Event networking apps, compared side by side.

Conferras is a white-label event networking app for conferences, summits, meetups, expos and internal company events. Organizers set up the event themselves in a wizard, upload their logo and accent color, and get a branded app on their own subdomain. Attendees join through a single link or QR code, build a profile, browse the attendee directory, chat privately and book 1:1 meetings.

The distinguishing points in this group are the delivery model and the pricing model. There is no native app to download: the attendee experience is a progressive web app that opens in the browser and can be added to the home screen, with push notifications on both iOS and Android. Pricing is published and charged per event from EUR 89, rather than as an annual licence, and custom tiers exist for organizers and agencies with recurring events.

Feature coverage sits at the networking layer rather than the full event-management layer: attendee profiles and directory, AI matchmaking, private chat, 1:1 meeting scheduling, agenda and speakers, stories, sponsor placements and organizer broadcasts with analytics. Registration, ticketing, badge printing and onsite hardware are not part of the platform. Hosting is in the EU under GDPR.

Grip positions itself as an AI-powered event platform built around networking, matchmaking and lead generation, and it names SXSW, Money20/20 and Clarion Events among its customers. Following its acquisition of Connectiv Holdings' event management system, the acquired products became Grip's "Manage" suite, adding registration, sponsor and exhibitor management, side-event management and smart badges alongside the matchmaking engine. Organizers can take the complete platform or select individual modules.

On security, Grip states that it runs as a cloud service on Amazon AWS, that AWS data centres are certified to ISO 27001, PCI DSS Service Provider Level 1 and/or SOC 1 and 2, and that Grip itself is Cyber Essentials certified. It follows GDPR and CCPA, and encrypts data both at rest and in transit. Grip does not publish pricing.

Brella describes itself as an all-in-one platform for in-person events, combining AI-powered matchmaking, ticketing and a white-labelled iOS and Android app. Its matchmaking is intent-based: attendees state what they are looking for, and Brella says the algorithm returns relevant matches in seconds. Meeting booking is designed to be low-friction, with attendees suggesting a time in a few clicks and accepting or rescheduling in one, and the AI assigning a free meeting spot automatically so nobody has to negotiate a location.

The sponsor tooling is unusually explicit for this category. Brella states that sponsors can filter the attendee list to find qualified leads and proactively request 1:1 meetings before the event begins, and that a sponsor dashboard reports booth traffic and meeting counts. Organizers can export engagement metrics to their event CRM. On data, Brella commits to GDPR compliance in a data-processing agreement and states that its service host is ISO 27001 certified, though it does not publish a hosting region. Pricing is not published.

Swapcard is the only platform in this group that publishes its plan structure in detail, even though the prices themselves are quote-based. There are three tiers, Starter (up to 1,000 attendees per year), Professional (up to 10,000) and Enterprise (unlimited), and Swapcard states plainly that all plans are annual subscriptions, that it does not offer per-event pricing, and that it does not offer monthly billing. The fee combines an annual licence with a charge based on attendee and exhibitor volume.

The add-on list is worth reading carefully, since a good deal of the networking and exhibitor functionality sits outside the base plan. Hosted Buyer & Smart Meetings, the AI Smart Meeting Generator, Advanced Banner Ads, Lead Qualification and the Interactive Floor Plan are all priced add-ons unavailable on Starter, and white-labelling is split into two products: a "Mobile Branded App" that still carries Swapcard mentions, and a full "White Label App" that removes them and puts the web app and Exhibitor Center on your own domain.

Security documentation is the most extensive in this group: ISO 27001 with a certificate number you can verify externally, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS v4.0, AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, AWS multi-zone hosting, and a DPO declared to the French CNIL. A hosting region is not published.

b2match covers the full event workflow, a multi-page event website, registration, ticketing, agenda and a marketplace, but its specialism is goal-oriented B2B matchmaking, with machine-learning recommendations that suggest relevant profiles to each participant based on what they came to achieve. It is widely used for brokerage events, cluster and delegation programmes.

Its clearest differentiator in this comparison is data residency, because b2match states that all customer event data is hosted exclusively within the European Union on Google Cloud Platform, and it holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification while acting as data processor under GDPR. Among the platforms here, it is one of only a few that commits to a hosting region in public. Pricing is not published.

Converve is the outlier in this group, and reads as a deliberate rejection of the category's current direction. Rather than a recommendation model, it offers a meeting matrix in which the organizer defines which participant categories may meet, view or not see one another, so that a buyer meets a supplier rather than a competitor. The company markets this explicitly as "no black-box AI", on the argument that organizers should control the matching logic themselves. The platform then generates clash-free 1:1 schedules with table and room assignment.

It has operated since 2000, holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification under reference DE-IS-20230070, and markets German data security to a largely European buyer base. Its website includes a meeting-potential calculator that estimates achievable meetings from participant count, number of tables, meeting duration, buffer time and event days, a useful sanity check whichever platform you end up choosing. Pricing is not published.

Whova is an all-in-one event management platform combining an event app with online registration, event marketing and organizer tools, and it is the most engagement-led product in this group. Attendees get a personalised agenda, session alerts, live polls and Q&A, a community board that runs before day one, direct messaging, gamification and business-card scanning. Reviewers consistently single out the agenda and personal-schedule handling.

The trade-off is at the matchmaking layer, which is closer to a searchable directory with messaging than to a structured meeting marketplace, so events that need to guarantee exhibitors a meeting count will find it thin. Adoption is helped by the attendee app being free to use. Whova does not publish pricing, dollar figures circulating online are third-party estimates rather than official rates, and it does not publish a hosting region.

Attendee Hub is the mobile app layer of Cvent's wider platform, and its strength is integration rather than any single feature: the app, registration, onsite check-in and badge printing all work from the same list, so schedule changes reach attendees as they happen. Cvent states that AI-powered networking surfaces recommended people to meet based on attendee attributes and behaviour, and that attendees can message them or book 1:1 appointments without leaving the app, while CventIQ turns interaction data into session recommendations and daily summaries.

Access control is more developed than most: login is required, SSO is supported, and organizers can create invite-only or hidden events, which is relevant for internal or regulated meetings. The app holds 4.3 stars from 219 G2 reviews. Pricing is not published, and neither is a hosting region.

Bizzabo packages itself as an Event Experience OS aimed at B2B conference programmes, bringing no-code event websites, registration and ticketing, agenda, streaming, marketing and reporting into one system, coordinated through what it calls a Command Center. Networking combines smart matchmaking in software with a hardware layer: the Klik SmartBadge is a wearable that lets attendees exchange contact details with a tap and exhibitors capture leads without a handheld scanner, which Bizzabo argues removes the adoption barrier that stops some attendees participating in contact exchange at all.

The attendee app is private-label, and Bizzabo pushes app adoption at the check-in desk by offering instant app login from the badge handover. On compliance it states GDPR compliance, adherence to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, SSO/OAuth authentication and secure deletion of personal data on request, but does not publish a hosting region. Pricing is not published; Bizzabo describes its model as per-user with unlimited registrations and events.

ExpoPlatform is built for exhibition organizers rather than conference organizers, and the difference shows in what it optimises: AI recommendations, meeting formats and lead capture are all shaped around exhibitor economics, and the platform is designed to keep the audience active as a year-round community between editions rather than going dark after the show closes. It supports live, virtual and hybrid formats across web and mobile.

It operates at genuine scale, it supplied the official mobile app for GITEX Global, where exhibitors used it to scan attendee badges for lead capture across the five days. Pricing is not published, and ExpoPlatform does not publish a hosting region.