Dragon Con vs Dust
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dragon Con
This app is your guide to a massive multimedia pop culture convention. Discover schedules for nearly 40 fan tracks, a film festival, parade, art show, concerts, and thousands of hours of panels and gaming events.
- Convention schedule
- Fan tracks
- Film festival
- Parade information
- Art show details
- Concerts and parties
- Costume contests
Read full descriptionHide full description
Dragon Con is the largest multimedia, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music and film in the known universe! Held every Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, GA, Dragon Con boasts close to 40 fan-based tracks, a film festival, Atlanta's largest parade throughout downtown, an art show, comics, pop art exhibits and displays, nightly concerts and parties, bands and DJs, tons of costume contests, over a hundred dealers and exhibitors, and almost 5000 hours of panels, workshops, games and gaming of every flavor.
Dust
This offline guide helps you navigate the Burning Man event and regional burns. Discover events, art installations, and theme camps, with map locations and personalized notifications. Plan your experience and stay organized with this essential companion.
- Offline event discovery
- Art and theme camp finder
- Interactive map with locations
- Personalized event notifications
- Map pin drops for personal items
- Searchable event and art listings
Read full descriptionHide full description
Dust is an offline unofficial guide for Burning Man and regional burns! Features: • Find events by day, category, theme camp or search • Find art by search or listing • Find theme camps by search or listing • Map locations for Art and Theme Camps • Favorite events, Art and Theme Camps (& Share with Friends) • Show nearby events, Art and Theme Camps • Get notified when your favorite event is about to start • Drop pins on the map for your bike, camp and friends • Find DJ sets from Rock Star Librarian • Works with the Apple Watch • Works offline Note: Burning Man location information is hidden until a week before the event starts.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dust at 81% against Dragon Con's 31%. Dust also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). Dragon Con's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Dust holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 134 and 542 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Dragon Con's written reviews are positive against 81% of Dust's.
Dragon Con ships an update every 2 months, Dust every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dragon Con | Dust |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (134 ratings) | 4.9 (542 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.0% of reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 134 | 542 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dragon Con, Inc | WebNative LLC |
Customer experience
Dragon Con
Dust
User reviews
Dragon Con
From 134 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for organizing schedule
- 👍 Contains lots of info
- 👍 Helps navigate the con
- 👍 Good for keeping track of events
- 👍 Great customer support response
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Slow performance
- 🐛 Outdated information
- 🐛 Confusing UI/navigation
- 🐛 App locks up
Dust
From 542 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🗺️ Accurate location tracking and navigation
- 👍 Clean, intuitive, and beautiful user interface
- ⭐ Excellent event discovery and filtering features
- ❤️ Favorites/bookmarking system for events
- 🔒 Privacy-focused with no data harvesting
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
- 🐛 App restarts unexpectedly
- 🐛 UI elements not fully visible on screen
- ⚠️ Data loss (favorites getting wiped)
- ⚠️ Inconsistent reliability concerns
Bugs and requests
Dragon Con
Reported bugs
65 issues- App won't update to new version
- Keeps showing old year's info
- Side panel can't be hidden
- Back key resets schedule
- Favorite processing takes too long
Show 60 moreShow fewer
- App locks up
- App Store prompts for update when none exists
- Crashes on open
- Line up locations for panels not listed
- Crashes frequently
- Share schedule with friends function not working
- App keeps crashing
- Iconography is confusing
- Freezes when adding to calendar
- Force closes on every open
- Not formatted for new iPhones
- Clunky navigation and categorization
- Email is the only way to share friend code
- App not updated to current year
- App mixes up with other apps (e.g., mixgram)
- Slow to respond
- Calendar doesn't allow editing custom event timings
- Custom event color scheme hard to read
- App updates in foreground, not background
- 'Show more' link is terrible
- Main menu harder to use
- Main menu not high contrast enough
- Crashes constantly
- Interactive maps/directions not implemented
- Friend list needs recreating yearly
- Main menu icons don't mean anything
- Main menu white on grey background
- App crashes when trying to open
- App crashes constantly
- App crashes every 30 seconds
- Lags randomly
- Can't open without crashing
- Crashes constantly
- Tap navigation widget: crash
- Add event to calendar: crash
- Delete and reinstall requires redoing schedule
- Friend list shows up multiple times
- Crashing constantly on iPhone 6 and iPad
- App crashes when trying to start on iPad
- App makes user wait for updates on startup
- Maps don't have North to the top
- Maps don't show current location
- App tries to automatically update
- Update process takes too long to cancel
- Midnight to midnight schedule listing is a pain
- Alert message about update already applied
- Layout difficult to navigate
- Searching within app not possible
- Search broadens to all days without warning
- App gets stuck at updating attendees screen
- Can't access previous year's events
- App no longer supports older phones/devices
- App crashes when updating information
- App support link not useful
- iOS 7.0 requirement prevents use on older devices
- Schedule not available until close to con
- Difficult to figure out sessions in specific buildings
- Terrible time finding alternate sessions
- Randomized list of sessions when searching by hotel
- Event staff can't mark sessions as full
Requested features
19 requests- Update to 2025/2026 info
- Hide side panel
- Add Watch complication
- Navigation component for Watch app
- Improve share schedule function
Show 14 moreShow fewer
- Invest in app development
- Take notes from Momocon App
- Add interactive maps/directions
- Color code schedule by hotel
- Add walk of fame info
- Guests check in when signing
- More realistic day display (e.g., 6AM-6AM)
- Ability to mark sessions as full
- Improve search functionality within days
- Allow viewing event info without clicking through
- Persistent storage for schedules
- Improve friend code sharing
- Add theatre and history tracks
- Update for newer iPhones (dynamic island)
Dust
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes frequently during use
- Freezing and unexpected restarts
- Location permission button not visible/clickable on iOS
- Zoom bug causing navigation to previous page (patched)
- Share button non-functional
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- Favorites data being deleted
Requested features
7 requests- User notes feature for personal event tracking
- Global map view for all regional events
- Geographic location listings for regional events
- Landscape mode optimization for rotated phones
- Event sharing functionality
Show 2 moreShow fewer
- In-app developer contact/support option
- Ability to report missing camps or issues within app
In-app purchases
Dragon Con
No in-app purchases
Dust
No in-app purchases
