Game Ranker vs KO Backlog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Game Ranker
Discover and rate your favorite video games. Share your gaming experiences with friends and see what they are playing. Stay updated on your friends' gaming activities.
- Rate games
- Review games
- Share with friends
- Follow friends' activity
- Discover what friends are playing
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Rate and review your favorite games, share with your friends and follow what they're playing!
KO Backlog
Organize your entire game library with this app. Track games across all platforms, add notes, rate your progress, and mark when you've completed them. Sync your data seamlessly across your iOS devices.
- Track games across all platforms
- Rate and add notes to games
- Mark games as beaten
- Sync across iOS devices
- Simple and intuitive interface
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KO Backlog is a simple app for keeping track of your gaming backlog across all gaming platforms, old and new. Add games to your library and then rate, keep notes, and detail when you've beaten the games you're playing. It can be used and synced across iOS devices using iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: KO Backlog at none against Game Ranker's shown. KO Backlog also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Game Ranker's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Game Ranker against 5.0 for KO Backlog. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Game Ranker ships an update every 3 days, KO Backlog every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Game Ranker | KO Backlog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LARS KRISTOPH MADSON | Justin Noormand |
In-app purchases
Game Ranker
No in-app purchases
KO Backlog
No in-app purchases
