Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Personalized agenda builder
  • Session navigation
  • Attendee networking
  • Speaker profiles
  • Presentation material downloads
  • Real-time schedule updates
  • Live polls and Q&A
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA4 screens
Fourwaves Conference App4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA versus Fourwaves Conference App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSAFourwaves Conference App
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (8 ratings)4.5 (13 ratings) — better
Number of ratings813 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size221 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperM Events Meeting Technologies IncFourwaves

Customer experience

CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Fourwaves Conference App

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

None

CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA

No in-app purchases

None

Fourwaves Conference App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA free?
CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fourwaves Conference App free?
Fourwaves Conference App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA or Fourwaves Conference App?
Fourwaves Conference App is rated higher. CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA averages 3.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Fourwaves Conference App averages 4.5 from 13 ratings.
Do CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA or Fourwaves Conference App have ads?
Neither CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA nor Fourwaves Conference App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA or Fourwaves Conference App?
CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA ships an update every 12 months, and Fourwaves Conference App every 3 weeks. Most recently, CANVAS | ASA, CSSA and SSSA was updated on November 7, 2026 and Fourwaves Conference App on November 5, 2026.

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