CM Moderator vs SearchExpress® Approval
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CM Moderator
This app empowers event moderators to manage audience participation through a wireless microphone system using attendees' smartphones. It facilitates seamless engagement with features like real-time polling and text commenting, giving every audience member a voice.
- Wireless microphone for attendees
- Text commenting and live polling
- Moderator control over mics
- Real-time poll results
- Manage audience requests
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Crowd Mics is a unique and powerful audience engagement tool that puts a wireless microphone in everyone’s pocket. For event attendees, it uses their smart phone or tablet to create an immersive event experience by eliminating the need to pass a microphone around the room. Crowd Mics also gives the audience a voice through text commenting and live polling capabilities. The dedicated moderator app always keeps you in control of the conversation and helps the audience engage with the presenter seamlessly: • Get notified when someone in the audience wants to talk • Choose from a list of named requests • Deactivate an attendee mic at any time • Create polls before your event or in real time • Invite the audience to vote • Publish results live to the room’s display system Crowd Mics is hosted on a small, pre-configured hardware device, the ATOM. The ATOM is small enough to be placed almost anywhere and simple to set up – just connect it to the room’s AV system and attach it to a WiFi network. Crowd Mics is perfect for the participants and moderators of presentations, lectures, panel discussions or other similar events ranging in size up to 1000 attendees.
SearchExpress® Approval
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Review, Approve or Reject invoices or other documents in a SearchExpress® workflow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CM Moderator at every 3 months against SearchExpress® Approval's every 21 months. SearchExpress® Approval's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, ads, 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.
CM Moderator ships an update every 3 months, SearchExpress® Approval every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CM Moderator | SearchExpress® Approval |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BIAMP SYSTEMS, LLC | Executive Technologies, Inc. |
In-app purchases
CM Moderator
No in-app purchases
SearchExpress® Approval
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CM Moderator free?
Is SearchExpress® Approval free?
Do CM Moderator or SearchExpress® Approval have ads?
Which is updated more often, CM Moderator or SearchExpress® Approval?
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