10 Best Webinar Software Of 2025

Zoom Webinars, like Zoom Meetings, are easy to set up and intuitive to use during meetings. The low-tier Zoom Webinars plan is one of the more cost-effective options for simple webinars. It includes all the engagement tools I look for when testing webinar software: whiteboards for drawing, breakout rooms to encourage face-to-face discussion, polls to gather data and quizzes to see what each participant has retained. Low-tier plans even include custom registration forms, automated emails and reminders and the ability to get paid through PayPal.

The webinar software’s capacity is also incomparable. While many alternatives cap webinars at 1,000, Zoom can host 10,000-plus participants. This is why I consider it an unparalleled option for companies seeking to host massive audiences. Zoom also offers higher-tier plans for multi-session events and a lobby for attendees to hang out and network.

Zoom is a well-rounded choice for most webinar use cases, whether you’re looking for something simple or hosting a large audience.

The Zoom Webinars meeting display is easy to use and familiar, much like Zoom’s video meetings.

While setting up webinars with other platforms sometimes felt tedious and time-consuming, it was a breeze with Zoom. I enjoyed navigating the modern-feeling website. During events, Zoom displayed all of the main controls at the bottom of the screen for easy access. It felt like a slightly more collaborative, one-sided version of Zoom Meetings.

Zoom Webinars’ setup dashboard is spacious and pleasant, guiding you through event creation.

Zoho Meeting webinars offer a great combination of simplicity and strong features. I noticed it lacks some of Zoom’s collaboration tools—like quizzes and breakout rooms—but still includes live polls, Q&As and virtual backgrounds. I enjoyed that it let me create custom registration forms and track the page or email that users join from, which helps evaluate marketing channels.

While nearly all competitors place a cap on webinar time limits, Zoho has no time limit. This means you can run multiple webinars for an unlimited period. You can also leave or exit webinars and return to them later, enabling you to host multiple sessions with the same join link.

Zoho also has the best pricing of any platform on our list. You can customize pricing by the number of attendees you expect, with greater flexibility and lower costs than any other provider. It’s a good option for companies prioritizing price, who don’t need to collect payment for webinars and don’t mind middle-of-the-road interactive features.

Zoho’s webinars have simple, easy-to-use features like polls.

While setting up a Zoho meeting felt a bit drawn out, the step-by-step process made it easy and ensured I didn’t miss any steps: setting up emails, registration forms, co-organizers, etc. During events, it was easy to use the polls, chat and Q&A features, although the live webinar display felt outdated compared to Zoom and some other alternatives.

Due to its lack of advanced features, Zoho Webinar’s event setup process is quick and easy.

While costlier than average, ClickMeeting is a comprehensive webinar platform with solid features for attendee engagement, marketing, automated communication and event promotion. It enabled me to create custom landing pages and registration processes, and ClickMeeting also made it easy for me to share and promote my events on social media.

ClickMeeting makes meetings more official with advanced features like ticketing and certificates of attendance, which you can automatically trigger to send to attendees afterward. It also has sophisticated features for paid events. All paid ClickMeeting plans let you accept payment through Stripe or PayPal—many alternative providers only offer one or the other. You can provide customers with discount codes or accept donations in the middle of an event.

It is worth the relatively high cost if you’re concerned about marketing webinars, if you want them to feel official for attendees or if you plan to charge for them.

Learn more: Read our full ClickMeeting review.

ClickMeeting’s host tools let you chat, share your screen and deliver handouts during webinars.

While the design of ClickMeeting’s website felt outdated and the setup process felt long, the process of creating the webinar was extensive. I liked that it gave me the option to use marketing and promotional tools or skip them. I could see ClickMeeting working well for both small, casual meetings as well as large, formal meetings requiring more planning and marketing.

ClickMeeting’s setup process guides you through the steps for registration and marketing automations.

Beyond its solid interactive tools, BigMarker’s webinars include many customizable features for marketing and promotion. You can customize the design and content for multiple email types, including invitations, sign-up confirmations, pre-event reminders, follow-ups and post-event surveys.

As you move into the higher tiers, you can customize more aspects of your webinar. While many alternatives offer a stock landing page design, I was impressed that BigMarker gives you 15 templates or a ground-up design tool to create your landing pages from scratch. You can also embed registration links—or your webinar itself—into your website, which is helpful if you already have traffic on certain pages.

While BigMarker’s low-tier plan includes solid options for emails, registration and in-event pop-up offers, most of the standout features come with the higher-tier plans. But if you want complete customization for webinar landing pages and attendee registration, it’s worth going for one of these higher-tier plans.

BigMarker webinars have a modern-feeling host panel, with easy access to tools like music, chat and attendee management.

BigMarker had a ton of available tools during setup and in the meetings. The setup menu let me customize everything, starting with the design of landing pages, emails and the webinar itself. I could customize which options I wanted to provide attendees regarding ticketing and price, dial-in and conference calling options and Q&A capabilities. BigMarker might be too much if you’re looking for simple, easy-to-use webinars. But it’s a good choice if you want control over every aspect of your webinar.

BigMarker’s setup menus walk you step-by-step through webinar design, email automations and chat settings.

Livestorm is a webinar platform with a comfortable, modern dashboard that allows you to customize virtually every aspect of your webinar. Many alternative platforms give you preset designs for emails, registration forms, session branding and the webinar room itself. But I was excited to see that Livestorm’s dashboard lets you customize these from scratch. Most notably, you can choose what the room display looks like for the host and attendees: which engagement tools display on-screen in the left-hand menu and where they go.

It also offers unique webinar restream capabilities that allow people to watch the webinar—or particular parts—afterward if they missed it. While most alternatives only let you stream to one platform at a time, Livestorm’s restreaming add-on lets you stream live to multiple platforms at once, including YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter). This can help you use social media to reach a wider audience that goes beyond your attendee limit.

Livestorm offers free webinars with an ultra-low 20-minute time limit, which is a good option to test out the setup dashboard and see if you like it. The paid plans are significantly pricier than options like Zoom or Zoho, so I’d only recommend it if you plan to take advantage of the option to stream to multiple platforms simultaneously.

Livestorm webinars let you share screens, create polls and stream live to multiple channels at once.

My favorite part about Livestorm was its setup dashboard. It felt modern and easily navigable, with tabs for all the customizable marketing and display options. Livestorm’s contact cards also made it easier for me to drill into particular attendees’ or leads’ information. The in-meeting display was fine and user-friendly but felt pretty standard.

The Livestorm setup menu provides excellent control over your webinar room layout and the tools your attendees can access.

I found Webex’s webinar platform to be one of the simpler options, with basic registration forms, landing pages and automated emails. This simplicity makes it user-friendly and a great choice for companies mainly concerned with attendee engagement rather than marketing.

All Webex plans automatically include Slido, a presentation tool for engaging polls and surveys. I enjoyed how Slido lets you poll your webinar audience in multiple formats—including multiple choice, word clouds, open text, rankings, ratings, surveys and quizzes. You can view poll results live, with the option to display them publicly. I found the polls a great way to get the audience involved, making the webinars more entertaining. They can also elicit feedback, gather data about your attendees and help you make informed business decisions.

The current price is $68.75 for 1,000 attendees, which is an excellent deal. If you’re okay with basic registration and marketing tools and are more concerned with engaging your audience using polls, I’d recommend Webex as a great value.

Webex webinars have an engaging display with easy viewing of all attendees and their live reactions during the meeting.

I liked the simplicity of using Webex Webinars. The setup process, and the webinar itself, felt more like video conferencing software than most other webinar platforms because I didn’t have to deal with so many settings. While hosting live events, it didn’t feel challenging to create and manage polls, even with a live audience present.

Webex lets you choose from multiple poll styles, including word cloud, ranking, open text and multiple choice.

GoTo Webinar offers a good balance of simplicity and customization. It lacks the comprehensive marketing and promotional tools offered by ClickMeeting, Livestorm and BigMarker, but I still appreciated GoTo’s customizable features. You can design registration pages and email campaigns to attract and source leads and use Stripe to charge attendees for paid events.

During events, GoTo offers an above-average breadth of collaboration tools—not just polls, handouts and Q&As, but breakout rooms and live captions. Post-meeting, AI generates an automatic summary with highlights and key action items from the event. I found GoTo was the only platform that lets you edit and trim your meeting recordings, making it easy to share them on your GoTo page, website, social media platform or YouTube.

While the Lite plan starts at $59 monthly per user, it lacks most of the features that make GoTo Webinar special and is of lesser value than alternatives like Webex, Zoom and Zoho. GoTo’s Pro plan has the most unique offerings, but at $249 monthly per host for 1,000 attendees, I’d only suggest it if you plan to utilize the video editing and sharing tools.

Learn more: Read our full GoTo Webinar review.

GoTo Webinar lets you manage your event and live stream simultaneously.

GoTo Webinar’s setup menu and in-meeting controls were user-friendly but felt a little basic and plain. Setting up webinars, landing pages and emails was quick because there wasn’t much to customize—just the preset design that GoTo provided me with. I found the video editing tool highly intuitive, with easy options for trimming sections, viewing the transcript and sharing the recording on my webinar page.

GoTo Webinar’s video editing tool makes it easy to trim and share recordings of your virtual events.

Demio is a modern-feeling webinar platform with a solid blend of in-meeting engagement features, AI-based assistance and event analytics to help you drive engagement and gather feedback to improve your audience’s experience.

Demio’s AI Assistant stood out especially to me since it helps you moderate webinars during and after the event. The chat moderator responds to participant questions in real time, providing information, explaining topics and giving context for what you’re talking about. You can customize your AI moderator’s name, avatar and responsibilities. It also identifies the trends, topics and questions that are most popular among participants, bringing these items to your attention so it’s easier for you to keep a pulse on what your attendees are thinking.

I found that Demio’s engagement analytics provide unique feedback beyond that of other providers. The software tracks not only attendance but participant engagement and focus time during webinars, providing averages and graphs that display how attentive participants were at each point during the meeting. This feedback can help you learn what presentation strategies keep your audience hooked.

Starting at $63 monthly for 50 attendees, Demio is one of the more expensive systems on our list. If you just want simple attendee engagement, go with something cheaper like Zoom, Zoho or Webex. But if you host a lot of webinars with large audiences and want to improve your performance, Demio may be worth the cost.

Demio’s AI Assistant tool can answer audience questions during the event, taking pressure off the host.

As expected, the main thing that stood out to me when using Demio was the analytics. The analytics dashboards displayed visually appealing graphs with multiple layers of insights. I could track registration trends over time and in-meeting audience engagement by the minute. The entire dashboard felt bright and modern, making some alternatives seem outdated and bland. Demio’s meeting window also felt modern and pleasant.

Demio’s analytics provide minute-by-minute recaps of attendee engagement during your webinars.

WebinarJam is a balanced webinar platform that impressed me with its HD video clarity. The software enables you to market your webinars with automated email and SMS messages, which many providers don’t support. You can create a registration page using its point-and-click templates, with unlimited hosting in each plan. I appreciated the A/B testing functionality, which lets you compare different registration pages, helping you choose which design is more effective for attracting participants.

WebinarJam also includes several unique features that improve your meeting planning and live engagement. The AI-powered agenda assistant helps you create agendas based on your meeting length and topic. Hosts can display and edit this agenda on-screen during the meeting, with the option to hide or display it for attendees. Meetings have the typical interactive tools—polls, handouts, hand raising and chat—but add advanced options like clickable promotions and drawing tools to mark up presentations.

Starting at $49 monthly, WebinarJam is one of the more cost-effective options. It’s a good choice if you frequently utilize agendas in your webinars or want to A/B test registration pages.

WebinarJam’s AI Agenda Planner helps you create an automated agenda based on topic, meeting duration and other parameters you set.

I was impressed by the clarity of WebinarJam’s HD video. At first, I felt disoriented because its menu options were on the right-hand side rather than the bottom, but I quickly got used to it and it became easy to manage. My favorite in-meeting tools were the presentation drawings and the agents. I liked that I could privately see and edit my agenda and notes for the presentation without looking at another screen or tab.

WebinarJam’s agenda tool lets the host view and edit the agenda during the event.

GetResponse is a marketing software that includes not only webinars but tools for email automations, lead segmentation, e-commerce capabilities and a website builder. While the alternatives on our list focus exclusively on webinars, I was impressed by GetResponse’s wider breadth of capabilities to help you attract leads and new customers.

You can use GetResponse to build and host an entire website for your company, with landing pages, registration pages, sales pages with product inventories and sign-up forms. The email automations have unique capabilities I haven’t seen anywhere else, such as letting you create a routine newsletter, send welcome and birthday emails and trigger drip campaigns.

GetResponse integrates webinars into these marketing tools, embedding sign-up forms and registration into emails and your website. You can promote your webinar using GetResponse’s email tools and promote products during your webinar. Meanwhile, you gain analytics about email campaign success and your new leads.

Starting at $69 monthly for 100 attendees, GetResponse is a bit pricier than other platforms. However, if you want a complete marketing solution beyond webinars, GetResponse is a solid value.

Learn more: Read our full GetResponse review.

GetResponse offers detailed email analytics that track delivery rate and open rate.

When using GetResponse, I was overwhelmed by how many features the software included beyond webinars. It would take weeks to get the hang of everything, such as the website building and email marketing tools. These features made it difficult to navigate the website and figure out how to set up my webinars. Once I started a webinar, I was slightly disappointed to find that GetResponse’s webinar functionality only supports basic live-engagement features: chat and screen sharing.

If you’re looking for engaging webinars and don’t need a complete marketing platform, GetResponse may be too much of an all-in-one solution.

GetResponse’s live webinar display is professional but lacks engaging features like polls.