How we score 39 vendors.

1. Aggregate ratings, not editorial reviews.

This is a list of best event apps, so the composite weights the mobile experience and the B2B reputation equally:

composite = 50% mobile app (App Store + Google Play) + 50% G2 + Capterra

Within each half, sources are weighted by review count — a vendor with 5,000 ratings carries more weight than one with 50 — and any single source with fewer than 10 reviews is dropped as noise.

To appear in the ranking, a vendor must clear two bars: at least 100 reviews on G2 or Capterra and at least 100 ratings across the App Store and Google Play — enough on both sides that the numbers actually mean something. A platform with no app (or too few app ratings to judge) is listed but shown as "Not ranked"; same for a vendor under the 100-review B2B bar. Neither gets a made-up number.

Every rating on a vendor profile links to its live source and shows its review count and the date we last verified it (last verified 2026-05-31 — G2 from its live listings, Capterra and Google Play from each product listing, and the App Store via Apple's official ratings API).

2. Hard filters before soft scoring.

When you fill in the quiz, hard filters run first. Anything you mark as required — Salesforce integration, SAML SSO, 10,000-attendee capacity — eliminates vendors that don't have it. Period. No partial credit, no "almost satisfies the requirement."

Only the vendors that pass the hard filters get soft-scored. Soft scoring uses category-essential features (inferred from your event category), the priorities you picked, your buying preference, your budget, and pricing transparency. Aggregate ratings act only as a small tiebreaker.

The 5 test scenarios in the source repo verify this behaviour. The build fails if scoring changes break them.

3. Same quiz, same answer. Always.

We don't personalise. We don't track. We don't show different rankings based on who's asking. The scoring function is a pure function of your quiz answers — give it the same answers tomorrow, you'll get the same top 3.

The algorithm is open source. You can read the code, run it locally with your own quiz inputs, and verify the output matches what we show you.

What the category tags mean.

Every vendor carries two or three focus tags so you can tell at a glance what it's built for — the first tag is its primary focus. They're descriptive, not part of the score.

All-in-one platform

Runs the whole event end to end — registration, the attendee app, check-in, analytics, often exhibitor and badge tools too. One system instead of stitching several together.

Mobile event app

App-first: the product is the attendee's phone app — agenda, profile, networking, notifications. Lighter than a full platform, and pairs well with registration you already use.

Registration & check-in

Owns the front door — registration and RSVP forms, ticketing, on-site check-in and badge printing.

Networking & matchmaking

Built around connecting people: attendee profiles, AI or recommended matches, and 1:1 meeting scheduling as the headline feature, not an add-on.

Trade shows & exhibitors

Tuned for expos — exhibitor and booth profiles, lead retrieval and badge scanning, interactive floor plans and wayfinding.

Virtual & hybrid

Strong tooling for remote attendees — streaming and virtual spaces — for events that run an online audience alongside the room. We focus on in-person and hybrid apps; this flags the ones that also handle the virtual side well.

Association & community

A year-round member or community app, not just a one-off event — recurring engagement for associations and member organisations.

Operator disclosure.

This site is operated by Eventee s.r.o., one of the vendors we rank. The scoring code is forbidden from referencing any specific vendor by name — a static-analysis test in CI rejects any change that adds such a branch.

See the editorial policy for the full conflict-of-interest treatment.

Vendor data — how we fill it in.

Vendor records come from the vendor's own public materials — pricing pages, feature pages, security pages, public roadmaps. When a vendor's public materials are ambiguous, the field is marked "Unknown" and we score it conservatively (i.e. we don't credit the vendor for capabilities they haven't publicly stated).

Vendors (or anyone) can request corrections by emailing hello@bestevent.app. Every correction request is reviewed against the source; the change goes live within a day if confirmed.