Board Game Shelf3.10.1 - App Store

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:
Enter duration directly or record start and end times. 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 for games including Wondrous Creatures, Akropolis, Clank! Catacombs and Endeavor: Deep Sea, with supported expansion fields. Missing your favourite? Contact me!

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Version History Game Shelf 3.10.1

• Optimized for iPhone Duo.
• Added detailed scoring for Wondrous Creatures, Akropolis, Clank! Catacombs and Endeavor: Deep Sea, plus expansion scoring for Cascadia: Landmarks and Wondrous Creatures: Winterfall. (Pro)
• Add or edit a play’s duration directly in hours and minutes, without entering start and end times. You can switch between both entry modes, and your preference is remembered.
• Fixed play editing, detailed-score totals and reopening saved scoring details.
• Improved backups and imports: preserve detailed scores, custom-game information, cooperative results, BGG play quantities and durations, and avoid duplicate restores.
• Fixed collection search and filters, custom game names, wishlist removal and loan handling.
• Improved statistics for cooperative results and renamed games, with consistent ordering for tied games.
• Fixed player-group editing, challenge counts, Home Screen quick actions and the six-or-more-player Shortcuts option. Add another challenge directly from the new dashed card. 3.10.1 1d ago 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. 3.10 Oct 5 Game Shelf 3.9

• Explore the new Roadmap in Settings to see planned, in-progress, and completed ideas for Game Shelf.
• Arrange games in your collection, wishlist, and custom lists in your preferred order, and reorder the custom lists themselves.
• Search results now include game cover images where available, with improved ranking to help familiar titles appear ahead of lightly rated matches and partial expansion matches.
• Live-session controls now sit above the tab bar, keeping the timer and Stop & Log action within reach while browsing. On iOS 26 and later, they adapt to the compact tab bar as you scroll. (Pro)
• Improved opening Add Play, Collection, and Statistics from system controls, including support for iOS 27.
• Recognise shared wins and losses for supported co-op games when importing a BG Stats export.
• Import team and group details from BG Stats while keeping team membership and player roles separate.
• Create and edit teams, assign players already in the play or add someone new, and record one score and winner per team. (Pro)
• See your regular teammates, frequent pairings, team wins and win rates in player statistics, plus team-lineup results for a specific game.
• Compare two players across all shared plays, games played as teammates, or games played on opposing teams, with team records and win streaks. (Pro)
• Choose whether each supported co-op result counts towards the players' win rates. (Pro)
• Log plays more quickly with a streamlined Add Play form that keeps optional date, time, location, notes and photos tucked away until needed.
• Open play photos in a full-screen gallery, swipe between them and save any photo to your library. 3.9 Sep 13 Game Shelf 3.8 makes it easy to bring your history from BG Stats and record the expansions used at the table.

• Import plays from a BG Stats JSON export, with a clear preview of what will and will not be added. BG Stats import is available to everyone.
• Re-import safely: new plays are added, existing imports receive newly supported BG Stats details, and edits made in Game Shelf are preserved.
• Select the expansions used in a play and see those plays reflected in game pages, filters, challenges and statistics.
• Optionally add games marked as owned in BG Stats when they are missing from your collection. 3.8 Aug 19 Barcode scanning is now faster and more reliable.

• Scan multiple board games in one session and review every result before adding them.
• Unknown barcodes, duplicate games, temporary lookup failures, and barcodes with multiple matches are handled individually without interrupting the remaining scans.
• Valid scanned games are safely added together without replacing your existing collection.
• Fixed a crash caused by an invalid BoardGameGeek result that could make the collection inaccessible after relaunching the app. 3.7.3 Jul 26 Game Shelf now works with Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight!

• Ask Siri to log a play, open a game, or help decide what to play.
• Helpful follow-up questions let you choose a game or enter your player count and available time. Game Shelf then opens with a matching suggestion ready.
• Find games from your collection in Spotlight and open them directly, with cover artwork where available.
• Improved recognition of spoken game titles containing numbers, including localised number words.
• Game Shelf shortcuts now use the app's purple styling.
• Play Again now remembers the previous location and whether detailed or co-op tracking was enabled.
• Playful loading messages are now translated into every supported language.
• Improved the Pro purchase and restore experience with clearer status messages, better subscription information, and improved accessibility. 3.7.2 Jul 24 This update focuses on performance improvements for a faster, smoother Game Shelf experience.

• BoardGameGeek game data and images are now cached on-device for faster loading, reduced network usage, and a more reliable offline experience.
• Improved scrolling performance across Collection, Plays, and Statistics.
• Fixed Statistics and custom list thumbnails not always refreshing after changes.

Cooperative games are here!

• Track co-op and campaign games by their mission or scenario and whether the table won or lost. You choose whether it counts toward everyone's win rate. Includes Bomb Busters, The Crew, Sky Team, Pandemic, Spirit Island, Gloomhaven, Frosthaven, Marvel Champions, Arkham Horror: The Card Game and many more.
• New co-op statistics: see how often your table won or lost, your overall win rate, and a breakdown of your most-played missions and scenarios.
• Co-op plays now show their Won/Lost result at a glance in the plays list and the Recent Play widget.
• Custom lists: edit a list in place instead of creating a duplicate, duplicate a list on purpose, and add games from your collection, wishlist, or a BoardGameGeek search right from the edit screen.
• The random game picker can now choose from a single custom list, including games that aren't in your collection or wishlist.
• Preview the head-to-head compare card before you share it.
• Fixed BGG plays import sometimes failing with a false "username not found" error.
• Fixed the Last Played widget getting stuck on a blank placeholder.
• Refreshed the Pro screen with new artwork and clearer copy.
• Performance and reliability improvements throughout the app for smoother, snappier navigation.

Missing your favourite co-op game? Send me a message! 3.7.1 Jul 14 Cooperative games are here!

• Track co-op and campaign games by their mission or scenario and whether the table won or lost. You choose whether it counts toward everyone's win rate. Includes Bomb Busters, The Crew, Sky Team, Pandemic, Spirit Island, Gloomhaven, Frosthaven, Marvel Champions, Arkham Horror: The Card Game and many more.
• New co-op statistics: see how often your table won or lost, your overall win rate, and a breakdown of your most-played missions and scenarios.
• Co-op plays now show their Won/Lost result at a glance in the plays list and the Recent Play widget.
• Custom lists: edit a list in place instead of creating a duplicate, duplicate a list on purpose, and add games from your collection, wishlist, or a BoardGameGeek search right from the edit screen.
• The random game picker can now choose from a single custom list, including games that aren't in your collection or wishlist.
• Preview the head-to-head compare card before you share it.
• Fixed BGG plays import sometimes failing with a false "username not found" error.
• Fixed the Last Played widget getting stuck on a blank placeholder.
• Refreshed the Pro screen with new artwork and clearer copy.
• Performance and reliability improvements throughout the app for smoother, snappier navigation.

Missing your favourite co-op game? Send me a message! 3.7 Jul 8 - Main player: tell Game Shelf which player is you (Settings → Plays → "Your name"). It then pre-fills you when logging a new play, defaults to you in head-to-head comparisons, marks you with a "You" badge in player stats, and personalises your Year in Review with your win rate.
- Sync your collection with BoardGameGeek straight from Settings, and your BGG username is now remembered so you don't have to type it again.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting a player from a play.
- Lending tracker: keep track of which games you've lent out and to whom, set an optional return-by date, spot overdue loans at a glance, and mark them returned — all synced across your devices. Turn it on in Settings → Collection. (Pro)
- Due-date reminders: get a notification when a loaned game is due back. (Pro)
- Year in Review: a shareable, end-of-year recap of your board game year. Swipe through cards for your totals (plays, games, players, and time at the table) with a month-by-month play chart, your most-played games with the #1 highlighted, who you played with most and their win rates, and highlights like your longest streak, busiest month and favourite game day. Appears mid-December through mid-January, with a heads-up banner from December 1st. (Pro) 3.6 Jun 26 - 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) 3.5.1 Jun 11 - 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) 3.5 Jun 10 - Improved the Add Games menu in the Collection tab. The actions are now clearer and the menu has a cleaner design.
- Adding games from search is now easier and more intuitive.
- Removing a game from your collection or wishlist now refreshes your lists correctly. A confirmation prompt has also been added before removal.
- Fixed an issue when importing games from BGG where games without an image or publication year would fail to import. 3.4.1 Jun 3 - Made it easier to add games to a custom list from your collection or wishlist. Just swipe (list view) or long press (grid view) to add the game to one of your custom lists). You can also add them from the game detail view to your collection via the menu.
- You can now also export your data to CSV, instead of just JSON.
- Title on your collection and wishlist to easily show how many games you have.
- You're now able to click on the title of the board game via the play details.
- Small updates to improve the speed of the app.
- Improved graphics for the poll with the amount of players. 3.4 May 4 - Fix for deleting players from a play
- Caching images, so they load faster in your collection, wishlist and custom lists. 3.3.1 Mar 17 - Added the Poll data that you can find on Board Game Geek to the Game Details as well. This goes for Language Dependency, Recommended Amount of Players and Recommended Age.
- Added German, French, Italian and Spanish as languages. See any translation that can be improved? Let me know and I'll fix it!
- If you want to keep the English version, or switch it to your local language (of the available languages), you can do so in the settings. 3.3 Mar 10 - Faster first search results when scanning board game barcodes 3.2.1 Mar 7 - Challenges are here!  Add challenges to your Plays and track your progress over time. You can find Challenges in the Plays section or in Settings.
Set monthly or yearly goals and choose from 5 challenge types: total plays, unique games, a specific game, total play time, or new games.
Watch your progress grow with every play and once you finish, you’ll receive a shareable image with your stats!
Big thanks to a special user for suggesting this feature.

- Improved data retrieval for Home Screen Widgets
- Small UI improvements to buttons 3.2 Mar 3 - Multiple Home Screen widgets are added: Top 3 players, Top 3 games, Last Played Game & Statistics on your collection, wishlist, plays & unique players.
- Added an onboarding screen for first time users of the app. 3.1 Feb 25 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. 3.0.2 Feb 12 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. 3.0.1 Feb 11 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. 3.0 Feb 11 - Massively improved search
- Possibility to change the title of the games 2.14 Jan 15 - You can now share your plays with friends, making it easier for others to track games they’ve played with you.
- If you don’t want to use the Board Games tab (where trending board games are shown), you now have the option to hide it.
- Added search to your plays, so you can easily find specific games by title or by who you played them with.
- You can now view the top 3 games per year, month, and week for previous periods.
- You can now rename a player via Settings. 2.13 Jan 7 - There were still some issues with adding new games to your collections, where the app would sometimes only show a loading spinner. I’ve added a fallback: if loading one game fails, the app will retry it later while still loading the other games.
- You already had swipe actions for your collection, wishlist, and board games, but not when using the grid/image view. I’ve added a long-press action so you can now more easily add a play or add a board game to your collection or wishlist.
- When using the randomizer to select a game, you will now only be presented with games from your own collection. That was an awkward bug…
- Moving a game from your wishlist to your collection should now work smoothly (removing it from your wishlist and adding it to your collection).

Thanks for all the feedback I’ve received over the past few weeks. I’ll keep working hard to improve the app even further. 2.12.5 Jan 6 Made some changes so that the Collection view, where there was a bug that some games only showed a spinner.
Improved the Statistics for a faster and better view. 2.12.4 Jan 4