Comparison

GAMEYE vs GameTrekker

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

GameTrekker

Easily manage your video game library and track your progress. Discover new titles, organize your owned games, and maintain a wishlist. Sync your collection across devices with iCloud.

Highlights
  • Extensive game database (500,000+ titles)
  • Organize owned games and wishlists
  • Track game progress (played, finished)
  • Rate games and add notes
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • Light/dark mode support
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GameTrekker helps you keep track of your game collection and your gaming progress. Search for a game you want to add to your collection in the 500,000+ game database (provided by RAWG Video Games Database), save it to your collection and mark it as owned, played and finished. GameTrekker also allows you to rate your games and keep notes about them. If you don't own a game but would like to, or want a game that haven't released yet, you can put it on your wishlist. GameTrekker keeps your saved game collection data safe and readily available on all your iDevices through iCloud. Features: - a 500,000+ games database to search and discover games through. - Two separate lists, Game collection and Wishlist, to save unlimited* games to. - iCloud syncing between iDevices. - Tracks how many games you own and when you got them. - Tracks how many games you have played and when you played them last. - Tracks how many games you have finished or beaten and when you did it. - Supports in-app settings for light / dark mode. - 16 background images to choose from. * GameTrekker requires an in-app purchase about the value of a cup of coffee to add more games than 20 to the Game collection and Wishlist.

Screenshots

GAMEYE4 screens
GameTrekker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GAMEYE at none against GameTrekker's 1. GAMEYE also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 3). GameTrekker's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 76%). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GameTrekker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. GAMEYE asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GameTrekker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GAMEYE has 2.7K ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of GameTrekker's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
GAMEYE versus GameTrekker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGAMEYEGameTrekker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (2.7K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.7K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHarrison HolzhauerPatrik Ell

Customer experience

GAMEYE

All ratings2,723 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews252 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative14.7%

GameTrekker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

GameTrekker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

GAMEYE

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GameTrekker

One-time1
  • GameTrekker Premium$1.99

Questions

Is GAMEYE free?
GAMEYE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GameTrekker free?
GameTrekker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GAMEYE or GameTrekker?
GameTrekker is rated higher. GAMEYE averages 4.8 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while GameTrekker averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do GAMEYE or GameTrekker have ads?
Neither GAMEYE nor GameTrekker shows ads.

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