Here's what you need from the Conference App of 2024. (plus 8 options) |

This year, several members of the Mighty Team went to Craft and Commerce ConvertKit's annual event held in Boise, Idaho. For us, the most memorable part was using an app that was used for the conference!

The market for event apps is expanding, with more than 72% of organizers saying that an app was vital for the success at a recently held conference. And G2's research found that 65percent of event organizers are planning to utilize a conference application for things like check-ins, AI, QR codes, as well as virtual reality experience.

In this article this article, we'll draw on both our knowledge and experiences to talk about what makes a great app for conferences. We'll cover:

• What is the best conference app.        
  
• How to choose a mobile conference app.        
  
• 10 of the best conferences apps available.        
  

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What exactly is a conference app?

A conference app delivers an experience that simulates an event that is live, or hybrid. Initial versions of conference apps were basically mobile conference schedules. With the advancement of technology, conference apps have evolved to include more features that serve the members - things like tickets, management of members, and more dynamic scheduling.

A modern conference app is more than just an easy timetable. Tech can improve the quality of conferences. More engaging. More effective.

A conference app can be a software program that

• helps attendees meet new friends.        
  
• allows attendees to develop contents and contribute to the events.        
  
• Manages payment, registrations, and tickets.        
  
• Delivers the conference on the app that you have created for your company.    
  

    We learned at a meeting using our application

Boise, Idaho was baking in the heat of summer. As the conference underway, we could feel the energy. It was a great conference with amazing keynote speakers such as Ali Abdaal and Cody Sanchez in addition to a presentation on starting a million-dollar community from our own CEO-Gina Bianchini.

Some of the magic came from a great line-up of speakers, an amazing venue, and most importantly-300incredible creators that came together to make it happen. You know. This is what every conference needs.

However, behind the scenes there was a different thing taking place:

• Chat in the conference app was blowing up in "strategic selfies" (speaker John Meese suggested that we use them")        
  
• Attendees were organizing the event, adding posts and hosting their own amazing meetings for activities like white-water rafting and running and the hike to the canyon at sunrise (for those who could take the wake-up call at 5:00 AM up).        
  
• Creators shared what they had been working on and asking for help-and the mobile conference app was blowing up with responses!        
  
• When you walk around Boise, you'll see young people enjoying lunch at some of Boise's great eateries (and yes, this probably had potatoes, in some form or another).        
  

    and the application has made it possible!

The conference app wasn't just for scheduling and ticketing. It was an exciting virtual conference that took place along with the actual conference. The app certainly was filled with the conference basics, which was super helpful!

But it was those who attended that made the conference application come alive by sharing stories, photos and requests for assistance, and ideas for anything from business concepts to gluten-free restaurants located in Boise.

Here's what made it work so well. This is what you need to be looking for in an app for conferences.

What should you look for in a conference application

• An agenda for conferences (obviously), but also RSVPs and session engagement inside the application.    
  
• Excellent communication tools to use for messages and sending emails to attendees  as well as taking care of support and questions.      
  
• Instruments to connect participants with each other: eg, high-quality profiles, social networks and chat as well as messaging. The real people magic in the conference apps is when attendees can find and meet virtual connections and spill onto reality.    
  
• Features for unleashing attendee creativity. Allow attendees to develop content, post photos, build short- or long-form texts, upload videos, and have questions. When the engagement happens within the app-without your having to do anything, it can increase the impact of your event. It keeps the momentum running until the next conference.    
  
• Registration, payments, and the registration. If your application is able to support the backend for your event, ensure that you have the ability to take payments as well as track lists of members and reconnect members at the end of.      
  
• It's easy to build, hosting, and supporting It should not take your entire team to get an app for conference on the ground, and running beautifully.      
  

One of our favorite things that worked about the application

As we think about what made our mobile conference app successful We've got a few things we love about it:

• Attendees organically shared the notes they took during sessions via the feeds for discussion that are specifically set up.        
  
• Live icebreakers that got participants in the app meeting other users in real life (ie. "Find another person who's about exactly the same height and snap a photo of them ).    
  
• Local Boiseans (is that right?) organizing meetups around some of the best restaurants in their area and excursions. (The karaoke was a highlight. )      
  
• A chat in the background before, during, and after the conference that keeps on giving. For example, Natalie Parmenter (the creator of Primary Focus), gave this shoutout in the video above, when fellow attendees helped to in making her debut a hit!    
  
• ConvertKit created recording studios and spaces for people to drop in and record content. (If you're ever visiting Boise, you can schedule an appointment to visit and make use of them free! )    
  

The best mobile conference application options

1. Mighty Pro

    Best conference engagement app

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

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

What can you do do with Mighty Pro.

Interactive scheduling

Mighty lets you build an interactive schedule of conferences for attendees to interact with. You can build landing pages for each session and attendees are able to RSVP and communicate or chat during the conference. Participants can check out who is coming to the session and connect.

Also it is possible to create direct livestreams of the session and/or post session videos to the relevant Spaces after.

Participation of Members As Unique as Nothing Else

Mighty is the top community management software for community management on G2 for years, and it's not just due to "features."

It's a good idea to attend a conference to meet people, right? That's why Mighty provides the necessary tools for making this possible! Each attendee will be prompted to write a biography. They can make use of AI to design one if they're not able to.

This is where the program produces interactive lists of member profiles that are sorted according to interests, activities and even by geography. The ability to fly out profiles of members helps you focus on interesting people while the AI engine is able to tell you what you have in common, and even start conversations.

Community at the end of the conference

Mighty provides you with more information options than just the basics of a conference, however. This is why it's the ideal platform to keep community going over and above the conference.

You can custom build Spaces around 8 different core features: activity feed, chat members, table of contents (for courses) and events. You can also create a page, a single occasion, or hashtag. Here are some ways current Mighty Hosts use these features after a conference:

•         Hosting regional meet-ups organised by supermembers.            
  
•         Re-cutting the conference materials into a course online or another learning experience.            
  
•         Continue to share posts on topics that your members are interested in.            
  
•         Introducing themes, tickets places as well as other details. to be used for the next conference, and generating excitement.          
  
• A livestream or virtual event between conference calls.    
  

Mighty really excels at keeping the engagement and discussion going well beyond the conference-if that's your thing.

The conference is running

As far as running the event, Mighty can handle payments for 135 currencies. It can handle different levels and bundles as well the ability to determine who has access gain access to which areas of the application.

And Mighty includes data that you can't get elsewhere. They provide the data you'll need to learn which strategies worked best and which wasn't, as well as to identify where members spent the most time and effort, and to analyze the conference's revenue.

Conference apps with a brand name

If you'd like your conference app in the App Store as well as the Google Play Store under your company name, this is the way to take it.

Here are a few Highlights from Mighty Pro:

• Branding support screen, splash screens, notifications branding, and best practice for app development        
  
• Proactive updates and app submissions        
  
• Integrates with ConvertKit's Professional plan (up to 10,000 users).        
  
• Support from community strategists who will help you make your conference successful both in attendance and revenue, and how to grow an event community that operates its own.        
  

With the latest insights across 400+ 6-and-7-figure businesses and organizations, we'll help you understand not only how you can meet your objectives, but also surpass them.

    You can find out more about Mighty Pro here.

Or, if you're still not ready to launch an app for your conference that is branded it's possible to get started with no cost.

2. Accelerated Events

    Branded conference management application

Accelevents Conference app provides options for registration and checking-in for the event, logging into the conference program and creating an individual agenda. With smart features like live streaming as well as an online exhibit booth, it can handle live or hybrid conferences.

Accelevents offers features for managing members, such as profiles and bios that can help attendees connect and find one another. And on the day of the event, you can do check-ins, print badges, and even run challenges and polls on the app.

A drawback is that Accelevents users have reported issues in managing breakout rooms. This is great for running conferences. However, it's not as effective in connecting participants.

Accelevents offers

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

3. Swapcard

    Excellent conference management app

Swapcard is an innovative idea for a conference app that comes with a variety of great features. Like Accelevents, Swapcard is good for managing conference agendas. Attendees can print badges, scan QR codes and create a customized schedule with their RSVPs.

It is a great platform for sponsors to promote their content as well, creating spaces for sponsored content as well as chats and meeting management.

But Swapcard's best features are for networking. With its attendee profile and a network-friendly UX to search for and message leads or contacts (plus connections to social media profiles), Swapcard is great for introductions.

Swapcard features

• conference app (with branded options) to manage badges, registrations, and access to control        
  
• A feed for discussion with event guides, personal recommendations, session rating, and livestreaming        
  
• Tools for network communication: AI matchmaking, profiles, and messaging        
  

4. Stova

Stova (formerly Aventri & Meetingplay) is an event managing and planning platform that is suitable for conference. It is crucial to be aware that Stove does not offer branded apps (you can host your conference using the Stova application).

Stova was built for online events and provides some fascinating characteristics for conference. The most popular features of Stova are break-out rooms, livestreaming, and chat. In addition, it has the ability to schedule 1:1 meetings it is a useful instrument.

Stova provides features that are good for organizing and planning for an event, such as email marketing and conference budgeting.

Stova Features

• Excellent virtual-first conference software including livestreaming, breakouts and networking rooms, and an online lobby        
  
• Planning conferences as well as event marketing tools email and budgeting      
  

5. Bevy

Bevy began as an event app for online and in-person events and it has recently pivoted to community + events. It is a great tool to manage a conference by providing the ability to check in, register, tickets and management of lists. It is also a great tool for hosting an online conference as well, using chats, virtual meetups, webinars, and recordings, and it has a discussion feature. Bevy even includes a drag-and-drop tool for building webpages and landing pages for event websites.

Bevy is a great online platform, but its community features are quite basic. In the end, Bevy hosts forums that provide chat and messaging features. But these are really quite basic. The platform is not made for the relationships that genuine community platforms give users.

Bevy features

• Brings community + events in concert with event management, and event virtual production        
  
• Live engagement features like messaging and chat, forums, webinars, and meetups        
  
• Drag-and-drop page builders for conference pages        
  

6. CVent

CVent is a different conference application designed for virtual events and the management of events. As with other applications on this list, CVent can build conference websites, sell tickets, and host content. The toolkit for event management is that can be integrated into live events (things like hotel and venue options), and a webinar-like option for online event. It's actually strongest for event planning.

However, CVent comes with none of the community features or chat functions It's not designed to connect attendees to each other.

CVent is a feature of

• Application for managing an event. The app includes features for planning, promotion, as well as "day-of" control features.        
  

7. ON24

ON24 is a basic web-based conference platform that can work as a virtual conference app. There are polls and chat features as well as a webinar, and they've recently added features like breakout sessions, video chats and more.

With registration and form-builder as well as the ability to personalize conference rooms with different the colors, fonts and images of heros This is a decent basic app for virtual conferences.

ON24 offers features

• Webinar-based platform that engages features built-in        
  

8. VFairs

VFairs is a virtual and live event application that focuses on conference management features. With registration form, badge printing, QR check-in, venue maps, and agenda building It's an excellent participant-focused application to help attendees navigate the conference.

VFairs offers branded mobile conference apps as well as onsite help for live conference. The app can be connected to your CRM too, and VFairs includes valuable event analytics to understand what's working for your conference.

VFairs features

• Registration & ticket printing, badge printing as well as other tools for day-of-management.        
  
• Platform for hosting virtual events which incorporates networking, gamification as well as other features for presentations.        
  

Conclusion

We're aware of how wonderful a conference can be, making attendees grow, learn, and make connections which they'll cherish for years to come. A conference is a great opportunity to grow your brand too, increasing awareness while improving your profit margins.

and a fantastic conference application makes these possibilities occur!

If you're looking to know more about getting your own branded conference and community app, be sure to check out Mighty Pro. .