Comparison

Board Game Shelf vs MyScoreTracker

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

Head to head
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/

About

MyScoreTracker

Easily track scores for board games with this app. It supports up to 12 players with customizable settings, quick score entry, and performance statistics. It also offers dedicated score sheets for over 200 popular board games.

Highlights
  • Up to 12 player support
  • Customizable player settings
  • Quick score entry
  • Performance tracking and statistics
  • Over 200 dedicated score sheets
  • Game management features
  • Ergonomic interface options
Features
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MyScoreTracker makes tracking board game scores easy! Use a flexible score counter or dedicated score sheets with automatic calculations. Spend less time counting points and more time enjoying your games. AUTOMATED BOARD GAME SCORE SHEETS Say goodbye to paper score sheets and tedious calculations! Choose from hundreds of dedicated score sheets for popular board games. Enter your scores and let the app calculate totals, bonuses, and special scoring rules automatically. Supported games include: 7 Wonders, Agricola, Ark Nova, Cascadia, Dorfromantik, Everdell, Forest Shuffle, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Terraforming Mars, Wingspan, and many more! Explore the complete, regularly updated list: https://myscoretracker.app/available-games FLEXIBLE SCORE COUNTER Keep track of scores during any board game, card game, or party game. • Up to 12 players • Customizable names, colors, and starting scores • Quick point addition and subtraction • Live rankings and scoring indicators • Random first player • Built-in timers and dice • Adjustable game settings FAST AND INTUITIVE • Quick score entry with a numeric keypad • Instant or delayed point adjustments • Haptic feedback • Easy game restart HISTORY AND STATISTICS • Save and review your games • Track scores and rankings • Explore statistics and charts • Recreate previous games • Import, export, and share game data CUSTOMIZABLE EXPERIENCE • Light and dark themes • Customizable backgrounds • Left-handed mode • Multiple languages • Flexible settings OFFLINE, PRIVATE AND AD-FREE • Score games offline (download dedicated score sheets beforehand) • No account required • No ads or trackers • No subscriptions • No in-app purchases • One-time purchase Whether you're playing strategy games, family games, or card games, MyScoreTracker is your companion for easier scorekeeping. Focus on playing. MyScoreTracker handles the scores!

Screenshots

Board Game Shelf4 screens
MyScoreTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Board Game Shelf at Free against MyScoreTracker's $0.99. MyScoreTracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

Board Game Shelf is free to download; MyScoreTracker costs $0.99 up front. Board Game Shelf sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per year. MyScoreTracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Board Game Shelf against 4.9 for MyScoreTracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Board Game Shelf's written reviews are positive against 96% of MyScoreTracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Board Game Shelf ships an update weekly, MyScoreTracker every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Board Game Shelf versus MyScoreTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoard Game ShelfMyScoreTracker
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.9 (15 ratings)4.9 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better95.8% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better10
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaku StudioFabrice Belot

Customer experience

Board Game Shelf

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

MyScoreTracker

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive95.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative0.0%

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
None

MyScoreTracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Board Game Shelf free?
Board Game Shelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyScoreTracker free?
MyScoreTracker costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Board Game Shelf or MyScoreTracker?
MyScoreTracker is rated higher. Board Game Shelf averages 4.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while MyScoreTracker averages 4.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Board Game Shelf or MyScoreTracker have ads?
Neither Board Game Shelf nor MyScoreTracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Board Game Shelf or MyScoreTracker?
Board Game Shelf ships an update weekly, and MyScoreTracker every 5 days. Most recently, Board Game Shelf was updated on October 24, 2026 and MyScoreTracker on October 25, 2026.

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