The notebook · August 5, 2026 · 3 min read
By The Reunion Fund team
Reunly vs Reunion Fund
Both are built for reunions. Reunly is one-organizer ticketing at a one-time price; Reunion Fund adds a committee and an approval step on the money.
Most tools in this space are wedding products or invitation products with reunions bolted on. Reunly is one of the few that was actually built for reunions, which makes it the most useful comparison on this site, and the one where the differences are narrowest.
Where they agree
Both understand the shape of a reunion in a way general event tools don't: a class list rather than a contact list, a date years in the making, ticket tiers, and the reality that some of your attendees are not going to install an app.
Both collect money. Both handle RSVPs. Both are priced for something you run once every five years rather than every week.
If you're choosing between these two, you've already narrowed correctly.
The two real differences
1. One organizer, or a committee
Reunly is built around a single organizer running the reunion. That's an accurate model for plenty of reunions. Often one determined person does most of it.
Reunion Fund assumes a committee: tasks assigned to named people, shared documents, chat attached to the event, and more than one person able to see the budget without asking. If your reunion genuinely is one person, that structure is overhead. If it's five people and a group chat that's three threads deep, it's the point.
2. What can happen to the money after it's collected
Both collect. The difference is what governs the money afterwards.
Reunion Fund charges contributions directly to the organizer's own Stripe account. We are never in the flow of funds and never hold your class's money. Releasing anything from a shared fund requires two committee approvals, the requester cannot cast one of them, and if the system can't confirm who the organizer is the release fails rather than passing.
To our knowledge no competitor in this category, including Reunly, requires a second committee signature before money moves. If that governance matters to you, it's the deciding factor. If one trusted person handling the money is fine for your group, it isn't.
Pricing, and who wins on it
As of August 2026, Reunly runs a free tier plus roughly $39 per reunion. Reunion Fund is free for two active events with up to 30 guests each and three co-organizers, or $12/month / $120/year for Pro.
The honest arithmetic:
- One reunion, then nothing for five years? Reunly's $39 one-time is cheaper than $120/year, and it isn't close. Pay once, walk away.
- Planning over four months? $12/month for four months is $48, roughly a wash.
- Running several gatherings, or an alumni group that meets regularly? Unlimited events on an annual plan pulls ahead.
- Small reunion? Our free tier covers 30 guests, which is a real reunion for a small class.
We are not the cheap option for a single one-off reunion. Saying otherwise would require ignoring the arithmetic.
Choosing
Reunly if one person is running it, ticketing and RSVPs are the whole job, and you want to pay once and be done.
Reunion Fund if a committee is dividing the work, or if the money needs more than one person's agreement before it moves, or if you'll run more than one gathering.
Before you decide
Two questions worth asking whatever you pick, and they apply to us as much as anyone:
Where does the money physically sit between collection and spending? If a platform pools contributions and pays out later, a third party holds your class's money on their schedule. That's not automatically wrong, but you should know it and know what happens if you need the money early.
Can one person move all of it alone? If yes, the tool hasn't removed the risk. It has given it a nicer interface. The longer argument for why that matters is here.
Reunion Fund gives a committee one shared workspace (tasks, RSVPs, budget, documents and chat) with an optional shared fund that pays contributions straight to the organizer through Stripe and takes two committee approvals to release. The fund is off by default. Free plan: two active events, up to 30 guests each, three co-organizers. Start planning at reunionfund.com.
Competitor details above were checked in August 2026. Pricing and feature sets change, so verify against their site before deciding.