DreamHack vs PAX Aus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DreamHack
Navigate events with a personalized schedule, notifications for favorite activities, and venue maps. Manage tickets, check-in digitally, and complete challenges to compete with friends on leaderboards.
- Personalized event schedule
- Activity notifications
- Digital ticket management
- Venue overview
- In-app challenges and leaderboards
- Digital check-in
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With the DreamHack app, you can: · See everything happening during the event, add notifications for your favourite activities, and create your own personalized schedule · Complete challenges, gather achievements, and compete against your friends on the leaderboards · See all your tickets, and your seat information if you have a BYOC ticket, and check-in without a physical ticket · Get an overview of the venue and the different areas of the event We'll be continuously testing and releasing new features for DreamHack visitors and viewers with regular intervals. Welcome to DreamHack; World of Gamers – Community of Friends.
PAX Aus
Experience a massive gaming and culture celebration with panels, an expo hall, game demos, and tournaments. Connect with developers, publishers, and fellow gamers over three days.
- Gaming culture celebration
- Thought-provoking panels
- Massive expo hall
- Game demos
- Tournaments
- Community experience
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PAX Aus is a celebration of gaming and gaming culture featuring thought-provoking panels, a massive expo hall filled with the best publishers and independent studios, game demos, tournaments, and a community experience unlike any other. Held across three full days and all under one roof, PAX offers the community the opportunity to meet with old friends, make new ones, interact with game developers, publishers and brands, and get hands-on with everything they love about gaming.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DreamHack at every 2 weeks against PAX Aus's every 12 months. DreamHack also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). PAX Aus's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 13%). 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.
DreamHack ships an update every 2 weeks, PAX Aus every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DreamHack | PAX Aus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | EFG Sweden AB | RX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD |
Customer experience
DreamHack
PAX Aus
In-app purchases
DreamHack
No in-app purchases
PAX Aus
No in-app purchases
