Gen Con vs Shadowrun Dice Roller
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gen Con
Navigate and enhance your convention experience with this official guide. Discover events, manage your schedule, connect with friends, and utilize an interactive map to explore the venue. Event hosts can also use it for electronic badge scanning.
- Event browsing and searching
- Ticket purchasing
- Personal event schedule
- Friend messaging
- Interactive convention map
- Electronic badge scanning
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Make the most of your Gen Con experience with the Official Gen Con Mobile App: your handy electronic guide to The Best Four Days in Gaming. Browse and search for events, purchase tickets, view your event schedule, message with your friends, find your way with the interactive convention map, learn about what's happening at the convention, and more! Event hosts will also use this tool to scan badges for events using electronic ticketing. We're releasing new versions with added features and fixes often, so please keep your app up to date! Report issues or give us feedback through our Technical Support forum at gencon.com/forums
Shadowrun Dice Roller
This app provides a stylish way to roll D6 dice for tabletop games, featuring themed dice with unique animations and sounds. It automatically calculates hits, glitches, and initiative pips, supporting dice pools up to 40. Unlock additional dice and artwork through in-app purchases.
- Themed dice with unique animations and sounds
- Automatic calculation of hits, glitches, and initiative
- Supports dice pools from 1 to 40
- Roll by touch or shake
- Unlockable dice and artwork
- Works with any D6-based game
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Keep Shadowrun action moving with cyberpunk style! Whether you’re calculating your dice pools on the fly or using some of your most common rolls, the app features themed dice with individual animations and sounds to make your dice easy to roll and easy to count. Features include: --Specially designed dice with Shadowrun themes, each with unique animations and sounds. --Street samurai dice included, with a sample die of each of the other types included, namely: mage die, adept die, decker die, face die, rigger die, and shaman die. Once you try them all out, you can purchase more of your favorites. --Automatic calculation of hits and glitches, while also tallying the total pips rolled for initiative purposes. --Dice pools as small as 1, as large as 40. --Roll by touching the screen—or by shaking your device. --When you buy dice beyond the free sample die, you get an accompanying piece of Shadowrun art that can be used as an app backdrop. Works with any edition of Shadowrun—or any game that includes rolling D6s. Keep the action moving and the dice rolling. And never again worry about whether your hands can hold all the dice you’re going to roll!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shadowrun Dice Roller at 3.9 against Gen Con's 3.0. Shadowrun Dice Roller also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 30%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.5). Gen Con's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 21 months). On price, ads 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. Shadowrun Dice Roller sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Gen Con asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shadowrun Dice Roller holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 41 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Gen Con's written reviews are positive against 43% of Shadowrun Dice Roller's.
Gen Con ships an update fortnightly, Shadowrun Dice Roller every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and June 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gen Con | Shadowrun Dice Roller |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (41 ratings) | 3.9 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gen Con, LLC. | Catalyst Game Labs |
Customer experience
Gen Con
Shadowrun Dice Roller
In-app purchases
Gen Con
No in-app purchases
Shadowrun Dice Roller
- Mage Bundle$1.99
- Adept Bundle$1.99
- Decker Bundle$1.99
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- Face Bundle$1.99
- Rigger Bundle$1.99
- Samurai Bundle$1.99
- Shaman Bundle$1.99
- Set 1 Bundle$9.99
Questions
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