GameZ vs Retro Joy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GameZ
Manage your entire gaming life, from what you're playing to your physical collection. Catalog games, consoles, and accessories with detailed tracking and market value insights. Share your progress and collection with friends.
- Track games played, want to play, and beaten
- Organize by platform, progress, and status
- Catalog physical games, consoles, and accessories
- View collection in 3D with custom photos
- Track market value of collection
- Share collection and activity with friends
- iCloud sync across devices
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Every game you play. Every game you own. GameZ is the home for your whole gaming life — the games you're playing, the ones you've finished, and the physical collection on your shelf. YOUR LIBRARY - Track what you're playing, want to play, and have beaten. - Organize by platform, progress, and status. - Discover new games, upcoming releases, and what's hyped. YOUR COLLECTION - Catalog your physical games, consoles, and accessories. - See every box in stunning 3D — front, back, and spine. - Track condition, region, and your own photos. - Follow the market value of your collection over time. INSIGHTS & SOCIAL - Beautiful stats about how you play and what you own. - Share your collection and activity with friends. AND MORE - Huge database with 450,000+ games. - iCloud sync — everything on all your devices. - Home Screen widgets and a clean, modern design. By using this app, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Apple's Standard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- Track RetroAchievements.org progress
- View achievements, friends, and games
- Collect and organize favorite games
- Create custom game collections
- Connect with the RetroAchievements community
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Retro Joy at none against GameZ's 3. Retro Joy also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). GameZ's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. GameZ sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Retro Joy asks for nothing beyond the download.
GameZ holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GameZ has 187 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of GameZ'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.
GameZ ships an update weekly, Retro Joy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GameZ | Retro Joy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (187 ratings) — better | 4.1 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Raul Lermen | Clayton Sulby |
Customer experience
GameZ
Retro Joy
In-app purchases
GameZ
- Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Anual$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99
Retro Joy
No in-app purchases







