LiveJudge - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

LiveJudge is mobile scoring, judging and fan-voting software for live events. It replaces paper scoresheets and spreadsheets with a rubric you define yourself, scored from the phones people already have in their pockets.

The rubric is yours. Build classes, the elements inside each class, the weight of every element, and score increments of 0.5, 0.25 or 0.1. One element can split into as many criteria as it deserves, so a single Technique score becomes precision, flair and crispness, each with its own slider and its own guidance. LiveJudge honors the rubric you already use instead of bending your event to fit a template.

The judge's seat

Judges score on color-graded sliders whose guidance rewrites itself as the score moves, so a 7 means the same thing to every judge in the room. Heads-Up Mode swaps the sliders for tap buttons or deduction blocks when a judge cannot look down, which matters when a performance is in front of them. Sign-in is by text message code: nothing to install, nothing to update, no password to reset on event day.

Results that survive scrutiny

Choose from four normalization methods, raw average, high/low drop, Z-score and Olympic-Z, so a strict panel and a lenient one carry equal weight. Raw marks stay available underneath, ties are detected automatically, and every result carries a full audit trail and a spreadsheet export. Every entrant gets an official score report showing each judge's marks per round and per element with the weight beside each.

The room

Your event gets a branded page and a scannable code. Spectators browse every contestant, profile and document on their own devices, follow live standings if you choose to show them, and vote on ballots you open and close on your schedule. Set vote limits, geo-fence voting to a radius as tight as a quarter mile, add a sponsor to a ballot, and blend the audience result with the judges' at a weighting you set.

Running the event

Build a judge roster once and assign it across every class. Decide what finished means, every assigned judge or any two of six, and see exactly which entrants are still short. Run as many rounds as your format needs with automatic advancement, print scannable entry tags, and message judges and contestants by text.

Used for pitch competitions, science fairs and academic judging, car, motorcycle and radio-control shows, dance, cheer, pageants, talent and gymnastics, cook-offs, hackathons and speech contests.