Comparison

Checkpoint vs Barklog

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

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About

Checkpoint

Organize your gaming backlog with drag-and-drop prioritization. Track your play sessions and build personalized all-time game rankings based on your preferences. Discover what to play next from a vast database of titles across numerous platforms.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop backlog prioritization
  • Track play sessions and completion dates
  • Build personalized all-time game rankings
  • Database of 200,000+ games
  • Support for 30+ platforms
  • Dark mode design
Features
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Checkpoint helps you bring order to your messy game backlog and keep an organized list of what to play now, next, and later. YOUR BACKLOG, YOUR WAY Build your gaming queue with simple drag-and-drop prioritization. Your top games are labeled "Up Next," "On Deck," and "Queued" so you always know what's coming. Search from a database of 200,000+ games across 30+ platforms — PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, PC, mobile, and retro consoles. Add games with a tap, then drag and drop to set your order. TRACK WHAT YOU PLAY Log your play sessions and build your year-at-a-glance view of every game you played and when you beat it. Look back at your gaming history month by month and see your journey unfold. BUILD YOUR ALL-TIME RANKINGS Forget arbitrary 1-10 scores. Checkpoint's smart ranking system helps you build your definitive all-time rankings by comparing similarly rated games head-to-head. The result? Personal rankings that are precise and specific to you. Your score is calculated from real preferences and past reviews, not guesswork. PERFECT FOR - Gamers with backlogs across multiple platforms - Game Pass, PS Plus, and subscription service subscribers with too many choices - Enthusiasts who want to build a definitive ranking of the best games they've ever played - Completionists who want to track and celebrate their gaming journey WHAT'S INSIDE - Easy adding and ordering of your backlog with drag-and-drop - Detailed game pages with critic and user ratings, time-to-beat estimates, gameplay videos, and screenshots - Session logging with month-by-month calendar views of what you played and when - Comparative ratings to build your all-time games ranked from best to worst - Support for 30+ platforms and 200,000+ games - Sleek dark mode design Download Checkpoint and finally answer the question: "What should I play next?"

About

Barklog

Features
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You own more games than you'll ever finish. Barklog is where you keep track of them anyway. Add a game, then mark it waiting, playing, completed, or abandoned. That's the whole system. Whatever you're playing sits at the top, so the game you're actually in the middle of is the first thing you see. ABANDONED IS A REAL ANSWER Most trackers give you a "finished" box and quietly assume you'll get there. You won't. Barklog lets you say so in one tap and stop thinking about it. No judgement. FIND THE NEXT ONE Explore shows what's popular, what's coming out, and what just landed. Already know the name? Search for it. Tap any game for its cover, platforms, genres, who made it, what the ratings look like, and which games it's similar to. SHARE A VIDEO, PICK THE GAME You're watching a clip of some game and you can't work out what it is. Share the video to Barklog from YouTube or TikTok and it figures out which game the clip is about, then hands you the candidates to pick from. All it reads is the video title and the channel name. TEN AT A TIME, FREE Barklog is free for ten unfinished games: the ones waiting, and the ones you're partway through. Finish one, or admit you're done with it, and the slot comes back. Games you've completed or abandoned never count against the ten, so the shelf behind you can get as long as it likes. Premium takes the cap off. Nothing else changes. GAME DATA Every cover, release date, platform, genre and summary in Barklog comes from IGDB, a games database its community maintains. BARKLOG PREMIUM Barklog Premium removes the ten-game cap and nothing else. It comes as two auto-renewable subscriptions, Barklog Premium Monthly and Barklog Premium Yearly, both starting with a 7-day free trial. The price for your region is shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at the end of the free trial. The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends; your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://barklog.gg/privacy Barklog terms: https://barklog.gg/terms Support: https://barklog.gg/support

Screenshots

Checkpoint4 screens
Barklog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Checkpoint at none against Barklog's 2. Checkpoint also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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. Barklog sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Checkpoint asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Checkpoint versus Barklog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheckpointBarklog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB78 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperJOSHUA JOHN PHILIPVolodymyr Chornonoh

In-app purchases

None

Checkpoint

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Barklog

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Checkpoint free?
Checkpoint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Barklog free?
Barklog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Checkpoint or Barklog have ads?
Neither Checkpoint nor Barklog shows ads.

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