EasyWebinar vs Livestorm. Which webinar platform is right for you?

Livestorm is the better built event product. EasyWebinar is the better built funnel product. Both let attendees join from any browser with nothing to download. If your sessions are large panels or meetings, Livestorm fits, with 25 simultaneous speakers and question upvotes. If every lead currently costs a live session someone has to run, EasyWebinar wins, because Livestorm publishes no scheduled evergreen funnel, no just in time start, and no checkout inside the room.

The moment this comparison usually starts

A marketing manager opens her webinar dashboard on a Wednesday. Registrations look fine. Attendance looks fine. Her VP asks which sessions produced pipeline, and the answer takes four spreadsheets.

That is the real question behind this search. It is not "which tool runs a nicer webinar." It is "why does a working webinar platform programme produce no revenue?"

Where Livestorm genuinely wins

Livestorm seats a bigger stage than EasyWebinar. It ships 25 simultaneous speakers, unlimited moderators, question upvotes, noise cancellation, and 24 languages with right to left support, and it is built to run meetings and webinars in one tool.

It also carries review volume EasyWebinar does not match yet. Capterra lists 398 reviews at 4.7, with 385 positive. Its customer list includes Equifax, Abbott, Zapier, and Intercom.

What I liked most about Livestorm was how easy it was to host webinars without requiring anyone to download software. Everything ran directly in the browser, the interface was clean, and attendees could join instantly.

What polish does not do

Polish does not run the session at 2am while you sleep. Polish does not take the payment while the offer is still on screen.

EasyWebinar matches the browser join and then keeps going. The session that converted live runs every day as an evergreen or just in time webinar, the AI Moderator answers questions from your files from Pro, and the follow-up starts on what each attendee did.

The scoring question to use

Ask yourself one thing before you compare webinar platforms. Is the webinar a meeting you host, or a session that has to keep producing pipeline after the live hour?

If it is a meeting or a large panel, Livestorm fits and Q3 explains why. If it has to keep producing pipeline, keep going, because automation in Q2 and revenue in Q4 decide this purchase.

Why this guide reads the category through revenue

Many operators arrive at webinars through a bad year rather than a strategy, after an existing income channel stops paying.

A typical case is a course that took six months to build and sold zero copies until a webinar finally sold it. That is why this guide reads the category through revenue, not through interface design.

EasyWebinar's read is that the standard advice gets this backwards, though the data behind that read is still limited. Engagement metrics feel like progress. They are not cash.

EasyWebinar is built so one recorded session keeps selling after the calendar invite expires. Live, simulive, evergreen, on demand, and just in time run from one funnel, with checkout inside the room and your CRM or EasyCRM. Live runs on every plan; automation starts at Growth.

No. Livestorm ships on demand events and event automation, described in its own words as "automate the start and end, or automatically play a video for an experience that's just like live". That is session level automation. It publishes no scheduled evergreen funnel, and no just in time session that starts minutes after a visitor lands.

The narrow claim, said precisely

"Livestorm has no automation" is too strong, and this guide does not use it. It automates the start, the end, and the playback of a video inside a session.

What it does not publish is funnel level automation. That distinction is the whole article.

The two terms, defined once

An evergreen webinar is a recorded session that runs on a published schedule, over and over, without a presenter. Registration, reminders, chat, offers, and follow up all fire automatically.

A just in time webinar is stricter. The next session starts between roughly one and fifteen minutes after the visitor hits the page. Nobody waits three days for Thursday at 11am, so intent does not cool.

The ladder, rung by rung

Recorded sessions can run in six modes. Live, simulive, scheduled evergreen, on demand, just in time, and instant replay.

EasyWebinar runs all six from one funnel from Growth, with 1,000 automated viewers per session on Growth, 2,500 on Pro and 5,000 on Scale. The mechanics of each mode sit on the automated webinar page.

What the missing rungs cost you

Every missing rung converts into calendar time. On a platform with no evergreen mode, each new lead needs a live session, a presenter, and a slot.

Ten sessions a month is a part time job. Ask EasyWebinar to clone your best session instead, then let scheduling do the work you were doing manually, the way a simulated live webinar handles a fixed start time.

Do not automate too early

Here is where EasyWebinar's guidance breaks from the usual automation pitch. Run five to ten live sessions first. Hit at least a 10% attendee to buyer rate before you clone anything.

Automation copies whatever you feed it. A weak session at ten times the volume is just a louder weak session.

Automated versions often underperform their live originals badly, even when the original converted well. The usual cause is that operators clone the average session instead of the single best one, a trade covered in live vs automated webinars.

The honest disagreement

Not everyone agrees, and buyers should know that. Yuri Elkaim argues for evergreen from day one, because live show up rates are punishing.

Jeremy Haynes sits on the other side, as does EasyWebinar's guidance: prove it live, then let the machine repeat it. The 10% gate has held up across the funnels EasyWebinar sees, though that sample is EasyWebinar's own.

Your Monday action

Pull the recording of your best converting session. Check its attendee to buyer rate against 10%.

If it clears, it is ready to run as an evergreen sales funnel this week. If it does not, the platform is not your problem yet.

EasyWebinar runs the same recording as simulive, evergreen, on demand, or just in time from one funnel. A session that converted live on Tuesday keeps converting at 2am on Sunday.

It depends on what the room has to do. Both join from any browser with nothing to download, and both run polls, Q&A, chat and reactions. Livestorm seats a bigger stage, with 25 simultaneous speakers, unlimited moderators, question upvotes, raise hand, noise cancellation and 24 languages with right to left support. EasyWebinar runs a host plus up to 4 presenters with TrueVoice audio, and adds the AI Moderator from Pro, timed offers with checkout inside the room, handouts and A/B split testing on registration pages. For large panels, Livestorm. For a room that answers questions and closes the sale, EasyWebinar.

The concession, made properly

Livestorm's reputation for polish is earned, not marketed, and its stage is bigger than EasyWebinar's. If you run panels with more than five people speaking, that settles it.

Its browser first join flow is the part reviewers praise most. Nobody downloads anything, which removes the most common reason people quit before a session starts. EasyWebinar works the same way: attendees join from any browser, desktop or mobile, with nothing to download.

What reviewers actually praise

The engagement tools like chat, polls, and Q&A worked smoothly, which made our sessions more interactive and professional.

Capterra rates its ease of use 4.7 across 398 reviews. That is a strong signal.

Where the polish thins out

Reviewers are consistent about the limits. G2 clusters 21 reviews asking for more email and form customisation, and 13 flagging limited layout and design control.

Getting a webinar started is not super intuitive.

Customisation of interface is a bit basic with too many restrictions on layout.

The reframe to apply

Ask what in room depth actually moves. Reactions and upvotes change how a session feels, and they have real value.

They do not obviously move show up rate or booking rate. Those are decided before the room opens and after it closes, which is the argument behind most webinar engagement tools.

The risk that really breaks attendee experience

The most common failure is mechanical, not aesthetic. A button that does not work on mobile quietly eats registrations while you sleep.

One test put the join link directly in the SMS sequence. Show rate rose, and booking rate collapsed, because people joined from phones they could not act on.

Check the tech before you check the theme. That habit has saved more sessions than any reaction emoji ever will.

What EasyWebinar does ship in the room

EasyWebinar streams on the Dolby OptiView (formerly Millicast) WebRTC stack with sub-second latency, and puts polls, Q&A, reactions, handouts, timed offers, and checkout inside the session. From Pro, the AI Moderator answers attendee questions in the chat from the PDFs and files you upload, in live, simulive and automated webinars. That is a different kind of attendee experience, aimed at the buying decision rather than the vibe, and the full set sits under live webinar software.

EasyWebinar's own reviewers are not uncritical either.

I would love to have more screen display options, like where I place my screen compared to my slides. The video quality came and went when I switched from the slides as the main screen back to me.

I love that we can have a poll, offer and countdown right in the event. That's going to be so great for sales and interactions.

Buyers who need a stage bigger than a host plus 4 presenters, or right to left language coverage, should choose Livestorm here. What EasyWebinar wins is the moment after the value section, when the offer, the countdown, and the checkout appear without moving anyone to a new tab, which is how paid webinars are built.

EasyWebinar shipped paid registration through Stripe and PayPal plus in room checkout in March 2026, includes EasyCRM natively from Growth, and syncs with HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot (Account Engagement) on Pro. Your CRM or EasyCRM. Livestorm's published feature set shows no payment capability at any tier, and Pro connects only to HubSpot and Zapier, with its other CRM sync, Pardot included, on Enterprise.

The question that exposes the gap

Your VP asks which sessions produced pipeline. If your marketing team runs Pardot, Livestorm Pro cannot sync to it; Livestorm keeps every CRM sync beyond HubSpot for Enterprise.

So the reporting you need arrives after a sales call and a contract change. That is a procurement problem disguised as an analytics problem.

The integration tiers, side by side

Both vendor pages were checked on 17 August 2026. Nothing here is inferred.

One caveat, stated plainly. Livestorm's feature comparison shows no payment tooling, and no help centre page found contradicts that. If you want the full list of what connects where, the integrations page carries it.

What paid registration changes

A ticketed workshop collects its revenue before anyone shows up, which funds the next round of ads before the session runs.

EasyWebinar collects that at registration through Stripe or PayPal. On a platform without paid registration, the same cash arrives weeks later through another tool, if at all.

Why the checkout belongs inside the room

The close is the highest leverage 90 seconds in any webinar. A strong transition is simple, and it asks for permission first.

The presenter says there is a paid offer that helps, then asks people to drop a one in the chat if it is fine to explain it. Sending them to a new tab at that exact moment breaks the moment you just built.

If the offer converts in the room, the checkout should open in the room.

The follow up that actually earns money

Most revenue lands after the session ends. A reliable replay sequence runs three days and stays boring on purpose.

Day one says the replay is available and comes down tomorrow. Day three says final chance, it comes down in a few hours. EasyWebinar starts that sequence on the watched replay trigger, one of six behaviour triggers in EasyCRM: registered, attended, no-show, watched replay, clicked offer, purchased.

Why EasyCRM stays deliberately narrow

Any tool claiming to be the CRM, the community, and the email service provider at once deserves caution. GoHighLevel is the obvious example, and those products usually end up thin everywhere.

EasyWebinar's team once built a branching email machine nicknamed the monster funnel. It took months, and it did not work. EasyCRM stays deliberately narrow, covering webinar behaviour, lead scoring, sequences, and, on Pro, revenue reporting, which is the same scope covered in webinar marketing automation.

Your Monday action

Map the path from attendee to opportunity in your current stack. Count every manual handoff, including exports and spreadsheet joins.

Three or more handoffs means the platform is not the bottleneck. The seams between platforms are, which is the argument behind running a webinar CRM in the same place the session runs.

EasyWebinar takes the payment where the decision happens and scores the lead in the same system. In room checkout plus sales CRM ships from Growth, and native HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot (Account Engagement) sync arrives on Pro.

EasyWebinar shipped the AI Webinar Builder in February 2026, producing the script, pages, emails, and polls from one prompt in about 10 to 15 minutes, and from Pro the AI Moderator answers attendee questions from the files you upload. EasyCast streams to 10 or more platforms at once, plus any RTMP destination, from Growth. Livestorm's AI is post event, covering AI Studio clip generation, currently waitlisted, plus content repurposing, and its Restreaming is a paid add on.

Build side AI versus post event AI

This is the cleanest difference in the whole comparison. One vendor points AI at the build. The other points it at the recording.

Both are useful. Only one shortens the gap between an idea and a live registration page.

Where the months actually go

Operators say the same thing in different words. It takes months and months to launch one webinar funnel.

The time never sits in the video. It sits in the script, the registration page, the reminder emails, the poll timing, and the follow up copy, which is exactly the sequence mapped out in this webinar funnel breakdown.

The five steps, in order

Here is the sequence to run this week.

1. Write one prompt describing the offer, the audience, and the promise.
2. Ask EasyWebinar to generate the funnel, which returns script, pages, emails, and polls in about 10 to 15 minutes.
3. Edit the script only, because that is where conversion lives.
4. Run it live, twice, and watch where people drop.
5. Automate the version that converted, not the average of both.

Livestorm's path is different by design. You build the event, run it, then use AI Studio to cut clips afterwards, once you are off the waitlist.

How far one session travels

Reach is the second half of speed. Streaming the same session to YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook multiplies the audience without multiplying the work, and on EasyWebinar the timed offers, polls and Q&A keep running for attendees while it streams.

Livestorm sells Restreaming as a separate add on. Every destination included with EasyCast multistreaming is listed on its own page instead.

The Ikea framing

Writing a webinar sounds creative. In practice it is assembly, closer to building Ikea furniture than composing music.

The hook, the pain, the shift, the proof, the offer, and the close are known parts. EasyWebinar's builder was trained on years of webinar funnel data, so it hands you the parts pre cut.

Speed is not permission to skip the sprint

Fast build times invite a bad habit. A funnel generated in 15 minutes is a draft, not a proven asset.

EasyWebinar's own data points toward the live sprint first, though that sample is EasyWebinar's own. Run it live, fix the objections you hear, then automate.

Your Monday action

Pick your best performing offer. Write a single prompt describing it, and generate one funnel.

Book two live sessions this month, not four. Two sessions give you enough objection data to fix the script.

EasyWebinar's AI Webinar Builder produces the script, registration pages, reminder emails, and polls from a single prompt in about 10 to 15 minutes, which is where the months usually go, and it is included on every plan.

Livestorm publishes unlimited team members and moderators, 3,000 live attendees per event, 4 hour events on Pro, and 12 hours on Enterprise, where it adds VIP support, an SLA and a dedicated customer success manager. EasyWebinar publishes up to 4 co-hosts with unlimited team members, 4 hour sessions on Growth, Pro and Scale, 200 to 1,000 live attendees by plan with larger events on Enterprise by quote, and no hard cutoff at the plan limit.

The limits table, side by side

Both vendors publish these numbers. Where Livestorm's is bigger, the table says so.

Large events need an Enterprise conversation on both sides, and the live allowance for each EasyWebinar plan sits on the plans page. Livestorm's FAQ adds one warning worth reading twice: "If you fully reach your quota, new attendees will not be able to join sessions until you upgrade".

What these caps mean in real work

A 4 hour cap is irrelevant for a 60 minute demo. It matters for training days and multi session events.

Seats matter differently. If eight people touch a webinar, both platforms give every one of them a login, so seats do not separate these two.

The failure that actually costs money

Support quality decides whether you catch problems in time. A common near miss has nothing to do with attendee caps.

In one case, a Zapier account hit its plan limit for the number of automations that could fire. The team caught it four hours before the session and found a few hundred opt ins missing from the CRM.

Check the tech before every launch. Reconcile registrations in your CRM against the platform count, every single time, the way this host preparation guide lays out.

What operators say about support

It isn't delightful because Livestorm's support team doesn't always answer my questions or takes days to respond.

I love EasyWebinar's support team; they're responsive and helpful, providing peace of mind when I encounter problems. I do use other email systems to send post-webinar email sequences because I can't track open and click rates on EasyWebinar.

Rakesh was fantastic to work with, he helped set up everything from our email responses to our landing page seamlessly.

When Livestorm is the right buy

Livestorm is the better choice for internal all hands, multi speaker panels, and multi session conferences.

Those events need a big stage, moderators, and duration, not funnel automation. GetApp also lists mobile apps and 24/7 phone support against EasyWebinar's profile, which matters for distributed teams.

EasyWebinar runs 4 hour sessions from Growth, keeps the room open past the plan limit, and offers larger events on Enterprise by quote. Support runs through chat, email, and human onboarding sessions, and reviewers name individual team members by name in EasyWebinar's customer reviews.

Livestorm. It is ISO 27001 certified, offers EU or USA video hosting region selection, and supports SAML single sign on plus security review paperwork. EasyWebinar holds SOC 2 Type II with GDPR-aligned data practices and a published data processing agreement, and does not hold ISO 27001. With an ISO mandate or a strict EU residency requirement, Livestorm is the safer answer.

The concession, made without conditions

This is a straight loss for EasyWebinar. ISO 27001 is an internationally recognised certification for information security management, audited by an external body.

Livestorm holds it. EasyWebinar does not. If your policy names ISO 27001, the decision is already made.

What each vendor publishes

SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are not interchangeable. SOC 2 Type II is an attestation report against the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, tested over a period of time.

ISO 27001 certifies a management system against a standard. Many European procurement teams accept either. Some accept only one, and EasyWebinar's GDPR page states which documents it can produce.

Where the residency question really bites

Data residency means the country where recordings and personal data physically sit. For an EU buyer with a strict mandate, that is not negotiable.

Livestorm sells region selection as a paid add on, which is honest and specific. EasyWebinar publishes no equivalent region control, so buyers should flag that early rather than let procurement discover it in week six.

The four questions to ask before you sign

Send these to both vendors in one email. Written answers protect you later.

1. Which certifications do you currently hold, and what is the report date?
2. Where are recordings and attendee personal data stored?
3. Is a data processing agreement available without a legal escalation?
4. Is single sign on included, or priced as an add on?

EasyWebinar answers the second question with SOC 2 Type II controls and a GDPR aligned DPA, and claims no more than that. The signable version sits at EasyWebinar's data processing addendum.

What EasyWebinar does clear

Most B2B security reviews ask for SOC 2 Type II, a DPA, single sign on, and access controls. EasyWebinar clears that set, with SSO/SAML on Scale and a 99.9% uptime guarantee for Enterprise customers, with service credits.

What it does not clear is an ISO 27001 line item, or a contractual EU only hosting clause. That likely costs EasyWebinar some European enterprise deals until it holds ISO 27001.

EasyWebinar would rather lose a deal than have a legal reviewer catch a claim it cannot support. The same standard applies to the automation and revenue arguments in this guide.

EasyWebinar holds SOC 2 Type II with GDPR-aligned data practices and a published data processing agreement, which clears most B2B security reviews. It does not hold ISO 27001, and buyers with that requirement or a strict EU residency clause should choose Livestorm, a trade worth weighing beside every option on EasyWebinar's all features list.

Livestorm carries roughly 1,700 G2 reviews at 4.4, plus 398 Capterra and GetApp reviews at 4.7 with 385 positive. Its customer list names Equifax, Abbott, Zapier, Intercom, Chargebee, and ElevenLabs. One independent tester sample of 15 reviews averages 2.7, with 27% recommending. EasyWebinar holds 4.5 out of 5 from 100+ G2 reviews, a smaller base that leans heavily on automated and evergreen use.

Start with the number that goes against EasyWebinar

Livestorm wins this section, and by a wide margin. Nearly 1,700 G2 reviews is a decade of accumulated trust.

EasyWebinar's review base is a fraction of that size, at 4.5 out of 5 from 100+ G2 reviews, which is why EasyWebinar's customer reviews page names individual operators instead of leading with a badge.

What reviewers consistently praise

Three themes repeat across Livestorm's reviews. Browser based joining, ease of setup for standard events, and clean analytics.

The engagement tools like chat, polls, and Q&A worked smoothly, which made our sessions more interactive and professional.

Capterra rates its ease of use 4.7 across 398 reviews. That score is not marketing. It is thousands of hours of other people's events.

What reviewers consistently complain about

The complaints cluster just as tightly. G2 groups 21 reviews asking for better email and form customisation, and 13 citing limited design control.

Customisation of interface is a bit basic with too many restrictions on layout.

The sentiment spread nobody publishes

Aggregate ratings hide variance. A 4.4 average and a 2.7 sample can both be true, because they measure different populations.

The 4.4 reflects a broad base of event organisers. The 2.7 sample of 15 reviews skews toward people who hit quota walls or reliability trouble. Read both, then decide which group you resemble.

Why review scores mislead in this specific comparison

Here is the trap. Most Livestorm reviews rate an event product, and you are buying a funnel.

A five star review from a company running quarterly customer webinars tells you almost nothing about evergreen conversion. Ease of use and revenue per registrant are unrelated measurements, which is why webinar platform reviews are best read by workflow rather than by score.

How to read reviews for your own case

Filter by workflow, not by rating. Search reviews for the words "automated," "evergreen," "checkout," and "renewal."

Those four words surface the operators whose job resembles yours. EasyWebinar reviewers use that vocabulary often, which is a signal in itself.

I've been using EasyWebinar to automate my webinars and drive course sales. The integration with my email service provider was seamless, allowing me to automate a follow-up sales sequence once someone watches the webinar.

The biggest challenge is around setting up automated webinars, and needing the presentation uploaded first in order to set it up. Would love to be able to add the video later.

A rule for reading any vendor's numbers

The easiest gains come from adding results to a webinar that already works. A hundred small documented wins beat two spectacular ones.

The same rule applies to ratings. Volume of specific, boring, workflow level detail beats one glowing headline.

EasyWebinar's 4.5 out of 5 on G2 is a useful start, but judge it on the trial rather than the badge. A 7-day free trial with full access runs one real funnel end to end, which tells you more than any star count, and you can start that from sign up free.

Stay on Livestorm for meetings and webinars in one tool, multi speaker panels, internal all hands, multi session conferences, an ISO 27001 requirement, or EU data residency. Choose EasyWebinar if your webinars must generate pipeline continuously, take payment in the room, and keep converting without a presenter: live on every plan, automation, checkout and EasyCRM from Growth, and native HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot (Account Engagement) sync on Pro.

The fork, stated once

Livestorm is the better event product. EasyWebinar is the better funnel product.

Everything in this comparison reduces to that sentence. The rest is paperwork, and the same fork shows up when you compare webinar platforms across the rest of the category.

Who should buy Livestorm, with no hedging

The Livestorm buyer, named clearly:

• You run panels bigger than a host plus 4 presenters, since Livestorm supports 25 speakers.
• Your policy requires ISO 27001 certification.
• You need EU or US hosting region selection for data residency.
• Your webinars are scheduled occasions, not an acquisition channel.
• You want meetings and webinars in one tool.

If three of those apply, buy Livestorm and stop shopping.

Free plan versus full access trial

These two offers test different things. Livestorm's free plan caps sessions at 20 minutes and 30 attendees, which is enough to test the room.

EasyWebinar offers a 7-day free trial with full access instead, including evergreen scheduling and in room checkout. One tests the experience. The other tests the revenue path.

Every inclusion behind the EasyWebinar column sits on the plans page, so check the tier before you commit a quarter of budget.

The Monday action that settles this

You already have the recording. The open question is whether it can run without you.

Take your best converting session from the last quarter. Check its attendee to buyer rate, then rebuild it as an automated webinar, where a recorded session runs on a published schedule with no presenter.

A common mistake

Operators wait for a bigger list before automating anything. That order is backwards.

An automated funnel with no traffic is a billboard in the desert. Webinars grow the audience, so waiting is the actual mistake, and the fixes that move attendance sit in how to drive webinar attendance.

What may change by 2027

EasyWebinar's expectation is that AI built funnels stop being the differentiator within 18 months. Everyone will generate pages and emails from a prompt.

What will separate operators is the source session, the offer, and the honesty of the delivery. EasyWebinar's data already points that way, though that rests on one quarter of funnel results.

That leaves an open question. If the build cost drops to nearly zero, does the winning operator run more webinars, or fewer and better ones?

The answer is not settled yet. Buyers testing either side can bring their numbers to a request demo conversation with EasyWebinar's team.

EasyWebinar's 7-day free trial with full access is enough to run one recorded session as an evergreen funnel, with checkout inside the room. That answers the question that matters here, which is whether your webinars can sell while you sleep, and the all features list shows what runs during those seven days.