Comparison

Minimap vs Joystickd

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

Joystickd

Log and rate your gaming experiences, showcase your platinum trophies, and participate in yearly game awards. Build custom lists, follow friends, and engage with a gaming community. Share your progress and reviews easily.

Highlights
  • Log and rate games 1-10
  • Track platinum trophies and difficulty
  • Create custom game lists
  • Participate in yearly game awards
  • Follow friends and see their activity
  • Share game reviews and progress
Features
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Joystickd is a diary for logging and rating the games you play, showing off your platinum collection, voting in game awards, making lists, and building a gaming community. Game rating: - Rate games 1–10 with .5s available, each rating accompanied by its own trophy artwork. - Add written reviews, or just mark a game as played. - let people know exactly what you liked and disliked with optional category ratings: gameplay, story, visuals, music, creativity, and more. Platinums: - Track every platinum and vote on its difficulty and hours. - Record the dates you started, earned your first trophy, and platinumed. - Community stats: see the hardest, easiest, longest and shortest platinums as rated by players. Additional features: - A Top 5 shelf on your profile - Custom lists, fully customizable. Ranked or not, with your ratings and platinums shown if you want. - Yearly Game Awards: vote in over a dozen categories every December, and vote on previous years. - Share beautiful images of your reviews, lists, profile and award ballots straight to your camera roll. Social features: - Follow friends and see their latest logs in your feed. - Like and comment on reviews. - Get notified when someone likes, comments, or follows you.

Screenshots

Minimap4 screens
Joystickd4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Minimap at 23 against Joystickd's 1. Joystickd's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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 Joystickd. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minimap has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Minimap versus Joystickd: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimapJoystickd
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (23 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating12+12+
Developerminimap inc.Scott Stark

Customer experience

Minimap

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

Joystickd

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Minimap

No in-app purchases

None

Joystickd

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minimap free?
Minimap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Joystickd free?
Joystickd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minimap or Joystickd?
Joystickd is rated higher. Minimap averages 4.9 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Joystickd averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Minimap or Joystickd have ads?
Neither Minimap nor Joystickd shows ads.

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