jotcast Review, Pricing & Features

See JotCast's moderated live chat features, pricing from free to $999/mo, and whether it fits your event or webinar platform.

Category
Live Chat
Pricing
Custom / Contact sales, from $49 / mo
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Last updated
August 7, 2026
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JotCast is a chat moderation platform built for organizations that need to host large-scale, moderated live conversations. Instead of an open free-for-all chat, JotCast requires moderator approval before any message appears publicly, giving hosts control over tone and content during live events, webinars, sports broadcasts, university programming, and corporate town halls. The platform supports multiple simultaneous moderators, private one-on-one messaging between moderators and attendees, password-protected and encrypted chats, polls and quizzes, emoji reactions, a 'peanut gallery' comment feature, and post-event discussion boards. Hosts can customize chat themes and branding without code, embed YouTube and other video sources for paired-viewing experiences, and track engagement with real-time analytics. JotCast says it has been in operation for over a decade and lists case studies including the Wildlife Center of Virginia, Notre Dame, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Key Features

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Every message requires moderator approval, giving hosts full control over what goes public
  • Supports multiple simultaneous moderators for large audiences
  • Free Basic plan available to get started before upgrading
  • Interactive features like polls, quizzes, emoji reactions, and discussion boards
  • No-code theme and branding customization
  • Real-time analytics on audience engagement

Cons

  • Paid plans price by reader-minutes and concurrent readers, which can get costly at scale
  • No public numeric pricing for Enterprise beyond the calculator/contact-sales model
  • Branded advertisements appear on lower-tier plans unless white-labeled for an extra fee
  • Limited to 12 supported languages

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