TrendConnect vs Black Hat Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrendConnect
Access and manage your Trend Micro security products with personalized customer reports. Stay informed with the latest security news and research, and receive customized threat alerts. Includes a built-in authenticator for two-factor authentication.
- Product information management
- Personalized customer reports
- Latest security news and research
- Customized threat alerts
- Built-in authenticator for 2FA
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TrendConnect lets you easily check your Trend Micro products information and provide personalized reports for each customer to check if your environment is well protected. By installing TrendConnect, you can find the latest security news and research that Trend Micro experts provide in a few clicks. You could also set up customized notifications to receive threat alerts, security news updates based on your preference. There's also a built-in authenticator to generate 2FA verification codes on phone and send push authentication for Trend Micro services.
Black Hat Events
This app connects you to the world's most technical information security conferences and trainings. Discover the latest research, trends, and network with global InfoSec professionals and solution providers.
- Information security conferences
- Technical trainings
- Latest research and trends
- Global InfoSec community networking
- Practitioner and researcher insights
- Solutions provider connections
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Black Hat Events are the most technical and relevant information security conferences and trainings in the world. Providing attendees with the very latest in information security research, development, and trends, Black Hat Events bring the global InfoSec community together to share ideas, learn from experts, and network with peers, practitioners, researchers, and solutions providers from around the globe. The Black Hat Events portfolio includes all Black Hat global events, as well as SecTor, Canada's largest IT security conference and the nation's biggest vendor expo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Black Hat Events at 4.2 against TrendConnect's 3.0. Black Hat Events also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (144 vs 4). TrendConnect's advantage is review sentiment (43% vs 24%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, 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.
Black Hat Events holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Black Hat Events has 144 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of TrendConnect's written reviews are positive against 24% of Black Hat Events's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TrendConnect ships an update every 2 months, Black Hat Events weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrendConnect | Black Hat Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.2 (144 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 23.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 144 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Trend Micro | Informa Tech Holdings, LLC |
Customer experience
TrendConnect
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In-app purchases
TrendConnect
No in-app purchases
Black Hat Events
No in-app purchases
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