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“We have seen the pictures of you, Troy, with app developers and people with the Buttigieg campaign, and that’s concerning,” said Holly Brown, a committee member.

Mr. Price insisted he had remained steadfastly neutral in the Democratic race. The Buttigieg campaign paid Shadow Inc. for text messaging software but was not involved in the Iowa caucus app, the campaign told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

There were other sharp moments on the call. “We were told the app would be made available by Jan. 14 or Jan. 17 and on multiple occasions we would test it, make sure it would withstand the volumes, and that didn’t happen,” Ruth Thompson said.

Mr. Geiken, the executive director, said the app had been rolled out as planned to precinct leaders.

“I’m sorry to interrupt — I was a precinct chair and the app wasn’t made available to me,” Ms. Thompson replied.

As he has said publicly, Mr. Price repeated that Monday night’s problems began when a coding error was discovered in a back-end computer that received the results sent in by volunteer leaders of each caucus via the app.

“We moved to Plan B, which was to ask precinct captains to call us with their results,” he said.

After the phone lines became swamped, with some precinct leaders giving up and going to bed without reporting results, the party moved essentially to Plan C, a manual examination of the worksheets from each caucus.