Crowdcast review
A live-event platform with registration, audience interaction, recordings, and ticket sales.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Crowdcast is a browser-based live video platform for creators, businesses, educators, and communities running webinars, workshops, livestreams, and ticketed events. Hosts can create registration pages, present slides and videos, invite guests or attendees on stage, and keep recordings and replays available from the same event URL. The service works on web, iOS, and Android, making it suitable for interactive events where participation, registration, and replay access matter as much as the live broadcast.
Pricing is structured around annual billing, with monthly-equivalent prices displayed by plan. Lite costs $49 per month and includes 100 live attendees, 10 streaming hours per month, two-hour sessions, unlimited replay storage, recording and replay downloads, and Stripe integration. Pro costs $89 per month and raises capacity to 250 attendees and 20 streaming hours, with four-hour sessions, multistreaming, English live captions, and custom registration fields. Business costs $195 per month and supports 1,000 attendees, 40 streaming hours, six-hour sessions, three multistream destinations, and a 2% transaction fee. A 14-day trial is available, but there is no free plan.
Its main strength is the concentration of live-event tools in one workflow: chat, polls, audience Q&A, analytics, recordings, replays, ticketed payments, and integrations with Stripe, Patreon, Zapier, Facebook Live, YouTube Live, LinkedIn Live, and Twitch. Pro and Business add live captions, while multistreaming begins with Pro. Crowdcast is a strong fit for hosts who want interactive live sessions and paid access without separating registration, presentation, and replay experiences. It is less suitable for teams seeking automated webinar delivery, and Lite may constrain events that regularly exceed 100 attendees or require more than 10 streaming hours per month.
Crowdcast pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Built-in registration, chat, polls, Q&A, and audience stage participation
- Ticketed events with Stripe payments and replay downloads
- Multistreaming, captions, analytics, and browser-based access
- Where it doesn't
- No free plan; entry pricing is $49 per month with annual billing
- Lite is limited to 100 live attendees and 10 streaming hours monthly
- Focused on live delivery rather than automated webinars
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