Voluta vs Backloggd
Backloggd describes itself as Letterboxd for games, and that is a fair description: a journal, play sessions, reviews and a following feed, all built around one medium. Both apps get their game data from the same place, IGDB, so this is not a catalogue argument. It is about what sits next to your games.
| Feature | Backloggd | Voluta |
|---|---|---|
| Games | Yes, with a journal and play sessions | Yes, with hours per session and replays |
| Game data | IGDB | IGDB, the same source |
| Books | No | Yes, with pages and reading sessions |
| Films | No | Yes |
| TV | No | Yes, by season and episode |
| Reviews and ratings | Yes, with markdown | Yes |
| Lists | Yes | Yes, and one list can hold all four media |
| Following people | Yes | Yes |
| Clubs and buddy sessions | No | Yes, for books, films and TV |
| Year in review | No | Rewind, monthly and yearly, all media |
| Steam import | No | Yes, with playtime, free |
| Price | Free. An optional Patreon gives a backer badge | Free, Premium $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr |
Where they are the same
Log what you played, when, and for how long. Rate it, write about it, keep a backlog of what is next, and follow people to see what they finished. Both pull their catalogue from IGDB, so the games and the cover art are the same ones.
One library
What changes when books and films sit beside them
A games-only tracker can tell you that you played forty hours last month. It cannot tell you that the same month also had four books and a season of television in it, because it never sees them.
Here a streak counts a day you read as readily as a day you played, a yearly goal can be set in hours or titles across any medium, and the Rewind at the end of it covers the whole year rather than the part of it with a controller in it.
Getting your playtime across
Connect Steam and your library arrives with hours already attached, free, so a backlog does not have to be typed in twice. Trakt brings watch history for the films and TV, and Goodreads or StoryGraph bring the books, if you are consolidating more than one app at once.
What it costs
Tracking books, films, TV and games is free, along with lists, search, clubs, buddy reads, imports and the annual Rewind. Premium is $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year and adds deeper analytics, the monthly Rewind, custom themes and supporter perks.
Questions
- Does Voluta use the same game data as Backloggd?
- Yes. Both use IGDB, so the catalogue and the cover art come from the same source.
- Can I track how long I played something?
- Yes, per session rather than as one lifetime total, so a game you come back to keeps a history rather than a single number. Connecting Steam brings existing playtime across.
- Is Backloggd free?
- Yes, and there is no paid feature tier: the optional Patreon gives a backer badge rather than unlocking anything. Voluta is free for tracking too, with a Premium tier for deeper analytics and the monthly Rewind.
Books, films, TV and games. One library.
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