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 (so the same players, same game) with one tap.
Challenges:
Set challenges for yourself. There are multiple types: total plays, unique games, a specific game you want to play x times, new games, and a playtime you want to reach. Get a shareable sheet filled with stats for friends and social media!
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. You can also get detailed statistics per play!
Sync & Backup
Your data syncs across devices with iCloud. Export and import backups whenever you want. Do you want your games via CSV export? Also got you covered!
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 the full experience with Game Shelf Pro:
• Import plays from BoardGameGeek: bring your entire play history into the app in one go.
• Player Groups: bundle your regulars into named groups so logging a play takes a single tap, and filter plays and stats by group.
• Player Comparison: pick any two players for a head-to-head breakdown of wins, win rates, longest streaks, favourite games, and a shareable rivalry card.
• Specific scoring sheets for the most popular games. If you want to have the scoring sheet of your favorite games, you can just contact me and I will see what I can do!
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.
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Privacy Policy: https://sakustudio.nl/en/privacy-policy-board-game-shelf/
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!
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 😊
- All the previous changes made to the app can now be found in the changelog in Settings, with a quick way to send in feature ideas
- PDF attachments (rulebooks etc.) per game, synced via iCloud
- Per-game statistics: tap any game in the Statistics tab to see a rich breakdown: overview, scores, per-player summary, playtime, score trend chart, and sub-score min/max/average per field
- "Show Challenges" tab as optional replacement for the Board Games tab
- Game Detail floating button now shows a menu with "Log Play" and "Start Live Session"
- Plays list hides search bar and filters when already narrowed to one game or player
- Pro now available as a yearly subscription or one-time lifetime purchase, with a redesigned paywall
- Detailed scoring: record per-category sub-scores for 25 popular games (covering 79 BGG entries including expansions and standalone variants). Includes Wingspan, 7 Wonders, Ark Nova, Terraforming Mars, Cascadia, Everdell and much more. The total auto-calculates from your sub-scores, with per-field multipliers and explanatory footers for trickier games like Agricola, Scythe and Orléans. Missing your favorite game? Send me a message and I see what I can do! (Pro)
- Live Sessions to quickly get a timer on your home screen and Dynamic Island to see how long you already play the game.(Pro)
- Player Groups: filter plays and statistics by a saved group of players (Pro)
- BGG plays import with delay handling for large libraries (Pro)
- 1v1-player comparison statistics (Pro)
Version 3.5
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 .
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Information
Seller
Saku Studio
Size
46.7 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.