Comparison

GAMEYE vs Retro Joy

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

Retro Joy

Track your progress and discover achievements for classic video games. Organize your favorite titles into custom collections and connect with a community of retro gaming enthusiasts. It's the perfect companion for reliving gaming history.

Highlights
  • Track RetroAchievements.org progress
  • View achievements, friends, and games
  • Collect and organize favorite games
  • Create custom game collections
  • Connect with the RetroAchievements community
Features
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Retro Joy is your ideal companion app for RetroAchievements.org With Retro Joy, your RetroAchievement.org achievements, friends, and games are brought straight to your device. You can even collect your favorite games in your library and organize them into collections, exclusive to Retro Joy. If you are new to the RetroAchievements.org community, joining is as simple as downloading the app, creating an account, and logging in. The rest you can pick up along the way with pointers in the app, and the support of the community on RetroAchievements.org.

Screenshots

GAMEYE4 screens
Retro Joy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GAMEYE at 4.8 against Retro Joy's 4.1. GAMEYE also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 14) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Retro Joy's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, 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 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GAMEYE has 2.7K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of GAMEYE's written reviews are positive against 82% of Retro Joy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GAMEYE ships an update every 3 weeks, Retro Joy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GAMEYE versus Retro Joy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGAMEYERetro Joy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.7K ratings) — better4.1 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews76.1% of reviews81.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.7K — better14
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB48 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperHarrison HolzhauerClayton Sulby

Customer experience

GAMEYE

All ratings2,722 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews251 reviews
Positive76.1%
Neutral9.2%
Negative14.7%

Retro Joy

All ratings13 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

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

Retro Joy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

GAMEYE

No in-app purchases

None

Retro Joy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GAMEYE free?
GAMEYE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Retro Joy free?
Retro Joy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GAMEYE or Retro Joy?
GAMEYE is rated higher. GAMEYE averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while Retro Joy averages 4.1 from 14 ratings.
Do GAMEYE or Retro Joy have ads?
Neither GAMEYE nor Retro Joy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GAMEYE or Retro Joy?
GAMEYE ships an update every 3 weeks, and Retro Joy every 2 months. Most recently, GAMEYE was updated on October 20, 2026 and Retro Joy on October 21, 2026.

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