Yapp alternative: event67, a branded app metered per attendee
Both products put an event app in an attendee's hand, and they charge for it in opposite ways. Yapp, Inc. licenses an app per year, per app, with unlimited installs on paid plans, and attendees open it inside the shared Yapp container app (yapp.us and Apple's App Store listing for Yapp, accessed 3 September 2026). event67 publishes a separate app under the organiser's own name and meters each event by activated attendee, free for the first fifty. Which of those is cheaper depends entirely on how many people come and how often you run events, and this page gives you the crossover rather than the flattering half of it.
Last verified: 3 September 2026/Written and maintained by the event67 team
Which meter suits the events you actually run?
Yapp (Yapp is a trademark of Yapp, Inc.) sells a flat annual price per app, with unlimited installs on paid plans, unlimited push notifications on every plan, up to a year of hosting per app, and volume discounts when you buy several apps at once (yapp.us pricing page, accessed 3 September 2026). Its trial is fourteen days with no credit card, and demo apps built during the trial stop accepting installations after ten. The tiers differ on content import and post scheduling, app privacy controls and analytics, video uploads on the social feed, and team editing with multiple admins and feed moderation.
event67 sells nothing annually. One event is free up to fifty activated attendees, with the whole feature set and the full branded theme; after that each activated attendee is metered, and the total for any single event stops at a fixed ceiling. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app — not on import and not on delivery — so an invite list that never installs anything costs nothing at all.
Put those two meters on the same event and they cross. On our own arithmetic, computed on 3 September 2026 from event67's published curve against Yapp's published annual price for a single app, the crossover for one event sits at roughly 130 activated attendees. Below that number event67 costs less for that event; above it, Yapp's flat annual licence costs less, and the gap widens with every extra person in the room, because their price does not move with attendance and ours does until it hits the ceiling.
And for an organiser running several events a year the answer is simpler still: Yapp is cheaper. One annual licence covers the year for that app, while event67 meters each event separately, so a quarterly programme pays us four times and them once. That is not a close call and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The case for event67 has to be made on what the app is and whose name is on it, not on the invoice — so that is what the rest of this page does.
What organisers ask us for when they outgrow a shared app — event67's own opinion
This is our own view of the conversations we have. It is a list of things people ask us to provide, not an assessment of anybody else's product, and we are obviously not a neutral party.
- Our own listing in both app stores
- One download, not a container to search
- Moderated Q&A running during the sessions
- A shared photo album across the whole event
- A wallet pass instead of a printed badge
- Pay for the event we actually ran
event67's answers are direct. The app is published to the App Store and Google Play under the organiser's own name, so attendees search for the conference rather than for a platform. Live Q&A runs with upvoting and organiser moderation, and polls are answered from the session screen, with crowd reactions streaming during keynotes. The shared photo album accepts camera and library uploads and runs open, moderated or admin-only, auto-hiding anything an attendee reports. Apple Wallet passes are issued from the event record and refreshed by the backend while the event runs, with an iOS Live Activity from the same dispatcher — passes need a signing certificate, so that one is available rather than always on. And the charge lands once, 48 hours after the event ends, against a meter that has been visible in the console since the day the event was published.
Yapp and event67, row by row
Every cell in the Yapp 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. Yapp may change its pricing at any time; check Yapp's pricing page for current figures.
| Row | Yapp | event67 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | published flat annual price per app, with volume discountsyapp.us/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 Yapp's pricing page on 3 September 2026, Basic is listed at $399/year. As published on Yapp's pricing page on 3 September 2026, Core is listed at $649/year. As published on Yapp's pricing page on 3 September 2026, Team is listed at $799/year. As published on Yapp's pricing page on 3 September 2026, Volume pricing at 10 apps is listed at Basic $399, Core $399, Team $499. As published on Yapp's pricing page on 3 September 2026, Marketing reference price is listed at $399.yapp.us/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 | '14-Day Free Trial • No Credit Card Required'. Demo apps built during the trial cap at 10 installs before further installations are blocked. Capterra records no free version.yapp.us/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026 and capterra.com/p/149175/Yapp, 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 | Yapp does not offer a white-label app. Its own comparison content positions stand-alone white-label apps as something you buy elsewhere at much higher cost — 'expect to pay tens of thousands of dollars' — and the pricing page lists no white-label product or custom App Store listing option.yapp.us/pricing, 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.yapp.us/pricing, 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 | No-code drag-and-drop app editor with dynamic template pages. Interactive schedules and speaker bios. Push notifications (unlimited on all plans). Maps. Attendee networking. Live polls. In-app social feed with video uploads (Core and above). Content import and post scheduling (Core and above). App privacy controls and app analytics (Core and above). Team editing with multiple admins and social feed moderation (Team plan)yapp.us/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. Small teams and budget-conscious organisers: internal meetings, training sessions, seminars, small conferences, community groups.yapp.us/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 | Shared 'Yapp' container app, seller Yapp, Inc. Attendees download Yapp and open the specific event app inside it.apps.apple.com/us/app/yapp/id482926558, accessed 3 September 2026 | iOS, Android and a browser event site. |
event67 meters activated attendees on a single event. Yapp's published model is published flat annual price per app, with volume discounts. 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.
How event67 runs a 220-person training conference
Take a 220-person, two-day training conference with two tracks and a dozen workshops. The organiser creates the event in the console, sets logo, colours and typography — every colour pair checked against WCAG AA, with a result that warns and confirms rather than blocking the save — imports the delegate list as CSV and sends bulk invites with per-recipient delivery tracking.
Workshops are where an event this shape usually breaks, and they are worth naming specifically: RSVPs enforce capacity server-side with automatic waitlist promotion, so a full session stays full and the next person on the list is promoted without anybody editing a spreadsheet at breakfast. Delegates star sessions into My Picks, search the directory by name or company, connect by scanning each other's QR codes, ask questions in moderated Q&A, answer live polls and rate sessions with feedback that goes straight to the organiser. Announcements publish now or on a schedule, and their push notifications deep-link to the exact post rather than a home screen. Afterwards Reports archives every question, poll and photo, which for a training programme with continuing-education paperwork is the part people actually reuse — though we should be clear that event67 does not track credits or issue certificates itself.
220 activated attendees, less the 50 that are free, leaves 170 billable at $5 — $850 for the conference. Below roughly 130 activated attendees an event costs less than a Yapp annual licence; above it, more. The event67 ceiling for a single event is $4,750 however large the room. A delegate counts once they have claimed the invite and opened the app, and not before. Generated from event67's own pricing library.
When Yapp is the better fit
The economics come first because they are the strongest argument on this page and they are not ours. Yapp's licence is annual, per app, with unlimited installs on paid plans and volume discounts across multiple apps (yapp.us pricing page, accessed 3 September 2026). That means a large audience costs the same as a small one, and a portfolio of small apps gets cheaper per app as it grows. If you run more than one event a year, or one large one, Yapp will cost you less than we will — often considerably less — and no amount of feature comparison changes an arithmetic result.
The second reason is simplicity and history. Yapp, Inc. is based in New York and its own about page records the company as founded in 2011 and launched in 2012 (yapp.us, accessed 3 September 2026). The product is a no-code drag-and-drop editor with dynamic template pages, interactive schedules and speaker bios, push notifications, maps, attendee networking, live polls and an in-app social feed, with content import, post scheduling, privacy controls and analytics on the higher tiers. A volunteer can build an app in an afternoon without a sales call, and there is a fourteen-day trial with no credit card if you want to prove that before paying anyone.
There is also one capability they publish that we simply do not have: maps. event67 has no venue maps, no floor plans and no wayfinding of any kind. For a multi-building campus event, that alone can decide it. And the shared-container model has a genuine upside worth stating — an attendee who has used the app before at another event already has it installed, where a branded app is a fresh download for everybody, every time.
What event67 does not do
Written out so a trial does not end on a surprise. None of this exists in event67 today:
- Venue maps, floor plans and wayfinding of any kind
- Registration, ticketing and attendee payment collection
- Paid forms — forms collect responses, never money
- Onsite badge printing, kiosks and printer hardware
- Exhibitor lead retrieval and booth badge scanning
- Virtual stages, streaming, breakouts and on-demand video
- Call for papers, abstract review and speaker portals
- CEU, CME and PDH credit tracking and certificates
- AI matchmaking and a 1:1 meeting scheduler
- Points, leaderboards and other gamification
- In-app account deletion — handled by email and a web page
The first line is the one that matters most against an attendee app rather than a suite. Maps are an ordinary expectation in this category and we do not meet it. If your delegates need to find room 4B in a conference centre they have never visited, that is a genuine reason to choose something else.
Moving from a shared app to your own
Do the arithmetic first
Count the events you will run in the next twelve months and the attendance of each. If it is several events, or one large one, the annual-licence model will cost less and you should know that before you start the work.
Export the attendee list
Take name, email and any profile fields you would like people to be searchable by. The import is a CSV, and nothing in this step depends on anyone's cooperation beyond a standard export.
Rebuild the programme
Sessions, tracks, rooms, speakers, sponsors and workshop capacities go into the console. A two-day, two-track training conference is an afternoon's work.
Theme it, invite, and watch activation
The theme flows into every attendee screen with the WCAG AA advisory beside it. Bulk invites carry per-recipient delivery tracking, and the meter runs from publication so the amount is known before any card is charged.
The awkward part is the download, and it is worse in this direction than in most. Attendees moving from a shared container app to a branded one have to install something new that has no existing users and no history on their phone, and the delegates who already had the container installed lose that convenience. The invite email, the Wallet pass and the on-site signage all have to point at the new listing, and somebody should be at the registration desk on the first morning to help the people who did not read any of them. That is the price of the listing being yours, and it is a real cost rather than a footnote.
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.
- yapp.us/pricing, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own pricing page
- yapp.us/about, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own corporate page
- yapp.us, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own site
- yapp.us/resources/event-app-comparison-details, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own site
- capterra.com/p/149175/Yapp, accessed 3 September 2026A third-party software directory listing, not the vendor
- apps.apple.com/us/app/yapp/id482926558, accessed 3 September 2026The product's App Store listing
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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
Which is cheaper, Yapp or event67?
For one event, it turns on attendance. On our own calculation of 3 September 2026, comparing event67's published curve with Yapp's published annual price for a single app, the crossover is around 130 activated attendees: below that we cost less, above it Yapp does. For an organiser running several events a year, Yapp is cheaper, because one annual licence covers the year while event67 meters every event separately. The figures on both sides are in the strip above.
Does Yapp offer a branded app in our own name?
No. Yapp's pricing page lists no white-label product or custom App Store listing option, and its own comparison content positions standalone branded apps as something bought elsewhere at much higher cost (yapp.us, accessed 3 September 2026). Attendees install the shared Yapp app, published by Yapp, Inc., and open the specific event inside it (Apple's App Store listing for Yapp, accessed 3 September 2026). event67 publishes a separate listing under the organiser's own name in both stores.
What does event67 cost for a 220-person conference?
The first 50 activated attendees are free, each activated attendee after that is $5, and one event never bills more than $4,750. A 220-person conference is $850. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app, so the count is attendance rather than registrations. Invites are unlimited and unmetered, and the charge lands 48 hours after the event ends, never before it.
Is there a free version of either?
event67's free tier is one live event carrying up to 50 activated attendees, with every feature, the complete branded theme and bulk invites, no card and nothing expiring. Yapp runs a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and its demo apps stop accepting installations after ten, with no free version recorded (yapp.us pricing page, accessed 3 September 2026). Those are different offers and worth reading side by side rather than as one word.
How many attendees will the app show?
Yapp's paid plans include unlimited installs, so audience size does not change its price (yapp.us pricing page, accessed 3 September 2026). On event67 the price stops moving at 1,000 activated attendees and every attendee beyond that costs nothing, so there is no commercial ceiling on room size either. We publish no throughput or capacity figure, because we hold no comparative test to stand behind.
Does event67 have maps?
No. There are no venue maps, no interactive floor plans and no wayfinding in event67, and none is planned. Yapp publishes maps as part of its feature set (yapp.us, accessed 3 September 2026). If delegates need to navigate a large or unfamiliar venue from inside the app, that is a requirement we do not meet and it should weigh heavily in the decision.
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