Comparison

thecooldown vs Questly!

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

Head to head
About

thecooldown

Log, rate, and review your entire gaming history. Create custom tier lists, participate in community polls, and play daily guessing games. Connect with other gamers and build your personalized gaming profile.

Highlights
  • Log and track played games
  • Rate and review games
  • Create custom tier lists
  • Participate in weekly Versus matchups
  • Play daily 'Guess the Game'
  • Follow friends and join discussions
Features
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thecooldown is the ultimate platform for gamers who want to track, review, and share their gaming journey. Log every game you play. Rate them, track your hours, and build your gaming profile. Playing it, completed it, 100%'d it, dropped it, or sitting in your backlog — keep track of it all. Link your Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation accounts to import your library and hours automatically, and pick up right where you left off with Continue Playing. Write reviews and share your honest opinions with the community. See what others think and discover your next favourite game. Create tier lists and rank your favourite games, characters, and franchises. Share them with friends and settle the debate once and for all. Vote in weekly Versus matchups — who wins in a fight? Master Chief or Captain Titus? Joel Miller or Arthur Morgan? Cast your vote and see how the community decides. Play Guess the Game daily and build your streak. Genre, release year, platform, developer — use the clues to figure out the mystery game before your guesses run out. Share your best moments. Upload screenshots to any game's page — the best ones get featured for the whole community to see. Every Sunday, get your Weekly Review — a personal recap of everything you played, reviewed, and ranked, complete with your streaks, stats, and Versus picks, ready to share. Earn badges as you go, from writing your first review to logging thousands of hours, and show them off on your profile. Join community discussions, follow other gamers, and keep up with what your friends are playing through the feed. Your gaming identity, all in one place.

About

Questly!

This app helps you discover, track, and share your gaming experiences. It builds a personalized game library from your entire collection, logs your playtime and reviews, and allows you to create shareable lists. Connect with a community of gamers based on shared tastes.

Highlights
  • Personalized game discovery
  • Import and manage entire game library
  • Track playtime and achievements
  • Create and share custom game lists
  • Community reviews and player following
  • Game information and live streams
Features
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Questly is the home for your gaming life, built around your taste, not what's trending. SWIPE TO DISCOVER A focused stack of picks chosen specifically for you. The more you play, rate and track, the smarter it gets. No trending noise, no FOMO. BRING YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY Import every game you own, from retro to modern & manage your backlog & achievements without the chaos. Add manually or sync from Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, RetroAchievements and GOG in seconds. Every game pulls in with playtime and achievements pre-populated from day one. DLC and expansions come too, so you can see what you own and what you are missing. Own it physically? Log the edition, condition and where you found it. TRACK EVERYTHING YOU'VE PLAYED Your Journal is your personal gaming record. Every rating, every review, every replay logged. Watch your taste evolve and never forget the games that shaped you. EVERY UNLOCK IN ONE PLACE Your achievements and trophies from every account, counted together. See your running total, what you unlocked most recently, how rare each one is, and the games you are closest to finishing at 100 percent. Each platform gets its own leaderboard to see how you match up with the community. LISTS THAT EARN SHARES Top 10s, themed picks, deep cuts nobody asked for but everyone needs. Rank them, tier them or skip the order entirely. Every list exports as a clean shareable image in one tap. A COMMUNITY BUILT AROUND TASTE Honest reviews from real players with no agenda. Follow players whose taste matches yours. Share lists, guides, what you're playing, post polls and let the community settle the debates. One clean feed, no algorithm deciding who's worth your attention. KNOW YOUR GAME INSIDE OUT Community ratings, time to beat, trailers and live Twitch streams, all on one page. Track prices across every store, get notified the moment something on your wishlist drops. Powered by IGDB, the same database behind Twitch. YOUR PROFILE, YOUR STORY Your gaming journey expressed through your lists, stats and journal. Unlock themes and profile banners the more you quest. Built independently by two lifelong gamers. No investors. No agenda. We don't serve ads, sell your data or track you across the web. We never will. Questly is supported by players who join the Guild, not advertisers. Terms of use: https://questly.games/terms.html

Screenshots

thecooldown4 screens
Questly!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: thecooldown at 100% against Questly!'s 33%. thecooldown also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Questly!'s advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Questly! sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. thecooldown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

thecooldown holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of thecooldown's written reviews are positive against 33% of Questly!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

thecooldown ships an update every 4 days, Questly! every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
thecooldown versus Questly!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterthecooldownQuestly!
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB30 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperEdward IrvineODYSSEUS STUDIOS LTD

Customer experience

thecooldown

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Questly!

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

thecooldown

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Questly!

Subscriptions2
  • Questly Pro$3.991 Month
  • Questly Pro$39.991 Year

Questions

Is thecooldown free?
thecooldown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Questly! free?
Questly! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, thecooldown or Questly!?
thecooldown is rated higher. thecooldown averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Questly! averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do thecooldown or Questly! have ads?
Neither thecooldown nor Questly! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, thecooldown or Questly!?
thecooldown ships an update every 4 days, and Questly! every 5 days. Most recently, thecooldown was updated on October 1, 2026 and Questly! on October 1, 2026.

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