How to choose the right event app for conferences: Your ultimate guide

Choosing the right apps for conferences is critical for driving attendee engagement, simplifying logistics, and delivering a seamless event experience.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through some of the most critical decision points and explain how Amego helps event organizers deliver the best event apps for their conferences as well as provide clear steps to create a conference app that wows attendees and sponsors.

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A conference app is a mobile or web-based application that helps attendees navigate schedules, connect with other participants, and engage with event content before, during, and after a conference.

We believe these features matter most when choosing the best mobile event app:

• Personalized agendas & scheduling: Attendees want control. Amego’s agenda feature in the mobile app includes calendar syncing, filters, and filterable session tags so attendees can get the most out of their experience.
• Branded experience: A conference app isn’t just a tool, it’s part of your brand. Amego offers native iOS and Android apps with fully customizable home screens, custom fonts, colors, icons, and more.
• Networking & meetings: Your attendees crave connection. Amego’s networking feature helps users build profiles, chat, and book one-on-one meetings with each other. AI-powered meetings tools make connecting with sponsors, attendees, and experts even easier by helping meeting organizers manage meeting spaces, capacity, participants, and more.
• Gamification: Sponsor ROI matters. Amego’s event game, “Quest,” encourages booth visits and interaction keeping attendees engaged and sponsors happy.
• Real-time updates & notifications: In-App messages and Push notifications help you adapt on the fly. Amego’s platform allows your event team to notify attendees of last minute changes with various notification methods to keep everyone on informed.
• Data-rich reporting & analytics: Amego’s real-time dashboard, powered by Google Analytics, tracks unique screen views across event days giving you the insights you need to deliver the best mobile experiences going forward.

Classic Event App

Need a proven, streamlined event app that’s fast to launch? Amego’s Classic Event App delivers all the essentials for successful events, including agendas, networking, notifications, sponsor visibility, and engagement tools. It’s app-store ready, easy to configure, and ideal for teams looking for reliability and speed without unnecessary complexity.

Sidekick™ AI Event Experience

Looking to elevate your event with AI-powered personalization? Sidekick is Amego’s intelligent event companion, designed to enhance how attendees discover content, connect with others, and engage throughout the event. With features like AI-driven recommendations, session summaries, smart networking, and real-time insights, Sidekick transforms the traditional event app into a more dynamic, personalized experience.

Your event tech shouldn’t live in silos. Amego is build to complement, not replace, your existing event tech stack. Amego integrates with major event management systems and other event platforms like Swoogo and Braindate to complete your event tech stack.

The result? A unified workflow from registration to speaker management, mobile app, lead scanning, and more.

Amego’s pricing is flexible and scalable with options for every event and budget.

Your app is only as successful as your execution. Ready to deliver the ultimate attendee experience? Here’s what you should do next:

1. Plan early: Schedule a demo with our team to discuss your event’s needs so we can work with you on finding the right solution for your event.
2. Build smart: Once you’ve signed up, use the EventsIQ CMS to configure your event screens, sessions, sponsor placements, and more. Our help center is loaded with examples and tips on how to build the perfect event app and our team is available to answer any questions you have along the way.
3. Test proactively: Run an internal pilot to catch issues and fill any screen gaps you discover.
4. Train your team: Set your onsite teams up for success by training them on how to update sessions and send alerts to attendees if necessary.
5. Stay flexible onsite: Make adjustments through the CMS and reach attendees instantly with push notifications and in-app messaging.
6. Measure & iterate: Use analytics to see what worked, what didn’t, and where engagement shined to plan for an even more successful experience at your next event.

Amego has built and launched mobile solutions for world-class brands such as Google, Intuit, ServiceNow, Braze, and more:

• Hundreds of thousands of attendees across top-tier conferences
• High praise on G2: 4.9 ★ for usability, brand power, engagement, and support

Our customers consistently highlight Amego’s speed, customization abilities, and reliability:

“Clean and simple app that works”
– Samanata L.

“Great value-driven event mobile app”
– Verified Mid‑Market User

Ready to build your conference app?

Choose the option that fits your event needs.
Schedule a demo and let’s build something attendees will remember.