Comparison

Backlog vs Pocket Backlog

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
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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

Pocket Backlog

Features
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Every game you own, in one place, and a good answer to what to play next. Sign in with Steam, Xbox, or PlayStation and Pocket Backlog brings your whole collection across in one go. NEW IN 1.5: READY FOR IPHONE DUO - Open your iPhone Duo and the Library spreads across both screens: Now Playing as a Cover Flow, a countdown to your next must-play, and your Gamedex beside it - The Gamedex becomes the Dex: one finished game on show on the left, every finish in a numbered grid on the right - Your Wishlist and the Releases calendar use both screens too - On every iPhone and iPad, the Library now opens on a stage that takes its color from the game you're playing - Counting down to a must-play? While you wait suggests a game from your backlog you can finish before it lands START WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY OWN - Import from Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation: choose what comes across, and import again later to pick up only what's new - Achievements and trophies come along, so you can see how far along you are in each game - Not on those? Pick a platform and check off the games you own, or search the IGDB catalog and add one with a tap SORTED FOR YOU, NOT SHOUTED AT - Organize reads your trophies and playtime and suggests what looks finished or never really started. Nothing changes until you say so - Your backlog sorts itself onto shelves: nearly done, barely touched, the genres you collect. Build your own and pin your favorites - Pick for Me finds something that fits the time you have tonight FINISH THINGS, AND SEE THEM - Every game you finish becomes a card in your Gamedex - Rate games your way, from Uninstalled to Masterpiece, and share a review slip with your verdict - Check-ins ask how the game you're on is going: stay on it, finish it, or set it aside - A Recap every month, and your Year in Gaming each December ALWAYS KNOW WHAT'S COMING - The Releases calendar shows the next twelve months, and your wishlist gets a nudge on release day - Discover is a Cover Flow of popular games: skip, wishlist, or add each one, with Undo if you change your mind FREE AND PRO Import, Organize, shelves, ratings, Recaps, Releases, and the Gamedex are free. Pro adds iCloud sync across your devices, the deeper readings on the Activity tab (the player you are, where you play, your rarest trophy), full achievement and trophy lists, more library styles, widgets, app icons, themes, and rating colors, the animated foil card, and Calendar sync. Monthly, annual, or lifetime. No ads. No feeds. Just your games. Terms of Use: https://pocketlab.studio/pocket-backlog/terms Privacy Policy: https://pocketlab.studio/pocket-backlog/privacy

Screenshots

Backlog4 screens
Pocket Backlog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backlog at none against Pocket Backlog's 3. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pocket Backlog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Backlog asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backlog ships an update every 5 days, Pocket Backlog weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Backlog versus Pocket Backlog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBacklogPocket Backlog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDifferent Productions, LLCDavid Norris

In-app purchases

None

Backlog

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Pocket Backlog

Subscriptions2
  • Pocket Backlog Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pocket Backlog Pro Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pocket Backlog Lifetime Pro$49.99

Questions

Is Backlog free?
Backlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Backlog free?
Pocket Backlog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Backlog or Pocket Backlog have ads?
Neither Backlog nor Pocket Backlog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backlog or Pocket Backlog?
Backlog ships an update every 5 days, and Pocket Backlog weekly. Most recently, Backlog was updated on October 30, 2026 and Pocket Backlog on October 25, 2026.

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