Here's What You Need From the Conference App of 2024. (+ 8 Choices) |

The year before, many people from the Mighty Team went to Craft and Commerce ConvertKit's annual conference held in Boise, Idaho. The highlight was the experience we had using an app that was used for the conference!

The demand for apps at events is growing, with over 72% of conference organizers saying the app was crucial in the successful run of a recently held conference. And G2's research found that 65percent of event organizers are planning to make use of a conference app for things like check-ins, AI and QR codes as well as virtual reality experience.

In this piece, we'll pull from both our research and experience to talk about what constitutes a top app for conferences. We'll cover:

• What is the best conference application.        
  
• How to choose an app for mobile conferences.        
  
• 10 of the top conference app options.        
  

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What exactly is a conference application?

A conference app delivers an experience that simulates a live or hybrid event. First versions of conference apps were basically mobile conference schedules. As the technology has evolved, conference apps have developed to offer more functions to serve members-things like ticketing, member management, and more dynamic scheduling.

A modern conference app extends beyond a simple schedule. We can use tech to improve the quality of conferences. More enjoyable. More successful.

A conference app can be a software program that

• Helps attendees find and make life-changing friends.        
  
• allows attendees to develop new content, and then add it to the events.        
  
• Manages payment, registrations, and tickets.        
  
• Delivers the conference on the own app with your logo.    
  

    What we learned by attending a conference using our app

Boise, Idaho was baking under the summer heat. As the conference underway, we could feel the enthusiasm. It was a great conference with amazing presenters such as Ali Abdaal and Cody Sanchez in addition to a presentation about establishing a million-dollar community with our own CEO, Gina Bianchini.

Some of the magic came from a great line-up of speakers, an amazing venue, and most importantly-300plus amazing artists who gathered together to make it happen. It's true. This is exactly what each conference should have.

But behind the scenes it was more going on:

• The conference app chat had been exploding in "strategic selfies" (speaker John Meese suggested we take them")        
  
• The attendees were organising, posting, and organizing their own gatherings to discuss things such as white-water rafting, running or the sunrise canyon hike (for those who could manage the early morning wake awake).        
  
• Creators were sharing what they had been working on and seeking help. The mobile conference application was bursting over with replies!        
  
• Walking around town, you'd see people who have just met at one of the many great Boise eateries (and sure enough, it probably had potatoes, in some form or another).        
  

    And the app has made it possible!

The conference app wasn't just for scheduling and ticketing. It was an exciting virtual conference that took place in conjunction with the actual one. It was clear that the app was loaded with conference information that were extremely useful!

However, it was those who attended that made the conference application come alive with stories, pictures asking for help as well as suggestions on everything from business ideas to gluten-free eateries within Boise.

Here's what made it work to such a degree. This is what you need to look for in a conference app.

What to look for in a conference app

• A conference schedule (obviously), but also RSVPs and engagement with sessions within the application.    
  
• Excellent communication tools for messaging and the emailing of participants , and answering support questions or issues.      
  
• Instruments to connect participants with one another: for example, high-quality profiles, social networks, chat & messages. The true magic of the conference apps is when attendees are able to meet each other-virtual connections that spill out into actual life.    
  
• Features for unleashing attendee creativity. Participants can develop content, post images, write short or long-form texts, upload videos, and pose questions. Once the participants engage through the app-without being involved, it will increase the value of your conference. The momentum will keep up until the next event.    
  
• Registration, payments as well as Registration. If your application supports the backend of your event, be sure that you have the ability to take payments, track member lists, and connect members after.      
  
• Simple building hosting, hosting, and maintaining --it should not take your entire team long to build an application for conferences off the ground and in good shape.      
  

The things we loved that worked about the application

In our thinking about the factors that made our mobile conference app successful Here's our favorite part of the app:

• The attendees organically shared the notes they took during sessions via the dedicated discussion feeds.        
  
• Live icebreakers, which resulted in participants on the app meeting people offline (ie. "Find people who are the same height as you and snap a photo of them ).    
  
• Local Boiseans (is this right?) hosting meet-ups in conjunction with some of their best local grub spots and outings. (The singing contest was an absolute hit. )      
  
• A chat in the background before, during, and after the conference that will never stop giving. As an example, Natalie Parmenter (the creator of Primary Focus), gave this shoutout in the video above, when fellow attendees helped to make her launch a success!    
  
• ConvertKit opened studio and recording areas for users to stop by and create videos. (If you're ever visiting Boise and want to make a reservation, you can set your time to stop by and utilize them for no cost! )    
  

The best mobile conference apps available

1. Mighty Pro

    The best conference engagement application

Mighty Pro builds conference apps deployed on G2's top-rated community management system. Mighty is the platform with over $1 million more communities than the rest, and this includes amazing conferences.

Mighty Pro has been building brand-name apps since the year 2017. This includes 400+ branded apps that are designed by brands and creators like Tony Robbins, TED, Mel Robbins, Marie Forleo, Jim Kwik, and Matthew Hussey.

This is what you can do do with Mighty Pro.

Interactive scheduling

Mighty lets you build an interactive schedule for your attendees to engage with. The landing page can be created for specific sessions, and participants can RSVP and communicate or chat during the conference. Members can see who else attends the event and also connect.

Also, you can create livestreams directly from the session or post videos from the session to relevant Spaces.

Participation of Members As Unique as Nothing Else

Mighty is the top community management application for community management on G2 over the years and it's not just because of "features."

It's a good idea to attend a conference to meet people, right? and Mighty provides the necessary tools for making this happen! Everyone who attends is asked to create a bio-they are able to utilize AI to design one if they're not able to.

This is where the program builds interactive member lists that are sorted according to interests, activities, or even geography. Profiles of member fly-outs help you find interesting people while the AI engine is able to tell the difference between you and someone else. common and start a conversation.

Community after the conference

Mighty gives you more content choices than only the conference basics, though. It's a great platform to keep community going after the event.

Spaces is customizable using 8 core options: activity feeds, chat members, tables of contents (for courses) or events, pages, one occasion, or hashtag. Below are a few methods that current Mighty Hosts utilize the features following a conference:

•         Regional meet-ups organised by the supermembers.            
  
•         Re-cutting conference material into a course online or any other type of learning.            
  
•         Continue to share articles on subjects that members of your organization care about.            
  
•         Introducing themes, tickets places and more. to be used for the next conference, and creating buzz.          
  
• A livestream or virtual event between live conference sessions.    
  

Mighty really excels to keep the excitement and conversation going beyond the conference-if that's your thing.

Hosting the conference

As far as running the event, Mighty can handle payments in 135 different currencies. It can handle different levels and bundles as well being able to control who is able to gain access to which areas of the app.

And Mighty includes data that you can't get in any other place. They provide the data that you require to understand the things that worked and didn't, to see what areas of the conference attendees spent the greatest time and energy, as well as to analyze the conference's revenue.

Branded conference apps

If you would like to have your conference app in the App Store and Google Play Store under your company name then this is the route to go.

Here are a few of the best parts of Mighty Pro:

• Support for branding and splash screens, notifications branding and app best practices        
  
• Proactive updates and app submissions        
  
• Includes integration with ConvertKit's professional plan (up to 10,000 customers).        
  
• Support from community strategists who will help you make your conference a success in terms of attendance and revenues and also how you can grow the community of your conference that manages itself.        
  

Based on the most recent data across 400+ 6-and-7-figure businesses and organizations, we'll help you understand not only how to meet your goals, but exceed those goals.

    It is possible to find more details about Mighty Pro on this page.

If you're not ready for an official conference application it's possible to get started with no cost.

2. Accelerated events

    A conference management app with a brand name. app

Accelevents' conference app offers options for registration and checking-in for the event, accessing the schedule, as well as creating an individual agenda. It has smart features, such as live streaming as well as an online exhibit booth, the app can be used to manage live and hybrid conference.

Accelevents also has members management tools such as profiles and bios that can assist attendees in connecting and finding their way to each other. And on that day you are able to do check-ins or print badges. You can even conduct polls and challenges on the app.

A drawback is that Accelevents users have reported issues with managing break rooms. It's great to manage a conference. It's just not as powerful when it comes to connecting attendees to each other.

Accelevents has features

• Branded apps for managing the registration for your conferences, badge printing, and schedule.        
  
• Certain in-app network and connection features such as livestreaming, QR scanners, virtual sponsors tables and polls        
  

3. Swapcard

    Great Conference Management App

Swapcard is a cool concept for a conference app that comes with a variety of great features. Similar to Accelevents, Swapcard is good for managing conference agendas. Attendees can print badges, scan QR codes and design a schedule with their RSVPs.

It is a great platform for sponsors to promote their content as well, creating places for sponsorship content as well as chats and meeting administration.

But Swapcard's best features are to help you network. With attendee profiles and networking-friendly UX to search for and message potential contacts or leads (plus connections to social networks), Swapcard is great to introduce people.

Swapcard has features

• conference app (with branded options) for managing registrations and badges as well as access to control        
  
• A feed for discussion, event guide, personalized sessions, recommendations and livestreaming        
  
• Tools for network communication: AI matchmaking, profiles as well as messaging        
  

4. Stova

Stova (formerly Aventri & Meetingplay) is a managing and planning platform that can work well to organize conferences. But, it's important to note that Stove does not offer branded apps (you can run your conference using the Stova app).

Stova was built for online events and provides some fascinating characteristics for conference. Its strongest features are the break-out rooms, livestreaming, and chat. Additionally, it comes with the ability to schedule 1:1 meetings, which is a neat tool.

Stova additionally offers tools that will help you in making plans and organizing events, including email marketing and conference budgeting.

Stova features

• A good virtual-first conference application with livestreaming, breakout and networking spaces, as well as a virtual lobby        
  
• Event planning as well as marketing of events devices: emails and budgeting      
  

5. Bevy

Bevy began as an app that could be used for events, both online and in-person events but it recently shifted towards community-based events. This is great to manage a conference by providing registration, check-in, ticketing and management of lists. It is also a great tool for hosting a virtual conference too using chats, virtual meetups as well as webinars and recordings. It also has a discussion feature. Bevy even includes a drag-and-drop page builder for creating web pages for events and landing pages.

Bevy is a great online platform however, its community-based features are quite simple. In the end, Bevy hosts forums that provide chat and messaging options. But these are really quite basic. It's not built to connect you with the kind of connections genuine community platforms give the user.

Bevy features

• brings community and events together with event management and event virtual production        
  
• Live-based engagement options like chat & messaging, forums, webinars, and meetups        
  
• Drag-and-drop page builders for conference pages        
  

6. CVent

CVent is a different conference application developed to facilitate virtual events as well as managing events. As with other applications on this list, it is able to create conference websites, offer tickets, and host content. There are tools for organizing events built-in for a live event (things like venue and hotel selections), and a webinar-like feature to host virtual events. In fact, it's probably most effective for organizing events.

However, CVent has no community or chat features and is not intended to link attendees to one others.

CVent features

• App to run an event. It includes promotional, planning, as well as "day-of" control options.        
  

7. ON24

ON24 is a simple online conference system which can function as a virtual conference application. There are polls and chat features as well as a webcast, and recently added new features such as breakout sessions as well as video chats.

With registration as well as a form builder with the option to modify a conference with colours, fonts, as well as hero images, it's a good basic application for a virtual conference.

ON24 offers features

• Webinar platform with engagement capabilities built-in        
  

8. VFairs

VFairs is a digital and live event software which focuses on conference management features. Registration form, badge printing, the ability to check in via QR, maps of venues and agenda creation it's an ideal participant-centric app for helping attendees navigate an event.

VFairs has customized mobile apps for conferences along with onsite support for live conferences. The app can be connected to your CRM too, and VFairs includes valuable event analytics to know what's happening with your conference.

VFairs features

• registration and printing badges, tickets, and other day-of management tools.        
  
• Platform to host virtual events that incorporates networking, gamification along with other presentation options.        
  

Conclusion

We know how amazing an event can be making attendees grow, learn and form connections that which they'll cherish for years to come. But a conference can boost your image also, and increase awareness of your brand while increasing your profits.

And a great conference app makes all these possibilities happen!

If you'd like to learn more about how to get an individual conference with your own branding and community application, you can check the site Mighty Pro .