Esri Events vs AIA Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Esri Events
Access comprehensive information for all Esri conferences, including agendas, session details, and event schedules. Manage your personal schedule, connect with fellow attendees, and navigate event venues with ease.
- Conference agendas
- Session descriptions
- Activity dates and times
- Schedule management
- Peer connection
- Venue navigation
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Information on all Esri conferences is available to you at the touch of your finger. Access important information including agendas, session descriptions, and activity dates and times. The app helps you manage your schedule, connect with peers, and navigate venues while attending Esri events.
AIA Events
This app serves as a digital companion for AIA events, offering a full conference schedule, personalized scheduling, real-time updates, and networking opportunities. Connect with attendees, speakers, and share your experience on social media.
- Full conference schedule access
- Personalized schedule builder
- Real-time event updates
- Connect with attendees and speakers
- Social media sharing
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Get the official AIA Events app! It’s your go-to digital conference companion for all AIA events, including the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design, Women’s Leadership Summit, and AIA Leadership Summit. Designed to enhance your experience and make the most of your time, this app gives you the tools to navigate your event effectively and efficiently. Through the AIA Events app, you can: • Access the full conference schedule including dates, times, and locations • Build your personal schedule, including CE sessions and one-on-one meetings • Get real-time updates to stay informed about changes and fun surprises • Connect with and get to know fellow attendees and speakers • Share your conference experience out on social media About AIA events: Browse AIA’s full event calendar at aia.org/community/events, including conferences, webinars, and educational sessions on topics across the built environment. With events throughout the year, you can connect with and learn from the AIA community and the greater AEC industry on a variety of topics. About the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design: The AIA Conference on Architecture & Design is the premier AEC industry event. It brings together the architecture and design communities to network, share knowledge, spark creativity, and uncover new solutions to design a better world. Through keynotes, education, events, tours, and the industry’s largest expo, the annual conference fosters cross-industry collaborations and solutions to showcase the strength of the AEC industry. About Women’s Leadership Summit: WLS is a premier leadership experience that brings together the industry’s largest network of women who are breaking down barriers, making themselves visible, and manifesting the careers they want—while making a difference in the world. It’s three days of high-impact programming, networking, education, community, and inspiration designed to help create gender equity for women in AEC. About AIA Leadership Summit: AIA Leadership Summit is the premier advocacy and leadership training event for AIA chapter leaders. One of AIA’s best attended leadership events, it offers attendees a unique platform to engage in critical policy discussions with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. while enhancing their leadership skills.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Esri Events at 57% against AIA Events's 8%. Esri Events also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 243). AIA Events's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Esri Events holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Esri Events has 1.3K ratings behind it against 243, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Esri Events's written reviews are positive against 8% of AIA Events's.
Esri Events ships an update every 3 months, AIA Events every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Esri Events | AIA Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better | 3.5 (243 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 243 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ESRI | The American Institute of Architects |
Customer experience
Esri Events
AIA Events
User reviews
Esri Events
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Helpful session scheduling
- 👍 Convenient session details and speaker bios
- 🚀 Responsive and easy to navigate
- 👍 Useful note-taking and email functionality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and login issues
- 🔒 Inability to access without login credentials
- 👎 Restrictive session scheduling (one per time block)
- 👎 Lack of calendar integration and export options
AIA Events
From 243 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Refreshingly intuitive
- 👍 Extremely helpful app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Audio/video quality issues
- 🐛 PowerPoint slides too small
- 🐛 Captions obscure images
- 🐛 Inaccessible design (no zoom, hard to read text)
- 🐛 Missing CEU amounts
Bugs and requests
Esri Events
Reported bugs
3 issues- App not displaying any events or content
- Frequent logout issues requiring re-login
- Crashes after short usage periods
Requested features
6 requests- Calendar view for schedule planning
- Ability to add multiple sessions per time block
- Keyword search for sessions and content
- Automatic conflict detection and session recommendations
- Integration with device calendar for scheduling
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- Option to take and attach photos in session notes
AIA Events
Reported bugs
57 issues- Audio and video could be better
- PowerPoint slides formatted too small
- Captions obscure images
- App does not allow for zooming
- Grey text on white is very hard to read
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- Text is also tiny
- Missing CEU amounts in schedule
- Infinite scrolling makes comparison impossible
- Information was hard to find, keep, and track
- App should be released sooner
- Schedule part of the app was very disappointing
- Difficult to navigate schedule
- Not clear on which items submitted as part of schedule
- Did not let users prioritize and then confirm lectures
- Cannot pick days in schedule, resets to beginning
- Background information for seminars not listed
- Could not download PDFs of presentations
- No confirmation that messages were received
- No prompts for replies to messages
- Handouts missing for numerous seminars
- Session reservation needed
- Continues to not show CE courses signed up for
- Searching for a course number returns incorrect results
- Zero in-app help
- Full schedule not showing up
- Won't recognize sign in email
- Schedule spending an hour was lost
- Does not show purchased tours on schedule
- Any saved sessions are deleted once the app is reopened
- Bookmarked sessions from full schedule don't show up next time app is opened
- Some events are not able to be bookmarked
- Very buggy
- Entered conference schedule twice and it’s not there
- App technical support doesn’t help
- App or platform still doesn’t work
- Does not save events that you try to register for
- Selections to schedule are gone each time app is opened
- Cannot filter sessions by timeslot
- Hard to navigate
- No conference map was provided
- Can’t find what I want
- Not pre-populating a session paid for
- Search finds session as CANCELLED when it's not
- No map of the venue
- Seat tracker takes too long
- Not saving CE sessions
- App is empty, nothing works
- Trying to select CE sessions
- Doesn’t link to email registration
- No other way to remedy app failure
- Does not work
- Can’t see the schedule
- Can’t add to schedule
- Doesn’t show what user is registered for
- Extraneous apps create extra work
- No content loads besides buttons
- Graphics/fonts are pretty rough
Requested features
9 requests- Printed copy of programs
- PDF of the program
- Allow pre-reservation for sessions
- Printed booklet for ease of use
- Beta test next year's app with real users
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- Recruit actual potential users ahead of time
- Filter sessions by timeslot
- Venue map
- Chat function or bot for troubleshooting
In-app purchases
Esri Events
No in-app purchases
AIA Events
No in-app purchases








