Whova Runs the Event App. We Run the Registration Desk.
Whova's strength is its attendee app: networking, messaging and a personalised agenda. eventcloud is built for what happens before anyone opens it: a form, price schedule and confirmation email per audience, badges in real millimetres, and check-in on any phone with a link and a PIN. Competitor facts checked 27 October 2026. Sources and dates are listed below.
Free or paid sessions booked at sign-up on tickets that name each attendee, with a capacity per session, clashes refused and more booked later in the event app.
WhovaYes
Session sign-up, with ticket access to days and tracks.S2
Checked
Member-only and Invite-only Tickets (stronger: Whova)
eventcloudComing Soon
Approve each registration, lock a pass behind an access code, and verify members for member prices. Private ticket groups already open only to people with the link. Running a members' event? Talk to us.
Reminders, scheduled and bulk email. Every confirmation already carries a calendar file, from an email designer for each audience. Which reminders would you send? Let us know.
Print a whole group's badges in one go. Any single badge prints from the dashboard, and the kiosk prints each one as people arrive. Printing hundreds the night before? Ask us.
Visitors check themselves in at the Badge Kiosk: they type their ticket number, or find themselves by name or email if you allow it, correct their name if you let them, then print.
WhovaYes
A self check-in kiosk, and waivers signed at check-in.S3
Checked
Door Staff DevicesTie
eventcloudYes
Any phone or tablet, in the browser, with one link and a 4-digit PIN. No app, no staff accounts.
Exhibitors use their own phones to scan the QR code on each attendee's badge or in their event app, rate and qualify each lead, and export to Excel. No charge from us per scanner or per lead.
WhovaYes
QR scanning and mobile business cards, with notes, lead scores and export to a CRM.S4
Checked
Engagement
Attendee App (stronger: Whova)
eventcloudYes
A web app on attendees' phones, with nothing to download: the agenda, a personal agenda with their booked sessions, sponsors, one-to-one messaging and their ticket QR.
WhovaYes
An app with personalised agendas, real-time updates and networking features.S1
Checked
Attendee MessagingTie
eventcloudYes
One-to-one text chat in the event app: attendees find each other by name or company, and you can switch it off for any event.
Matchmaking between attendees in the event app. Attendees already find each other by name or company and chat one to one. Are meetings why people come? Drop us a line.
How to read it. Yes, Partial and No describe each platform today; Not confirmed means we could not confirm it from public sources on the date checked, never that it is missing. Coming soon marks what eventcloud is building now, and the row still goes to whoever does it today. Tell us if a fact has changed. Whova and G2 are trademarks of their owners, used only to identify the products compared; eventcloud is not affiliated with Whova.
What Gets Counted
What Each Platform Meters.
Whova prices by quote. eventcloud counts the people on your team and takes nothing from ticket sales.
eventcloud Counts
Team seats
Registrations, attendees and events are never counted, and 0% of ticket revenue is taken.
Whova Counts
Not published
Whova prices by quote, and its registration page mentions a fee on paid tickets without an amount S2S5.
What unlimited covers here, and the few limits that remain, is written out just below.
Unlimited, with the Small Print Printed Large.
Nothing here counts registrations. Here is what is limited, and why it is operational.
Unlimited events, registrations and attendees on every plan. We count team seats, not tickets, so your bill does not rise because your event sells out. The limits that do exist are operational, not commercial: 99 of one ticket type per order line, 10,000 orders per Excel export, five languages per event, and one subdomain and one sending domain per organisation.
Who Each One Suits
App People and Desk People.
Whova builds around the attendee app. eventcloud is built for the hard part before anyone opens it: getting five audiences registered, badged and through the door.
An email per audience: each ticket group gets its own confirmation email designer, with every registration answer as a merge field and a calendar file attached.
A ticket email for each person: book five delegates in one order and each named delegate gets their own ticket email.
Badges from the answers: design in real millimetres with live data from any registration question, then print at a self-service kiosk as people arrive.
A door on any phone: one link and a 4-digit PIN. No app to install, no staff accounts.
Where the Facts Come From
Sources.
Every competitor fact on this page links here, with the date we checked it.
Whova does not publish a price: its home page says "We'll find a price that fits your budget", its pricing page is a quote request, and its registration page mentions a ticket fee without stating the amount (whova.com, checked 27 October 2026). eventcloud's price is on our pricing page; we take 0% of ticket revenue and count team seats only.
Does eventcloud have an event app like Whova?
Yes, a web app on attendees' phones, so there is nothing to download: the agenda, a personal agenda with their booked sessions, sponsors, one-to-one messaging and their ticket QR. Coming soon: matchmaking, push notifications and an exhibitor directory in the app. Which would your attendees use most? Tell us.
Can we send reminder emails?
Coming soon: reminders, scheduled and bulk email. Need them for your next event? Tell us. Each ticket group gets its own confirmation email designer with every registration answer as a merge field, and every confirmation carries a calendar file. Attendees export to Excel whenever you want to mail them from your own tool.
Can we print badges on demand at check-in?
Yes. Turn a laptop and the printer beside it into a self-service Badge Kiosk: visitors type their ticket number, or find themselves by name or email if you switch that on, check the badge and print it, and printing checks them in. Start Edge or Chrome in kiosk mode on a Windows laptop, with the command on the Badge Kiosk page, and badges print with no dialog. Coming soon: printing a whole group's badges in one go from the dashboard. Need it for your event? Let us know.
Can exhibitors scan leads?
Yes. Lead retrieval comes with every seat: exhibitors use their own phones to scan the QR code on each attendee's badge or in their event app, rate and qualify each lead, and export their leads to Excel. No charge from us per scanner or per lead. You decide whether exhibitors get it with their pass or buy it at checkout for a price you set. Whova's lead retrieval adds mobile business cards and export to a CRM.
Can we try eventcloud for free?
Yes. You can build the whole event, rehearse checkout with Stripe test cards and rehearse check-in on a draft event for free; you subscribe when you are ready to publish. Free events get the same ticket PDFs, QR codes and confirmations as paid ones.
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