Your Board Game Companion:
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. Do this by searching, scanning a barcode, or importing your entire BGG account. Create custom lists to organize games your way, and use filters to find the perfect game for tonight.
Can't Decide What to Play?
Use the random game picker. Set the number of players, available time, and/or a minimum rating. Game Shelf picks a game for you. Not what you're looking for? See what other games you have in your collection.
Log Every Play:
Record your game sessions with players, scores, winners, time, location, notes, and photos. Quickly replay a previous session with one tap.
Detailed Statistics:
See which games hit the table most, track player win rates, and analyze your habits by day, week, month, or year. Discover your most-played locations and how your gaming evolves over time.
Sync & Backup*
Your data syncs across devices with iCloud. Export and import backups whenever you want.
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 is free to use. If you enjoy the app, you can leave a tip to support a passionate board game loving indie developer.
Board games are one of my main hobbies. I enjoy tracking my collection. I also care about logging my games, with stats like tracking player win-rates being a bonus. This app gives me those things while simultaneously placing it in Apple’s clean UI. It also easily links games in my collection to the games in Board Game Geek, which is really the gold standard for board game info. It’s perfect for me, so I give it a 5.This app does not offer every bell and whistle like some other apps do. For some people, this would be a downside, but I wonder whether adding more to this app would bog it down and not make it as simple and enjoyable to use.
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.
A good personal catalog
Wassano
Literally just your list of board games and plays with some good info on other games. Was hoping for some sort of randomizer or suggestion tool that would help decide what to play next or make it easier to decide against games given a number of players but still a fine app
Developer Response
Edit: Just wanted to check in and say that your idea is now implemented in the app! If you want, go check it out and I’d love to hear what you think about it.——- Thank you for your review! I really like your idea of adding something to help you decide what to play, so I’ll see what I can do to implement this 😊
This version is very special to me: it’s the first release under my own company, Saku Studio. Since this year, I’ve been working full-time as an indie developer, which gives me much more time to focus on building and improving this app. With this release under Saku Studio, you’ll also find a brand-new “About Me” section in the app. But that’s not all: this is a packed update!
- iCloud sync. The most important feature in this update. No more exporting, importing, duplicating, or sharing plays with yourself across devices — your data now syncs automatically.
- Importing games from your BGG wishlist are now correctly imported into your in-app wishlist instead of your collection. You can also choose how to handle games you’ve interacted with (plays, scores, etc.) that are not part of either your collection or wishlist.
- Filtering on amount of players for Plays and Statistics.
- Option to add locations to plays. You will now be able to add where you played the game and have statistics on this as well.
- Additional statistics on the Game Detail view.
- On the Game Detail view, the button to add a play is improved.
- There was a bug when games needed to go to wishlist from collection is now fixed.
- Small UI changes and textual improvements.
- Added the option to select Light/Dark mode or keep it on Automatic.
Version 3.0.2
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Differentiate Without Color Alone
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Information
Seller
Saku Studio
Size
36.6 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.