Comparison

Minimap vs Backlog

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

Head to head
About

Minimap

Manage your game backlogs, track playtime, and sync achievements across all major gaming platforms. Discover new games and connect with like-minded players to share your gaming journey and stats.

Highlights
  • Track playtime, achievements, and trophies
  • Manage game backlogs by status
  • Sync stats across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  • Detailed playtime statistics and trends
  • Create a personalized gamer profile
  • Connect with a community of gamers
Features
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Track your game backlog, journal every game you play, and sync your library across Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch, all in one beautifully designed gaming journal. Minimap is the gaming journal where gamers track their libraries, share what they're playing, and find friends with taste like theirs. Build your collection, journal every game, and stop playing alone, even when the game is single-player. ONE APP FOR ALL YOUR GAMES Connect Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, and Nintendo Switch to automatically import your full game library. No more spreadsheets. No more switching between platforms. No more forgetting what you own. Your entire gaming life sits in one clean library, automatically updated every time you buy or play a new game. BACKLOG TRACKER THAT ACTUALLY WORKS Organize your game backlog into Playing, Finished, Shelved, or Dropped. Set priorities, filter by genre, and sort by length. Decide what to play next with a backlog tracker that respects how gamers actually think. Your video game backlog finally makes sense. ACHIEVEMENT & TROPHY SYNC Track achievements, trophies, and your completion percentage across every platform you play on. Watch your achievement collection grow in real time. See your global completion rate at a glance, hunt missing achievements, and chase that next platinum trophy. One place for every trophy hunter and completionist who actually cares about 100%. DEEP PLAYTIME STATS Discover your total playtime, most-played genres, weekly gaming trends, and monthly recaps with easy-to-read charts. Find out where your gaming hours actually went, what you played most this year, and which genres dominated your year. Get a full year-in-review that tells the story of your gaming life. GAMING JOURNAL & REVIEWS Rate every game on a scale that makes sense to you. Write a short journal entry the moment you finish a game, or a long-form review when something moves you. Build a permanent record of your gaming life: what you played, what you loved, and what you'll never touch again. A gaming journal for players, the way Letterboxd works for film lovers. GAMER COMMUNITY Follow friends and discover players with libraries like yours. Share your backlog progress, post about games you just finished, and read reviews from gamers who actually play what you play. Find a focused community of gamers who get it. YOUR GAMER PROFILE Your stats become a profile. Show off your favorite genres, completion rate, playtime, hours-per-game, and gaming history. A social badge that's actually yours, earned hour by hour, game by game. BUILD YOUR OWN COLLECTIONS Curate games into custom collections that fit how you think. Build "Games I Bought on Sale and Forgot About," "RPGs Worth 100 Hours," or "Comfort Games for Bad Days." Share collections with friends or keep them private. Your library, your taste, your way. RELEASE TRACKING & WISHLIST Add upcoming games to your wishlist and get notified when they launch. Check critic scores and user reviews before you buy. Stop missing release dates for the games you've been waiting on. WHY GAMERS CHOOSE MINIMAP - Free to download. Full game library import included - Track Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch in one app - Clean, focused web experience built for serious gamers - Works in any browser, on any device, with the same library everywhere - Built by gamers who actually finish their backlogs (mostly) Whether you're a Steam collector building a 1,000-game library, a PlayStation trophy hunter chasing platinums, an Xbox completionist working through Game Pass, or a Switch portable player squeezing in playtime on the train, Minimap is the gaming journal that connects everything. Download Minimap and manage every game you play, all in one place.

About

Backlog

Organize your entire video game library, track progress, discover new titles, and connect with friends. Manage wishlists, backlogged games, and completed titles all in one place. Stay updated with gaming news and community scores.

Highlights
  • Unified game library management
  • Customizable game collections
  • Game discovery and news feed
  • Detailed game information
  • Social features and friend activity
  • Offline library sync
  • Customizable themes and privacy controls
Features
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Your backlog, conquered. Backlog is the game tracker for people who buy more games than they finish. Track every game you own, want, or are playing right now, see what your friends are into, and find what to play next. ONE LIBRARY FOR EVERYTHING • Every game in one tab, filtered by status: Wishlist, Backlogged, Playing, Completed, Dropped • Make your own collections, like All-Time Favorites or Co-op Nights • Add-ons stay grouped under the game they belong to • Start without an account, and bring your library with you when you sign in FIND YOUR NEXT GAME • Trending, Most Wanted, Now Playing and Hot on Steam, plus Recently Released and Coming Soon • See how the charts moved over time • Wishlist a game for reminders a week before, the day before and on release day, plus date changes and new DLC • Search more than 100,000 games, even by the name a game shipped under somewhere else • The latest gaming news, built right into Discover EVERYTHING ABOUT A GAME • Critic scores, player scores and the Backlog community score side by side • Platforms, release dates, age ratings, time to beat, trailers and screenshots • My Stats: hours played on each platform, when you finished, and how your score compares • Notes for every game in your library RATE, REVIEW, CONNECT • A Forum on every game: posts, replies, quotes and @ mentions • Score games from 0 to 100 and write reviews • Vote on reviews and reply to them • Translate reviews written in other languages • An Activity tab with what the people you follow started, finished, rated and reviewed • Follow friends, pin your Top Friends, and vouch for the people you play with • Earn badges for your profile • Share your profile as a link, with its own page on the web YOUR APP, YOUR WAY • Pick a theme color for the whole app, in light and dark mode • Works offline: Offline Sync keeps your library, profile and the Forum on your iPhone • Hide tags you never want to see, and keep adult games out of Trending, Search and Browse • Choose who sees your profile, library, ratings and activity, or make your account private • A Home Screen widget for your library • Works with VoiceOver and larger text sizes WHY BACKLOG? • A native iPhone app. Fast and smooth. • Sign in with Apple. Privacy first. • Your library syncs across your devices. • Built by gamers, for gamers. Download Backlog and finally get your game library under control.

Screenshots

Minimap4 screens
Backlog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Backlog at every 5 days against Minimap's every 2 months. Backlog also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Minimap's advantage is review sentiment (94% vs 75%) and ratings volume (24 vs 6). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Minimap against 5.0 for Backlog. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Minimap's written reviews are positive against 75% of Backlog's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minimap ships an update every 2 months, Backlog every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Minimap versus Backlog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimapBacklog
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (24 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.8% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB88 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developerminimap inc.Different Productions, LLC

Customer experience

Minimap

All ratings23 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral4.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive93.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative0.0%

Backlog

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Minimap

No in-app purchases

None

Backlog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minimap free?
Minimap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backlog free?
Backlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minimap or Backlog?
Backlog is rated higher. Minimap averages 4.9 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Backlog averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Minimap or Backlog have ads?
Neither Minimap nor Backlog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minimap or Backlog?
Minimap ships an update every 2 months, and Backlog every 5 days. Most recently, Minimap was updated on November 6, 2026 and Backlog on November 8, 2026.

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