Google Forms collects names.
Grove runs the reunion.

Google Forms is free, fast, and familiar. Every organizer has used it at least once. But what lands in the spreadsheet still has to be managed by hand. There are no payments, no budget, no community, and no history.

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Feature	Google Forms	Grove
RSVP collection	✓	✓
Questions for attendees	Any question	Headcount, dietary, lodging, shirt size
Card payment collection (with activation)	-	✓
One record of who paid, card or cash	-	✓
Budget tracking and transparency	-	✓
Potluck and task coordination	-	✓
Family communication hub	-	✓
Year-over-year history	-	✓
Handoff brief for next organizer	-	✓
Family tree and branch structure	-	✓
Elder voice stories and memory archive	-	✓

Competitor details last reviewed September 2026.

Side by side

What Google Forms gives you

-Free tools that work in isolation
-Manual reconciliation every time something changes
-A spreadsheet the organizer has to share and maintain
-No history, no handoff, no continuity
-Starting from scratch every single year

What Grove gives you

✓One place for RSVPs, payments, tasks, and coordination
✓Card payments at the point of RSVP once the reunion is activated, marked paid automatically
✓A budget you can track and share with the family
✓A starter planning checklist ready when you create the reunion
✓A handoff brief so next year's organizer is not starting over

Free tools are not free if someone has to manage them full-time.

Google Forms is free. Google Sheets is free. Google Drive is free. But someone has to build the form, manage the spreadsheet, reconcile the payments, answer the same questions in the group chat, and start over next year. That labor is not free.

Grove replaces the form, the spreadsheet, the payment tracker, the group chat, and the photo album with one platform that remembers everything. The organizer's time is the most expensive thing in the reunion. Grove gives it back.