HookedIRL vs goodinvite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HookedIRL
Discover and connect with single people at events, bars, and cafes. Check in to your location to see who else is single, send likes, and start chatting when the feeling is mutual. Users can report or block others for safety.
- See singles at events, bars, and cafes
- Check in to your location
- Like other users
- Mutual chat initiation
- Report and block users
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See who's single at events, bars, and cafés. How it works 1. Go to an event or a venue. 2. Check in when you get there. 3. See who's single there, like them, and chat when it's mutual. Report or block anyone. You must be 18 or older.
goodinvite
Easily create and share casual invitations directly within your messaging app. Track RSVPs in real-time with live headcount updates and manage limited spots with a first-come, first-serve waitlist.
- Live RSVPs within chat
- Real-time headcount updates
- First-come, first-serve inviting
- Automatic waitlist management
- Add to Calendar functionality
- No sign-ups required
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goodinvite is a casual inviting app that lives right inside Messages. Sending an invite should be as easy as sending a text — with goodinvite, it is. This is not a party planning app. It's for your everyday connection — the Tuesday dinner, the last-minute walk, the "who's around tonight?" There's no separate app to open and no link to pass around. Make an invite, drop it in the chat, and everyone RSVPs with a single tap — Going or Not — without ever leaving the conversation. The best part: the headcount is live. As people tap in, the count updates right there in the thread for everyone to see. No more "who's actually coming?" for the tenth time, no group-chat scroll-back, no spreadsheet. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE INVITING Only have room for six? Set a cap. The first six taps are in, and everyone after that lands on the waitlist automatically. First-come, first-serve inviting, handled for you — no awkward "sorry, we're full" texts. HOW IT WORKS • Create an invite in seconds — what, where, when • Send it into any iMessage thread • Everyone taps Going or Not Going, right in the chat • The live headcount updates for the whole group instantly FEATURES • Live RSVPs — tap to respond, watch the count update in real time • First-come, first-serve inviting — set a headcount cap and the waitlist takes over automatically • Add to Calendar in a tap so no one forgets • Works natively in Messages — the invite and the RSVPs all stay in your chat NO SIGN-UPS No accounts, no passwords, no email. Pick the name your friends will see and you're ready to RSVP. You can change it any time in Settings. Keep it casual. A birthday dinner, a last-minute hang, a game night, a trip everyone keeps "meaning to plan" — goodinvite is the casual inviting app that makes getting people together the easy part. Grab your group. Drop an invite. See who's in. GOOD TO KNOW - goodinvite runs inside iMessage on iPhone and iPad, so it works in conversations where everyone is using iMessage. - If a chat falls back to SMS, the invite won't show up in that thread — keep it to your iMessage conversations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: goodinvite at 5.0 against HookedIRL's 3.9. goodinvite also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 85%). HookedIRL's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
goodinvite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HookedIRL has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of HookedIRL's written reviews are positive against 100% of goodinvite's.
HookedIRL ships an update every 8 days, goodinvite weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HookedIRL | goodinvite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hooked Social Inc | David Bogle |
Customer experience
HookedIRL
goodinvite
In-app purchases
HookedIRL
No in-app purchases
goodinvite
No in-app purchases









