DreamHack vs Start.gg
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.
Start.gg
Discover and participate in competitive gaming events, from online tournaments to major esports conventions. Track your progress, follow favorite players, and receive real-time tournament updates. Manage your competitive gaming experience on the go.
- Find online tournaments
- Discover esports conventions
- Follow favorite players
- Receive tournament notifications
- Browse player profiles and rankings
- Support for hundreds of games
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Start.gg is your home for competitive gaming events - from online tournaments to the world's biggest esports conventions. Find tournaments near you, play in online brackets, or follow your favorite players in top-level competitions. Receive push notifications for every stage of a tournament, from registering to playing your matches. Browse player profiles, rankings, and event history across hundreds of games including Super Smash Bros., Street Fighter, Rocket League, Pokémon Champions, League of Legends, trading card games, and more. Whether you're running an event, playing to win, or just spectating, start.gg keeps the entire tournament experience in your pocket.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Start.gg at 75% against DreamHack's 13%. Start.gg also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.4) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). DreamHack's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Start.gg holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of DreamHack's written reviews are positive against 75% of Start.gg's.
DreamHack ships an update every 2 weeks, Start.gg every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DreamHack | Start.gg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (17 ratings) | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | EFG Sweden AB | Startgg, Inc. |
Customer experience
DreamHack
Start.gg
In-app purchases
DreamHack
No in-app purchases
Start.gg
No in-app purchases
