Gen Con vs PAX Nav
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
PAX Nav
Access the full schedule, exhibitor lists, and maps for official PAX events. Discover show specials and engage with PAX XP features.
- Full event schedule
- Exhibitor lists
- Interactive maps
- Show specials
- PAX XP access
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The official app of PAX West, PAX East, and PAX Unplugged. This app gives you access to the full schedule, exhibitor lists, maps, show specials, access into PAX XP, and much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gen Con at fortnightly against PAX Nav's every 4 months. Gen Con also leads on review sentiment (30% vs 15%) and rating (3.0 vs 2.8). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Gen Con holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 41 and 62 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Gen Con's written reviews are positive against 15% of PAX Nav's.
Gen Con ships an update fortnightly, PAX Nav every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gen Con | PAX Nav |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (41 ratings) — better | 2.8 (62 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews — better | 15.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 41 | 62 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Gen Con, LLC. | Reed Elsevier Inc. |
Customer experience
Gen Con
PAX Nav
In-app purchases
Gen Con
No in-app purchases
PAX Nav
No in-app purchases
