Retro Joy vs Pocket Codex Guides
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Pocket Codex Guides
Access your retro game guides anytime, anywhere with this offline reader. Organize your collection by game and track your progress. Supports HTML, TXT, and PDF files, with iCloud sync for seamless reading across devices.
- Offline access
- Organize by game
- HTML, TXT, PDF support
- Progress tracking
- iCloud Drive Sync
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Pocket Codex is a a simple, offline reader for retro game guides. Features: Organize your guides by game Support for HTML, TXT, and PDF file types Simple, focused reading experience for each type Built for offline use Progress tracking iCloud Drive Sync for reading across multiple devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Codex Guides at 5.0 against Retro Joy's 4.1. Pocket Codex Guides also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Retro Joy's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pocket Codex Guides holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Retro Joy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pocket Codex Guides's.
| Parameter | Retro Joy | Pocket Codex Guides |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clayton Sulby | Anthony John Caccese |
Customer experience
Retro Joy
Pocket Codex Guides
In-app purchases
Retro Joy
No in-app purchases
Pocket Codex Guides
No in-app purchases
