Keep GameScrobbler for
What it does best.
Seeing how you actually play, with sessions from Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Playnite on Windows turned into charts and yearly recaps.
- Charts and yearly recaps of how you play
- A log of every play session
Switch from · GameScrobbler
Coming from GameScrobbler? Keep it. Add the rest.
Your whole library and its series, beside the charts of how you play.
GameDock adds
Everything around it.
One library that fills itself in from every store you use.
- RetroAchievements beside every store
- GOG and Epic Games, without a Windows plugin
- Achievements from a private Steam profile
- Series, with what you are missing
- On a Linux PC or handheld: installs and save backups
Side by side
Where GameDock and GameScrobbler differ.
Where they differGameDockGameScrobbler
Getting your library in
GOG and Epic librariesGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
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.
GameScrobbler: Through its Playnite plugin, on Windows.
RetroAchievementsGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: No
Completion and badges from the RetroAchievements service.
Local installs on LinuxGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: No
Lutris and Heroic games, and standalone PC games, installed on your own Linux machine, desktop or handheld.
NintendoGameDock: PartialGameScrobbler: 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.
GameScrobbler: Announced as in development.
Works with a private platform profileGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
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.
GameScrobbler: PlayStation only, through a pasted NPSSO token.
What it knows about how you play
Play status you don’t maintainGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
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.
GameScrobbler: Unplayed games are found from your playtime; statuses are set by hand or taken from Playnite.
Session and play logsGameDock: PartialGameScrobbler: 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.
GameScrobbler: From its Windows apps, and from PlayStation and Xbox presence.
Achievements and trophies
Achievements when your profile is privateGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
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.
GameScrobbler: PlayStation only, through a pasted NPSSO token.
Rarity-weighted scoringGameDock: NoGameScrobbler: Partial
A points system that values rare unlocks above common ones.
GameDock: Trophy grades are shown, but there is no rarity score.
GameScrobbler: Rarity is shown and sortable, without a weighted score.
What you paid, and what it is worth now
Live wishlist prices and discountsGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
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.
GameScrobbler: Current prices and historical lows on each game's page, rather than on a wishlist.
Organising a library that got out of hand
Series runs, including what you are missingGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: 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.
GameScrobbler: A page per series listing every game in it.
The machine you actually play on
Sees what is installed right nowGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
Which titles are on the device at this moment, as opposed to which you own.
GameScrobbler: Its Playnite add-on reports what is installed, on Windows.
Linux desktop and handheld supportGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: No
An app on the computer you play on: any modern 64-bit Linux, from a desktop tower to a handheld.
Windows or macOS agentGameDock: NoGameScrobbler: Partial
The same local awareness on a Windows or Mac machine.
GameDock: Linux only for now. Windows is next on GameDock's roadmap, then macOS.
GameScrobbler: Windows, through its Playnite plugin and an Overwolf app.
Sharing it, and getting your data out
Public profileGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
A page other people can look at.
GameDock: Opt-in, part by part: library, playtime, achievements, ratings and reviews, lists, activity and wishlist. Spending, prices and devices are never on it.
GameScrobbler: A profile card image to share, and a public link to each yearly recap.
Ratings and written reviewsGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
Scoring a game, and saying something about it other people can read.
GameDock: Ratings in half stars, one review per game with spoilers folded and the hours you really played, private notes on any game, and a public page for each game with its community rating from public ratings and its reviews.
GameScrobbler: Ratings and personal journal notes, not reviews.
Friends, feeds and leaderboardsGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: 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.
GameScrobbler: Steam friends, and where you rank among its players.
Curated lists you can shareGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: Partial
Building a themed set of games and handing someone the link.
GameDock: Ranked or unranked lists of games from your library, with a note on each game. Each list has its own page, shared with friends, with everyone or with nobody.
GameScrobbler: Custom lists in your hub; sharing one is not documented.
Spend data has no public settingGameDock: YesGameScrobbler: 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.
Open sourceGameDock: NoGameScrobbler: Partial
Source you can read, fork or self-host.
GameScrobbler: Its Playnite plugin is GPL-3.0; the service itself is not.
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.