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## What to look for in a game tracking app
A good game tracker should cover at least three of these five jobs well:
1. **Logging what you've played**: dates, ratings, replays, abandoned runs
2. **Managing the backlog**: what's next, sortable by mood, length, or platform
3. **Knowing the time cost**: completion estimates before you commit 60 hours
4. **Cataloging the collection**: what you own, where, and in what format
5. **Understanding your taste**: patterns across what you play and why it lands
No single app does all five perfectly. The table below maps the tradeoffs.
## Backloggd
**Best for:** Logging, rating, and reviewing games with a community
Backloggd is the closest thing games have to Letterboxd. You log what you played, rate it, write reviews, build lists, and follow people whose taste you trust. The database comes from IGDB, so coverage is deep, and the community is the largest of the game-only trackers, active enough that good reviews actually get read.
**What it does well:**
- The journal makes logging a satisfying ritual
- Lists and community challenges surface games you'd never find otherwise
- Every functional feature is free; $3/month removes ads
**The limitation:** No native mobile app, so you're living in the mobile browser. No Steam import, so a large existing library goes in by hand. And it's games only. Your films, books, and albums live somewhere else, unconnected.
## HowLongToBeat
**Best for:** Knowing what a game costs in hours before you start
HowLongToBeat built its reputation on one number, crowd-sourced across millions of playthroughs: how long the game actually takes. Every title carries three estimates (Main Story, Main plus Extras, Completionist), and the backlog tracker inherits that data, so your list of unplayed games doubles as a budget of your free time.
**What it does well:**
- The completion-time data is the reference everyone else cites
- Steam import brings your library in automatically
- Free to use
**The limitation:** It answers "how long" better than "what next" or "what does my taste look like." The site carries ads, the social layer is thin, and the tracking features feel secondary to the database that made it famous.
## Grouvee
**Best for:** Goodreads-style shelves without a learning curve
Grouvee has been quietly doing one thing well for over a decade: shelves. Playing, Played, Backlog, Wish List, plus as many custom shelves as you want. It's powered by Giant Bomb's community-edited database, imports your Steam library, and feels immediately familiar to anyone who has used Goodreads.
**What it does well:**
- Custom shelves handle any organizing scheme you can invent
- Steam import with automatic shelving
- Free, with a $10/year Gold tier that removes ads
**The limitation:** Development moves slowly and the design shows its age. There's no completion-time data, no mobile app, and discovery is limited to what the community writes.
## Infinite Backlog
**Best for:** Cataloging a collection scattered across platforms
Infinite Backlog is the collector's pick. It tracks details the others ignore: when you got a game, where, whether it's physical or on a subscription service, even lending status. Imports cover Steam, GOG, PlayStation, and Xbox, with per-game fine-tuning before anything lands in your library, and the Challenges feature gives you a structured way to decide what to play next.
**What it does well:**
- The most complete import support of any tracker here
- Collection metadata built for people who own games on four platforms
- Free for nearly everything; the $3/month Patron tier adds custom tags
**The limitation:** It's built for managing what you own more than reflecting on what you've played. If the appeal of tracking is the diary and the taste-mapping, this is the wrong tool. If it's the catalog, it's the best one. For the cataloging question specifically, see our guide to [video game collection trackers](/blog/video-game-collection-tracker/).
## Achriom
**Best for:** Games alongside everything else you track
Achriom added games in August 2026 as its seventh media type, joining books, movies, TV, albums, anime, and podcasts. Early users added hundreds of titles within the first two days, before the feature was even announced. Game pages pull metadata from IGDB and carry time-to-beat estimates, which makes Achriom the only tracker in this guide that pairs completion-time data with an AI librarian.
**What it does differently:**
- One library for everything: your games sit beside your books, films, shows, albums, and anime
- Time-to-beat on every game page, so the backlog shows its real cost in hours
- Conversational discovery: ask the librarian what to play after a 100-hour RPG burnout and it answers from your whole collection
- Private by default, with full export back out any time
- Free tier with unlimited items and 10 AI messages a month; Pro is $9.99/month for 200
**The limitation:** No Steam sync, so games go in by search rather than bulk import. Game tracking is newer here than at Backloggd or Grouvee, and it has not reached the iOS app yet; on an iPhone, track games through the web app, which works on any phone.
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## Quick comparison
| App | Scope | Steam import | Time to beat | AI features | Price |
|-----|-------|--------------|--------------|-------------|-------|
| Backloggd | Games | No | No | No | Free / $3 mo |
| HowLongToBeat | Games | Yes | Yes | No | Free |
| Grouvee | Games | Yes | No | No | Free / $10 yr |
| Infinite Backlog | Games | Yes (+GOG, PSN, Xbox) | No | No | Free / $3 mo |
| Achriom | Games + books, movies, TV, albums, anime, podcasts | No | Yes | Yes (AI librarian) | Free / $9.99 mo |
## Which should you use?
**Use Backloggd if:** you want the Letterboxd ritual for games. Logging, rating, reviewing, and a community that takes all three seriously.
**Use HowLongToBeat if:** your backlog problem is a time problem. You want to know whether the next game is a weekend or a season of your life.
**Use Grouvee if:** you think in shelves and want the gentlest learning curve here. Goodreads users will feel at home in minutes.
**Use Infinite Backlog if:** you own games across four storefronts and want one accurate catalog of all of them, imports included.
**Use Achriom if:** games are one part of a media life that also includes books, films, TV, and music, and you want a single private library with an AI that sees all of it. For the wider view, see [the best all-in-one media tracker](/blog/best-all-in-one-media-tracker/).
## The part no game-only tracker can do
Every app above can tell you that you finished a game. None of them know what it sits next to.
Say you finish The Last of Us Part II. A game tracker logs the hours and the rating. Achriom also knows you watched **The Last of Us** on HBO and shelved **The Road** two winters ago, and it can name the thread running through all three: fathers, grief, and what survives the end of the world. Finish Cyberpunk 2077 and the librarian can point you back to **Neuromancer**, the novel the whole genre grew from. That kind of connection is only possible when one library holds everything, which is [how patterns in a media collection](/blog/how-to-find-patterns-in-your-media-collection/) surface at all.
Games have always been in conversation with film, books, and music. Your tracker should be able to hear it.
## The honest answer
The right choice depends on what you're actually trying to do.
- **Logging and community:** Backloggd
- **Completion times:** HowLongToBeat
- **Familiar shelves:** Grouvee
- **Multi-platform catalog:** Infinite Backlog
- **Cross-media understanding:** Achriom
Many players use two. Backloggd plus Achriom is a natural pair: Backloggd for the public ritual of rating and reviewing, Achriom for the private library where games meet everything else you love. They solve different problems and don't compete directly.
If you also track what you watch, the same tradeoffs play out in our guides to [the best movie tracking apps](/blog/best-movie-tracking-apps/) and [the best anime tracking apps](/blog/best-anime-tracking-apps/).
## Common questions
### What is the best video game tracking app in 2026?
It depends on the job. Backloggd is best for logging and community, HowLongToBeat for completion-time data, Grouvee for familiar Goodreads-style shelves, Infinite Backlog for cataloging a multi-platform collection, and Achriom for tracking games alongside books, movies, TV, albums, and anime with an AI librarian.
### What is the best free game tracker?
All five have usable free tiers. Backloggd and HowLongToBeat are free with ads. Grouvee and Infinite Backlog are free with cheap optional supporter tiers. Achriom's free tier covers unlimited items across all seven media types with 10 AI messages a month.
### Is there a game tracker with time-to-beat data?
HowLongToBeat invented the category and remains the reference, with Main Story, Main plus Extras, and Completionist estimates on every title. Achriom surfaces time-to-beat on its game pages too, so the backlog shows its cost in hours next to your books and films.
### Can I import my Steam library?
HowLongToBeat, Grouvee, and Infinite Backlog all import Steam libraries, and Infinite Backlog adds GOG, PlayStation, and Xbox. Backloggd and Achriom are manual-entry trackers, which favors a curated library over a complete one.
### Is there one app for games, books, movies, and music together?
Achriom tracks seven media types in one private library: books, movies, TV, albums, anime, podcasts, and games. The AI librarian reasons across all of them, so a question about what to play next can draw on what you've been reading and watching.
### Do any game trackers have AI features?
Achriom is the tracker in this guide built around an AI librarian. You can ask it what to play after finishing a long RPG, or where a game's themes echo in your books and films, and it answers from your own collection. Backloggd, HowLongToBeat, Grouvee, and Infinite Backlog have no built-in AI features as of 2026.