, and you download everything as a ZIP. Hosts run all of it from the web or from the apps for iPhone and Android.
The same tools, included differently
The core difference is how each one is put together. Wedibox opens its features plan by plan: the free plan starts with the gallery and the scavenger hunt, and the guestbook, the wedding page, the replies and the seating chart are part of its paid plans. The table above shows from which plan each one is included. On EventAssets, nothing but volume waits for a payment: the free plan already includes the event page, RSVP, the seating chart, budgets and the guestbook, and one payment per event lifts the caps on photos, videos, storage and voice recordings.
Both charge once per event instead of by subscription. How long guests can upload and how long the gallery stays online depends on the plan with Wedibox; the table above sets the windows side by side, with the price of each plan. If video messages, the scavenger hunt or the registry links are what you are looking for, those rows decide it. If you want the budget beside the guest list, or to set up the whole planning side before you pay anything, compare the planning rows as well.
What to check before you decide
Write down what the day needs from your guests: photos and videos, written or spoken wishes, filmed messages, replies with meal choices, a seat at a table. Then check which plan covers each of these with either provider, and for how long, and whether some of your guests need a language beyond those EventAssets offers. Try the free plan first. With Wedibox, the free plan lets you try the gallery and the scavenger hunt; with EventAssets, the event page, the guest list, the seating chart and the guestbook are yours to set up before you pay anything.
