Rent Letters shares an article from Venture Pact that takes you through a detailed discussion of all of the best  mobile event management apps for those working with corporate events or conferences.

Source: Venture Pact

‘Mobile event apps have changed organizations’ perspective towards event management. By facilitating seamless interactions with the audience, these applications have made organizing meetings and conferences easy.

Understanding the importance of events for your business, I have come up with a list of 17 top mobile event applications which can help you better manage conferences/meetings/events.

    1. EventBoard

      Eventboard is a simple mobile conference tool that lets you organize and communicate with event attendees effortlessly. Using this app you can view a newsfeed, build agendas, create surveys and upload floor plans.

      Key Features:

      • Create a mobile guide for your event in less than 24 hours
      • Electronic session ratings provide instant feedback

      Pricing: Eventboard offers a FREE trial for your first event. You can then choose from two packages- Community (starting $99) and Conference (starting $599).

    2. Webmobi

      Webmobi is a simple customer engagement program that facilitates real time push messaging across multiple platforms, allows location marketing, provides event reports and analytics and helps you find similar events. You can deploy this enterprise friendly app at any public, private or hybrid cloud.

      Key Features:

      • After initial download, the app can be accessed offline
      • Generate revenue by offering sponsors detailed profiles and in-app advertising space
      • Create and deploy unique mobile apps for as many events as you want

      Pricing: Webmobi offers three packages- basic, pro and enterprise starter. You pay $750 for one event in the basic package. The prices for other two packages are available on request.

    3. 10Times Events App

      This app lets you curate events based on your industry and also lets you find popular events happening near you. Simply register your event on the app and send invites to unlimited attendees.

      Key Features:

      • Managed Visitor List lets you see who all are attending the event
      • The Connect feature lets you network with attendees
      • Easily share events with your business associates and clients

      Pricing: Free

    4. BusyConf

      BusyConf offers a range of conference planning tools which help you plan better conferences. Speaker and abstract management, streamlined event registrations and mobile conference schedules help you give your attendees an enhanced conferencing experience.

      Key Features:

      • Easily create beautiful mobile-ready websites for your next conference
      • Manage a review committee or collect abstracts or papers using BusyConf
      • Host a streamlined ticketing page for your attendees

      Pricing: BusyConf offers flexible pricing for each event. Details available here.

    5. Whova

      Whova is a great a platform for event organizrs that aims to revolutionize event engagement and networking.

      Key Features:

      • Attendees can plan their experience with a focus on meeting contacts
      • Attendees can maximize their opportunities to participate in the right sessions and panels.
      • A built-in system provides an overview of key attendees’ social profiles
      • Guests can plan to meet and begin networking before the event has even started.

      Pricing: Available on request

    6. Grupio

      Grupio allows your attendees to access the complete event information and necessary news through the app. It also helps you with branding, advertisements, scheduling a meet, social messaging, and creating surveys and analytics. It is a complete social media app that keeps your audiences engaged to your business.

      Key Features:

      • Getting started is easy with the Grupio CMS. Just upload the content from a spreadsheet and publish
      • Promote your brand via a custom mobile event app icon, top navigation bar, splash entry image, menu background and app background.
      • Easily create quizzes, contests, and questions to engage the attendees

      Pricing: Available on request

    7. myQaa

      MyQaa aims at offering a unique experience to the attendees while giving event organizers a great online event management platform. It helps you mobilize corporate events like meetings, trade shows, and association conferences. You can ask questions, create agendas, analytics, organize surveys and do a lot more.

      Key Features:

      • Display live content like select comments, tweets and questions on the event wall
      • Download questions, survey results and other analytics in form of infographics
      • Help your attendees explore places in and around the event venue with the unique map feature
      • Organize speakers, exhibitors, sponsors and event partners in clean lists

      Pricing: myQaa comes in three packages starting 1900 EURO, 5000 EURO and 7500 EURO respectively.

    8. TapCrowd

      Tapcrowd app offers an end-to-end solution to enhance the conferencing experience for high stake events. It lets you interact with your delegates, use analytics and reporting to improve the event experience and create, manage and launch apps.

      Key Features:

      • Live content updates make last minute changes immediately available on the app
      • On-site set up and support from technical engineers
      • Get statistics and insights on app usage to see which feature performed the best

      Pricing: Available on request

    9. QuickMobile

      Quickmobile provides you the analytical data for all your events including meetings, conferences and other events. It helps you maximize your ROI providing benefits like project management, content management, core training, and analytics reporting.

      Key Features:

      • Make sure the latest news, events and interactions stay on top with a dynamic activity feed
      • Enable attendee networking and content sharing including chat, photos, notes, and 1-on-1 meetings
      • Add gaming experience to your app to drive attendee behavior and reward participation
      • Reduce your carbon footprint and save on printing costs

      Pricing: Available on request

    10. SpotMe

      SpotMe is an easy-to-use event app which supports content sharing via presentations, personalized agenda, Q&A surveys and evaluations, and social networking. The app helps you improve client relations with its quality and interactive features.

      Key Features:

      • Create your app in just 5 minutes with Backstage then populate it importing data directly from Excel
      • Integrate your event app with your registration system and send invites, reminders and follow-ups
      • Conduct interactive sessions like polling, Q&A, word clouds and surveys from Backstage

      Pricing: Available on request

    11. EventFriendly:

      EventFriendly is a 360 degree mobile app designed to simplify events and conferences for both organizers and attendees. It helps organizers build audience, engage audience and garner feedback, while attendees get real time event updates and the chance to connect with like-minded people.

      Key Features:

      • Keep your attendees updated by sending real time updates on their mobile phones
      • Answer the queries of your audience before, during and after the event
      • Promote your event amongst your audience based on their interests

      Pricing: Free

    12. Eventmobi

      Eventmobi is the easiest way to build your custom conference app. It gives you a customizable content manager, authority to update offline, prime real estate for sponsors, and customized branding options. You’ll be amazed to know how easy event management can be.

      Key Features:

      • Seamlessly integrate your event data into the app from any database or registration system
      • Secure your event app with login credentials so that only approved attendees can access it
      • The app supports 17 languages so that you can communicate with all your attendees

      Pricing: The app is available for a 14 day free trial with unlimited access and support. After that you can purchase the app to gain full functionality over it.

    13. CrowdCompass

      CrowdCompass gives your attendees a unique experience with its smart content features like personalized bookmarks, individual notifications and quick photo sharing. Features like social sharing, interactive polling, and powerful push messages help increase engagement and ensure year-round ROI.

      Key Features:

      • Your attendees can access all your events from a single app
      • CrowdCompass EventCenter offers several theme and icon options to create a branded experience
      • Send reminders, updates and survey links to attendees as push notifications
      • Project your event’s Twitter or Instagram photos and posts onto the SocialWall

      Pricing: Available on request

    14. Pathable

      Pathable is an all-in-one event app that features community and networking, private meeting scheduler, conference agenda manager, mobile apps for tradeshows, polls and surveys mobile conference apps and metrics and ROI.

      Key Features:

      • Pathable event apps give actionable, real-time behavioral metrics
      • It gives your attendees a smart, simple and easy-to-use tool for building their own schedules
      • Post-event surveys and live polls help interpret attendee feedback

      Pricing: The basic version of Pathable is Free, while price for the Premium version is available on request.

    15. Attendify

      Attendify is a premium event management app which offers features like private social networking, seamless content management, digital event guide, in-app sponsor platform and browsing and posting on social media timeline.

      Key Features:

      • Build a social network customized just for your event using Private Social Networking feature
      • Project your event content on any screen in real time
      • Simple content management lets you run as many events from a single dashboard

      Pricing: Attendify comes in three packages- One event ($999), Multiple events ($1999) and Enterprise (price available on request).

    16. Eventbase

Eventbase is a feature-rich native app which emphasizes on social engagement and revenue generation using a wide range of revenue generating tools like full screen commercials, branded placements and shake functionality. This award winning app has powered the mobile presence of various events like SxSW, Sundance Film Festival and Montana Folk Festival.

Key Features:

      • Eventbase Premium App supports custom fonts and advanced theming
      • Time and location based systems help reach out large audience base in targeted manner
      • This scalable app can support events of all sizes

Pricing: You can choose to download the FREE version or the Premium version (price available on request) of this app.

  1. EventAtlas

    EventAtlas is a specialized events app by Canam Solutions USA which helps you manage your event schedule in an intuitive calendar view, connect with speaker and attendees, and lets users give instant feedback about the event.

    Key Features:

    • Attendees can rate speakers/sessions and leave comments
    • Send urgent messages as notifications and broadcast event news
    • An intuitive schedule supports multiple tracks, notes and personalized agendas

    Pricing: Available on request

These were our top picks for mobile event applications? Have you used any of these apps recently. Please share your reviews in the comments section below.

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