Comparison

Movie Tracker vs GameCache

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

Head to head
About

Movie Tracker

Organize all your movies, TV shows, books, anime, and video games in one place. Track your progress, manage watchlists, and discover new content with a beautiful, privacy-focused interface. Integrates with Apple Watch and Siri for seamless management.

Highlights
  • Unified media library
  • Track progress for TV, books, games
  • Organize by media type and status
  • Powerful unified search
  • Apple Watch and Siri integration
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
  • Beautiful design and animations
Features
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Your entire entertainment world, organized in one place. Shelf is the all-in-one media tracker for movies, TV shows, books, anime, and video games. Whether you're building a watchlist, tracking your reading progress, or logging every episode of your favorite series — Shelf keeps it all beautifully organized. WHY SHELF? ONE APP FOR EVERYTHING Stop switching between Letterboxd, Goodreads, and separate TV trackers. Shelf brings movies, TV shows, books, anime, and games into a single, unified library. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS TV Shows: Mark episodes watched, track season-by-season progress Books: Log pages read, see your reading progress Games: Track playtime hours Movies & Anime: Rate, review, and organize your watch history SMART ORGANIZATION Filter by media type: Movies, TV, Books, Games, Anime Status tracker: Want to Watch, In Progress, Completed Star your favorites for quick access Add personal notes and star ratings to everything POWERFUL SEARCH Search across movies, TV shows, books, and games from one unified search bar. Shelf pulls metadata, posters, and synopses automatically so you never have to type anything twice. APPLE ECOSYSTEM INTEGRATION APPLE WATCH APP Quickly add media right from your wrist. The companion Watch app includes a quick-add form, recent history, and Siri support. SIRI & SHORTCUTS "Hey Siri, add Dune to my Shelf" — add items hands-free with built-in Siri Shortcuts support. iCLOUD SYNC - coming soon Your library syncs seamlessly across all your devices with iCloud. Add a movie on your iPhone, see it on your iPad instantly. DESIGNED FOR DELIGHT Shelf isn't just functional watchlist — it's beautiful. With a warm, inviting design, smooth animations, and thoughtful touches throughout, managing your media collection feels like a joy, not a chore. Activity timeline shows your completion history Rich detail views with posters, cast, and ratings from IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic Beautiful library grid with poster art Status badges and progress indicators at a glance PRIVACY FIRST No account required. No tracking. No ads. Your data stays on your device — we never see it. Download Shelf today and finally organize your entertainment life.

About

GameCache

Consolidate your scattered game libraries from various platforms into a single, organized collection. Track your playtime, rate and review games, and discover what others are playing. Never miss a new release with timely notifications.

Highlights
  • Import Steam and Xbox libraries
  • Manually add games from any platform
  • Track playtime and sessions
  • Rate, review, and rank games
  • Follow other players and compare libraries
  • Release and event notifications
  • Export your data
Features
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Your games are scattered across storefronts, consoles and a decade of half-finished saves. GameCache brings them together into one library that is finally yours. Import from Steam and Xbox to start with the shelf you already have, not an empty one, then add anything else by hand from a catalogue of hundreds of thousands of games, on any platform you play. Everything else is built on top of that: what you're playing, what you've finished, what's still waiting, and what you're hoping for. BUILD YOUR CACHE Import your Steam and Xbox libraries in a couple of taps, with playtime carried across where it's available. Add PC, console and handheld games by hand from the full catalogue. Sort everything into Owned, Playing and Played, keep a backlog you'll actually look at, and a wishlist for everything still to come. TRACK WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PLAY Log sessions and playthroughs and see where your hours really went; per game, per month, and over time. A sessions calendar shows your year at a glance, and playtime adds up automatically as you go. RATE, REVIEW AND RANK Score what you finish and your CacheScore follows, the running average of every rating you've given. Write reviews other players can read and reply to, and build lists and tier lists from anything in the catalogue. SEE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS PLAYING Follow other players and keep up with what they're finishing. Compare libraries game by game to find the overlap, and the gaps. Reviews have threaded replies, so recommendations turn into conversations. NEVER MISS A RELEASE Get notified when a wishlisted game comes out, when a gaming event is about to start, and when a game you've been playing has been sitting untouched for a while. EARN YOUR PROGRESS Achievements track the things worth tracking; games mastered, hours logged, reviews written, libraries imported. SHARE IT Turn any game, review, list or profile into a share card built for posting, and let people open it straight in the app. YOUR DATA IS YOURS Export everything you've added at any time, and delete your account and its data from inside the app whenever you want. No waiting on a support request. GameCache is free to use and supported by ads. Game data powered by IGDB.

Screenshots

Movie Tracker4 screens
GameCache4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Movie Tracker at none against GameCache's shown. Movie Tracker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). GameCache's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Movie Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Movie Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, GameCache weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Movie Tracker versus GameCache: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMovie TrackerGameCache
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB80 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerprathibha vijayanGameCache LLC

Customer experience

Movie Tracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GameCache

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Movie Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

GameCache

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Movie Tracker free?
Movie Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GameCache free?
GameCache is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Movie Tracker or GameCache?
Movie Tracker is rated higher. Movie Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while GameCache averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Movie Tracker or GameCache have ads?
GameCache shows ads; Movie Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Movie Tracker or GameCache?
Movie Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, and GameCache weekly. Most recently, Movie Tracker was updated on November 9, 2026 and GameCache on November 10, 2026.

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