Tito (accessible at ti.to) is an event registration and ticketing platform founded in Ireland that is known for its clean, developer-friendly design and API-first approach. The platform has been popular in the tech conference community, serving developer conferences, design meetups, and startup gatherings. According to industry data, Tito has processed registrations for thousands of events primarily in the technology and creative industries, with a strong following in Europe and North America. Tito charges a flat fee of around $0.50 per paid ticket with no percentage-based commission, making it cost-effective for higher-priced tickets. The platform offers customizable registration pages, discount codes, team management, webhook integrations, and a well-documented API for custom workflows. However, Tito requires account creation for organizers, and its registration flow involves email confirmation for attendees. The platform is designed around ticket sales and registration management, making it more structured than necessary for simple free events that just need a page and RSVP tracking.
RealEvents is perfect for free events where you do not want to navigate a ticketing system, configure payment processing, or require anyone to create accounts. While Tito has elegant design and is well-respected in the developer community for its API and clean interface, it is still fundamentally a ticketing platform. Setting up a free event on Tito means creating an account, navigating through ticket configuration options, and having your attendees go through an email-confirmed registration flow. RealEvents skips all of that. According to industry data, approximately 70% of community and tech meetup events are free, meaning the majority of events in Tito's core user base do not actually need ticketing infrastructure. RealEvents gives those organizers a shareable event page with RSVP tracking in about 10 seconds, completely free, with no accounts required for anyone. Your guests click the link, RSVP, and you see who is coming - that is the entire workflow.
Yes, RealEvents is completely free with no fees of any kind. Tito charges approximately $0.50 per paid ticket as a flat service fee, plus payment processing fees from Stripe (typically around 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction). While Tito's pricing is competitive and transparent compared to percentage-based platforms like Eventbrite, it still involves costs for paid events and requires account creation. For free events, which make up the majority of community gatherings and meetups, RealEvents provides everything you need - event pages, RSVP tracking, QR codes, and CSV export - without any financial transactions or account requirements.
If you are organizing a free event that does not require ticket sales, payment processing, or Tito's developer-friendly API integrations, RealEvents is a simpler alternative that you can start using immediately. There is no account to create, no migration process, and no learning curve. Just enter your event details and share the link. For paid events requiring ticketing with Tito's clean interface and reliable Stripe integration, Tito continues to serve that purpose well. Many tech community organizers use Tito for their paid conferences and RealEvents for their free meetups and social events.
Tito provides ticket selling with a flat-fee pricing model, payment processing through Stripe, customizable registration flows with email confirmation, team management for multi-organizer events, discount and promotional codes, webhook integrations, and a well-documented REST API that developers can use to build custom workflows and integrations. These features are designed for organizations running paid events or needing programmatic access to their registration data. RealEvents focuses on simplicity for free events: a clean page, instant RSVP tracking, QR codes for sharing, and CSV export. For events that do not need ticketing or API access, RealEvents is the faster path.