GamePal: Track Your Gaming

After having gone through most of the backlog apps on the App Store that I could find, I think this one is definitely the best. Importing games from IGDB is a necessary feature of any video game backlogger imo. Very well developed too, especially after coming from the buggy, unpolished mess of my old backlogger. No excessive bells and whistles, but just enough of what you’d need. Just a couple things: I’d really like the option to show list items in grid form as there doesn’t appear to be that option as of now. Aside from that, being able to add custom tags to games would be great, adding more versatility to filtering.

I wanted to use this app for a bit longer before I submitted a review and I think I’m comfortable submitting one now. Each update greatly improves the user experience and the developers are always open to feedback and are transparent. This app is fantastic. I love the UI, the features, and the seamlessness of tracking game time. Performance lagged initially when having a lot of games but the devs improved it in an update. I’m excited to see where the app goes from here (ability to make ranked lists perhaps?) and how they will further improve the user experience.

This app is great! I’m able to have a visual library of all of my games—Owned and wish listed. It’s really fun to track your game time as well as write about good times you’ve had. It just seems a little weird that automated session timing and journaling is blocked by a pay wall. Pressing a button to stop and start a timer seems like a thing that should be pretty universal. Also, I kind of get adding attachments to notes being blocked by a paywall but I can’t even just write a simple comment on a game without paying for a subscription. Which again, seems like something that should be universal. One other thing I’d love to see in the future is a way to exclude not-owned or wish-listed games when sorting the list or maybe even some more sorting layouts. All in all this app is off to a great start, I just wish it had more at its base without needing to pay for it.