GameShard vs Consu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GameShard
This app helps you manage your game backlog by tracking playtime, predicting completion times, and suggesting what to play next based on your mood and available time. It offers detailed stats and a personalized year-end review of your gaming habits.
- Backlog management with custom shelves
- Automatic Steam playtime sync
- Play Next game suggestions by mood
- Backlog completion time forecasting
- One-tap session timer
- Free home screen widget
- Annual gaming year-in-review
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GameShard is the backlog tracker that knows how you actually play. It times your sessions, keeps your Steam playtime in sync, and tells you when you'll clear your backlog at your real pace. Can't decide what to play tonight? Pick a mood and how much time you've got, and Play Next picks a game from your backlog. WHAT TO PLAY NEXT · Pick a mood (chill, challenge, story, mindless fun) and how long you've got · Play Next suggests a game from your backlog, not a random store page · Average completion times for every game KNOWS HOW YOU PLAY · One-tap session timer, or log past play time by hand · Steam playtime syncs by itself, no button to press · Backlog forecast: "At your pace, you'll clear your backlog in 2 years 4 months." Share it if you dare · Free home screen widget with a live timer and your progress toward finishing the game · Achievements for streaks, finishing games and clearing your backlog YOUR 2026 WRAPPED, FREE · Every December: your hours, top games, busiest month, longest streak and your player type · Swipe through it like a story, then share the card IMPORT IN SECONDS · Connect Steam and import your library with real playtime · Or tap the popular games you've played, and search millions of titles from IGDB YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY · Shelves: Playing, Backlog, Wishlist, Finished, Dropped · Rate games, rate a whole Steam import in one go, and add notes · Sort by playtime, rating or name, and filter by platform or genre · Get a reminder the day a game on your Wishlist comes out · Share cards with your rating and hours, free for everyone PRIVATE BY DESIGN · No account. Your library stays on your phone · Back up to Files and restore on a new phone, free. Export to CSV too · No ads. No tracking GAMESHARD PREMIUM · Full play history: total hours, sessions and a per-game time ranking · Deep stats: hours by week, month and year, streaks, activity heatmap, completion speed, drop rate · Year in Review · Premium achievements tied to your play habits · Medium and large widgets with your week, streak and shelf counts · Make it yours: Midnight theme, compact and grid layouts, rename shelves Monthly or yearly subscription. Cancel anytime in Settings. Game data provided by IGDB. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://dv1sual.github.io/GameShelf/privacy-policy.html
Consu
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Consu tracks five kinds of media, in one library. Films, TV, games, books and music, with recommendations built from your own ratings, and a social layer built on taste. ONE LIBRARY FOR EVERYTHING • Films, TV, games, books and music, added in seconds • Organise by Backlog, Current, On Hold, Done, Upcoming, and Dropped • Library cards show who made each title and how far through it you are • Rate everything 1-10 and pin your top five • Search by author, artist, genre, tag, service, or your own notes • One detail page for every title, in every medium: scores, cast and crew, where to watch, play, read or listen, and which of your mutuals have it TV, TRACKED PROPERLY • Tick off episodes and watch each season progress • Continue Watching resumes every show where you left off • Rate episodes and see your season against IMDb and TMDB • Reminders the day a show returns, and an Upcoming calendar GAMES, IN DEPTH • How long each game takes to beat • Critic scores, modes, developer, publisher and screenshots • Where to play, DLC, PC requirements and sale prices • Your Steam hours sit on the card, imported MUSIC AND BOOKS • Albums with tracklists, previews and your own ratings • Books with series, page counts, awards, reader ratings and reviews • Comics and audiobooks tracked on their own terms BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU • TV Time: your shows, watched history and watchlist • Steam: your library, wishlist and hours played • Letterboxd and Goodreads, with your reviews, rewatches and rereads • Spotify listening history, or connect ListenBrainz • GOG, Epic or console games: paste a list of titles • Check every match before anything is added KNOW WHAT'S NEXT • Up Next picks something from your backlog to start now • For You picks new titles in every category from what you rated highest, with three of your titles behind each pick • Your creators: the people and studios behind your favourites, and their other work • No AI. Your recommendations come from your ratings, not a model A SOCIAL LAYER BUILT ON TASTE • Explore sorts people by taste match, activity or how much they have finished • You and them puts two libraries side by side: what you both finished, what you both want, and where your scores split • The feed is your people's days: what they are on right now, the releases they are waiting for, reactions and replies • Send a title to several mutuals at once • Write a review as you rate. Mutual followers can read it and reply • Full privacy control: Public, Mutuals only, or Private YOUR JOURNEY • A 3 × 3 card each month that fills as you finish things, ready to send as an image • Your decades, your genres, and your numbers by medium, score and year • Streaks and achievements CONSU PRO One purchase, forever. No subscription. • Picks: every For You and Up Next pick, Fits tonight, alerts from your creators, the crew in Your creators, arrivals on your services, In their library • Your numbers: the Time Ledger, finishes by month, averages by genre and decade, scores over time, Poster Wall • Your look: 8 card frames, 16 card colours and any hue, 8 themes for day and night, 6 fonts, the app icon in 6 colours, your photo on your card • Tools: Only my services, spreadsheet export Consu is free with no cap on how much you track, no ads, and no account required. Sign in with Google or Apple only when you want to auto back up and sync across your devices. Start tracking. Discover more. Share your taste. Privacy policy: https://getconsu.com/privacy/ Terms: https://getconsu.com/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Consu at 15.0 against GameShard's 17.0. 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
Both are free to download. GameShard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Consu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GameShard ships an update every 2 weeks, Consu every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GameShard | Consu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LUCA MANZONI | Karl Holmes |
In-app purchases
GameShard
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
Consu
- Consu Pro$4.99









