Brownbag vs EDAS
Brownbag
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| Figure | Brownbag | EDAS |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 7 |
| Spec score · Event Abstract Management Software | 8.1 (#8) | 7.5 (#14) |
| Intended users | The help center describes Brownbag as connecting conferences, papers, and researchers, with separate guides for organizers, reviewers, authors, and attendees. | EDAS is used by conference and journal organizers, authors, reviewers, technical program committee members, and attendees. |
| Purpose | Brownbag is conference management software for academic research, covering conference pages, submissions, reviews, programs, and registration. | EDAS manages paper submission, review, and registration for conferences, workshops, and journals. |
| Support | The help center offers guides for organizers, reviewers, authors, and attendees. | EDAS provides built-in help for authors, reviewers, TPC members, and chairs, and directs technical support requests to the Help function or [email protected]. |
Plans
EDAS
- IEEE Xplore content preparation and upload$1, paid once
- Online proceedings preparation$1, paid once
- Similarity checking (non-IEEE conferences)$1, paid once
- Travel grants$5, paid once
- Attendee registration and other payment processing$6, paid once
- Paper processing$6, paid once
- PDF repair$10, paid once
In their own words
Brownbag
Brownbag is web-based conference-management software for academic research. It combines public conference pages, calls for papers, submissions, peer review, program planning, email, and analytics. Organizers can build pages with headings, images, tabs, and submission blocks. Submission forms can require fields, define file types and deadlines, and collect co-authors; authors can reuse uploaded details across conferences. Review workflows support internal and external reviewers, custom labels, score tracking, and CSV export. Accepted papers can be arranged into sessions, rooms, and time slots, then published for viewing on any device. Organizers can email authors, reviewers, or attendees and schedule messages. Analytics show views, referrers, and devices without a third-party tag. Brownbag describes a ChatGPT connection for organizer and reviewer tasks while carrying its permissions across. Stripe handles Premium upgrades from the dashboard. A help center provides guides for organizers, reviewers, authors, and attendees. Attendee registration is marked “Coming soon.” The Free plan costs nothing, billed per conference, with organizer views capped at 100 submissions. Premium costs $1,000, paid once and provides unlimited submissions in organizer views.