# Board Game Bible — user reviews > 145 indexed App Store user reviews of Board Game Bible by Michael Costa, rated 4.70/5 from 1,140 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/board-game-bible/id988802369/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/board-game-bible/id988802369.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 917 · 4★ 176 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Board Game Bible? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Smooth and easy to use - 📚 Great resource for board game information - 🔗 Seamless integration with BoardGameGeek - 🎨 Aesthetically pleasing design **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy features (e.g. play logging, wishlist) - 🔍 Unreliable search functionality - 🔄 Inconsistent data sync with BoardGameGeek - 🔒 Limited password character support **Commonly reported bugs** - Plays not syncing correctly with BoardGameGeek - Inconsistent behavior when filtering game collections - Crashes and errors when opening certain game pages **Most requested features** - Add ability to rate/review games within the app - Implement detailed player count recommendations - Allow editing/deleting of logged plays - Improve forum and external content integration ## Newest reviews (16 of 145) ### 4/5 — Almost perfect *2025-06-19, version 4.6.8* Almost perfect ! Need an option to have a dark mode 🙂 ### 4/5 — Great to keep track of your games *2025-02-09, version 4.6.8* Unfortunately can’t add board games to my collection for more then a year, so had to stop using it ### 3/5 — Cool App, Functions Buggy *2025-01-19, version 4.6.7* I like the app but one of the main features, adding games to your wishlist seems to be bugged. I cannot add them no matter how many times I choose to. ### 3/5 — Logging plays is tough *2022-12-25, version 4.6.5* I wish you could edit a “play” after completing. Often, my logged plays do not show up, causing me to log again and then they’ll show up an hour later ### 4/5 — Really enjoy the app - only one issue as of now *2022-02-03, version 4.6.5* Great app. Been using for a while. One problem I’ve noticed recently is I can no longer save games to my collection or to my wishlist. I see the link issue was corrected but this needs attention too. Thanks! ### 4/5 — Amazing BGG app *2021-12-30, version 4.6.4* DEVELOPER, PLEASE READ: Love, love, love this app. However, when shopping for games my fiancé and I have to know the best player counts for games since we mostly play with 2 but do have occasional game nights (so we need the game to be recommended with 2 and up). This app does show the “best at” number, but you can’t see anymore detail past that. So if a game is best at 3, you can’t see if it’s also recommended at 2, for example. This makes it so that we have to keep opening up the BGG website to look at those stats. If this is a easy addition that can be made to this app, I think it would be VERY welcomed. ### 4/5 — Bug accessing files *2021-12-20, version 4.6.4* Excellent app for working with BGG collections. Just a minor bug if you try to open the link to the files section of a game entry, there’s a // in the url after the boardgamegeek.com part. Delete the extra slash and the page loads fine. ### 4/5 — Easy to use *2021-10-10* Found the app easy to set up and use. Links well with BGG. The only thing stopping a 5 star rating is a folder system for the games library. If you add the main game in your library only when you select it does by expansions show. Would keep it much cleaner. Was really impressed by the info it had in games and expansions, and the link to play throughs and reviews. ### 4/5 — Beste App für zufällige Spielauswahl *2021-08-27, version 4.6.3* Die beste und einzige App, mit der ich nach verschiedenen Kriterien random Spiele aus meiner Sammlung aussuchen kann um zu entscheiden, was wir heute spielen. Hier noch ein paar fehlende Features, damit es 5 Sterne gibt: - beim initialen Laden meiner Spiele von BGG sind die Versionen (deutsche Titel) korrekt, aber beim erstmaligen Detail-Nachladen wandeln sie sich in den Originalnamen (englisch) und das falsche Miniaturbild. - ich kann Spiele nicht direkt aus der App bewerten - nachträgliches Bearbeiten geloggter Spiele nicht möglich - ich sehe nicht die inventory number aus meinen privaten Spielnotizen Weiter entwickeln, bitte! :) Man findet die App im iOS-Store nicht, wenn man nach „Board Game Bible“ sucht - soll das so? Mit Suchbegriff „bgg“ geht es aber. ### 2/5 — Clean but no search results *2021-01-02, version 4.5.1* Nice and with everything I need. Unfortunately not realy usable, cause every game I searched replied a no result banner. ### 3/5 — Doesn’t accept special characters *2020-09-02, version 4.4.2* Great app to browse games and links to things available in bbg. Unfortunately, I’m unable to log in because I need special characters for my password and the app doesn’t accept most of them. ### 3/5 — Not in sync with BGG *2020-07-04, version 4.4.2* The interface is great but unfortunately none of the stats and top rankings are up to date. You need to refresh every game’s page to see the latest scores/reviews. ### 4/5 — Not super polished, but does the job usually *2020-05-04, version 4.4.2* For example, it will consistently say I have no plays of a game, even though I do. You also can't edit plays if you mess up (which I've done a lot). It's pretty barebones, but works fine for the most part. ### 5/5 — Best *2020-03-25, version 4.4.2* Best app ever still waiting on android version John ### 4/5 — THE BEST (AND FREE!) *2020-03-16, version 4.4.2* Features I would totally love: - Add to collection ‚own‘ directly from search - Search results to be ordered by importance (# of ratings or similar) and not by alphabet ### 2/5 — Buona ma non troppo *2019-12-28, version 4.3.0* Buona app ma la classifica di BGG non è per niente aggiornata e quindi cosa molto fastidiosa Aggiornate!!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not a Smartphone App *2020-03-27, version 4.4.2* This App is just a basic reference to the BGG website account and can not be used as individual App. To make any modifications to your references you must link it to (or create if you don’t already have) your BGG account online. You have to populate and update your lists through the website. There is no ability to create a reference to a board game that you just played with your friends, or at a convention or a game you browsed at a store. A quick easy scan to “want to buy” or “have played” list is not available, rendering this app useless for any convenient use. It also does not add anything to the BGG site that you already using (or will have to use) without the app. ### 1/5 — Can't type / in password *2020-01-13, version 4.3.0* Just installed but not able to sign in ### 1/5 — Bugs in update *2019-08-09, version 4.3.0* Forum posts do not open post update. ### 1/5 — Error on opening *2018-10-11, version 4.0.7* Every time I open this app I get a text error for unacceptable content type. I can't do anything without this error stopping me. ### 1/5 — Not able to operate the app *2018-08-16, version 4.0.5* Showing error loading the contents. ### 1/5 — Used to Be Amazing *2018-06-12, version 4.0.3* This app has turned into rubbish. In previous versions you could save games to Own and Want; not anymore. And now the Top Lists don’t even load. Please revert back. ### 1/5 — Can't see the photos!! *2017-05-27, version 3.0.2* Why?!? Do you have a solution? 😖 ### 1/5 — Cannot login to BGG *2015-09-19, version 1.4.0* I can't be the only user on BGG who is security conscious enough to include extended character set characters in their password, can I? For some reason this app does not support them so I cannot download my game collection. Poor show. App deleted. ### 2/5 — Updates seem to make it worse *2023-04-11, version 4.6.5* For some reason it allows plays to be logged but they don’t show on the game’s page (says “no plays”). However the plays show under “view all plays”. Search function is also not very helpful unless you type the whole game name exactly as entered. ### 2/5 — Could be good but sadly is not *2021-07-19, version 4.6.3* This app seems to have minimal effort ,If any, put into it. You can log your plays but it will mess the stats up, your number of plays up, or just show how many plays you have with no stats. I spend time logging plays only to look at them later and realize it’s either erased the data or messed it up. It counts games in your collection randomly as “expansions” which are base games. If you ever want to edit a Game you just logged because you accidentally put something in wrong it won’t let you (not that it’ll save the data properly long term anyway). This app has so much potential but is a mess. The developers clearly put no time or effort into making this app more than something that shows your collection and it doesn’t even do that well. Hopefully they will fix these issues but they seem pretty hands off so I wouldn’t hold my breath. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing app to summarize your collection *2026-05-29, version 4.6.9* The app is a great way to remind yourself of all your owned games. Interfacing to BGG it reminds me of exactly what I have and what I need to sell ### 5/5 — Perfect! 🥰 *2025-10-29, version 4.6.8* This App is awesome!!! There is a Error occurring the last two days: „Loading Error“ - Request failed - unauthorized (401) What can i do to get it working again without loosing all my custom lists? Greetings 👋🏻 ☺️ ### 5/5 — Great app with one huge flaw *2024-10-10, version 4.6.6* Love this app for my collection. Integrates with BGG seamlessly. One huge flaw for me. I desperately want to be able to search and organize by game designer and or artist. It would immeasurably increase the practicality ### 5/5 — Great but needs to be complete *2023-10-17, version 4.6.5* The app is great. I’d really like thought to be able to download files, look at forums, reviews etc. without having to go the browser. Please make the app completely self-contained. ### 5/5 — Boardgamegeek user? *2022-06-14, version 4.6.5* You'll need this. Look no further. This app has it all. ### 5/5 — แอพหลัก *2022-04-05, version 4.6.5* ใช้ดูข้อมูลคร่าวๆ ข่าวสารของเกม หรือรายละเอียด เป็นประจำ ใช้งานสะดวกดีครับ แต่ก็สำหรับเบื้องต้นนะ ### 5/5 — Smooth and easy *2022-02-11, version 4.6.5* Very easy to use. Only have had it for a couple of days and already feel like I’ve been using it tor a while. My only complaint is that I wish when I search for a game it would artfully a few choices. Other than that it’s great. ### 5/5 — Surprisingly excellent! *2021-09-13, version 4.6.3* Installed this just to start tracking plays but it’s an excellent way to manage my boardgame collection. AAAA+++++ ### 5/5 — Love the App, Can some features be added? *2021-06-12, version 4.6.3* I have been using this app for over 3 years now and it is by far the best for tracking your collections with BGG. I use it daily to update and track my purchases and inventory. It is really helpful for inventory concerns if you are the type of person that collects not only the large packaged titles that are available to the masses but also all the promos and small things that make keeping things tidy easier and to prevent buying something you already own. Over the course of me using this app I have come to want a couple other features. One would be the ability to pull the data for board game accessories that are not considered games or expansions. The other would be a cloud sync options that I can sync between my devices so I have access to my custom lists I have created within the app. Also if you are an rpg player it would be cool if you took this same concept and applied it to the RPG Geek side so people could track plays, books, accessories etc just like in board game bible. I absolutely love this app and will continue to use it for all my Board game database tracking needs. Keep up the hard work. Thank you for you skills and passion to give this app life. ### 5/5 — A must get app *2021-01-28, version 4.6.0* If you are a BoardGames then get this app it is the best! I have bought new games off the back of reviews and have always been impressed. Awesome stuff. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*