Comparison

Gen Con vs Orphea

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Event browsing and searching
  • Ticket purchasing
  • Personal event schedule
  • Friend messaging
  • Interactive convention map
  • Electronic badge scanning
Features
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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

About

Orphea

Track Broadway shows you've seen, compare your favorites with friends, and discover new productions. Play daily word and title games related to musicals.

Highlights
  • Track seen shows and rate them
  • Compare theater tastes with friends
  • Discover upcoming shows
  • Get show recommendations
  • Play daily lyric and title games
  • Earn diary achievements
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Orphea is where you keep every Broadway show you've ever seen. Not just a checklist. A keepsake. Log each show with the date, the theater, your seat, who you were with, the cast you saw, your favorite songs and moments, and a photo, and watch your diary grow into something worth looking back on. KEEP EVERY SHOW Log a show as a stage performance, a film, or a cast recording. Add as many experiences as you want for the shows you've seen more than once. Fill in what you remember, even if it's just the year. RATE AND REVIEW Give every show a star rating and write down what you thought, in a review that's yours to revisit. MAKE IT A KEEPSAKE Save photos from the night, keep a private note just for you, and capture the moment that stayed with you. Your seat, your cast, your memory. COMPARE WITH FRIENDS Add your theater friends, see what they're seeing, and compare your Top 5 all-time favorites. PLAY DAILY GAMES Keep a daily streak going with quick Broadway word games and climb the leaderboard. Browse the show library and play for free, no account needed. Sign in with Apple to save your diary, add friends, and sync across your devices.

Screenshots

Gen Con4 screens
Orphea4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Orphea at 100% against Gen Con's 30%. Orphea also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Gen Con's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 3). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Orphea 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 3, 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 Orphea's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gen Con ships an update fortnightly, Orphea every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Gen Con versus Orphea: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGen ConOrphea
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (41 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews30.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings41 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGen Con, LLC.Emily Yeh

Customer experience

Gen Con

All ratings41 ratings
Positive39.0%
Neutral14.6%
Negative46.3%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive30.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative55.0%

Orphea

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Gen Con

No in-app purchases

None

Orphea

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gen Con free?
Gen Con is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orphea free?
Orphea is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gen Con or Orphea?
Orphea is rated higher. Gen Con averages 3.0 out of 5 from 41 ratings, while Orphea averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Gen Con or Orphea have ads?
Neither Gen Con nor Orphea shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gen Con or Orphea?
Gen Con ships an update fortnightly, and Orphea every 3 days. Most recently, Gen Con was updated on October 14, 2026 and Orphea on October 10, 2026.

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