Eventify alternative: an honest comparison for event organisers

The short answer. Eventify is a full event platform - registration, ticketing, badge printing, check-in, an app with video meetings and community forums - and matchmaking is one of the things it does. Their matching runs on tags: the organiser picks up to twenty, attendees choose from that list, and the output is a ranked percentage. All Along does one job and does it from free text. Two or three questions on the registration form you already use, and each person gets a short list with a sentence explaining every name. If you need the whole platform, buy theirs.

Of the thirty-six competitors we looked at properly, Eventify is one of the few where a buyer really could go either way. They sell to community meetups and non-profits as well as conferences, they compete on price, and matchmaking is at the front of their marketing rather than buried in a feature list. So this comparison is worth doing carefully. The substantive difference is the shape of the input. A tag list is a vocabulary somebody wrote in advance; the useful thing a person needs help with this month is very often not on it. We ask an open question instead and read the answer.

If you are still scoping the category more broadly, it is worth reading the three questions to ask before you buy an event networking platform and why most people leave an event without meeting anyone useful. This page is the head-to-head once Eventify is already on your shortlist.

How Eventify and All Along compare

Every row below says who we think does that job better, including the rows where the answer is Eventify. A comparison written by one of the two companies is only worth reading if it is willing to lose an argument, so here are the ones we lose.

Everything in that table about Eventify was checked against their own website on 19 August 2026, and the pages we used are listed at the bottom of this post. Products move. If you find something out of date here, tell us and we will correct it.

What All Along costs

We publish our prices and Eventify do not, which is the one place this comparison is genuinely lopsided. Their pricing page carries four plans - Register, Engage, Advance and Ultimate - and every one of them says Contact Us where a figure would be, while a separate page of theirs says nobody can match their pricing. It may well be excellent. You cannot find out without asking. Ours: events under fifty people are free, with the full matching and the full report, not a trial and not a cut-down version. Above that it is a flat fee for the event, as at August 2026: AU$209 for up to a hundred attendees and AU$419 for up to two hundred and fifty, roughly AU$1.70 to AU$2.10 a person, with a money-back guarantee on every paid plan. Plans are priced on the number of people you invite, not the number who fill the form in. Larger events and multi-event programmes are quoted, and community subscriptions are priced monthly.

Full plans and what is included are on the events pricing and community pricing pages.

What we can see that a bigger platform cannot

The argument about tags against open text is not a hunch, and here is the evidence we have for it, limits included. Everyone who registers for an All Along event writes, in their own words, what they are working on and what they can offer, and the striking thing when you read those answers is how specific they are. A tag list would have caught the topic and lost the sentence. It is a small body of evidence and we would rather say so than dress it up - but the sentence is what makes an introduction land, and no vocabulary written in advance contains it.

Choose Eventify if

• You need registration, ticketing, check-in and badges as well as matching. That is a platform and we are not one.
• Your attendees expect to meet inside an app - video chat, booked meetings that land on the agenda, forums to come back to.
• You want a community running between events, with a feed and gamification rather than a quiet gap.
• A confidence score against each match is useful to you. They publish one and we deliberately do not.
• You are consolidating vendors and would rather have one contract than two.

Choose All Along if

• You already have registration sorted and the gap is the introductions.
• The interesting thing about your audience will not fit in a tag. Most of the useful answers we see are a sentence, not a category.
• You want each person told why they were matched, in the words both of them used.
• You want to know the price before you have a sales conversation - or the event is under fifty people, in which case there is not one to have.
• You do not want to spend an afternoon choosing a tag vocabulary before registration can open.

The honest summary: Eventify and All Along are built for different jobs. If getting the right people to actually meet is the outcome you are judged on, see how All Along works, or run the free networking gap calculator to see where your current set-up falls short before you commit to either platform.

Other comparisons

Most people reading this are weighing more than two names. The rest of our head-to-heads, written to the same standard and checked against each company’s own website: Grip, Braindate, Whova, Cvent and Swapcard.