Gen Con vs Tabletop Lynk
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
Tabletop Lynk
This app connects tabletop role-playing game masters and players to find or fill game sessions. It facilitates finding new systems, organizing groups for online or in-person play, and managing game schedules.
- Find open tabletop RPG games
- Post and manage your own game sessions
- Filter games by system, schedule, and play style
- Request seats in games or review player requests
- Supports popular systems like D&D 5e and Pathfinder 2e
- Built for tabletop organization, not just chat
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Find your next tabletop RPG game. Tabletop Lynk connects game masters and players so you can find a table, try a new system, or fill the seats in the game you are running. Online or in person. FOR PLAYERS Browse open games and request a seat in the ones that fit. Filter by system, schedule, and play style. Try systems your home group would never pick, and post what you are looking for so game masters can find you. FOR GAME MASTERS Post the session you are running with the system, schedule, and number of open seats. Review requests and choose your party. When someone moves on, refill the seat without starting over. HOW IT WORKS 1. Post a game, or browse the ones already running. 2. Request a seat, or review the players asking to join yours. 3. Meet your party in a shared space to sort out schedules and session zero. 4. Log the session when you are done and keep the game on the calendar. BUILT FOR TABLES, NOT THREADS Group chats go quiet and forum posts go unanswered. Tabletop Lynk is built for one thing: getting a game together and keeping it going. Listings, requests, parties, and sessions, in the shape that tabletop actually works. A COMMUNITY WITH RULES Clear community guidelines, reporting and blocking built in, and an 18 and older minimum. We do not screen or background check members, so use good judgment, meet in public places, and tell someone where you are going. SUPPORTED SYSTEMS D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, Call of Cthulhu, Daggerheart, and more. Tabletop Lynk is free to use. Terms of Service: https://tabletoplynk.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://tabletoplynk.com/privacy Community Guidelines: https://tabletoplynk.com/guidelines
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tabletop Lynk at 5.0 against Gen Con's 3.0. Gen Con's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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.
Tabletop Lynk 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Gen Con ships an update fortnightly, Tabletop Lynk every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gen Con | Tabletop Lynk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| 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 | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Gen Con, LLC. | Philip Felice |
Customer experience
Gen Con
Tabletop Lynk
In-app purchases
Gen Con
No in-app purchases
Tabletop Lynk
No in-app purchases
