Conference apps compared, 2026

Every list that ranks for this query is published by a vendor, and every one of them puts its own product first. We are also a vendor. So rather than pretend otherwise, this page does four things the others do not: it publishes the method before the list, it prices only what the vendor prices, it declines to republish anybody’s review scores, and it marks our own product as ours everywhere it appears.

Last verified: 3 September 2026. Next scheduled verification: 2 November 2026.

The method, before the list

You cannot check a ranking whose criteria are private. Here is ours.

What we did. A named person loaded each vendor’s own website by hand on 3 September 2026 and recorded, with the URL and date, four things: the product category, the published pricing if any, whether the vendor states that an organizer can publish an app under their own name in the app stores, and the headline capability list as the vendor describes it. Those records live in landing/seo/data/competitors.json in this repository, with a verify_by date on each.

What we did not do. We did not run the products against each other. We have not stood at sixteen registration desks with sixteen scanners. Any list claiming a performance comparison across this many products is either describing a test it should publish or asserting something it has not measured. We assert neither.

What we excluded and why. Products with no live offering under the name people search for are out: Pathable and Boomset are discontinued, Attendease is now marketed as EventUp Planner, and Hubilo’s successor product is sold as Virtual PRO. Ranking a dead product as though it were on sale is the easiest factual error to make in this category and the easiest to avoid.

What we do not publish. Competitors’ aggregate review scores. They move, they are not ours to republish, and a stale rating on our page becomes a false statement about somebody else’s product. If review evidence matters to you, read it at the source, dated, yourself.

Our conflict, stated plainly. event67 is our product. It appears in this assessment because leaving it out would be a different kind of dishonesty, and it is labelled (ours) in every table row and section heading where it appears. It is not placed first. Where it lacks a capability another product has, the section says so in the same words we would use about anyone.

Companies named on this page, with the owner of each mark: Whova (Whova Inc.), Cvent (Cvent Holding Corp.), Guidebook (Guidebook Inc.), EventMobi (5Touch Solutions Inc.), Eventee (eventee.co), a trademark of Eventee s.r.o., Sched (sched.com), a trademark of Sched LLC, Yapp (Yapp, Inc.), Swapcard (Swapcard), Bizzabo (Bizzabo, Inc.), Accelevents (Accelevents, Inc.), vFairs (vFairs), Webex Events (Socio Labs Inc., part of Cisco’s Webex portfolio), Nunify (Nunify Inc.), Brella (Brella Ltd.), Zuddl (Joyn Experiences Inc), Eventbrite (Eventbrite, Inc.).

Sort by the job, not by a rank

The single most useful thing anyone can tell you about this market is that it contains four different products wearing similar words. Find your row first; the shortlist follows from it.

The job	What you are actually buying	Where to look
I have registration. I need an app.	An attendee app	Guidebook, Eventee, Sched, Yapp, event67 (ours)
I need registration, badging and an app in one contract	A full event-management suite	Cvent, EventMobi, Accelevents, Bizzabo, vFairs, Swapcard, Zuddl, Whova
My exhibitors need qualified meetings	A matchmaking platform	Brella, Swapcard
I need an app under my own name in both stores	A branded native app	EventMobi, Eventee, Nunify, Webex Events, Guidebook, vFairs, Zuddl, event67 (ours)
I have 40 people and a $0 budget	A free tier	Sched, Eventee, event67 (ours)

Nobody is in every row, and the products that appear in the most rows are the most expensive. That is the trade in one sentence.

The attendee apps

These do the schedule, the directory, the live engagement and the notifications. They do not sell tickets or print badges, and their prices reflect it.

Guidebook

An attendee-app specialist that has leaned toward higher education, with campus-wide licences covering unlimited institutional events alongside per-event plans. Its published feature set covers a branded mobile app with unlimited attendee downloads, an event website, personal schedule building, speaker, sponsor and exhibitor directories, venue and local-area maps, and an attendee feed with photos and comments.

As at 3 September 2026, Guidebook does not publish list pricing on its own site. We previously carried two figures from a software directory here and have removed them: a directory listing is not a published price, and we would rather show nothing than a number we cannot source to the vendor. Guidebook may publish pricing at any time; check Guidebook’s own site for current figures.

Fits a university or a corporate team running several events a year under one licence, especially where venue maps matter. Maps are a genuine capability gap in several competing products, including ours.

Eventee (eventee.co)

A conference app for small to mid-size events, with published plans capped by attendees per event. Its stated feature set covers a mobile app plus a web app for remote attendees, an interactive schedule with personal agenda, a no-code event website builder, live Q&A and polls, B2B networking with matchmaking including a swipe-based flow, and gamification with leaderboards. Eventee states that organizers get their own branded app on the App Store and Google Play, with their icon, name and description on the store listings.

Eventee’s plans appear on Capterra rather than as vendor-published figures. As listed there on 3 September 2026: Solo/Essential single event $1,499.00, Signature single event $2,499.00, Professional single event $3,499.00, Team annual $2,999.00, Business annual $4,999.00, Enterprise custom. Eventee may change its pricing at any time; check Eventee’s own pricing page for current figures.

Fits a conference of a few hundred people that wants a store-listed branded app without a suite contract. The attendee caps per plan are the thing to check first.

Sched (sched.com)

Schedule-first, and honest about it. The published capability set covers session scheduling and personal agendas, a web and mobile app, speaker profiles and a call for papers, registration and ticketing, attendee networking, attendance tracking and check-in, and customizable badges with sponsor profiles and lead retrieval on higher tiers. Branded native apps are sold as a paid add-on, in a single-event and a multi-event shape.

As published on Sched’s pricing page on 3 September 2026, read at the page’s default of 250 attendees under its per-event toggle, the three tiers are listed as starting at $600 for Launch, $1500 for Boost and $2250 for Ultra. Sched’s own page states unlimited free participants for smaller events below 50 attendees, and advertises a 60-day money-back guarantee. Sched may change its pricing at any time; check Sched’s pricing page for current figures. Worth knowing how that page behaves: its figures render through a client-side calculator that returns nothing to a plain fetch, so it has to be read in a browser, and a promotion was running when we read it.

Fits festivals, conventions and education events where a large, complex, public schedule is the centre of gravity and the app is built around it.

Yapp

Positioned explicitly as the inexpensive, no-frills option: a no-code drag-and-drop editor, interactive schedules and speaker bios, unlimited push notifications on all plans, maps, attendee networking and live polls. Yapp does not offer a white-label app, and says so; its own comparison content treats stand-alone white-label apps as something bought elsewhere at much higher cost.

As published on Yapp’s pricing page on 3 September 2026, the Basic plan is listed at $399 per year, Core at $649 per year and Team at $799 per year, with volume pricing at ten apps listed as Basic $399, Core $399 and Team $499. Yapp may change its pricing at any time; check Yapp’s pricing page for current figures.

Fits internal meetings, training days, seminars and community groups where the budget is real and the store listing is not the point. It is the clearest published entry price in this market.

event67 (ours)

A branded conference companion app for iOS, Android and web, with an organizer console, published to both stores under the event’s own name. Live schedule and personal agenda, workshop RSVPs with server-enforced capacity and automatic waitlist promotion, attendee directory, attendee-to-attendee QR connections, live Q&A with moderation, live polls and reactions, session feedback, a shared photo album with moderation modes, tier-ordered sponsor pages, deep-linked push notifications, Apple Wallet passes, and a console covering invites, check-in, live arrivals, engagement analytics, approvals, announcements, email campaigns and forms.

Pricing is free for one live event up to 50 activated attendees, then $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, with a ceiling of $4,750 per event. An attendee is activated only when they claim their invite and open the app. At 500 activated attendees that is $2,250; at 5,000 it is still $4,750.

What it does not do, stated as plainly as we state anything about anyone else: no registration, ticketing or payments; no badge printing; no exhibitor lead retrieval or badge scanning; no floor plans or wayfinding; no streaming, breakouts or on-demand video; no AI matchmaking or meeting scheduler; no CEU or CME credit tracking; no call for papers, abstract management or speaker portal; no gamification; and no in-app account deletion, which is handled by email and a web page. If any of those is a requirement, we are the wrong shortlist and one of the suites below is the right one.

Fits an in-person conference between roughly 100 and 5,000 people that already has registration handled and wants the app to carry the event’s own name and the bill to have a known maximum.

The full suites

These bundle registration, badging and often streaming with the app. They cost more because they are more, and the honest question is whether you need the “more”.

Cvent

The enterprise incumbent. Its published product covers event registration and attendee management, the Attendee Hub experience layer, an Attendee Hub Event App with an AI assistant marketed as powered by CventIQ offering session recommendations and AI-generated daily summaries, live polling, Q&A and chat, engagement scoring and gamification challenges, and onsite check-in and badging.

As at 3 September 2026, Cvent does not publish list pricing and directs buyers to request a quote. We could not source, on any Cvent-controlled page, whether an app with its own separate App Store and Google Play listing under the organizer’s name is offered, nor at what cost or lead time. If a store-listed branded app is a requirement, put it in writing as a question and get the answer before the demo.

Fits large associations, enterprise meetings teams and organizations that already run Cvent for registration.

EventMobi

One of the more explicit vendors in this dataset on the branded-app question: EventMobi states that custom branded apps let organizers host their event from their own developer accounts in the Apple App Store and Google Play, with the organizer controlling the listing. Its published capabilities cover an interactive agenda with personal schedule building, networking with public and private messaging and meeting requests, interactive multi-floor and multi-venue maps, touchless QR check-in with digital badges, live chat, Q&A, polls, surveys and gamification, and video libraries with analytics.

As published on EventMobi’s pricing page on 3 September 2026: per-event pricing starts at $3,000 per event, per-year pricing starts at $8,900 per year, pre-printed badges start at $3.99 per badge, onsite label-printing hardware rental typically starts at $1,000, streaming and video storage add-on packs start from $500 per event, and standard integrations start from $1,000 per integration. EventMobi may change its pricing at any time; check EventMobi’s pricing page for current figures.

Fits a mid-market to enterprise organizer who wants the app, the badges and the maps from one contract, and who will read the add-on lines carefully. Publishing the add-on prices at all is unusual in this market and worth crediting.

Accelevents

A full suite covering registration and ticketing with unlimited registration types, onsite check-in and badge printing whether staff-managed or kiosk, agenda and speaker management, an attendee mobile app, exhibitor and sponsor management with lead capture, a virtual event hub with native streaming as a paid add-on, and CRM integrations, API and webhooks on higher tiers. A White Label tier explicitly includes a branded mobile app with a store listing.

As published on Accelevents’ pricing page on 3 September 2026, the Professional plan is listed at “Starting from $7,500” for one event, Business at “Starting from $13,500” for unlimited events, and both Enterprise and White Label at custom pricing. Accelevents may change its pricing at any time; check Accelevents’ pricing page for current figures.

Fits a mid-market to enterprise team consolidating registration, badging and the app. The published entry point makes it one of the few suites you can budget for before a sales call.

Bizzabo

A B2B event platform covering registration and ticketing with contact management, an event website builder and email campaign tooling, a branded mobile app described as part of the core offering, Klik SmartBadge networking wearables priced separately, onsite check-in and live streaming, and AI-assisted matchmaking.

As published on Bizzabo’s pricing page on 3 September 2026, the Event Experience OS plan is listed at $499 per user per month billed annually with a three-user minimum, expressed on the same page as starting at $17,999 per year, and Klik SmartBadge is listed as having single and multi-event pricing available. Bizzabo may change its pricing at any time; check Bizzabo’s pricing page for current figures. We could not source a vendor statement clarifying whether the branded mobile app means a separate store listing under the organizer’s name or an organizer-branded experience inside a Bizzabo container app.

Fits enterprise B2B marketing teams for whom the event is one channel in a demand programme. The three-seat minimum sets the floor, not the event.

vFairs

Registration and ticketing with drag-and-drop form builders and payment processing, a branded mobile app built through an app builder, badge printing and check-in including instant onsite printing, QR scanning and facial recognition, a virtual events platform with 3D environments, webinars and exhibit halls, and lead capture with exhibitor portals and booth scanning. vFairs markets a white-labeled mobile event app on its pricing page.

As at 3 September 2026, vFairs does not publish list pricing; evaluation runs through a booked demo. vFairs may publish pricing at any time; check its pricing page for current figures.

Fits organizers with a substantial virtual or hybrid component, and exhibitor-heavy shows that need booth scanning.

Swapcard

Advanced registration, ticketing and access control, onsite check-in and badge printing with QR access checkpoints, a web and mobile app with session and content management, AI matchmaking and an AI event assistant, exhibitor and sponsor management with lead capture and an exhibitor marketplace, and event analytics with ROI reporting.

As published on Swapcard’s pricing plans page on 3 September 2026, the Event Engagement Platform is listed at “Starting at $610 per year” and the Registration & Management Platform at custom pricing. Swapcard may change its pricing at any time; check Swapcard’s pricing page for current figures. We could not source an explicit vendor statement that an organizer can publish a standalone app under their own name in the app stores.

Fits trade show organizers who need matchmaking and exhibitor tooling in the same platform as the app.

Zuddl

Ticketing and registration with branded registration flows, a fully branded attendee mobile app the vendor positions explicitly against stock event apps, a virtual and hybrid platform with production and streaming, onsite check-in, badge printing, lead capture and session management, and speaker and exhibitor portals with task management and document upload.

As published on Zuddl’s pricing page on 3 September 2026, the entry point is listed at “Starts at $10,000/year for two organizers”, with a collaborator licence add-on at $170 per month. Zuddl may change its pricing at any time; check Zuddl’s pricing page for current figures.

Fits mid-market and enterprise programmes running many formats, including agencies managing several clients.

Whova

A broad product covering an event app with personalized agenda and attendee networking, registration and ticketing with payments, onsite event management including badges, check-in, surveys and certificates, hybrid and virtual events with live streams, abstract management and a call for speakers, and an event website builder. Whova states that it does not offer a white-label app with its own App Store listing, having focused on a single universal event app, and argues that position from download rates.

As at 3 September 2026, Whova does not publish list pricing on its own pricing page, which offers a booked demo to obtain a trial rather than a self-serve one. Whova may change its pricing at any time; check Whova’s pricing page for current figures.

Fits organizers who want breadth in one product and are content for attendees to download a shared app. The absence of a store-listed branded app is a stated product position, not a gap we are alleging.

Webex Events

Formerly Socio, now sold within Cisco’s Webex portfolio and anchored to Webex Suite Enterprise Agreements. Published capabilities cover an event app for in-person, hybrid and virtual events, registration and ticketing, high-production live streams and video on demand, moderated Q&A and polling with a Slido integration, attendee networking including shake-to-connect, and gamification.

Its branded-app documentation is the most explicit we found: a branded app has its own colours, branding, name, app icon and listing in both the Apple App Store and Google Play. As at 3 September 2026, pricing could not be verified on any vendor-controlled page.

Fits large corporates with an existing Cisco relationship, where the app arrives inside an agreement that already exists.

The matchmaking platforms

A separate category that is often mistaken for the first one. If your commercial model depends on exhibitors meeting qualified buyers, an attendee app with a directory is not a substitute for this.

Brella covers intent-based matchmaking and meeting booking, a customizable native mobile and web app, built-in ticketing and registration, lead scanning for exhibitors, sponsor booths and monetization tooling, and meeting analytics with an API. As at 3 September 2026, Brella does not publish list pricing.

Brella is aimed at large B2B trade shows, and Swapcard’s platform covers the same need alongside its wider suite. If your event’s revenue comes from exhibitors rather than delegates, this row is your row, and neither an attendee app nor most of the suites will substitute for it.

The comparison, in one table

Facts only, from vendor-published material unless a directory is named. No prices here — those are in each vendor’s section above, with the date and the source, because a price without both is not a claim we will make.

Product	Category	Own-name app in both stores	Publishes a price	Free tier
event67 (ours)	Attendee app	Yes	Yes	Yes, to 50 activated attendees
Guidebook	Attendee app	Yes	Not published	No
Eventee	Attendee app	Yes	Directory only	Yes
Sched	Attendee app	Yes, paid add-on	Yes	Yes, below 50 attendees
Yapp	Attendee app	No, stated by vendor	Yes	No
EventMobi	Full suite	Yes, organizer’s own developer accounts	Yes	No
Accelevents	Full suite	Yes, White Label tier	Yes	No
Nunify	Full suite	Yes, paid upgrade	Yes	No
Webex Events	Full suite	Yes	Not published	Not sourced
vFairs	Full suite	Yes, marketed as white-labeled	Not published	No
Zuddl	Full suite	Yes	Yes	No
Bizzabo	Full suite	Not sourced	Yes	No
Swapcard	Full suite	Not sourced	Yes	No
Cvent	Full suite	Not sourced	Not published	Not sourced
Whova	Full suite	No, stated by vendor	Not published	No
Brella	Matchmaking	Listed as a capability, packaging not verified	Not published	No

“Not sourced” means exactly that: we looked on the vendor’s own pages on 3 September 2026 and could not find a statement either way. It is not a finding about the product.

What “branded app” means, and why the table has so many footnotes

The phrase covers at least four different products, and the difference decides your timeline:

1. Themed container app. Your event is styled with your colours inside the vendor’s app. Attendees download the vendor’s brand.
2. Branded web app. Your colours and often your domain, no store listing, nothing to install.
3. Own-name app on the vendor’s developer account. Your name in the stores, their account. The listing moves if you move.
4. Own-name app on your developer account. Your name, your account, your listing, permanently. EventMobi documents this shape explicitly.

When a vendor says “branded app”, ask which of the four, and ask whose developer account. That single question resolves more of this category than any feature matrix.

What this assessment cannot tell you

Being clear about the limits is the difference between a method and a marketing page.

• We did not test reliability, speed or scale. Nobody in this category publishes a comparable benchmark, ourselves included.
• We have no view on support quality. Support is the most-cited variable in this market and the least measurable from outside. Ask for a named contact and a response-time commitment in the bid, and call the references.
• Quote-only pricing is not a criticism. Six of the products here direct buyers to a sales conversation. That is a normal commercial choice; it is a scheduling fact for you, not a defect.
• Feature lists are vendor descriptions. We recorded what each vendor publishes about itself. We did not verify each capability in a running instance.
• Our own product is described from our own repository, which is a stronger source about us and a useless one about anyone else. That asymmetry is real and you should weigh it.

Three questions that sort this market faster than a feature matrix

If you read nothing else, ask each vendor these three and write down the answers verbatim. They are chosen because vendors genuinely differ on them, because the answers are checkable, and because each one has a downstream consequence a feature list will not show you.

“Whose developer account is the app published under?” The answer determines whether your store listing, its reviews and its install base survive a change of vendor. It also determines whether you need an Apple Developer Program membership and somebody who has completed a submission before. EventMobi documents organizer-owned accounts explicitly. Several vendors do not state either way, which is itself an answer worth having in writing.

“What is the maximum this can cost me for one event?” Under a per-attendee model with no ceiling, a successful event is a budget event. Under a per-seat model, the number that drives the bill is your team size, which grows quietly. Under a per-event flat fee, a small event subsidises the vendor’s large ones. None of these is wrong; being unable to state the maximum is.

“What is not included that I will discover in week six?” In this category the recurring answers are badge printing, streaming, integrations, additional administrator seats, and payment processing when the same vendor also sells ticketing. EventMobi publishes those add-on prices, which makes it easy to model; most vendors do not, which makes the question necessary rather than optional.

What changed in this category, and what did not

Two things are visibly different in 2026 from the accounts most published roundups still carry.

Consolidation is now the main source of stale advice. Several products that ranked well for years are no longer sold under the name people search for: Pathable and Boomset are discontinued, Attendease is marketed as EventUp Planner, Hubilo’s successor is Virtual PRO, and Socio is Webex Events. A roundup that has not been re-verified since those changes is recommending products a reader cannot buy. This is the strongest practical argument for reading the verification date on any list, including this one.

AI has arrived as a feature line, not yet as a differentiator. Cvent markets an AI assistant in its Attendee Hub app, Swapcard markets an AI event assistant, and Bizzabo markets an attendee copilot. What these do varies widely and none of it is comparable from published material. Treat AI claims the way you would treat any other capability line in an RFP: ask what it does, ask what data it reads, and score the demonstration rather than the noun.

What has not changed is the shape of the market. The attendee apps are cheap and narrow, the suites are expensive and broad, the matchmaking platforms serve a different buyer, and roughly a third of the field will not tell you a price without a call. Every one of those was true five years ago and is true today.

How to use this page

Pick your row in the job table. Take three products from it. Send them the same RFP, score the written answers with the decision framework, and demo only the top two. If the price you are quoted is not in the shape of a formula, ask again until it is, and get the maximum-charge answer in writing.

If you want to check our arithmetic on cost across the whole market rather than product by product, that is what an event app costs, with every figure dated and linked.