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Whova

Score9 out of 10

1,118 Reviews and Ratings

What is Whova?

Whova, headquartered in San Diego, provides what they describe as Intelligent Event Technology Solutions by creating authentic audience participation and engagement and simplifying the entire event process from planning to registration, networking, and follow-up. Whova's mobile engagement apps support both on-location events and virtual events.

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Top Performing Features

  • Livestreaming

    Events can be broadcast live to hundreds or thousands of attendees

    Category average: 8.3

  • Confidential attendee list

    Presenters, moderators, or admins can see a confidential list of attendees that is not visible to all attendees.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Mobile Application

    A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Audience polling

    Presenters can ask for audience input.

    Category average: 9.2

  • Slideshows

    Presenters can present slideshows during the meeting within the web conferencing platform.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Meeting initiation

    Meetings can be easily initiated, whether they are scheduled or on the fly.

    Category average: 7.9

Navigating Large Events is Easy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a participating and attending organization at YIMBYtown 2025, Abundant Housing LA made it easy to connect to event managers and planners to discuss events, share resources, and prepare for upcoming engagements. Furthermore, it allowed us to easily stay in contact and exchange information with other event attendees.

Pros

  • Whova allowed me to create my own thread for a topic I care about.
  • Exchanging contact information with people I met is super easy even though it saves the email address as the contact name.
  • The agenda options were helpful is seeing what was available and narrowing down to top options via the ability to double book on my personal agenda.

Cons

  • For my needs, I can't think of anything that falls into this category.

Return on Investment

  • My contact list has grown about 20% since attending YIMBYtown 2025, which has facilitated collaborations that strengthen my organization's capacity to meet our goals.

Usability

Whova - 2025 [...] Conference Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I utilized this app while at the 2025 [...]Conference. Overall, I was very impressed with the platform and the networking tools. I loved being able to manage my schedule and have it ready to go to guide my day.

Pros

  • Direct networking with attendees and opportunities to meet.
  • Organizing the conference's agenda.
  • Connected well with the attendee roster available. I really liked the bookmark feature that helped me quickly remember whom I chatted with.

Cons

  • I did notice some lag in messages being received after being sent.
  • I also found it hard to go back to a community group meet up for updates. You had to manually go back through all the other groups to find the one I signed up for. I would see updates come through, but couldn't access them directly.

Return on Investment

  • I was very impressed with how I was able to note my interactions with attendees and used the bookmarked feature to connect with 21 close colleagues. This was my first conference as a representative of my city, and I was a bit worried about meeting people. With the support of this app, I was able to increase my opportunities to network by over 20 people whom I plan to reach out to moving forward.
  • I even made some amazing connections with about a third of them with a community meet up group for LGBTQ+ attendees and allies. Changed the whole conference for me and made it an amazing experience.

Usability

Highly recommend Whova

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I was recently and attendee/exhibitor at the CRRA Conference and the Whova was the best conference app I have experienced in a very long time. Was easy to use for the Conference Agenda, looking up attendees and sending them messages - but the best was the Lead Management right from my phone.

Pros

  • Lead Retrieval/Management
  • Attendee Messaging
  • Agenda

Cons

  • Attendee information should include mailing address and telephone numbers
  • Once the messaging icon is opened, the number of open messages should disappear. Each message needed to be opened - was time consuming to remove and look at unread messages

Return on Investment

  • Higher lead generation with the ease of using on-site

Usability

Enjoyed using the Whova App

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I recently attended the [..] Annual Training/Conference in Louisville, KY - this was my first time using the Whova app. I found it very helpful in navigating the week which was filled with various events. The agenda portion of Whova was definitely my friend throughout the week. I personally did not encounter any issues or problems with the app.

Pros

  • Agenda
  • Ease of use
  • Leaderboard - very fun
  • Documents

Usability

Whova is a comprehensive easy-to-use conference app

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Whova exclusively for conferences that I attend within my industry, provided that Whova is offered as the conference app by the organizer. Whova is also helpful for post-conference outreach, remaining connected, and for prospecting either prior to or post conference. I find Whova very helpful for conference agendas, scheduled sessions and other ways to connect with conference attendees.

Pros

  • Conference platform and information
  • Additional Resources
  • Connecting with conference attendees
  • In-pocket convenience

Cons

  • Consider adding an Instant Messaging component to interact with conference attendees and colleagues in real time, with notifications.
  • In addition to the photo gallery, could there be added functionality to allow for uploading presentations?
  • Many times attendees are promised access to keynote and session presentations after the conference, but often it is unclear where or when these will be available.

Return on Investment

  • N/A I am an attendee, not a conference planner.
  • Whova has helped to connect with conference attendees in advance which can lead to a business relationship, etc.

Usability