IDS Cologne vs IDEX Egypt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IDS Cologne
This event guide helps attendees navigate a major dental industry trade show. It provides exhibitor and product directories, a floor plan, and program information. Users can plan their visits, network with other attendees, and schedule meetings.
- Exhibitor and product directory
- Interactive floor plan
- Event program information
- Visit planning with favorites and notes
- Networking suggestions and profile management
- Meeting scheduling
- Real-time notifications for program changes
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The Mobile Guide for IDS is the interactive event guide for the event from 25.03. – 29.03.2025. Forward-looking innovations, countless new products, exciting live demonstrations and practical hands-on - the unique show for the entire dental industry presents the most important concepts and technologies for the practices and laboratories of today and tomorrow. EXHIBITOR | PRODUCTS | INFORMATIONS The app offers a detailed exhibitor and product directory as well as a floor plan with all exhibitors' stands. Find information about the program or for arrival and departure, as well as accommodation in Cologne. PLAN YOU VISIT Find exhibitors by name, country and product groups and plan your visits with favourites, contacts, appointments and notes. Get information about the program. Keep track of interesting program dates with favourites to program dates. NOTIFICATIONS Get notification for short-term program changes and other short-term organizational changes directly to your device. NETWORKING Get relevant networking suggestions based on your interests maintained in your profile and easily explore, expand and interact with your business network. To complete your profile you can upload an image as your profile picture. If you don’t want to be a participant anymore you can delete your profile via the deletion function in your profile editing page. MEETING-SCHEDULE Schedule meetings with other networking participants to get together on site. DATA PROTECTION The Mobile Guide requires appropriate permissions for "Add to address book" and "Add to Calendar" and will ask for that first time you use these functions. Contact data and appointments are stored at any time only local on your device. HELP & SUPPORT Send email for support to ids@visitor.koelnmesse.de IMPORTANT NOTICE BEFORE INSTALLATION After installation the app will once download compressed data for exhibitors, extract and import them. Please make sure you have an adequate Internet connection and have some patience during this first import. This procedure can take up to one minute for the first time and should not be interrupted.
IDEX Egypt
This application serves as a digital platform for a major international dental expo and congress. It allows attendees to register for the event and workshops, access scientific data, and explore exhibition details, streamlining the overall experience.
- Event registration
- Workshop registration
- Scientific data access
- Exhibition details
- Streamlined attendee experience
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IDEX is the largest international dental expo & clinical congress in the middle east. Thousands of dentists, professors, technicians, students and international dentists meet to share scientific knowledge, skills, latest technologies & research together. We are proud to announce the ignition of our application. Now you can register in the congress, register in the desired workshop, know all our scientific data & exhibition details through the app. This will make registration, exploration and attending the IDEX an even easier process.
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Verdict
IDS Cologne and IDEX Egypt both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of IDEX Egypt's written reviews are positive against 0% of IDS Cologne's. IDEX Egypt also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). IDS Cologne's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for IDS Cologne against 5.0 for IDEX Egypt. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IDEX Egypt has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of IDS Cologne's written reviews are positive against 100% of IDEX Egypt's.
IDS Cologne ships an update monthly, IDEX Egypt every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IDS Cologne | IDEX Egypt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Koelnmesse GmbH | EVENTOVA FOR EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCES PLANNING |
Customer experience
IDS Cologne
IDEX Egypt
In-app purchases
IDS Cologne
No in-app purchases
IDEX Egypt
No in-app purchases
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