Comparison

KD Scoring 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

KD Scoring

Easily record and track your game sessions for King's Dilemma. This utility helps you manage your reigns and maintain accurate scores for your board game experiences.

Highlights
  • Score King's Dilemma games
  • Track game reigns
  • Record game sessions
  • Accurate scoring
  • Game history
Features
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Quickly and accurately score your games of King's Dilemma and keep a record of your reigns!

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

KD Scoring3 screens
Board Game Shelf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: KD Scoring at none against Board Game Shelf's 5. KD Scoring also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Board Game Shelf's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Board Game Shelf sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per year. KD Scoring asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for KD Scoring against 4.9 for Board Game Shelf. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Board Game Shelf has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KD Scoring ships an update every 2 weeks, Board Game Shelf weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
KD Scoring versus Board Game Shelf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKD ScoringBoard Game Shelf
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings115 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott McCoySaku Studio

Customer experience

KD Scoring

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Board Game Shelf

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

KD Scoring

No in-app purchases

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
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  • Pro Lifetime$11.95

Questions

Is KD Scoring free?
KD Scoring is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Board Game Shelf free?
Board Game Shelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, KD Scoring or Board Game Shelf?
KD Scoring is rated higher. KD Scoring averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Board Game Shelf averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do KD Scoring or Board Game Shelf have ads?
Neither KD Scoring nor Board Game Shelf shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KD Scoring or Board Game Shelf?
KD Scoring ships an update every 2 weeks, and Board Game Shelf weekly. Most recently, KD Scoring was updated on October 21, 2026 and Board Game Shelf on October 24, 2026.

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