Eventleaf vs pretix

Eventleaf is an event management platform for registration, on-site entry, attendee engagement, exhibitions, and proposal workflows. Organizers can create event websites and forms, handle group registrations, waitlists, tiered tickets, and payment collection, and collect abstracts or proposals for review and scheduling. For check-in, staff can scan invitation barcodes, print custom badges, use self-check-in kiosks, and check attendees into sessions or venues. Engagement tools include polls, Q&A, surveys, messaging, networking, and gamification. Exhibition functions cover booth sales and selection on an interactive floor map, plus lead capture by scanning badges or invitation barcodes. Eventleaf is listed for Android, iOS, web, and Windows. It has a free plan and free trial. Basic costs $500 a year and Professional costs $2,000 a year; both list unlimited events and users, with different minimum attendee counts. The maker introduced desktop software in 2012 and launched a cloud-based version in 2015.

pretix is an event registration and ticketing service for in-person events. Organizers can create registration forms, issue tickets, send attendee email, use exhibitor tools, and check attendees in onsite. It does not include an attendee app. The listed platforms are web, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. pretix offers a free plan. The pretix Community plan lists unlimited ticket volume and unlimited administrative users, though no price is listed. pretix Hosted also has no listed price and includes 500 free tickets per calendar year. A separate pretix Hosted free-ticket distribution plan costs €0.50 a month; the first 500 free tickets per year carry no fee, and the quota increases with each paid ticket. The maker is pretix, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. For organizers, the listed tools cover registration, ticketing, and onsite check-in, while attendee-facing access is limited by the absence of an attendee app.