Minimap vs NextQuest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
NextQuest
Organize your entire gaming library, track progress, and set personal goals for each game. Discover and share curated lists with a community of players. Understand your gaming habits with long-term statistics.
- Organize and prioritize game library
- Add notes, checklists, and goals
- Create and share curated game lists
- Discover games with search and details
- Reflect on long-term gaming stats
- Custom dark theme and haptics
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Take control of your gaming journey with NextQuest, a game-tracking app built for players who want to be more intentional about what they play. Whether you're diving into a massive RPG, working through a growing backlog, or deciding what to play next, NextQuest keeps your entire gaming life in one organized place. Go beyond simple tracking. Log every playthrough on every platform, with its own status, dates, play time, and rating. Keep notes and checklists for each game, organized into sections, and turn your library into a living quest log, not just a list. Discover and share curated game lists with other players, see what's trending, and explore a community that values curation over noise. Over time, NextQuest helps you understand your habits as a player. Built-in stats show your gaming history across the years: what you play, finish, revisit, or leave behind. What you can do with NextQuest: - Organize your library by status: playing, queued, finished, dropped, or backlog - Track multiple playthroughs of the same game across platforms - Import your Steam library in a few taps - Keep notes and checklists for each game, organized into sections - Create, share, and explore curated lists with other players - Search over 400,000 games with rich details, media, and store links - Look back on each year's highs and lows with long-term stats - Test your gaming knowledge with daily quizzes and leaderboards - Enjoy a polished dark theme with smooth animations and haptics NextQuest is a passion project, built with care for players who see games as experiences worth remembering.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NextQuest at every 3 weeks against Minimap's every 2 months. NextQuest also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Minimap against 5.0 for NextQuest. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Minimap's written reviews are positive against 100% of NextQuest's.
Minimap ships an update every 2 months, NextQuest every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimap | NextQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | minimap inc. | Victor Valentine |
Customer experience
Minimap
NextQuest
In-app purchases
Minimap
No in-app purchases
NextQuest
No in-app purchases









