Comparison

Board Game Shelf vs Game Score Tracking

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

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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/

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Game Score Tracking

Features
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Track your game scores with ease — no pen, no paper, no internet required! This app lets you keep track of your favorite board, card, or dice games effortlessly. Whether you're playing UNO, Skyjo, 6 nimmt!, or Monopoly Deal, everything is designed to make scorekeeping fast and intuitive. - Simple to use: a clean interface to log points in seconds - All games are saved — even unfinished ones. Pick up right where you left off - Detailed player stats: track games played, wins (gold, silver, bronze), per player and per game - Fully offline: no login, no internet — just open and play - Custom game rules: define your own games with a rule engine — set win conditions, round limits, and choose how winners are calculated From UNO Flip to Yahtzee, Rummy, or Ligretto, this app is the perfect companion to any game night.

Screenshots

Board Game Shelf4 screens
Game Score Tracking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Game Score Tracking at none against Board Game Shelf's 5. Game Score Tracking also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Board Game Shelf's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, 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. Board Game Shelf sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.95 per year. Game Score Tracking asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Board Game Shelf ships an update weekly, Game Score Tracking every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Board Game Shelf versus Game Score Tracking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoard Game ShelfGame Score Tracking
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (15 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSaku StudioJulien Gras

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

Game Score Tracking

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Board Game Shelf free?
Board Game Shelf is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Game Score Tracking free?
Game Score Tracking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Board Game Shelf or Game Score Tracking have ads?
Neither Board Game Shelf nor Game Score Tracking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Board Game Shelf or Game Score Tracking?
Board Game Shelf ships an update weekly, and Game Score Tracking every 3 months. Most recently, Board Game Shelf was updated on October 30, 2026 and Game Score Tracking on November 8, 2026.

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