Game Shelf is the ultimate app for board game lovers. Powered by BoardGameGeek, it helps you organize your collection, track every play with detailed statistics and discover the hottest new games.
Discover Trending Games:
Browse the hottest board games on BoardGameGeek. Search for any game and instantly see player counts, playtime, ratings, and more.
Build Your Collection:
Add games to your collection or wishlist by searching, scanning a barcode or importing your BGG collection. Organize them with custom lists and filters. Track multiple copies with edition, language, condition, purchase and storage details. Mark copies for sale, for trade or previously owned, while each game appears once. Add personal ratings, with six short questions to help you find your score.
Can't Decide What to Play?
Get personalised game suggestions based on your play history, player group, available time and preferred complexity. Choose familiar games, new experiences or a mix, filter by personal rating, and see why each game fits. Playtime estimates use your recorded sessions.
Log Every Play:
Record your game sessions with players, scores, winners, time, location, notes, and photos. Quickly replay a previous session (so the same players, same game) with one tap.
Challenges:
Set goals for plays, different games, new games or time spent playing. Start from a template, customise your goal and period, and choose progress reminders if you fall behind. Share a card with your challenge statistics.
Detailed Statistics
Explore your most-played games, player win rates, locations and trends over time. Track player experience and levels, overall Player ELO, and per-game player and team ratings, with separate solo and cooperative performance ratings.
Sync & Backup
Sync across devices with iCloud. Export and import backups with copy details and collection history, choose custom lists separately, or export your games as CSV.
Made for You:
Customize your experience with alternative app icons, dark mode, grid or list views, and custom game images or titles. Access your collection, plays, and stats instantly with home screen widgets and quick actions.
Game Shelf Pro:
Unlock more with Game Shelf Pro:
• Import your play history from BoardGameGeek.
• Player Groups: save your regular groups for faster logging and filter plays and stats by group.
• Player Comparison: compare wins, win rates, streaks and favourite games, and share a rivalry card.
• Live sessions: pause and resume, manage players and seating order, track rounds and take notes. Sessions recover after reopening the app; pauses do not count towards playtime.
• Loans: see games on loan in your collection and link each loan to a specific copy.
• Detailed scoring sheets for popular games. Missing your favourite? Contact me to request it!
Game Shelf is free to use. If you enjoy the app and want extra features you can subscribe to Game Shelf Pro to support a passionate board game loving indie developer.
Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://sakustudio.nl/en/privacy-policy-board-game-shelf/
This app has everything I need it to do and is very clean about it. It visualizes all my games. I can easily create custom lists of my games (I have games in multiple locations, I can separate my wife’s games out, etc). I love the randomizer feature. I got the app just to catalog and track my games, I didn’t know I needed the randomizer feature. Because ultimately I’m going to use this to decide what to play and what is better than say for example, ‘today I have 6 people and 90 mins find me a game to put on the table’. The developer is very responsive and friendly! A+
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind review! Hope you enjoy the new feature that's in there thanks to you :) If you're ever missing anything in the app that would make it even better, you know where to find me!
Just the thing!
Mangoesicle
I don’t want or need an app for everything under the sun. I was looking for a way to track my board game inventory and that’s what led me here (that plus a very positive experience with the AdGuard Home app published under the same Developer profile).Since then the developer has added new features without causing app bloat! The 4⭐️ app review’s randomizer feature request has already been added. I love that the app tracks plays and players conjunctively, and the photo option when recording a game is a great way for my partner and I to remember the sessions we’ve played.Thank you for the app! It’s one I don’t use every week but it’s never been deleted from my phone 🙂Oh, and the developer is super responsive. The couple times I’ve reached out with a bug report or feature request they’re quick to fix / consider implementing.Everything I was looking for in a board game management app and nothing superfluous.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your review! It really puts a smile on my face ☺️
Plain and Simple!
Saucytex
Started board gaming frequently and wanted to track my plays. I scrolled through the App Store and this one caught my attention. I love how simple this app is yet it has all the features I could really ask for. My collection, wishlist (since I’ve forgotten a few games I’ve wanted, shouldn’t now!), plays and the statistics! The only thing I wish was implemented would be a “solo” slider when adding a play. I do solo plays and would like for it to be added into its own statistic, overall I’m very pleased with this app and would recommend!
Developer Response
Hey! Thanks for your review. I will definitely look into how I can make the stats more interesting for things such as solo plays.
Visual Organization Beauty
GiftGoofup
I’ve been searching for something to help me visualize my collection of board games for easy reference when not at home. I found this app, and it literally does everything I need it to. It feels so simple and clean, with such easy tools for organizing. Plus, adding the ability to sort by play time and player count was already nice- BUT ADDING A RANDOM SELECTION BUTTON? Oh that is perfect. Wonderful app!
Game Shelf 3.10
• Track multiple copies with edition, language, condition, purchase details, storage location and notes. Mark copies for sale, for trade or previously owned, and filter your collection by these details.
• Add personal ratings alongside BoardGameGeek ratings. Answer six short questions for a suggested score and use your ratings to filter your collection and game picks.
• Get personalised suggestions based on play history, player group, time and complexity, with explanations and playtime estimates informed by your recorded plays.
• See loans in your collection, link them to specific copies and choose games more easily when creating a loan. (Pro)
• Reorder game detail sections to put your favourite information first.
• Pause and resume live sessions, manage players and seating order, track rounds and take notes. Sessions recover after reopening the app, and pauses are excluded from playtime. (Pro)
• Find collection games first when logging a play, with BGG search for other games. A confirmation helps prevent accidental loss of unfinished plays.
• Record Won or Lost for solo plays, or leave the result unrecorded.
• Track player experience, levels, overall Player ELO and per-game player and team ratings, plus separate solo and cooperative performance ratings.
• Game statistics refresh after editing plays, with a retry option if loading fails.
• Start challenges from templates, customise goals and periods, and optionally receive reminders when you fall behind.
• Set your player name during onboarding and find existing names more easily in Settings.
• Request detailed scoring support from Add Play with a prefilled email.
• Backups include copy details and collection history. Export custom lists separately, including lists with games outside your collection or wishlist.
Version 3.10
The developer, Saku Studio, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
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Supported Features
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Information
Seller
Saku Studio
Size
81.2 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.