Zoom Events alternative: event67, for events where people are in a room
If your event is virtual, event67 is the wrong tool, and nothing further down this page will change that. event67 has no video streaming, no virtual stage, no breakout rooms, no exhibitor booths and no on-demand library — it is a branded companion app for events where people are physically together. Zoom Events is a product of Zoom Communications, Inc. for multi-session, multi-day virtual events built on the Zoom video stack, marketed alongside Zoom Webinars for single-session broadcast (zoom.us, accessed 3 September 2026). Those are two different jobs, and the only reason this page exists is that a lot of events are now one and then the other.
Last verified: 3 September 2026/Written and maintained by the event67 team
Is your event in a room, or on a screen?
Zoom Events (Zoom Events is a trademark of Zoom Communications, Inc.) is a video product. Its published capabilities are multi-session, multi-day virtual event hosting on the Zoom video stack, Zoom Webinars for single-session broadcast, screen sharing, video conferencing and multi-host support, live chat, Q&A management and polls, session recording, attendee registration, and mobile access through Zoom's own iOS and Android clients (zoom.us and Capterra's listing for Zoom Events and Webinars, accessed 3 September 2026). If the programme you are planning is watched rather than attended, that is the shape of product you need and we cannot substitute for any of it.
One piece of precision before anything else, because it is the most common confusion in this search: Zoom Events is a distinct product from Zoom Meetings and from Zoom Webinars, and Zoom now markets Events and Webinars together as one family (accessed 3 September 2026). A page that treats all three as interchangeable will mislead you on both capability and price, so we keep them separate throughout.
event67 answers a different question entirely. It is a branded conference companion app for iOS, Android and the web, published under the organiser's own name in the App Store and Google Play, paired with an organiser console and metered per attendee who claims their invite and opens the app. What it does is the physical event: a live schedule with tracks, rooms and speakers; a personal agenda; an attendee directory; QR connections made by two people scanning each other in the room; moderated live Q&A; live polls and crowd reactions; session feedback; a shared photo album; tier-ordered sponsor pages; Apple Wallet passes; and push notifications that deep-link to the exact post.
So the honest sorting rule is short. Screen: Zoom Events. Room: event67. Both, on the same day: two products, and we will describe below exactly what that costs you in effort, because it is not nothing.
What in-person organisers ask us for — event67's own opinion
This section is our own view of our own conversations. It records what organisers ask us to build for them. It contains no assertion about any other product, and we are plainly the interested party.
- An app listed under the event's own name
- A schedule people can follow between rooms
- QR connections between two people standing together
- A shared photo album from the day
- Sponsor pages that match the sponsorship deck
- A published price and a free first event
Each has a specific answer. The app publishes to both stores under the client's own listing rather than ours. The schedule is day-by-day and filterable by track with rooms and speakers attached, and attendees star sessions into My Picks, which pins them to the head of their own day. Networking is a searchable directory plus an in-person QR scan between two attendees — attendee to attendee, never a booth scan. The album takes camera and library uploads across the whole event and runs open, moderated or admin-only, auto-hiding anything an attendee reports. Sponsor pages are ordered by tier, running Platinum through to Bronze. And the rate, the per-event ceiling and the free first event are printed on our pricing page rather than gathered on a call.
Zoom Events and event67, row by row
Every cell in the Zoom Events 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. Zoom Events may change its pricing at any time; check Zoom Events's pricing page for current figures.
| Row | Zoom Events | event67 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per-license subscription tied to attendee capacity, with monthly and annual billing; pay-per-attendee options are also offered. Requires an underlying paid Zoom Workplace plan.zoom.us/pricing/events, 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 Zoom Events's pricing page on 3 September 2026, Zoom Events — 100 attendee capacity is listed at $149 per month or $1,490 annually. As published on Zoom Events's pricing page on 3 September 2026, Zoom Events and Webinars — Capterra listed starting price is listed at $500 per user per month.zoom.us/pricing/events, accessed 3 September 2026 and capterra.com/p/157062/Zoom-Video-Webinar, 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 | Capterra records no free trial and no free version for Zoom Events and Webinars. Zoom's free Meetings tier is a different product and does not include Zoom Events.zoom.us/pricing/events, accessed 3 September 2026 and capterra.com/p/157062/Zoom-Video-Webinar, 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 | Attendees join through the Zoom-branded client. No source indicates an organizer can ship a mobile app under their own name and branding, and the whole product is predicated on the Zoom brand and client.zoom.com/en/about, 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.zoom.com/en/about, 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 | Multi-session, multi-day virtual event hosting built on the Zoom video stack. Zoom Webinars for single-session broadcast. Screen sharing, video conferencing and multi-host support. Live chat, Q&A management and polls. Session recording. Attendee registration. Mobile access via Zoom's iOS and Android clientszoom.com/en/about, 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 | virtual & hybrid. Any size, but effectively a bolt-on for organizations already standardized on Zoom; listed alongside Zoom Webinars in Zoom's Events and Webinars pricing family.zoom.com/en/about, 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 | Capterra lists deployment as Web, iOS and Android for Zoom Events and Webinars — these are Zoom's own general-purpose clients, not a per-event conference app.capterra.com/p/157062/Zoom-Video-Webinar, accessed 3 September 2026 | iOS, Android and a browser event site. |
event67 meters activated attendees on a single event. Zoom Events's published model is per-license subscription tied to attendee capacity, with monthly and annual billing; pay-per-attendee options are also offered. Requires an underlying paid Zoom Workplace plan. 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 600-person in-person conference
A 600-person user conference over two days, three tracks, everybody in the building. The organiser creates the event in the console, sets logo, colours and typography in the theme editor — each colour pair checked against WCAG AA, with a result that warns and confirms and never blocks the save — imports the attendee list as CSV and sends bulk invites with per-recipient delivery tracking. Invites are unlimited and are never metered, so a generous invite list costs nothing.
On the day, the desk scans arrivals against the guest list, with a repeat scan returning "already" rather than an error, and a live arrivals count runs on the desk view and as a console widget. Attendees follow the schedule between rooms, build My Picks, RSVP to workshops whose capacity is enforced server-side with automatic waitlist promotion, connect by QR, ask questions in moderated live Q&A, answer polls from the session screen and send session feedback straight to the organiser. Announcements publish immediately or on a schedule, and their push notifications open the exact post rather than a home screen. Apple Wallet passes come from the event record and are refreshed by the backend while the conference runs, with an iOS Live Activity from the same dispatcher; passes need a signing certificate, so treat that as available rather than always on. Engagement analytics — active attendees, funnels and session ranking — update live, and Reports archives every question, poll and photo when the doors close.
600 activated attendees, less the 50 that are included, leaves 550 billable at $5 — $2,750 for the conference. One event never bills above $4,750, which is where the curve stops at 1,000 activated attendees. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app, not that they were imported or that an invite was delivered. Generated from event67's own pricing library.
When Zoom Events is the better fit
Anything that has to be streamed. Zoom Events publishes multi-session, multi-day virtual event hosting on the Zoom video stack, with screen sharing, video conferencing and multi-host support, live chat, Q&A management and polls, and session recording, plus Zoom Webinars alongside it for single-session broadcast (zoom.us and Capterra's listing for Zoom Events and Webinars, accessed 3 September 2026). event67 has none of that and is not going to. If a remote audience is watching your programme, this is the category you are buying in and we are not in it.
There is a second, quieter case that we think is underrated. Organisations already standardised on Zoom get something valuable that has nothing to do with features: the vendor is already onboarded, the identity and admin tooling already exists, and attendees join in a client they have open on their desk anyway. Adding a new vendor to an event means a new contract, a new review and a new thing for every attendee to install. That is a real cost, it lands on people who did not ask for it, and for an internal all-hands or a distributed team meeting it can easily outweigh anything we offer. That is our own assessment rather than a claim about anybody's product.
Third, if your programme runs mostly on screens with a small physical gathering attached, the sensible centre of gravity is the video product, not the app. A conference app for eighty people in one room, bolted onto an event whose main audience is remote, is a lot of setup for a small slice of the audience. We would rather say that here than sell it to you.
What event67 does not do
The first four lines are the ones that matter on this page, and they are the reason the lede concedes the category rather than arguing with it. None of this exists in event67:
- Video streaming of any kind, live or recorded
- A virtual stage, broadcast studio or webinar mode
- Breakout rooms and virtual networking lounges
- An on-demand content library after the event
- Virtual exhibitor booths and sponsor video rooms
- Registration, ticketing and attendee payment collection
- Onsite badge printing, kiosks and printer hardware
- Exhibitor lead retrieval and booth badge scanning
- Interactive floor plans, venue maps and wayfinding
- AI matchmaking and a 1:1 meeting scheduler
- In-app account deletion — handled by email and a web page
There is no partial version of the first item. event67 cannot host, embed, relay or record a stream, and we will not describe a link out to a video platform as hybrid support. If any part of your programme has a remote audience, that part needs a product built for video.
What adding an in-person app involves
Decide what is streamed and what is not
Split the programme in two before anything else: the sessions with a remote audience, and the sessions that exist only in the room. event67 only ever covers the second list, and getting this split right is the whole of the planning.
Export the attendee list for the room
Name, email and the profile fields you want searchable in the directory, for the people physically attending. event67 imports from CSV, and that import is the only join between the two sides.
Build the in-person programme
Sessions, tracks, rooms, speakers and sponsors go into the console, with workshop capacities where they apply. A three-track, two-day conference is an afternoon of data entry.
Theme, invite, and watch the meter
Logo, colours and typography flow into every attendee screen with the WCAG AA advisory beside them. Bulk invites carry per-recipient delivery tracking, and the activation meter runs in the console from publication so the amount is known before any card is charged.
The genuinely awkward part is that a hybrid day runs on two products and there is no bridge between them. If your keynote is streamed and your breakouts are not, the remote audience is in one place and the room is in another, and there is no shared attendee list, no shared Q&A queue and no single schedule covering both. Somebody on your side owns that seam: two sets of joining instructions, two Q&A moderators, and a decision about which product the on-site audience is told to open. We have no integration to offer here and we are not going to imply one. For a mostly-remote event that overhead is not worth it; for a mostly-in-person event with one streamed session it usually is.
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.
- zoom.com/en/about, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own corporate page
- capterra.com/p/157062/Zoom-Video-Webinar, accessed 3 September 2026A third-party software directory listing, not the vendor
- zoom.us/pricing/events, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own pricing page
- zoom.com/en/products/webinars, accessed 3 September 2026The vendor's own site
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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
Could we run the virtual half of a hybrid event on event67?
No. event67 has no video streaming, no virtual stage or webinar mode, no breakout rooms, no virtual booths and no on-demand library, and none of those is planned. For the in-person part of a hybrid event it works exactly as it does for any conference — schedule, agenda, directory, QR connections, Q&A, polls, photos, sponsors and check-in — but the streamed part needs a product built for video, running alongside it.
How much does Zoom Events cost?
The pricing strip on this page is generated from our dataset, with every source named and dated, rather than written into this copy. Two things about the shape are worth knowing before you compare anything. The licence is sized to attendee capacity rather than to organiser seats, and Zoom Events sits on top of a paid Zoom Workplace plan, so both are part of the total (zoom.us pricing for Events and Webinars, accessed 3 September 2026). A per-capacity licence and a per-activated-attendee meter are different shapes of cost and are not directly comparable.
Is Zoom Events the same as Zoom Meetings or Zoom Webinars?
No, they are distinct products, and Zoom now markets Zoom Events and Zoom Webinars together as one family (accessed 3 September 2026). Zoom Events is built for multi-session, multi-day virtual events; Zoom Webinars is for single-session broadcast; Zoom Meetings is the general meeting product. Reviews and comparison pages frequently blur the three, so check which product a figure or a feature actually belongs to before you rely on it.
What does event67 cost for a 600-person conference?
Your first 50 activated attendees carry no charge. Every one after that is $5, no single event bills more than $4,750, and a 600-person conference therefore comes to $2,750. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app, so people who register and do not attend are never billed. Invites carry no limit and no meter, and the amount is charged 48 hours after the conference ends.
We run one conference a year that is mostly in-person with a streamed keynote. What should we do?
Run both, and plan the seam. Use a video product for the streamed keynote and its remote audience, and event67 for everything the room does across the two days. There is no integration between them, so you will maintain two sets of joining instructions and two Q&A queues for that one session, and you should decide in advance which product the in-room audience is told to open. That is a judgement of ours, offered as such.
How do we evaluate event67 before paying for it?
Run a small real event on the free tier. It covers one live event with up to 50 activated attendees and withholds nothing — every feature, the complete branded theme, bulk invites — and it needs no card, expires on no clock, and requires no demo booking. Because it is a live event rather than a sandbox, the usual evaluation here is a workshop or a chapter meeting first, then a decision about the conference.
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