Crowdcast Mobile vs PittSMART
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crowdcast Mobile
This platform helps creators host various virtual events like webinars, workshops, and concerts. It focuses on simplicity, interaction, and audience growth with features like integrated registration, live chat, and analytics. Participants can join easily from any device without downloads.
- Host livestreams, webinars, workshops, Q&As, shows, summits, concerts
- One event URL for registration, live event, and replay
- Browser-based access, no downloads required
- Audience engagement via chat, Q&As, polls, and on-stage participation
- Email collection and integration with 1.4k+ apps
- Ticket sales and membership-only events
- Robust analytics for livestream performance
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Crowdcast is an all-in-one virtual events platform for creators. - - - Grow your audience with livestreams, webinars, workshops, Q&As, shows, summits, concerts and more. We've reimagine how to gather over live video and focused on 3 key areas: simplicity, interaction, and growth. Simple for hosts and participants -> One intelligently event URL handles registration, live event, and replay. Join via the browser or the app on any device, nothing to download. Interactive at scale -> Engage your audience over chat, Q&As, polls and even pull attendees up on stage with one click. Stream from your phone or professional encoders in HD. Tools for growth -> Collect emails, integrate with over 1.4k apps, charge ticket prices, host members only events through Patreon and grow you channel followers. Use robust analytics to measure how effective your livestreams are. Discover live conversations all over the world. See you on air.
PittSMART
Report city issues like potholes or graffiti directly to the local government. Receive real-time updates and notifications on the resolution of your service requests. Upload photos and track the progress of your submissions.
- Submit service requests
- Report city issues
- Upload photographs
- Receive real-time notifications
- Track request resolution
- Directly route to city departments
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PittSMART (Pittsfield Municipal Assistance & Reporting Technology) is the Official CRM (Customer Relationship Management) App of the City of Pittsfield. PittSMART allows users to submit service requests (potholes, tall grass, graffiti, etc.,) report issues, ask questions or send concerns directly to the city where the request will be correctly routed to the appropriate city department. This means your service requests will be responded to quickly and efficiently, and you'll be notified the instant they are resolved! You will receive a tracking ID and be automatically notified when your issue has been updated or addressed. You can provide comments, upload photographs of your request/concern.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crowdcast Mobile at 4.7 against PittSMART's 3.5. Crowdcast Mobile also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months). PittSMART's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Crowdcast Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crowdcast Mobile has 28K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Crowdcast Mobile's written reviews are positive against 50% of PittSMART's.
Crowdcast Mobile ships an update fortnightly, PittSMART every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crowdcast Mobile | PittSMART |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (28K ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crowdcast | City of Pittsfield |
Customer experience
Crowdcast Mobile
PittSMART
Bugs and requests
Crowdcast Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- Video constantly restarts, rewind button issues
- Can't see all speakers on mobile, chat doesn't work
- Keeps cutting out, have to refresh constantly
- Blurry video, audio sync problems
Requested features
4 requests- Add future events to Google calendar
- Include day of week in date/time format
- Larger video view, ability to hide chat
- Improve login process, allow password manager
PittSMART
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Crowdcast Mobile
No in-app purchases
PittSMART
No in-app purchases
