Comparison

Shelfd vs LDS Gamers

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

Head to head
About

Shelfd

Track all your movies, TV shows, anime, games, and music in one organized place. Discover new content, follow friends' activities, and share your media experiences. Keep a detailed record of your progress and ratings.

Highlights
  • Track movies, TV, anime, games, and music
  • Status tracking and episode progress
  • Rate media on a 5-star scale
  • Detailed game stats and clip sharing
  • Media discovery by decade, genre, and more
  • Follow friends and view activity feed
  • Direct messaging and shared watch lists
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A social app for Movies, TV, anime, games and music. One shelf, shared with friends. Shelfd is one home for everything you watch, play and listen to. Track it, rate it, review it, and see what your friends are into. YOUR SHELF • Separate shelves for movies, TV, anime, games and music, each with its own statuses • Track shows season by season, mark a whole season watched in one tap, and rate every episode and season • Half-star ratings and full reviews for anything, with spoiler protection • Rate albums track by track, right next to your movies and games • Reorder your planning list by priority with a drag • See your whole library at once, count rewatches, and mark the physical copies you own ANIME • Every season, sequel and movie grouped under one series • Rate the whole show, a single season or a single episode • Review the full series, one season or one episode, and comment on episodes • Advanced reviews: score story, directing, voice acting, animation, art style, score and sound, pacing and characters • Pick your favorite character for the whole series or for each season • Anime pages with the full franchise, studios, staff, characters and voice actors GAMING • Sort games into Competitive, Live, Single-player and Party, plus Wishlist, Paused, Played and Dropped • Link Steam to import your library, achievements and hours played, with Playnite sync too • Connect Xbox, and add your rank, K/D and Tracker.gg stats to competitive games • Game pages with platforms, editions, DLC and mods • Deep game search by platform, genre, mode, player count, rating, Steam reviews, price and release window • Live Steam player charts and time-to-beat estimates GAMING CLIPS • Upload clips from your phone or desktop • Drop in up to three clips, trim each one and merge them into a single video • Every clip sorted under its game, so your library stays organized and clean • Add a caption, tag friends and choose who can see it: everyone, friends or just you • Post to the clips feed, where friends can like, comment and share YOUR PROFILE • Your top picks across every category, plus favorite actors, directors, artists and characters • Stats for every category, including hours watched, average ratings and a full gaming breakdown • A diary of everything you log, day by day • Tier lists to rank anything, plus custom lists • Every review you've written in one place • Your Year in Review: a yearly recap of everything you watched, played and listened to • Customize your profile with a banner, bio and social links, and share it with a link DISCOVER • Discovery pages for every category, with personalized picks, trending and popular • One search for movies, shows, anime, games, music and people, with filters for genre, studio, language, streaming service and more • Title pages with a consensus rating, where to watch, trailers, cast and awards • Album and artist pages with top songs, tracklists and links to listen • Actor, director and voice actor pages with full filmographies • Release calendars for movies, TV, anime and games • Award season coverage and an entertainment news feed PHYSICAL MEDIA • Every media type links you to stores to buy physical copies, from DVD, Blu-ray and 4K to game editions, with specs for each FRIENDS • A live feed of everything your friends add, rate, review and comment on • Visit any friend's shelf, profile and reviews • Shared Watch: tag friends on a title you watched together, plan who to watch with next, and keep the memory of who was there • Like and comment on their activity, and message them with end-to-end encrypted DMs • Send friends recommendations, and see which friends already have a title • Notifications for requests, likes, comments, replies and new episodes from your library IMPORT YOUR LISTS • Import from Letterboxd, IMDb, Serializd, TV Time, MyAnimeList, AniList and Backloggd • Connect Steam, Xbox, Apple Music and Tracker.gg COMING SOON • Manga and comic books Shelfd is free to use.

About

LDS Gamers

Features
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Find people to play with in the LDS Gamers community. LDS Gamers makes it easy to discover multiplayer games, organize gaming sessions, and keep up with upcoming community tournaments. FIND A GAME Browse a curated catalog of multiplayer games and see which titles have upcoming sessions. PLAY TOGETHER Create a session with the game, platform, time, format, and number of players you need. Join a session, leave when plans change, or mark yourself as interested. FOLLOW TOURNAMENTS Browse upcoming tournaments, review schedules and details, register to play, and see who else has joined. STAY ON SCHEDULE Add sessions and tournaments to Apple Calendar. Choose the reminders and notifications you want for start times, player activity, schedule changes, cancellations, and full sessions. CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITY Sign in with Apple or Discord. Session updates can connect with the LDS Gamers Discord community, while the app remains focused on discovery, scheduling, and participation. BUILT FOR A BETTER GROUP-FINDING EXPERIENCE Manage your hosted, joined, and interested sessions in one place. Report inappropriate content, control notification preferences, and delete your account from Settings. LDS Gamers is an independent community app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Discord is a third-party service and is subject to its own terms.

Screenshots

Shelfd4 screens
LDS Gamers3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Shelfd at 15.0 against LDS Gamers's 17.0. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Shelfd versus LDS Gamers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShelfdLDS Gamers
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB11 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKUMAR SINGHChristopher Bishop

In-app purchases

None

Shelfd

No in-app purchases

None

LDS Gamers

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shelfd free?
Shelfd is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LDS Gamers free?
LDS Gamers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Shelfd or LDS Gamers have ads?
Neither Shelfd nor LDS Gamers shows ads.

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