Scheduling and meetings
Crowdcast alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton★9,183 GitHub starsLGPL-3.0 licenceFull web conferencing platform with live audio/video, chat, polling, Q&A, and session recording features.Open on GitHub ↗pretix/pretix★2,475 GitHub starslicence unclearEvent ticketing/shop system with payment integrations and CSV export for attendee management.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Polished in-browser live production studio (overlays, cueing, built-in video playback)
- Scale and reliability inherited from a production streaming backend
- Built-in multistreaming to third-party platforms and Zapier catalogue
- Two-week free trial and vendor support
- Integrated channel/follower system with push/email notifications
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Crowdcast, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.