Eventscribe

I used this app on my phone at a conference and it continually crashed on me or lagged significantly. Having 15 minutes between lectures and trying to decide what class to take next and it would crash when trying to read the class description. Secondly I brought my chrome book to be able to take notes on the slides during presentations and could not get it to work on chrome book. The app works for checking times and logging CEUs but crashed every time I tried to click to view slides. Tried the website with same problem. Emailed tech support they supposedly fixed it. Next day brought the chrome book and it still didn’t work. So I lugged around my chrome book for 2 days for nothing. There was another work around they said I could try but I didn’t want to lug it around again went to the old reliable pen and paper method. The concept is great and I used something similar at another event a few years ago so I was excited this convention had the same thing, but was left a bit disappointed.

This app does two things well: because it doesn't seem to respect the start times for presentations, you can watch them early on here. That's actually really nice and the reason I kept using it for three days. The second thing it does well is allow me to sit on the couch and watch a presentation and 'cast it to the TV. The issues with this thing are legion. Crashes, sits for 30 seconds on a page, doesn't include the live q&a video (which is in another app from the same company and show up on the PC)... it's just not good. The regular presentation page can lock up along with the q&a... there's almost no reason to use this instead of a browser.

I used this app at a Management Association HR Conference and love it. I was able to take notes easily during the presentations, and I had control over how much of my contact info was shared with other attendees. I also really liked being able to ask questions during the presentation via the app, and it was helpful to see other questions that were being submitted so I didn’t ask the same thing as someone else.