Gen Con vs Hedron App
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
Hedron App
This app serves as a virtual tabletop for tabletop roleplaying games, allowing users to design systems, build worlds, and play with their groups. It offers features for in-session communication, 3D dice rolling, character management, and game mastering tools.
- Shared campaign log
- 3D dice rolling with detailed results
- Character sheet management
- Game mastering tools
- Find and join public/private games
- Push notifications for game events
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Hedron is the indie gamer's virtual tabletop — a home for the roleplaying games that never came in a box. Design your own systems, build your own worlds, and play them with your table. Hedron Companion is the part you bring to the session: everything you and your group have made, in your pocket, ready to play. AT THE TABLE Your campaign lives in a shared log that everyone sees as it happens. Post in character, mark a moment with a tone or a story marker, drop in an image, or put a stat block in front of the whole party. Messages take formatting, and your own can be edited or deleted with a long press. ROLL IN 3D Dice roll in real 3D on your screen. Tap any result to see exactly how it was worked out -- every modifier, bonus and source, laid out step by step. No more re-adding it by hand to settle an argument. YOUR CHARACTERS Build a character from scratch, or start from a prebuilt and make it yours. Level up as you play. Your sheet, inventory, spells, feats, heritage and macros all travel with you and stay a tap away during a session. RUN YOUR GAME Game Masters get real tools on a phone: edit campaign settings, manage the party, set character levels, invite players, and keep campaign arcs and in-world calendars moving as the story does. FIND A TABLE Browse public campaigns and characters from the community, or join a private game with a code from your GM. STAY IN THE LOOP Push notifications when it is your turn or your campaign moves. Light and dark themes. Everything stays in step with the Hedron platform, so what you build on the web is waiting for you on your phone. Hedron is free, community-fueled, and always fill be -- every feature in it is available to every player and gamemaster at no cost.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hedron App at 100% against Gen Con's 30%. Hedron App also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). Gen Con's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Hedron App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gen Con has 41 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Gen Con's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hedron App's.
| Parameter | Gen Con | Hedron App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gen Con, LLC. | Varun Singh |
Customer experience
Gen Con
Hedron App
In-app purchases
Gen Con
No in-app purchases
Hedron App
No in-app purchases









