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These are good products — this isn’t a hit piece. The honest differences are how the pricing scales and whether your attendees have to create yet another account.
The event-app tier
Whova, Sched and EventMobi are quoted per event and scale with attendee count — a bigger year means a bigger bill. Exact numbers are hidden behind quotes, which makes budgeting a committee meeting of its own.
ConferKit
One flat annual price covering your events for the year, up to 2,000 attendees each. Your best-attended conference ever costs the same as your quietest.
The event-app tier
Sched requires attendees to create accounts to build a schedule; Whova pushes app download and sign-in. For a one-day conference, that’s a login wall between your members and the program — and a help-desk queue at registration.
ConferKit
No accounts, no passwords, no app store. Attendees open a link, build their schedule, and their QR code just works.
The event-app tier
Badge printing and check-in are often add-on modules or per-badge services on this tier — a second quote on top of the app.
ConferKit
QR check-in and A6 badge printing from the browser are included. Any phone is a scanner; any printer does badges; the price doesn’t move.
The event-app tier
Genuinely broad: networking feeds, gamification, AI matchmaking, sponsors' lead capture, community spaces. If your event is a trade show or a networking-first summit, that breadth earns its price.
ConferKit
Deliberately narrow: program, schedules, check-in, badges, certificates — what an association conference actually runs on. Simplicity is the feature; there’s nothing extra to set up.
Pricing on this tier is quote-based and changes often, so we don’t publish competitors’ numbers we can’t source — get current quotes and compare them with the flat figure we quote you.
Fair is fair
If networking is the point of your event — delegates hunting for connections, exhibitors capturing leads — Whova’s social tools are real value and we don’t attempt them. ConferKit wins when the point of your event is the program: sessions, workshops, PD hours, and a smooth day — run by volunteers at a price that doesn’t need a subcommittee.
Describe your conference in one sentence on the call and we’ll tell you honestly — including if we think a networking-first app suits you better.