GDC Festival User Reviews

GDC Festival
GDC Festival
Informa Tech Holdings, LLC

Customer Experience

Positive experience28.0% of reviews
Neutral12.0% of reviews
Negative experience60.0% of reviews

~ Based on 25 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is GDC Festival Safe?

GDC Festival appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for GDC Festival is 74/100.

This assessment is based on 61 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.8/5.

Safety Analysis

66.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
30.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 60 App Store ratings for GDC Festival.

Is GDC Festival Legit?

GDC Festival appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for GDC Festival is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Terrible app bad Ui

This app is a dumpster fire, it’s impossible to search for anything, the Home Screen is a faq page with no options, and nothing works as intended. Viewing schedule kind of works so I give 2/5 Star

Over designed and under functional

Let’s start with where are some brand graphics for attendees social media? That should be front and center, easy to use portrait graphics for attendees to drop their headshots or logos on that they can use on their socials to announce their attendance. Too many talks are over capacity, seems like they didn’t plan well enough.
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App is sharing personal private information

The app is sharing personal information to anyone you connect to with no way to prevent this since after you edit it, it then syncs with a server and reverts changes

Hard to use effectively

Very clunky and hard to find things.
Also highly annoying that they don’t allow you to view your own schedule per-day. The only way you can view your calendar is the entire thing , and you have to scroll way,way down to look at anything later in the week

Perfection

Always my go-to for scheduling which talks and events I’m going to attend! Super simple to use, navigate, and connect with every single year. Highly recommend!

Nothing works

Month out from the conference and I can’t see the sessions make a schedule or message people.

Failure to update

I am so happy there is an app, finding my way around as a first time GDC attendee was significantly improved with the app. That said, I kept getting my first day of “my events” and not “latest” or even “current time” events. I understand
in the “build my” why you move to the next hour, when “my events” is stuck on Tuesday though the “build my” is the easier menu to see relevant events I might want to join, easily. The SxSW app was better, and it also had issues.

I realize that “when” it “where” of events is not something that is well known as early as badge purchase, letting me know though that the sessions I wanted to attend were in core, and not available on expo at the time I pre-registered, or even that there was an upgrade option until Friday was a failure in communication to customers. I was informed I could purchase individual sessions when I realized I wanted to go to core, not until Friday though did any of the orange shirts inform me I could update from expo to core. Best would be to see examples of class structures when I pre-order my badge, better would be class descriptions that are known, even if times or rooms or both are unknown. I would give the expo badge and selling me a product a 2 star, the review is of the app though, and it qualifies for 4 stars.
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Basic functionality not done well

Needs usability tuning on iOS. Agenda view is very poor. Can’t filter, hide past sessions etc.

Real basic stuff to get wrong

Non functioning

As of today completely non functional. Hopefully they will get it up & running?

cant even see agenda

poor app has nothing to do

No dark mode, but the app works

^^^^^^

No font size confit

Young programmers and UIX people under 40 don’t get that the font size must be customizable. Learn from Apple and Google. Don’t ignore system font size settings.

Poor app

Use the M2M instead

Lacking many features

Why no ability to bookmark sessions?

Very useful

Just would like to see more atendees and expositors use it fully.

Garbage

Keeps logging me out. Back buttons take you to tops of long lists. Won’t clear my notifications. Filters logged me out. Has no facial recognition for logging in. Puts up an ad every time I do log in, can’t seem to close it manually.

Technically functional

The app does an ok job displaying the full schedule and creating a personal schedule.

There are two main reasons for my 2 stars:
1) The app drains battery ridiculously fast. I have a brand new battery in my phone, and 20-30 minutes of looking through the schedule to plan my day took 25% of my battery. The battery usage data on the phone says that it used 45% of the charge and was open for 47 minutes total today.
2) The app forces a popup ad every single time the app is opened. Due to the battery issues, I closed the app a lot and it is very annoying to have a forced ad when I just want to check my schedule.
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Hard to filter My schedule

Can’t locate current happening sessions in My schedule

Data confidentiality

Cannot seem to remove my email/phone number from my profile. Have notifications I cannot clear.

Otherwise seems ok.

New to GDC

Very impressed by the app and how accessible everything is. I just wish there was more of me to see it all!