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.
| Feature | Google Forms | Grove |
|---|---|---|
| RSVP collection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom questions for attendees | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payment collection | - | ✓ |
| Automatic reconciliation of who paid | - | ✓ |
| 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 | - | ✓ |
| Voice stories and memory archive | - | ✓ |
Side by side
What Google Forms gives you
- -Free tools that work in isolation
- -Manual reconciliation every time something changes
- -A spreadsheet only the organizer can see
- -No history, no handoff, no continuity
- -Starting from scratch every single year
What Grove gives you
- ✓One place for RSVPs, payments, tasks, and coordination
- ✓Payments collected automatically at the point of RSVP
- ✓Budget visible to the whole family
- ✓35 tasks auto-generated 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.
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