Comparison

Backlog vs ESC.mtl

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 collection, track progress, and discover new releases. Stay updated with gaming news and see historical popularity charts for any game. Connect with friends and build your gamer profile.

Highlights
  • Organize games by status (Playing, Completed, Backlogged, Wishlist)
  • Discover trending and new game releases
  • Track game popularity history
  • Read and write game reviews
  • Follow friends and share your collection
  • Detailed game pages with ratings, screenshots, and trailers
  • Integrated gaming news from IGN
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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

ESC.mtl

Features
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Buy tickets! enter the phygital underground world of music... share your experience in our all in one app ESC Montreal

Screenshots

Backlog4 screens
ESC.mtl3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ESC.mtl at 16.4 against Backlog's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backlog ships an update weekly, ESC.mtl every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Backlog versus ESC.mtl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBacklogESC.mtl
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB68 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDifferent Productions, LLCBashar Sawalha

In-app purchases

None

Backlog

No in-app purchases

None

ESC.mtl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Backlog free?
Backlog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ESC.mtl free?
ESC.mtl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Backlog or ESC.mtl have ads?
Neither Backlog nor ESC.mtl shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backlog or ESC.mtl?
Backlog ships an update weekly, and ESC.mtl every 10 days. Most recently, Backlog was updated on October 19, 2026 and ESC.mtl on October 19, 2026.

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