Keep Backloggd for
What it does best.
Reading and writing about games, and following people whose taste you trust.
- Its large community of writers and reviewers
- Logging any game by hand
- Years of reviews to read
Switch from · Backloggd
Coming from Backloggd? Keep it. Add the rest.
Ratings, reviews and lists, with your library filled in for you.
GameDock adds
Everything around it.
One library that fills itself in from every store you use.
- Your library fills itself in from every store
- Playtime and achievements, from the stores themselves
- Play status that keeps itself up to date
- What you paid, and every wishlist with price alerts
- Series, with what you are missing
Side by side
Where GameDock and Backloggd differ.
Where they differGameDockBackloggd
Getting your library in
Automatic Steam syncGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Owned games, playtime and achievements arrive on their own, without you adding titles by hand.
GameDock: Read through the Steam session already open in your browser.
Automatic PlayStation syncGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Titles, playtime and trophies pulled from your PSN account.
GameDock: Linked through the Companion; Sony asks you to sign in again every couple of months.
Automatic Xbox syncGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Your Xbox library, playtime and achievements.
GOG and Epic librariesGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Knowing you own a GOG or Epic title, whether or not it is installed anywhere.
GameDock: Both link through the Companion: library, orders and wishlist.
RetroAchievementsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Completion and badges from the RetroAchievements service.
Console emulators as library sourcesGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
RPCS3, Xenia, PCSX2, DuckStation, Dolphin, melonDS, Cemu, PPSSPP and the Switch emulators, treated as real sources rather than folders.
GameDock: Found on your Linux PC by GameDock Helper and grouped under Emulators, however each was launched.
Local installs on LinuxGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Lutris and Heroic games, and standalone PC games, installed on your own Linux machine, desktop or handheld.
Manual entry for anything elseGameDock: NoBackloggd: Yes
Adding a game by hand for a platform the tool cannot reach, such as a Switch game or an old PC game.
GameDock: Discs and cartridges only, for now. Adding any game by hand is next on GameDock's roadmap.
NintendoGameDock: PartialBackloggd: No
Switch and older Nintendo libraries. Nintendo publishes no usable public API.
GameDock: Discs and cartridges you add yourself. A Switch library cannot be read, because Nintendo offers no way for another service to do it.
Works with a private platform profileGameDock: YesBackloggd: Not applicable
Whether the tool can read your library when your Steam or PSN profile is set to private.
GameDock: The Companion uses the session already open in your browser, so privacy settings do not block it.
Backloggd: No sync at all, so the question does not arise.
What it knows about how you play
Unified playtime across platformsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
One hour count per game, summed across every platform you played it on.
Per-source playtime splitGameDock: YesBackloggd: Partial
Seeing that you put 40 hours into a game on PlayStation and 6 on PC, rather than one merged number.
Backloggd: From the platform and time you enter on each journal log.
Play status you don’t maintainGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Playing, want to play, completed or shelved, derived from real activity instead of a status you keep honest yourself, with beaten and abandoned a click away.
GameDock: Worked out from recent play, and yours to set by hand on any game, then hand back.
Session and play logsGameDock: PartialBackloggd: Yes
A dated record of individual play sessions rather than a running total.
GameDock: A dated play history on each game's page, with a weekly or monthly chart, but recorded per sync rather than per session.
Backloggd: Play sessions you log by hand in its journal.
Achievements and trophies
Unified achievements across platformsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
One completion figure per game regardless of where the unlocks happened.
GameDock: Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, RetroAchievements, standalone PC games and the PS3 and Xbox 360 emulators, with each achievement counted once however many platforms have it. GOG too, secret achievements included, and Epic achievements read from your own browser.
Xbox 360-era achievementsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
The 360 back catalogue and its original icon art, not just modern Xbox.
Achievements standalone PC games keep locallyGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Achievements that PC games installed outside a store launcher keep in files on disk, which no cloud API can see.
GameDock: Reads the achievement files a game already keeps on your PC. GameDock changes nothing in the game, and cannot unlock official Steam achievements.
Achievements when your profile is privateGameDock: YesBackloggd: Not applicable
Whether unlocks are visible without opening your platform profile to the public.
GameDock: The Companion reads them from your own session, or GameDock Helper from the Steam app on your PC.
What you paid, and what it is worth now
What each game actually cost youGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
The figure on your receipt, matched to the game it bought, rather than an estimate from today's store price.
Spend across more than one storefrontGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Money from several stores reconciled into one ledger.
GameDock: Steam wallet history and licences, PlayStation order history, GOG and Epic orders, and physical copies you entered.
Subscription claims and top-ups kept out of spendGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
A PS Plus monthly claim is not a purchase, and a wallet top-up is not a second purchase. Counting either inflates the number.
Converted at the rate on the purchase dateGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
An account billed in pounds and displayed in dollars, converted at the rate on the day of that purchase rather than today's.
Current library value, with historyGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
What your owned games and DLC would cost at today's store prices, and the trend.
GameDock: Steam, PlayStation, GOG and Epic prices, checked daily, or twice a day on Plus.
Live wishlist prices and discountsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Your wishlist with current regional pricing and deal context attached.
GameDock: Steam, PlayStation, GOG and Epic Games wishlists, at each store's price in your region.
Target price alertsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Tell it your number, get told when a game reaches it.
GameDock: Shown on your dashboard and beside Wishlist. Five at once on the free plan, unlimited on Plus.
Write to your wishlist, or redeem a keyGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Adding a game to the real Steam wishlist, or registering a product key, from inside the tracker.
Organising a library that got out of hand
One card per game across platformsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Owning a game on Steam, PlayStation and Xbox shows as one entry with merged unlocks, not three rows.
GameDock: Careful on purpose: remasters stay separate, and a join you disagree with can be undone.
Reversible manual join and splitGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Joining two cards that are the same game, or separating two that are not, for your account only, and undoable.
Series runs, including what you are missingGameDock: YesBackloggd: Partial
A franchise sorting as one run rather than scattering across four letters, with the entries you do not own shown alongside the ones you do.
GameDock: A series and how many of its games you own are free; which games you are missing is part of Plus.
Backloggd: Franchise pages, with your progress through a series for Backers.
Custom cover artworkGameDock: YesBackloggd: Partial
Replacing a bad cover from SteamGridDB (with your own key), a paired device's grids, or your own file.
Backloggd: A choice of alternative covers for each game, but no uploads.
The machine you actually play on
Sees what is installed right nowGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Which titles are on the device at this moment, as opposed to which you own.
Disk usage and moving installs between drivesGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
What each volume holds, and relocating install trees from one to another with the configs rewritten so they still launch.
GameDock: Seeing your drives is free; moving Lutris games between them is part of Plus. Steam moves its own games.
Versioned save backupsGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Save files backed up off the device, with history rather than one overwritten copy.
GameDock: Standalone PC games, Steam games and emulators, backed up after you play. Three versions of each game on the free plan, ten on Plus.
Linux desktop and handheld supportGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
An app on the computer you play on: any modern 64-bit Linux, from a desktop tower to a handheld.
Sharing it, and getting your data out
Friends, feeds and leaderboardsGameDock: YesBackloggd: Partial
Following people, seeing what they are playing, and ranking against them.
GameDock: Follow people and see what they play, rate, review and list in one feed, as far as each shares it; people who follow each other are friends. Leaderboards rank store-recorded achievements and 100% games against the people you follow, and against everyone who opts in; never playtime.
Backloggd: Follows and a feed, without leaderboards.
Spend data has no public settingGameDock: YesBackloggd: Not applicable
Not just private by default: there is no way to share it at all, because what you spend is nobody else's business.
GameDock: The others here do not collect what you paid, so the question does not come up.
Data exportGameDock: YesBackloggd: No
Getting your library back out in a format you can keep.
GameDock: Everything you can see, as one file or a spreadsheet per part, on both plans, plus a read-only API.
Backloggd: Not yet; it is on Backloggd's public roadmap.
Using both
Nothing to export. Nothing to give up.
01
Connect the same stores
GameDock reads them directly, so your library builds itself. There is nothing to export or import.
02
Let it fill in
Your games, playtime and achievements arrive, each game once however many places you own it.
03
Keep what you like
Carry on using it for what it does best. GameDock keeps the record of everything.
Questions
Before you try it.
Does it replace Playnite, Backloggd or Exophase?
No. Each of those does its own job well: Playnite launches games on Windows, Backloggd is for reviews and a community, and Exophase is for achievement hunting. GameDock is the library that joins your stores together, and plenty of people use it alongside them. The compare page goes through each one.
Why does it connect through my browser, instead of me adding games?
Adding games by hand takes hours and is out of date the next time you buy something. Reading a store's public profile misses private accounts, what you paid and anything the store keeps to itself. GameDock reads from the stores you are already signed in to in your own browser, so it sees what you see, keeps itself up to date, and never needs your passwords.
What does it cost?
The free plan covers your whole library: every store, every game, every achievement and an export of all of it, with no size limit, no time limit and no card. Running a service like GameDock has real costs, so a few extras only some people want are part of GameDock Plus, at $5.99 a month or $53.90 a year. Plus syncs Steam more often, keeps your full purchase and value history instead of the last 12 months, sends a daily digest email, names the games missing from a series, and lets GameDock make changes on your Linux PC. The free plan's limits are 50 discs, 5 price alerts, one Linux PC, 3 saved versions of each game's saves and one hand-started Steam and price sync a day; Plus lifts or raises each. Paying for those keeps the rest free for everyone. The full list is on the pricing page.