Event lead capture apps
Asked as “event lead capture app”, and as “trade show badge scanning and lead retrieval tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B software company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, six models each. Added to the September 2026 Edition; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
23%
Contested · Mobly Capture 8%
23Blinq08Mobly Capture08Wave Connect62others
23% of first choices, contested.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all six models, for a mid-market B2B software company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
09
Eventleaf Lead Retrieval App4%8%12accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now.
Eventleaf Lead Retrieval App4%8%12accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now.11
Cvent LeadCapture2%35%34criticized challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
Cvent LeadCapture2%35%34criticized challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
The floor is 12 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
Key
01Blinq23%
Blinq23%02Mobly Capture8%
Mobly Capture8%03Wave Connect8%
04momencio8%
momencio8%05iCapture6%
iCapture6%06BoothIQ6%
BoothIQ6%07B2Brain4%
B2Brain4%08Popl4%
Popl4%09Eventleaf Lead Retrieval App4%
Eventleaf Lead Retrieval App4%10Captello2%
Captello2%11Cvent LeadCapture2%
Cvent LeadCapture2%12Whova2%
Whova2%13Bizzabo0%
Bizzabo0%What they warned about
A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Cvent LeadCapture35%
12 of 34 labels negative · 8 of 6 models · 2 hard negative
“Organizer-Rented Scanners (e.g., Cvent LeadCapture) ... don't rely on the event organizer's hardware/app unless you have no choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Popl27%
8 of 30 labels negative · 8 of 6 models · 2 hard negative
“Many users across reviews complain the cost is too high... Multiple users report the app freezing and crashing during setup” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
iCapture19%
7 of 36 labels negative · 6 of 6 models
“iCapture, Cvent LeadCapture, Whova and momencio's standard tier need organizer API / registration vendor access... That creates data ownership and consent ambiguity.” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Blinq13%
6 of 46 labels negative · 5 of 6 models
“**Budget Warning:** This can get expensive quickly. Capturing just 100 leads would cost roughly **$1,000** in credits alone” Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the six in this edition.
Sites the answers cite
74 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 6 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 985 links across 120 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
vendor site · B2Brain54 answers · 131 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Blinq53 answers · 87 citations · 12 models
34 answers · 56 citations · 14 models
30 answers · 34 citations · 9 models
29 answers · 35 citations · 11 models
27 answers · 33 citations · 11 models
26 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
25 answers · 25 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Guideflow24 answers · 36 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Bizzabo22 answers · 38 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Accelevents20 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Eventify19 answers · 19 citations · 9 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
44 answers · 12 models
30 answers · 9 models
29 answers · 11 models
25 answers · 10 models
25 answers · 11 models
23 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 11 models
19 answers · 8 models
18 answers · 9 models
17 answers · 8 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best event lead capture app”, “event lead capture app”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
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| Blinq blinq.me | 23% | 133 | 12,100 | 254 | 135,332 | 18 | 1 | |
| Mobly Capture getmobly.com | 8% | 87 | 0 | 1,770 | $606 | 1 | 3 | |
| Wave Connect | 8% | 1,300 | 702 | |||||
| momencio momencio.com | 8% | 64 | 90 | 0 | 1,434 | 4 | ||
| BoothIQ getboothiq.com BoothIQ 6%, BoothIQ Free Plan 2% | 8% | 39 | 70 | 0 | 42 | 0 | ||
| Cvent iCapture cvent.com Cvent iCapture 6%, Cvent LeadCapture 2% | 8% | 107 | 320 | 3 | 1,714,548 | 73 | 7 | |
| iCapture icapture.com | 6% | 107 | 720 | 36 | 161 | |||
| B2Brain b2brain.com | 4% | 46 | 30 | 0 | 425 | |||
| Popl popl.co | 4% | 88 | 14,800 | 272 | ||||
| Eventleaf Lead Retrieval App eventleaf.com | 4% | 22 | 0 | 8,466 | 5 |
Google's top ten for the two searches hold 10 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (blinq.me, getmobly.com, wavecnct.com). The first result for “best event lead capture app” is wavecnct.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best event lead capture app for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which trade show badge scanning and lead retrieval tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top event lead capture apps and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best event lead capture app for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an event lead capture app. What should we look at?”Negative“Which event lead capture apps should I avoid or be cautious about?”
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GPT-6 Astrano first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-5.6 Solno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.1 Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Perplexity Sonar Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Zero rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
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Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
Cvent read as Cvent LeadCapture
EventMobi read as EventMobi Lead Capture
Eventleaf read as Eventleaf Lead Retrieval App
Mobly read as Mobly Capture
Unresolved, counted raw
Badgepac
Badgr
BoothIQ Free Plan
BoothJunkie
Canva Lead Capture
Cvent Event App
EventLeadCapture
Eventdex
GetMobly
HubSpot Mobile App
QuickCapture
Rafflebox
Scan2Lead
ScanBizCards
Show Pass
Showpass
Zoho Backstage Lead Capture
Zuant
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.