Comparison

Backlog vs NextQuest

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

Head to head
About

Backlog

Organize your entire video game library, track progress, discover new titles, and connect with friends. Manage wishlists, backlogged games, and completed titles all in one place. Stay updated with gaming news and community scores.

Highlights
  • Unified game library management
  • Customizable game collections
  • Game discovery and news feed
  • Detailed game information
  • Social features and friend activity
  • Offline library sync
  • Customizable themes and privacy controls
Features
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Your backlog, conquered. Backlog is the game tracker for people who buy more games than they finish. Track every game you own, want, or are playing right now, see what your friends are into, and find what to play next. ONE LIBRARY FOR EVERYTHING • Every game in one tab, filtered by status: Wishlist, Backlogged, Playing, Completed, Dropped • Make your own collections, like All-Time Favorites or Co-op Nights • Add-ons stay grouped under the game they belong to • Start without an account, and bring your library with you when you sign in FIND YOUR NEXT GAME • Trending, Most Wanted, Now Playing and Hot on Steam, plus Recently Released and Coming Soon • See how the charts moved over time • Wishlist a game for reminders a week before, the day before and on release day, plus date changes and new DLC • Search more than 100,000 games, even by the name a game shipped under somewhere else • The latest gaming news, built right into Discover EVERYTHING ABOUT A GAME • Critic scores, player scores and the Backlog community score side by side • Platforms, release dates, age ratings, time to beat, trailers and screenshots • My Stats: hours played on each platform, when you finished, and how your score compares • Notes for every game in your library RATE, REVIEW, CONNECT • A Forum on every game: posts, replies, quotes and @ mentions • Score games from 0 to 100 and write reviews • Vote on reviews and reply to them • Translate reviews written in other languages • An Activity tab with what the people you follow started, finished, rated and reviewed • Follow friends, pin your Top Friends, and vouch for the people you play with • Earn badges for your profile • Share your profile as a link, with its own page on the web YOUR APP, YOUR WAY • Pick a theme color for the whole app, in light and dark mode • Works offline: Offline Sync keeps your library, profile and the Forum on your iPhone • Hide tags you never want to see, and keep adult games out of Trending, Search and Browse • Choose who sees your profile, library, ratings and activity, or make your account private • A Home Screen widget for your library • Works with VoiceOver and larger text sizes WHY BACKLOG? • A native iPhone app. Fast and smooth. • Sign in with Apple. Privacy first. • Your library syncs across your devices. • Built by gamers, for gamers. Download Backlog and finally get your game library under control.

About

NextQuest

Organize your entire gaming library, track progress, and set personal goals for each game. Discover and share curated lists with a community of players. Understand your gaming habits with long-term statistics.

Highlights
  • Organize and prioritize game library
  • Add notes, checklists, and goals
  • Create and share curated game lists
  • Discover games with search and details
  • Reflect on long-term gaming stats
  • Custom dark theme and haptics
Features
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Take control of your gaming journey with NextQuest, a game-tracking app built for players who want to be more intentional about what they play. Whether you're diving into a massive RPG, working through a growing backlog, or deciding what to play next, NextQuest keeps your entire gaming life in one organized place. Go beyond simple tracking. Log every playthrough on every platform, with its own status, dates, play time, and rating. Keep notes and checklists for each game, organized into sections, and turn your library into a living quest log, not just a list. Discover and share curated game lists with other players, see what's trending, and explore a community that values curation over noise. Over time, NextQuest helps you understand your habits as a player. Built-in stats show your gaming history across the years: what you play, finish, revisit, or leave behind. What you can do with NextQuest: - Organize your library by status: playing, queued, finished, dropped, or backlog - Track multiple playthroughs of the same game across platforms - Import your Steam library in a few taps - Keep notes and checklists for each game, organized into sections - Create, share, and explore curated lists with other players - Search over 400,000 games with rich details, media, and store links - Look back on each year's highs and lows with long-term stats - Test your gaming knowledge with daily quizzes and leaderboards - Enjoy a polished dark theme with smooth animations and haptics NextQuest is a passion project, built with care for players who see games as experiences worth remembering.

Screenshots

Backlog4 screens
NextQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

Backlog and NextQuest both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of NextQuest's written reviews are positive against 75% of Backlog's. NextQuest also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Backlog's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 5.0 for Backlog against 5.0 for NextQuest. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 11 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Backlog's written reviews are positive against 100% of NextQuest's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backlog ships an update every 5 days, NextQuest every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Backlog versus NextQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBacklogNextQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings611 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB66 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDifferent Productions, LLCVictor Valentine

Customer experience

Backlog

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

NextQuest

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Backlog

No in-app purchases

None

NextQuest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backlog free?
Backlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NextQuest free?
NextQuest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Backlog or NextQuest?
Backlog and NextQuest are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do Backlog or NextQuest have ads?
Neither Backlog nor NextQuest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backlog or NextQuest?
Backlog ships an update every 5 days, and NextQuest every 3 weeks. Most recently, Backlog was updated on November 4, 2026 and NextQuest on October 30, 2026.

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