Comparison

HiScore vs Board Game Shelf

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

Head to head
About

HiScore

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HiScore est la boite à outils indispensable de toutes vos parties de jeux de société ! Choisissez le jeu, sélectionnez les joueurs et lancez votre partie ! Centrée principalement sur la gestion des scores, l'application s'est diversifiée et vous propose maintenant une suite complète de fonctionnalités pour tout ludiste qui se respecte : - Ludothèque - Gestion de sets de dés avec lancé - Gestion de listes de mots pour choix aléatoire - Sélection du premier joueur - Création simplifiée des équipes - Chronomètres - Sauvegarde de partie avec photos Nous espérons que vous apprécierez HiScore. Si c'est le cas, laissez nous 5 étoiles sur l'App Store, ça fait toujours plaisir !

About

Board Game Shelf

Organize your board game collection, track plays with detailed stats, and discover new trending games. Features a random game picker, custom challenges, and iCloud sync for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Organize board game collection
  • Track game plays and statistics
  • Discover trending board games
  • Random game picker
  • Customizable challenges
  • iCloud sync and backup
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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Game Shelf is the ultimate app for board game lovers. Powered by BoardGameGeek, it helps you organize your collection, track every play with detailed statistics and discover the hottest new games. Discover Trending Games: Browse the hottest board games on BoardGameGeek. Search for any game and instantly see player counts, playtime, ratings, and more. Build Your Collection: Add games to your collection or wishlist by searching, scanning a barcode or importing your BGG collection. Organize them with custom lists and filters. Track multiple copies with edition, language, condition, purchase and storage details. Mark copies for sale, for trade or previously owned, while each game appears once. Add personal ratings, with six short questions to help you find your score. Can't Decide What to Play? Get personalised game suggestions based on your play history, player group, available time and preferred complexity. Choose familiar games, new experiences or a mix, filter by personal rating, and see why each game fits. Playtime estimates use your recorded sessions. Log Every Play: Enter duration directly or record start and end times. Record your game sessions with players, scores, winners, time, location, notes, and photos. Quickly replay a previous session (so the same players, same game) with one tap. Challenges: Set goals for plays, different games, new games or time spent playing. Start from a template, customise your goal and period, and choose progress reminders if you fall behind. Share a card with your challenge statistics. Detailed Statistics Explore your most-played games, player win rates, locations and trends over time. Track player experience and levels, overall Player ELO, and per-game player and team ratings, with separate solo and cooperative performance ratings. Sync & Backup Sync across devices with iCloud. Export and import backups with copy details and collection history, choose custom lists separately, or export your games as CSV. Made for You: Customize your experience with alternative app icons, dark mode, grid or list views, and custom game images or titles. Access your collection, plays, and stats instantly with home screen widgets and quick actions. Game Shelf Pro: Unlock more with Game Shelf Pro: • Import your play history from BoardGameGeek. • Player Groups: save your regular groups for faster logging and filter plays and stats by group. • Player Comparison: compare wins, win rates, streaks and favourite games, and share a rivalry card. • Live sessions: pause and resume, manage players and seating order, track rounds and take notes. Sessions recover after reopening the app; pauses do not count towards playtime. • Loans: see games on loan in your collection and link each loan to a specific copy. • Detailed scoring for games including Wondrous Creatures, Akropolis, Clank! Catacombs and Endeavor: Deep Sea, with supported expansion fields. Missing your favourite? Contact me! Game Shelf is free to use. If you enjoy the app and want extra features you can subscribe to Game Shelf Pro to support a passionate board game loving indie developer. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sakustudio.nl/en/privacy-policy-board-game-shelf/

Screenshots

HiScore4 screens
Board Game Shelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Board Game Shelf at none against HiScore's shown. Board Game Shelf also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). HiScore's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HiScore sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Board Game Shelf sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HiScore ships an update every 6 weeks, Board Game Shelf weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HiScore versus Board Game Shelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiScoreBoard Game Shelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUseless CorpSaku Studio

In-app purchases

5 purchases

HiScore

One-time5
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • Remove ads$1.99
  • Remove ads$2.99
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  • Remove ads$4.99
  • Remove ads$9.99
5 purchases

Board Game Shelf

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Pro Subscription$4.951 Year
One-time4
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$3.95
  • Large Tip$6.99
Show 1 more
  • Pro Lifetime$11.95

Questions

Is HiScore free?
HiScore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Board Game Shelf free?
Board Game Shelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HiScore or Board Game Shelf have ads?
HiScore shows ads; Board Game Shelf does not.
Which is updated more often, HiScore or Board Game Shelf?
HiScore ships an update every 6 weeks, and Board Game Shelf weekly. Most recently, HiScore was updated on October 27, 2026 and Board Game Shelf on October 30, 2026.

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