Sched (sched.com) alternative: event67, where the branded app is not an add-on
event67 is a branded conference app charged per activated attendee, free for the first 50 and capped per event. Sched (sched.com) is a schedule-first event platform sold in attendee blocks of 250, either per event or as an unlimited-events subscription, with the branded native app sold as a quote-only add-on on every tier.
Last verified: 3 September 2026/Written and maintained by the event67 team
Two honest meters, measured differently
Sched (sched.com) (Sched is a trademark of Sched LLC) is one of the small number of vendors in this category that publishes real numbers, and this page was rewritten on 3 September 2026 after we loaded sched.com/pricing in a browser and found that its calculator now renders figures it previously did not. That matters for a reason worth stating: several directories carry Sched figures that its own page does not support, and we have dropped them rather than repeat them.
What its page actually shows is two meters, switchable on the page itself. A per-event price, and a per-month price billed annually for unlimited events, both sized by an attendee slider that starts at 250 and buys further attendees in sets of 250 (accessed 3 September 2026). event67 has one meter: per activated attendee above a free fifty, with a ceiling on any one event. So the comparison is not schedule against schedule. It is a block of pre-purchased capacity against a count of people who actually opened the app.
Two other facts from that page shape the rest of this. Sched publishes unlimited free participants for smaller events below 50 attendees, with its top tier advertising a doubled threshold — genuinely comparable to event67's free fifty, and we would rather describe it accurately than spin it. And its plan comparison table lists branded and native mobile apps as an add-on available on all three tiers, with both branded-app products carrying a 'Get a Quote' button rather than a figure (accessed 3 September 2026). Whether that add-on is the right purchase for you is a conversation with Sched, not a number we can put in a table.
What organizers ask us for — event67's own opinion
Our own view of the conversations we have, offered as opinion. It describes what people ask for, not what any other product does, and we sell one of the two.
- A branded listing included, not quoted separately
- Paying for attendees, not for blocks
- Engagement beyond the agenda screen
- A worst case fixed before signing
- Starting free without a card
- Photos and chat in the same app
How event67 answers. The branded store listing is in the base product on every event, including the free one, so there is nothing to quote. The meter counts activated attendees, so a 270-person event pays for 270 rather than for a pre-bought block. Chat with reactions, replies and delivery ticks, a moderated shared photo album, live crowd reactions, Wallet passes and admin comms campaigns all sit alongside the schedule. The ceiling on one event is fixed and published. And the free tier is a real live event up to 50 activated attendees with no card and no trial clock.
Sched (sched.com) and event67, row by row
Every cell in the Sched (sched.com) column is quoted or summarised from a page we loaded ourselves, with the link and the date beside it. A row we could not source is not softened, it is removed. Sched (sched.com) may change its pricing at any time; check Sched (sched.com)'s pricing page for current figures.
| Row | Sched (sched.com) | event67 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per-event pricing sized by attendee count, with a per-event and an unlimited-events toggle.sched.com/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026 | Per activated attendee on a single event. An attendee is activated only when they claim their invite and open the app. |
| Published price points | As published on Sched (sched.com)'s pricing page on 3 September 2026, Launch, starting price at the 250-attendee default is listed at Starting at $600 /event. As published on Sched (sched.com)'s pricing page on 3 September 2026, Boost, starting price at the 250-attendee default is listed at Starting at $1500 /event. As published on Sched (sched.com)'s pricing page on 3 September 2026, Ultra, starting price at the 250-attendee default is listed at Starting at $2250 /event.sched.com/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026 | $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and one event never costs more than $4,750. Published at event67.com/pricing. |
| Free tier | Sched's own pricing page states 'Unlimited free participants - for all your smaller events below 50 attendees', and Ultra advertises '100% larger free small events', putting the threshold at 100 there. Verified first-hand on 2026-09-03. The page also advertises a 60-day money-back guarantee.sched.com/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026 | One live event, up to 50 activated attendees, with the whole feature set, the full branded theme and bulk invites. No card and no trial clock. |
| Branded app in the organizer's own store listing | Sched sells branded/native apps as a paid add-on on Launch, Boost and Ultra, in two shapes: 'One App, One Event' (a custom-branded app for a single event, listed in the App Store and Google Play) and 'One App, Endless Events' (a branded year-round hub for multiple events, pitched at multi-campus organisations).sched.com/features, accessed 3 September 2026 | Standard on every event, including the free one. Published to the App Store and Google Play under the client's own listing. |
| Published set-up or lead time | Not published on the pages recorded in the source list.sched.com/features, accessed 3 September 2026 | Not published. event67 states no lead-time figure, because store review time varies; a date is given against a specific event date instead. |
| Core attendee features, as published by the vendor | Session scheduling and personalised attendee agendas. Web and mobile event app. Speaker profiles and call for papers. Registration and ticketing. Attendee networking, attendance tracking and check-in. Customisable badges, sponsor profiles and lead retrieval (Boost tier and above). PD (professional development) hours tracking and reportingsched.com/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026 | Live schedule with a personal agenda, workshop RSVPs with server-side capacity and waitlists, attendee directory, QR attendee-to-attendee connections, live Q&A, polls, reactions, session feedback, shared photo album with moderation, tier-ordered sponsor pages, smart and scheduled push, Apple Wallet pass. |
| Scope the vendor publishes | attendee app. Conferences, festivals, conventions and school-district / education events; plans are sized in buckets of 250 attendees, with an Enterprise tier offering on-premise hosting.sched.com/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026 | Attendee app and organizer console only. No registration, ticketing or payment collection, no badge printing, no exhibitor lead retrieval, no maps, no streaming, no abstract management. Organizer console: Events, sessions, speakers and sponsors; bulk CSV invites with per-recipient delivery tracking; QR check-in and live arrivals; approvals for photos and Q&A; announcements; admin chat with an audit trail; email campaigns, templates, forms and tracked links; engagement analytics; theme editor with a WCAG AA contrast advisory; owner self-serve accounts and Stripe billing. |
| Attendee platforms | Sched's own app covers ATTENDEES (agenda, session details, push notifications) with organiser check-in and attendance tracking in the platform. Separately, 'Branded / Native mobile apps' is an add-on on every tier, with App Store and Google Play listing, offline access, secure attendee login and push notifications.sched.com/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026 | iOS, Android and a browser event site. |
event67 meters activated attendees on a single event. Sched (sched.com)'s published model is per-event pricing sized by attendee count, with a per-event and an unlimited-events toggle. The two are not the same unit, so the figures are not directly comparable.
Every event67 figure on this page is generated at build time from event67's own pricing library rather than typed into the page, so the page and the meter cannot disagree. event67 publishes no performance, capacity or throughput measurement on this page, and makes no comparative measurement of any other product.
All third-party names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification only. event67 is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any company named on this page. Comparison details are accurate as at the dates shown.
A 270-person professional-development conference
The list arrives by CSV. Invites go out with per-recipient delivery tracking and the console's live meter counts activations from publication day, so nobody is surprised by an invoice.
Delegates star sessions into My Picks and pin them to the top of their day, RSVP into capacity-controlled breakouts with automatic waitlist promotion when someone drops, scan each other to connect, upvote questions into moderated live Q&A, answer polls from the session screen, rate sessions and send suggestions straight to the organiser, and post into a shared photo album running in moderated mode. The organiser watches arrivals against the guest list, approves photos and questions, publishes announcements that deep-link into the exact post, and reads active attendees, funnels and top sessions live rather than in a post-event summary.
The bill: 270 activated attendees, less the 50 that are free, is 220 billable at $5 — $1,100 for the event. Run it twice a year and it is $2,200. Figures computed from event67's pricing library at build time.
When Sched is the better fit
Most obviously when you run more than one event a year. Sched's unlimited-events option is a subscription covering as many events as you like within the attendee band you buy, and event67 meters every event separately (accessed 3 September 2026). An organisation running six regional meetings pays six times on event67 and once on a Sched subscription. That is not a close call above a certain volume and you should do the sum with your own numbers before reading further.
Second, session machinery. Sched publishes call for papers, speaker profiles and speaker tools, conflict detection and prevention, an email co-pilot, registration and ticketing, and professional-development hours tracking and reporting (accessed 3 September 2026). event67 has no call for papers, no abstract submission, no speaker portal, no ticketing and no PD or CEU tracking. For a school district or a professional body whose delegates attend for credit, that last one alone decides it.
Third, the onsite and exhibitor layer. Sched's plan comparison lists customisable event badges, sponsor and exhibitor profiles, lead capture by QR scanning, lead retrieval, an exhibitor directory and an exhibitor floor-plan map upload on its higher tiers (accessed 3 September 2026). event67 has none of those: our QR is attendee-to-attendee networking, and describing it as lead retrieval would be wrong.
What event67 does not do
Set out in full, because on this comparison the exclusions are unusually load-bearing:
- Call for papers, abstract submission and speaker portals
- CEU, CME or PDH credit tracking, certificates and PD-hours reporting
- Attendee registration, ticketing and payment collection
- Onsite badge design, badge printing and check-in hardware
- Exhibitor lead retrieval, exhibitor directories and floor-plan uploads
- Interactive venue maps and wayfinding
- Virtual and hybrid streaming and on-demand video
- Unlimited-events subscriptions — event67 meters each event separately
- In-app account deletion — deletion runs by email and a web page
What switching actually involves
Count your events, then your attendees
Multiply the activated head count above 50 by $5 for each event, cap each at $4,750, and total the year. Compare that with an unlimited-events subscription. If you run several events, the subscription may well win and we would rather you found that out now.
Check the credit requirement
If your delegates need PD, CEU or CME hours recorded, event67 cannot do it. That is a hard stop rather than a workaround, and it should be the second question you ask.
Import and rebuild
Attendee list by CSV, then sessions, tracks, rooms, speakers and tier-ordered sponsors in the console. Breakout capacities and waitlists are enforced server-side.
Theme it and prove it free
Logo, colours and typography flow through every screen with a WCAG AA contrast advisory that warns and confirms without blocking a save. Run the free 50-attendee tier on a real internal event before committing.
The awkward part is the schedule itself. A mature conference programme carries speaker bios, track colours, room assignments and years of accumulated conventions, and re-entering it is genuinely tedious work whoever you move to. Budget an afternoon per track and do it before the invites go out, not after.
Sources
Each entry is a page a person loaded on the date shown. The specific claim each one supports sits beside that claim in the table above, so you can check any single row against its own source rather than against this list. Pricing and status are re-checked every 60 days; capability claims every 90.
- sched.com/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own pricing page
- capterra.com/p/125306/Sched-org/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026A third-party software directory listing, not the vendor
- sched.com/features, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own site
- sched.com/contact, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own corporate page
- softwareadvice.com/virtual-event/sched-profile, accessed 3 September 2026A third-party software directory listing, not the vendor
Trademarks and independence
All product names, company names, logos, and trademarks referred to on this page are the property of their respective owners. All such names and marks are used for identification purposes only. Their use does not imply any endorsement of, sponsorship of, affiliation with, or partnership with event67, and event67 is not affiliated with, authorised by, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of the companies named on this page.
Comparisons on this page are based on information published by the named company and by event67, accessed on the dates shown. Products and prices change; the named company may have altered its product or pricing since the access date shown. Please check the named company's own website for its current features and pricing. Where this page states an opinion, it is event67's own opinion and is labelled as such.
What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
How much does Sched cost?
Sched publishes figures on its own pricing page, and they depend on two controls: a per-event or unlimited-events toggle, and an attendee slider that starts at 250. The table on this page carries the figures we read at the slider's 250-attendee default on 3 September 2026, on the Standard tab, with the source link. Sched may change its pricing at any time; check Sched's pricing page for current figures.
Why do other sites show different Sched prices?
Because several directories carry annual figures that Sched's own page does not support. When we loaded sched.com/pricing on 3 September 2026 we found two of those figures are the vendor's per-event prices rather than annual ones, and a third does not appear on the vendor's page at all. We have dropped every directory figure for Sched and publish only what the vendor's page shows, with the toggle state stated.
Does Sched offer a branded app?
Yes, as an add-on. Its plan comparison table lists branded and native mobile apps as an add-on available on all three tiers, and both branded-app products carry a 'Get a Quote' button rather than a published figure (accessed 3 September 2026). In event67 the branded store listing is standard on every event, with no separate price.
Do both have a free option?
Both do, and they are genuinely comparable. Sched's pricing page states unlimited free participants for smaller events below 50 attendees, with its top tier advertising a doubled threshold (accessed 3 September 2026). event67 is free for one live event up to 50 activated attendees, with the whole feature set and no card. The difference is shape: theirs sits alongside a paid plan, ours is a standalone starting point.
What does event67 cost for 270 attendees?
$1,100. The first 50 activated attendees are free and the remaining 220 are $5 each. One event never exceeds $4,750. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app, so unopened invites are never billed and someone who registers and stays home costs nothing.
Can event67 track professional-development hours?
No. CEU, CME and PDH credit tracking, certificate generation and PD-hours reporting are not built, confirmed by search across the codebase on 3 September 2026. Sched publishes PD-hours tracking and reporting. If your delegates attend for credit, this is a hard gate and it favours Sched.
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