Emerald City Comic Con vs LightBox Expo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emerald City Comic Con
Navigate your experience at Emerald City Comic Con with this official digital guide. Access schedules, guest lists, exhibitor details, and event information all in one place. Stay updated with the latest news and announcements to ensure you don't miss any highlights.
- Panel schedules
- Guest and creator lists
- Exhibitor directory
- Show features
- Event notifications
- Latest news updates
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The Emerald City Comic Con Mobile App is your digital guide to everything ECCC! It's chock full of panel schedules, guests, comic creators, exhibitors, Show Features, and everything else ECCC has to offer. You will also receive notifications for the latest news, guest announcements, exhibitor info and special events so you don’t miss a thing! Download the Official ECCC App now and have all of the information you need for this show at your fingertips.
LightBox Expo
This app connects artists in the entertainment industry, offering a mobile guide to events, exhibitors, and programming. Plan your weekend, navigate the venue with maps, and discover your favorite creators. It aims to inspire and elevate artistic careers.
- Exhibitor and Artist Alley list
- Schedule planning for panels and demos
- Favorite programming and events
- Venue navigation with maps
- Event discovery and planning tool
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LightBox Expo (LBX) is the Annie Award-winning gathering of artists who work in the entertainment industry bringing your favorite films, animation, games, TV shows and illustrations to life. At LBX, we aim to ignite your passion, fuel your imagination, and propel you to new artistic heights! LBX provides a vibrant space for artists to congregate, meet and celebrate their craft with fellow creatives. It’s a place for artists to share their work with the public, further their skills in their respective industries, and make meaningful connections that will help artists thrive in the entertainment industry. The LBX mobile app provides you with the Exhibitor and Artist Alley list, allows you to start planning your weekend by adding Panels, Demos and Programming to your schedule (and favorite everything you want to see), you can use the maps to navigate around the show, and much more! LightBox Expo takes place every October at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LightBox Expo at 4.3 against Emerald City Comic Con's 2.8. LightBox Expo also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Emerald City Comic Con's advantage is review sentiment (34% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 12 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LightBox Expo holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 72 and 22 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 34% of Emerald City Comic Con's written reviews are positive against 0% of LightBox Expo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Emerald City Comic Con ships an update every 5 months, LightBox Expo every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Emerald City Comic Con | LightBox Expo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (72 ratings) | 4.3 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 72 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Reed Elsevier Inc. | LightBox Expo LLC |
Customer experience
Emerald City Comic Con
LightBox Expo
In-app purchases
Emerald City Comic Con
No in-app purchases
LightBox Expo
No in-app purchases
Questions
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