Event Calendar App vs Session Canvas
Event Calendar App
eventcalendarapp.comSession Canvas
sessioncanvas.devSide by side
| Figure | Event Calendar App | Session Canvas |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $39/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Event Scheduling Software | 8.1 (#11) | 7.6 (#19) |
| Purpose | Event Calendar App provides booking and registration software for scheduled events, classes, courses and workshops on a business’s own website. | Session Canvas is open-source speaker and session management for conferences, covering calls for papers, reviews, agendas, speaker portals, and communications. |
Plans
Event Calendar App
- Hobby$39 a month
- Scale$60 a month
- Business$199 a month
In their own words
Event Calendar App
Event Calendar App has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Session Canvas
Session Canvas is open-source software for managing conference submissions, reviews, agendas, speakers, and event communications. Organizers can build calls for papers with reordered questions, conditional rules, required fields, deadlines, and draft submissions. The review process supports track-based routing, a passwordless evaluator view, and optional blind review. Agendas have day, room, and list views, with warnings for potential time, room, and speaker conflicts. Speakers can use magic links to check submission status, update profiles, and complete tasks. Organizers can send templated acceptance or rejection emails, reminders, and calendar invitations that update when event details change. For sharing event information, it provides embeddable schedule and speaker widgets, a public JSON schedule feed, and whole-event iCal export. Five public widgets are viewable without logging in. Optional Airtable sync is off by default. Session Canvas runs on the web and is self-hosted on the organizer’s Supabase project. It is MIT-licensed and costs nothing.