Electa Live vs BigBlueButton
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Electa Live
Participate in live online classes and web conferences with audio, screen sharing, and interactive tools. This app allows you to join virtual sessions, view presentations, and communicate with presenters and other attendees.
- Attend virtual classes and web conferences
- Built-in VOIP for audio participation
- View screen shares and presentations
- Interactive gestures toolbar and text chat
- Submit session notes
- Playback prerecorded sessions
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Teach, learn and collaborate with Electa Live on your iPad or iPhone. Electa Live is a virtual classroom and an online collaboration environment for live online teaching and web conferences with audio, screen sharing, guided presentations and web tours. This application enables you to attend and interact in Electa Live virtual classes and web conferences. With Electa Live for iPad/iPhone you can: - Attend Electa Live sessions from an email invitation or from a link right from your mobile web browser, or by specifying an event ID. - Listen and participate in the conversations via the built-in VOIP capability. - The attendees panel enables users to see who else is attending the meeting. - View the meeting content including slides, pages, images, whiteboard markup and pointers. - View live screen shares from presenter’s computer. - View guided web tours. - Submit session notes. - Interact within the session through the use of the gestures toolbar and text chat with presenters and participants. - Play back prerecorded Electa Live sessions. How to Attend an Electa Live Class or Event: - Download and start the Electa Live virtual classroom app on your iPad or iPhone. - Enter the event ID as sent to you by your session host; If required, specify a display name or a username and password. - You can also attend a live session by clicking on the link in the email invitation sent to you.
BigBlueButton
This application provides a comprehensive virtual classroom experience, enabling users to participate in live sessions with features like chat, a shared whiteboard, audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities.
- Virtual classroom access
- Real-time chat
- Interactive whiteboard
- Two-way audio
- Camera sharing
- Screen sharing
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The BigBlueButton app lets you join virtual classrooms and enjoy a full-featured experience, including chat, whiteboard, two-way audio, camera, and screen sharing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Electa Live at 2.8 against BigBlueButton's 1.4. Electa Live also leads on review sentiment (29% vs 14%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). BigBlueButton's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 9 months). 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.
Electa Live holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Electa Live's written reviews are positive against 14% of BigBlueButton's.
Electa Live ships an update every 9 months, BigBlueButton every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Electa Live | BigBlueButton |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (13 ratings) — better | 1.4 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.2% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Electa Communications Ltd | BigBlueButton |
Customer experience
Electa Live
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In-app purchases
Electa Live
No in-app purchases
BigBlueButton
No in-app purchases
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