Comparison

HEPCon vs CiviMobile

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

HEPCon

This app provides a structured mobile agenda for scientific and professional conferences, connecting to existing systems. Attendees can access program details offline, build personalized schedules, and receive live updates. Organizers can offer a mobile companion without workflow changes.

Highlights
  • Browse full conference program with filtering
  • Offline access to abstracts and session details
  • Personalized schedule with reminders
  • Bookmark talks and export to calendar
  • Follow announcements and live updates
  • Access venue information and contacts
  • Participate in presentation discussions
Features
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HEPCon is a structured mobile agenda platform for scientific and professional conferences. Designed for complex, multi-track events, it connects directly to existing conference systems such as Indico and delivers a reliable, offline-ready program experience for participants. With HEPCon, attendees can: • Browse the full conference program with advanced filtering • Access abstracts and session details offline • Build a personalized schedule with reminders • Bookmark talks and export them to their calendar • Follow announcements and live updates from organizers • Access venue information, sponsors, and key contacts • Participate in discussions around presentations • Discover featured conferences and explore upcoming events Built for large academic and technical conferences, HEPCon scales to events with hundreds or thousands of participants while keeping the experience simple and fast. For organizers, HEPCon provides a ready-to-use mobile agenda companion without requiring changes to existing workflows. Carry your conference with you — online or offline.

About

CiviMobile

Access and manage your CiviCRM data securely from your mobile device, even offline. Update contacts, activities, events, and more while in the field. Streamline your work with features like event registration, ticketing, and contribution tracking.

Highlights
  • Offline access to CiviCRM data
  • Add and update contacts, activities, and events
  • Event registration and ticketing
  • Membership management and renewal
  • Contribution tracking
  • Search and dial contacts
  • QR code scanning for check-in
Features
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CiviMobile allows CiviCRM users secure access to the system and has key features you need when working in the field. No more notes on contacts and cases or rewriting the plans! Now, you can add and update contacts, activities, events, memberships, relationships, and use many other functions on the go, even when you are offline.    CiviMobile gives CiviCRM users the freedom to act on the go, even when they are offline. With CiviMobile, you need just to reach out to your pocket to leave notes for yourself or your contacts, edit details on your contacts, events, cases, memberships and contributions, subscribe to an event or update yourself on latest news and changes.  What can I do with CiviMobile?    • Search and reach - easily find contacts you want to reach and dial or message them right away   • Profiles - add new contacts to the CiviCRM database on the go. Update your own and your contacts’ information; sync CiviMobile contacts to contact book on your device; make profile notes and share them with others. The app supports custom fields that are configured in CiviCRM.  • Groups - organize the contacts within groups to manage them easily   • Tags - import your contacts with tags to make database searching quick  • Calendar - have an immediate access to a graphical calendar with all of your cases, activities and events   • Membership - it takes just a moment to view and renew your membership status   • Activities - view, edit and assign activities right when you need it     • Cases - view and edit cases’ details and priority statuses when working in the field    • Relationships - create and update relationships using CiviMobile app    • Events - have access to past and future events by checking its details as description, place, date, and time.   • Event Agenda - give event attendees full info about multiple sessions, speakers, venues in an intuitive mobile-friendly format • Event Participants Management - register yourself and others for paid or free events. View registered participants and manage their statuses   • In-app Payment - register for events and pay your membership dues conveniently inside the app • Ticketing & Check-in - mark participants, who have attended an event, with Check-In feature by scanning their QR code or changing statuses manually  • Navigation - use navigation to get to a branch organisation or an event location     • Contributions - easily access the details on your payments including dates, types and totals  • Public Area - view and register for public events as an unauthenticated user or create an account in CiviCRM from CiviMobile app • Surveys - conduct surveys with all details, walk lists, respondent statuses at your fingerprints and insights for processing in real-time • Petitions - launch petition campaigns wider public can support directly from their mobile devices • Push-notifications - pop-up messages informing about user-related activities are displayed on users’ mobile devices • Settings - use a Settings screen to configure your app to your preferences   There is no need to be tied to your desktop to reap the benefits of CiviCRM - the CiviMobile app lets you easily manage your activity and connect with other constituents at the increased processing speed of a native application. You do not have to worry about internet access - all the features of the app are available offline, all data being synchronised when the device resumes connection.    IMPORTANT: To use CiviMobile, a mobile app for CiviCRM, CiviMobileAPI extension should be installed in your CiviCRM system. Without the access to your organization's CiviCRM, you will only be able to work with the demo database.

Screenshots

HEPCon4 screens
CiviMobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CiviMobile at 88% against HEPCon's 50%. CiviMobile also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). HEPCon's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HEPCon ships an update every 5 days, CiviMobile every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HEPCon versus CiviMobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHEPConCiviMobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB179 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin VassilevCIVIMOBILE SOLUTIONS, LLC

Customer experience

HEPCon

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

CiviMobile

All ratings18 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

None

HEPCon

No in-app purchases

None

CiviMobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HEPCon free?
HEPCon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CiviMobile free?
CiviMobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HEPCon or CiviMobile have ads?
Neither HEPCon nor CiviMobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HEPCon or CiviMobile?
HEPCon ships an update every 5 days, and CiviMobile every 2 months. Most recently, HEPCon was updated on October 24, 2026 and CiviMobile on October 24, 2026.

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