Gen Con vs NexTurn
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
NexTurn
Enhance your board game nights with this app that manages turns, timers, and scoring. It offers guided setups and smart scorepads, allowing players to focus on the game. It supports wireless light devices or can be used with phones as individual devices.
- Turn tracking and per-player timers
- Wireless light device integration
- Phone as a device option
- Community-driven game content
- Smart scorepads with automatic totaling
- Session history and stats
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NexTurn is the companion that will elevate game night. Whether you’re teaching a new game or racing the clock, NexTurn keeps the table moving — it tracks whose turn it is, runs the timers, walks you through setup, and keeps score, so you can focus on playing instead of refereeing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NexTurn at 100% against Gen Con's 30%. NexTurn also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Gen Con's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (41 vs 4). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. NexTurn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gen Con asks for nothing beyond the download.
NexTurn 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 4, 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 NexTurn's.
Gen Con ships an update fortnightly, NexTurn every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gen Con | NexTurn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gen Con, LLC. | Drop the Dice LLC |
Customer experience
Gen Con
NexTurn
In-app purchases
Gen Con
No in-app purchases
NexTurn
- NexTurn Pro$9.99
