Comparison

GAMEYE vs Wayback Machine

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GAMEYE

Manage your entire game collection, including consoles, accessories, and guides, in one comprehensive app. Discover the value of your collection and make informed trading decisions with detailed pricing insights and extensive platform support.

Highlights
  • Track games, systems, and accessories
  • Discover collection worth
  • Community-driven database
  • Support for 100+ platforms
  • Detailed record-keeping
  • Contribute to the database
Features
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Elevate your game collecting experience with GAMEYE! Seamlessly track games, systems, accessories, guides, amiibo, and your backlog—all in one place. Uncover the worth of your collection and make savvy deals with confidence. GAMEYE 6.0 has arrived! Along with the user driven database that 5.0 brought, we are proud to now allow users to optionally sync their accounts to the website with a free account at www.GAMEYE.app! KEY FEATURES: Privacy First: No personalized tracking, no ads, and no account required. Keep your data completely local and managed by you or create a free account to sync with the website and be able to share with friends. Sync to website and share with friends! All account data private by default with the option to either go public, or only allow select people to be able to view your data. Settable on a per type basis. So have your collection private but viewable by friends but have your wishlist viewable for the whole world! You can even fully manage your collection online. All operations across mobile apps and website will synchronize to keep your data up to date. Expansive Coverage: Dive into nearly 200 platforms and an ever-growing 160,000+ game collection, complete with full regional support, rich imagery spanning pictures of the actual items to advertisements and more. You can even explore the manuals, documentation, and maps that came with them! Incredible Filtering: Filter by platform, metacritic score, release type, release region, price, price change, games you beaten or not, entries missing components, etc... Easy list creation: Use the manual adder to tick off huge lists of games at a time or use the barcode scanner. Cart Scanner: GAMEYE's own proprietary on device image recognition can immediately identify a growing list of platforms for various regions for easily adding to your collection. No AI or server used! Comprehensive Tracking: Monitor games, consoles, peripherals, guides, and amiibo, skylanders, Disney Infinity and more, and watch your collection grow! Use GAMEYE's tag system to mark up your entries however you like! Want to keep track of items you want to replace? Want to keep track of items you loaned to Ted? Thorough Record-Keeping: Keep every component, condition, and cost in check. Expanding Community Features: See how many users have the item your browsing, or how many want it. See how many users have backlog entries for a game. User-driven reviews, playtimes, and ratings coming soon! Pricing Insight: Know what your collection is worth and ensure you're always getting a good deal. Explore beautiful, interactive price history graphs. Optionally hide prices if you're not interested. Growing article repository: With our newly built, in-house tool for creating and publishing articles we plan to have an expansive list of articles spanning any and everything related to gaming. Backlog Tracking: Keep track of every play through, notes on games you've played, and how long you've played them. Contributions Welcomed: Join in by adding missing games/editions/details directly to the database at www.GAMEYE.app. JUST A FEW OF THE PLATFORMS: Nintendo NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii/U, Switch/2, Game Boy, Virtual Boy, GBA, Nintendo DS, 3DS, Sega Master System, Genesis, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Gear, NEC TurboGrafx, NeoGeo, NeoGeo Pocket, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Series-X, PlayStation, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, Vita, Evercade, Atari, Commodore, Game.com, Wonderswan, and the list goes on! If you game it, we got it!

About

Wayback Machine

Preserve web pages and tweets for the future. Share content directly to the app to archive it, ensuring links remain accessible for decades. Easily share archived URLs across various platforms.

Highlights
  • Archive web pages
  • Archive tweets
  • Share content to archive
  • Generate shareable URLs
  • Long-term preservation
Features
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Archive Web pages and Tweets to the Wayback Machine! To archive Web pages or Tweets simply "Share" them to this app. From Safari - select the "Share" icon at the bottom of the screen then select this "Wayback Machine" app. From the Twitter app - select the "v" icon at top-right of Tweets, select "Share Tweets via..." then select this "Wayback Machine" app. But first you must add this app to your iOS device's "Share" feature by selecting the Share icon (the up-pointing arrow at the bottom of Safari) then selecting the "..." (More) button and finally adding this app. After you have archived your web pages or Tweets you can confidently share their Wayback Machine URLs via Twitter, Facebook, Email, etc. knowing they will be there for decades to come. Please send bug reports, questions and suggestions to info@archive.org

Screenshots

GAMEYE4 screens
Wayback Machine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: GAMEYE at 76% against Wayback Machine's 16%. GAMEYE also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.2) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 279). Wayback Machine's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GAMEYE holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GAMEYE has 2.7K ratings behind it against 279, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of GAMEYE's written reviews are positive against 16% of Wayback Machine's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GAMEYE ships an update every 3 weeks, Wayback Machine every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GAMEYE versus Wayback Machine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGAMEYEWayback Machine
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.7K ratings) — better2.2 (279 ratings)
Positive reviews75.7% of reviews — better15.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2.7K — better279
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB15 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperHarrison HolzhauerInternet Archive

Customer experience

GAMEYE

All ratings2,717 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews247 reviews
Positive75.7%
Neutral9.3%
Negative15.0%

Wayback Machine

All ratings279 ratings
Positive24.7%
Neutral7.9%
Negative67.4%
Written reviews196 reviews
Positive15.8%
Neutral8.2%
Negative76.0%

User reviews

GAMEYE

From 2.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Helpful for collectors
  • 🚀 Convenient way to track collection
  • 🚀 Intuitive interface
  • 👍 Fantastic app for collectors

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Barcode scanner not working
  • 🐛 Freezing issues
  • 🐛 Missing games in database
  • 🐛 Lack of region support
  • 🐛 Crashes and data loss

Wayback Machine

From 279 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and reliable archiving
  • 📚 Vast collection of archived content
  • 🔒 Secure and trustworthy platform

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Unintuitive and difficult to navigate
  • 🔑 Login and account issues
  • 💻 Poor mobile optimization

Bugs and requests

GAMEYE

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Barcode scanner not working consistently
  • App freezing and becoming unresponsive
  • Losing collection data after updates
  • Inability to scan certain game barcodes

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add ability to filter by region
  • Implement cloud sync across devices
  • Add option to manually add games
  • Introduce price history/tracking
  • Allow custom fields for collection
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  • Add support for graded games
  • Implement ability to log game progress

Wayback Machine

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login and account creation problems
  • Archiving failures and errors
  • Crashes and freezes when loading content
  • Unresponsive UI elements

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add search functionality
  • Improve back/close navigation
  • Implement offline content access
  • Integrate with other apps and browsers

In-app purchases

None

GAMEYE

No in-app purchases

None

Wayback Machine

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GAMEYE free?
GAMEYE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wayback Machine free?
Wayback Machine is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GAMEYE or Wayback Machine?
GAMEYE is rated higher. GAMEYE averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while Wayback Machine averages 2.2 from 279 ratings.
Do GAMEYE or Wayback Machine have ads?
Neither GAMEYE nor Wayback Machine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GAMEYE or Wayback Machine?
GAMEYE ships an update every 3 weeks, and Wayback Machine every 2 months. Most recently, GAMEYE was updated on September 23, 2026 and Wayback Machine on September 23, 2026.

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