Comparison

Board Game Stats vs Journal Quick

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

Head to head
About

Board Game Stats

Track your board game collection, plays, and scores with detailed statistics and graphs. Manage your collection, log game sessions, and sync with BoardGameGeek. Offers tailor-made score sheets and player comparison tools.

Highlights
  • Collection management
  • Play tracking
  • Statistics and graphs
  • Sync with BoardGameGeek
  • Customizable score sheets
  • Player comparison
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Keep track of your Board Game collection, plays and scores in this easy to use tool. View statistics and graphs for your games, plays, and other players. Works offline, can sync with BoardGameGeek. - How many games did you play recently? - Who scored the highest for a game? - With whom did you play and who wins more? - Did you improve your score from last times? - Use tailor-made score sheets to enter scores. - Compare players, view graphs and charts. - Keep track of your collection and sync with BoardGameGeek. Collection management features: - Keep track of every game you've played or are interested in. - Choose a specific version and image, and track multiple copies. - Set status to Owned, Wishlist, Want to play, and much more. - Enter details like comments, price paid, acquisition date, etc. - Filter games on status, Played but not owned, Unplayed owned games. - Set Custom filters to select a game for your specific group. - Full automatic syncing with your BoardGameGeek (BGG) collection. Play tracking features: - Set scoring rules, cooperative and team play for each game. - Select game and played expansions. - Set Players and Locations, including anonymous players. - Enter location, scores per player and many more details. - Calculate scores on the fly by using the math keyboard. - Create teams and enter team scores. - Use over 2800 game-specific tailor-made score sheets. - Add Player roles, and choose from previously used ones. - Use a timer to keep track of your play length. - Add a Game note you can view each time you start a Play. - Post your plays to BoardGameGeek, including auto-post after each save. - Import existing plays from BoardGameGeek (BGG), Yucata and Board Game Arena (BGA) - Send one or more Plays to other BG Stats users so only one of you has to enter the details. Statistics features: - View statistics for each game and player, and combination. - See pie charts, play times and durations graphs, and score charts. - View insights for Games and Players, for different time periods. - See your H-index, fives, dimes, quarters and centuries. - View a Player's personal H-index and win percentage. - Share Insights charts and 3x3 images. - See cost per play for your games. BG Stats has export and import functions for easy backup to a variety of services. You can sync with other devices via BG Stats Cloud sync (an in-app subscription). All in a native iOS interface, supports dark mode, landscape and iPad screens. With the Power Expansion (in-app purchase): - Extended game charts, based on number of players. - Filter your data on players, locations, specific periods and player counts. - Statistics for a specific combination of players, and compare them. - Winning streaks, tiebreakers, and new and starting player stats. - Role- and board-based statistics. - Heat map of plays and play duration. - Cost per hour, player and more. - Add tags to Games, Players and Locations. - Create and save custom filters, now also with tags. - Customize the Game filter dropdown menu. - Create advanced filters with multiple criteria and logical operations. - View combined game statistics. - Sync game tags with BoardGameGeek. - Create Challenges (if available) based on game filters or tags. With the Challenges expansion (in-app purchase): - Create a challenge from one of the many templates. - x times y challenges: play x games y times. - Ongoing Reach your next H-index challenges. - Set the time period and choose specific games to track, or use auto-fill. - Filter specific Players, Locations and player counts to count for the challenge. With a Cloud sync subscription: - Seamlessly sync your data between all your devices. - Keep a backup of your data in the cloud. Please note that changes to the BGG website or API can temporarily break BGG related features. I cannot guarantee their continued availability.

About

Journal Quick

This app offers a quick and simple journaling experience with daily prompts to guide your thoughts. It focuses on short entries, making reflection and habit-building stress-free and achievable in under a minute. Track your mood and maintain consistency with a streak tracker.

Highlights
  • Daily prompts
  • Quick journaling
  • Mood tracking
  • Streak tracker
  • Minimalist design
  • Private entries
Features
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Journal Quick makes daily journaling fast, simple, and stress-free. No long entries. No pressure. Just a few prompts each day to help you reflect and stay consistent. Whether you’re building a habit, clearing your mind, or tracking your mood, Journal Quick helps you do it in under a minute. Features: Daily prompts to guide your thoughts Quick and simple journaling experience Mood tracking for each entry Streak tracker to stay consistent Clean, minimalist design Private entries stored on your device Why Journal Quick? Most people quit journaling because it takes too long. Journal Quick removes that barrier so you can stay consistent and actually build the habit. Just open the app, write for a few seconds, and move on with your day. Start your journaling habit today.

Screenshots

Board Game Stats4 screens
Journal Quick3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Journal Quick at none against Board Game Stats's 9. Journal Quick also leads on price ($1.99 vs $5.99) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Board Game Stats's advantage is ratings volume (456 vs 1) and chart position (#12 vs unranked). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Board Game Stats costs $5.99 and Journal Quick $1.99 up front. Board Game Stats sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Journal Quick asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Board Game Stats against 5.0 for Journal Quick. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Board Game Stats has 456 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Board Game Stats's written reviews are positive against 100% of Journal Quick's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Board Game Stats versus Journal Quick: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoard Game StatsJournal Quick
Price$5.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.9 (456 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings456 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#12 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB194 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEerko VisseringTanner Berkenstock

Customer experience

Board Game Stats

All ratings455 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral0.4%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews258 reviews
Positive88.4%
Neutral3.9%
Negative7.8%

Journal Quick

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

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Board Game Stats

One-time9
  • One Year of BG Stats Cloud Sync$0.99
  • Kind Tip$0.99
  • Challenges Expansion$1.99
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  • Deep Stats expansion$2.99
  • Generous Tip$2.99
  • Tagging expansion$2.99
  • Power Expansion$5.99
  • Amazing Tip$6.99
  • Mind-blowing Tip$14.99
None

Journal Quick

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Board Game Stats free?
Board Game Stats costs $5.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Journal Quick free?
Journal Quick costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Board Game Stats or Journal Quick?
Journal Quick is rated higher. Board Game Stats averages 4.9 out of 5 from 456 ratings, while Journal Quick averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Board Game Stats or Journal Quick have ads?
Neither Board Game Stats nor Journal Quick shows ads.

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