Comparison

Board Game Stats vs ChapterLamp

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

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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

ChapterLamp

Features
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ChapterLamp is a quiet, fully private reading log for the books you love. • Library — track Reading, Want to Read, Finished. All on this device. • ChapterLamp timer — log every chapter at your own pace. No streak shaming, no daily caps. • Saved lines — keep the quotes you'll come back to, with tags and pages. • Statistics — yearly goal, monthly heatmap, reading pace — all calculated on-device. • ISBN scan — first-scan only, then 100% offline. One purchase. No subscription, no cloud, no account, no social pressure. Yours, kept gently. Premium ($2.99 one-time) unlocks unlimited books, parallel reading, full statistics, exports to PDF/Markdown/JSON, six lamp themes, and adjustable haptic warmth. Nine languages: English, German, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese.

Screenshots

Board Game Stats4 screens
ChapterLamp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ChapterLamp at Free against Board Game Stats's $5.99. ChapterLamp also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9). Board Game Stats's advantage is chart position (#9 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On 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

ChapterLamp is free to download; Board Game Stats costs $5.99 up front. Board Game Stats sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. ChapterLamp asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Board Game Stats ships an update weekly, ChapterLamp fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Board Game Stats versus ChapterLamp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoard Game StatsChapterLamp
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (455 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings455 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#9 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEerko VisseringShanghai Runesmith Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.

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

ChapterLamp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Board Game Stats free?
Board Game Stats costs $5.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is ChapterLamp free?
ChapterLamp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Board Game Stats or ChapterLamp have ads?
Neither Board Game Stats nor ChapterLamp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Board Game Stats or ChapterLamp?
Board Game Stats ships an update weekly, and ChapterLamp fortnightly. Most recently, Board Game Stats was updated on October 18, 2026 and ChapterLamp on October 3, 2026.

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