My Board Game Collection is a utility app for board game enthusiasts that tracks collections, wishlists, and play sessions on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Utilities
Sentiment
4.4
1k reviews
Nemesis
Skorer - Your Score Tracker
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the manual data-entry burden for collectors by pulling metadata directly from BoardGameGeek and BoardGameAtlas.
For Board game collectors and tabletop enthusiasts who need to track inventory and log play sessions.
What does it look like?
Key features
Syncs game data directly from external databases to reduce manual entry friction.
Allows users to add notes, images, and links, raising switching costs.
Tracks participants and scores to encourage frequent app usage.
How much does it cost?
Monetization relies on a single lifetime purchase to remove ads and unlock premium features, supplemented by reward-based video ads.
Velocity
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My Board Game Collection has been inactive for 273 days, indicating a complete cessation of development. The last release occurred in late October 2025, and there have been no subsequent updates or feature additions since that time. Given the lack of activity over the past nine months, the app is classified as a zombie project.
Who built it?
Tommy Uytterhaegen
9 apps tracked · Utilities
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads excited. Users appreciate comprehensive board game library management tools allow users to track collections and wishlists with ease and integration with external board game databases provides helpful information for users before making purchase decisions, but report syncing failures with external game databases prevent users from updating their collection or logging plays.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Comprehensive board game library management tools allow users to track collections and wishlists with ease
- Integration with external board game databases provides helpful information for users before making purchase decisions
- Customizable filtering and sorting options help users organize large collections based on specific player counts
- Syncing failures with external game databases prevent users from updating their collection or logging plays
63 of 65 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for My Board Game Collection
How's the Utilities market?
My Board Game Collection competes in the Utilities category with a 4.43 rating on Android and 4.25 on iOS. The app's reliance on a lifetime purchase model differentiates it from ad-heavy rivals, though its 9-month update silence risks losing ground to more active competitors.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Touseef Hassan Nasir
Skorer directly competes by offering a dedicated, highly-rated utility for tracking game scores and player stats, mirroring the core functionality of My Board Game Collection.
- Offers a dedicated customization suite for game rules that exceeds this app's current configuration options.
- Provides integrated game notes functionality, allowing users to record specific session context beyond just numerical scores.
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Key takeaways for My Board Game Collection
Where is it heading?
The board game utility market is consolidating around apps that offer both stable data tracking and active feature updates. My Board Game Collection's current maintenance-mode cadence and persistent synchronization bugs leave it exposed to more agile rivals, which will likely accelerate user churn into Q1.
- Synchronization failures with external databases prevent users from updating their collections, which directly erodes the app's primary utility value.
- The 9-month update silence suggests the app is in maintenance mode, leaving it vulnerable to rivals with active feature-release cadences.
The SWOT
- Database integration with BoardGameGeek reduces manual entry friction
- Multi-language translation support increases global accessibility
- Implement photo-based entry for missing titles to reduce manual friction
- Nest game expansions within base games to improve interface clutter
Next best moves
Audit synchronization logic because users report frequent failures with external databases → restore library reliability
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's reliance on BoardGameGeek data is a liability rather than a strength…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Round-based timing features (available in Board Game Score Keeper but missing here)
Since the last report: Development remains stagnant with no new releases, but the product strategy has shifted to prioritize fixing synchronization failures and implementing photo-based entry to address core user friction.
Bottom line
My Board Game Collection must prioritize stability in its synchronization and search logic to retain its user base, as these core functional failures currently erode the value provided by its extensive database integrations.
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Is My Board Game Collection free to use?
How does My Board Game Collection compare to Skorer?
Is there a way to add games that are not in the database?
What is a good alternative for tracking board game scores?
Sources
- [1] Play Store listing, source
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