CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA vs Fourwaves Conference App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA
This app enhances your conference experience by allowing you to navigate sessions, build a personalized agenda, and connect with other attendees. Access speaker information, download materials, and receive real-time updates. Engage in polls and Q&A, and explore venue maps.
- Personalized agenda builder
- Session navigation
- Attendee networking
- Speaker profiles
- Presentation material downloads
- Real-time schedule updates
- Live polls and Q&A
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Enhance your CANVAS conference experience with the official CANVAS app. Browse sessions, explore cutting-edge research, and build your personalized agenda. Connect with fellow attendees, view speaker profiles, and access presentation materials all in one place.
Fourwaves Conference App
This event app allows attendees to browse conference programs, build personal agendas, view abstracts and posters, and connect with other participants. It offers offline access to event information after initial download, ensuring you don't miss any sessions.
- Browse full conference program
- Build personal agenda
- Read abstracts and view posters
- Find and connect with participants
- Offline access to event data
- Automatic schedule updates
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Fourwaves is the event app for scientific and academic conferences, symposiums, congresses and research meetings. Browse the full conference program, build your personal agenda, read abstracts, view posters and find other participants. Once your event is downloaded, almost everything works offline. The app works with events hosted on Fourwaves, the conference management platform used by universities, academic societies and research institutes across the world. Open the app, sign in with the email you registered with and find your event. Full conference program • Every session with its room, time and description • Presentations nested inside each session, so you always know what is happening, where and when • Always the latest version: the app syncs every 5 minutes, so room changes and schedule updates reach you automatically Your personal agenda • Add the sessions and presentations you want to attend • See your day at a glance and get to the right room on time • Plan poster sessions in advance so you never miss the research you care about Presentations and abstracts • The full list of presentations with titles, authors and affiliations • Read the abstract of any talk or poster before you attend it • View attached media: posters, slides, figures and videos Participants • Browse the participant list with names, affiliations, bios and photos • See each person's presentations • Put faces to names before a poster session or a coffee break Works offline • Download your event once over Wi-Fi and access the program, abstracts and your agenda anywhere • Built for convention centers, lecture halls and basements where the connection drops • The app resyncs automatically whenever you are back online About Fourwaves Fourwaves is conference software built for the research community: abstract submissions, peer review, registration, event websites, poster sessions and this event app, all in one platform. It is trusted by academic event organizers in 58 countries. Organizing a conference, symposium or research day? Learn more at fourwaves.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fourwaves Conference App at 4.5 against CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA's 3.0. Fourwaves Conference App also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months). CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Fourwaves Conference App holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 13 respectively.
CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA ships an update every 12 months, Fourwaves Conference App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA | Fourwaves Conference App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (8 ratings) | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 221 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | M Events Meeting Technologies Inc | Fourwaves |
Customer experience
CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA
Fourwaves Conference App
In-app purchases
CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA
No in-app purchases
Fourwaves Conference App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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