Backloggd vs SavePoint: Which One Actually Tells You What to Play

The One-Line Verdict

Backloggd wins if you want the bigger community and you’re logging on your phone. SavePoint wins if your backlog also has a shelf of board games in it, or if what you actually want at 8pm on a Tuesday is an answer, not a list. Most people who ask “Backloggd or SavePoint” are really asking two different questions wearing one trench coat, and once you separate them, the choice gets a lot easier.

I’ve already put six months into Backloggd for the full review, and I run a three-way comparison against GG in Backloggd vs GG vs SavePoint if you want the wider field. This piece is the narrower head-to-head, because enough of you kept asking specifically about these two.

What Backloggd Does Better

Backloggd’s biggest advantage is scale. It closed out 2025 with roughly 650,000 registered users, up from about 350,000 at the start of that year, and its catalog moves with IGDB, sitting somewhere around 339,000 to 350,000-plus games. That size shows up in the social layer: following, activity feeds, markdown reviews, @mentions, and a community large enough that a review of a mid-tier indie game will still get read.

The rating system is genuinely nice to use. Five stars in half-star increments, a weighted average on any sorted or ranked view, and a status model that goes past the usual Playing/Played split into Completed, Mastered, Retired, Shelved, and Abandoned. You can log the same game multiple times with a custom cover per log, which matters more than it sounds like once you’ve replayed something like Hades three separate ways.

Backloggd is also the free option, full stop. The core product costs nothing. Patreon adds two paid tiers on top, a $1/month Supporter tier for instant metadata refresh and a Discord role, and a $3/month Backer tier for ad-free browsing, a personalized all-time stats page, a yearly recap, and a longer 60-day activity history instead of the free 14-day window. Neither tier gates a feature you’d call core tracking. If you never pay, you still get the whole logging experience.

Neither app leans on fake progress systems to keep you logging. Backloggd doesn’t run leaderboards or streak mechanics, and SavePoint made the same call on purpose, ripping out its own XP and streak system after deciding it worked against the product’s actual point. I wrote up why in Why We Ripped XP Out of SavePoint, and it’s one of the few things both trackers agree on: your backlog isn’t a game you’re supposed to grind.

Community Health and Where Each One Is Headed

Backloggd’s growth is the strongest argument for picking it. The team’s January 2025 “going full-time” announcement cited around 1,300 patrons and 350,000-plus users at the time, and by the end of 2025 that user count had roughly doubled to about 650,000. Paying supporters have grown alongside it, with somewhere around 1,800 of roughly 3,200 total patrons currently paying (directional numbers, not exact). That’s a team that can plausibly keep building for years.

It’s worth being honest about what hasn’t moved, though. The top two requests from that same January 2025 announcement thread, an official mobile app and Steam import, are both still sitting unresolved on the public roadmap 20 months later, each with tens of thousands of votes and no changelog entry to show for it. A fan-made Android wrapper exists as a workaround, but it’s a third-party project, not something Backloggd built or maintains. If either of those is the reason you’re considering Backloggd, know that the wait has already been a long one with no announced timeline.

What SavePoint Does That Backloggd Doesn’t

The honest gap between these two isn’t a feature checklist, it’s what kind of question each one is built to answer.

Backloggd answers “what did I play, and what do I think of it.” SavePoint answers “what should I play tonight, and is my backlog actually a problem.” Those are different jobs, and SavePoint is built around the second one from the ground up.

Three things do that work:

One library for video and tabletop. SavePoint’s catalog runs 35,000-plus titles, split roughly 33,000 video games and 2,000-plus tabletop games, all in a single unified library. Backloggd doesn’t do tabletop at all. If your backlog is Baldur’s Gate 3 sitting next to an unplayed copy of Wingspan, Backloggd only sees half of it.

Backlog Score. Instead of a raw pile-of-games count, SavePoint scores your backlog 0 to 100 on overall health, recalculated nightly, with a “dollar tax” sub-metric that puts an actual number on what you paid for games you haven’t touched. That’s the difference between a vague sense of “I own too many unplayed games” and an actual figure staring back at you, something closer to “$340 of your library is sitting unopened,” which is a much harder thing to ignore than a list sorted by date added. Backloggd has nothing like it. You can sort your Backlog status by whatever criteria you want, but nobody’s putting a number on what it’s costing you.

Decision Engine. This is the feature that does the heaviest lifting, and it’s worth walking through concretely rather than describing in the abstract.

The Decision Engine, In Practice

Say it’s a Tuesday night. You’ve got about 90 minutes, you’re on Switch, and you’re in the mood for something calm, not another combat-heavy roguelike. You plug that into the Decision Engine: mood (low-key), time available (90 minutes), platform (Switch). It doesn’t hand you your whole backlog sorted by rating. It hands you three picks that actually fit that window, pulled from games you already own, not a discovery feed trying to sell you something new.

That’s the entire pitch for SavePoint in one interaction. Backloggd will tell you, accurately, that you rated Slay the Spire four and a half stars eight months ago. It won’t tell you that Slay the Spire is a bad call for a 90-minute low-key session and that something shorter on your shelf fits better tonight. One product logs history. The other makes a decision for you, using history as the input.

SavePoint also ships a free Year in Gaming recap every December, covering the full library, video and tabletop together, so that particular perk isn’t a Pro-only carrot the way Backloggd’s yearly recap is Patreon-gated.

Imports: Where Both Products Actually Gate Things

This is where people get tripped up on both sides, so here’s the straight version.

Backloggd: no official Steam import. It’s the single highest-voted item on the public roadmap, sitting around 19,000 to 20,000 votes, with no changelog entry ever addressing it. No official CSV export or import either, despite what you might assume. What fills that gap are unofficial community scripts and a Firefox extension, built by users, not the Backloggd team. Manual add is the only first-party path in.

SavePoint: Steam, Xbox, and PSN imports exist and auto-sync, but they’re Pro-gated ($9/month or $99/year). BoardGameGeek import is free for everyone, no Pro required, and syncs ratings, plays, and acquisitions automatically. If you’re specifically switching over from Backloggd, there’s also a separate one-time CSV import available on the free tier, so you’re not required to pay just to bring your existing log across.

Neither app makes platform imports painlessly free across the board. Backloggd doesn’t have them at all. SavePoint has them, but charges for the auto-sync version, while giving you a free one-time bridge if you’re coming specifically from Backloggd, plus a fully free path if your backlog leans tabletop.

Pricing, Side by Side

Backloggd: free core product forever. Optional Patreon: $1/month Supporter (metadata refresh, Discord role, name on the public Backers page), $3/month Backer (ad-free, personalized stats, yearly recap, 60-day history vs. 14 free, early beta access).

SavePoint: free tier covers the full library, Backlog Score, and BGG import. Pro is $9/month or $99/year and adds Steam/Xbox/PSN imports and the Decision Engine. There’s a current time-limited Founding Member promo running at $149 once for lifetime access, or $79/year, well under the standard Pro rate, worth checking if you’re leaning toward SavePoint anyway since that offer won’t stay up indefinitely.

Neither company is going to bankrupt you either way. The real pricing question is whether you value Backloggd’s stats-and-ad-free perks at $3/month more than you value SavePoint’s imports and Decision Engine at $9/month, and that comes back to which question you’re trying to answer.

Who Should Skip SavePoint

Skip it if you want a native iOS or Android app today. SavePoint doesn’t have one right now, and if a phone-first experience is non-negotiable for you, that’s a real gap worth weighing.

Skip it if your backlog is entirely video games with zero interest in board games. The unified library is SavePoint’s headline differentiator, and if it doesn’t apply to you, you’re paying for a feature you’ll never touch.

Skip it if what you actually want is the biggest possible community around your logs, people commenting, following, and engaging with your reviews. Backloggd’s user base dwarfs SavePoint’s at this stage, and that’s not something a smaller, newer product can match yet.

Who Should Skip Backloggd

Skip it if you also track tabletop games and don’t want a second app for that half of your shelf. Backloggd has no tabletop support, period.

Skip it if a native mobile app matters to you more than platform imports. This one cuts the other way: Backloggd also doesn’t have an official iOS or Android app, despite both sitting on its roadmap with tens of thousands of votes between them. A fan-made Android wrapper exists, but it’s unofficial and not something either party maintains. If you’re choosing based on mobile access, this is a wash between the two, not a Backloggd win.

Skip it if you’re tired of staring at a list and want the app to actually recommend something for tonight. Backloggd logs what you did. It was never built to tell you what to do next, and there’s no roadmap item suggesting that’s coming.

Which One Actually Answers Tonight’s Question

If you want the fuller community and you’re fine doing your own deciding, Backloggd is the better home for your log, and it costs nothing to start. If your backlog spans video and tabletop, or you’re done opening an app just to stare at a wall of titles you already own, SavePoint is built for that specific problem in a way Backloggd isn’t trying to solve. I’d rather use the tool built for the question I’m actually asking, and most nights, my question isn’t “what have I played,” it’s “what do I play right now.”

For the fuller field, including where GG lands next to both of these, my Backloggd vs GG vs SavePoint breakdown covers all three. And if you haven’t seen the original roundup that started this whole thread, Letterboxd for Games? We Tested 7 is where I first put Backloggd and its competitors side by side.

If you want to try SavePoint yourself, it’s at SavePoint.

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