Your whole game collection, one shelf
A local-first video game collection tracker - no account required, nothing stored in someone else's cloud. Search or scan a title to add it, track what you're playing, finished, own, want or have lent out, rate it out of five stars, and see your whole library laid out on a cover-art shelf grouped by platform.
Shelf view lays your collection out like a physical game shelf - cover art, a status pip and a star rating per title, grouped under each platform you own games on.
Search by title to pull cover art, platform and release year in automatically via TheGamesDB - no API key or setup required - or add a game manually with your own details in seconds either way.
Playing, Completed, Owned, Backlog, Wishlist and Lent - the last one so you can actually remember who's borrowed a physical copy, not just what you own.
Rate anything you've played, tag titles however suits you (co-op, indie, replaying) and keep freeform notes per game - your own record, your own words.
Totals, average rating, hours logged, and what your backlog and whole collection are worth - plus a breakdown by status and platform, a heads-up on any game you own on more than one platform, and a "worth revisiting" list of backlog titles you've forgotten about.
Hit "Surprise me" for a random pick from your backlog or wishlist. At year's end, generate a shareable wrap-up card of what you completed, how many hours you logged and your most-played platform - built entirely from your own local data.
Click into any title for a full detail view - cover, hours played, price paid, tags, notes - plus suggestions for similar games already in your collection, based on shared tags.
Your collection lives on your own device - no server dependency for day-to-day use, just the shared Metre2 account for sign-in. Nobody else's cloud, nobody else's rules.
Export your whole collection to a readable JSON file whenever you like, and import it back in later. No lock-in, no proprietary format holding your data hostage.
Shelf for browsing, Grid for a dense cover-art overview, List for a sortable table with everything laid out - filter any of them by status, platform or a quick search.
Shelf, Grid and List views, the Stats page, and Settings - a look at the actual app, not a mockup.
Backloggd is a popular free web app for logging and reviewing games, built around a social feed of what friends are playing. Here's how a local-first Windows desktop tracker compares for someone who wants a private collection log rather than a social network.
| Feature | Game Log | Backloggd |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | £4.99 one-off after trial | Free, with an optional paid tier for extra features |
| Works fully offline | ✓ | ✕ |
| Your data stays on your device | ✓ | ✕ (stored on Backloggd's servers) |
| Social feed / following friends | ✕ | ✓ |
| "Lent" status for physical copies | ✓ | ✕ |
| Clean JSON export of your whole collection | ✓ | ~ (CSV export on some plans) |
| Native Windows desktop app | ✓ | ✕ (web app) |
| One account across a whole app portfolio | ✓ | ✕ |
Comparison based on Backloggd's publicly listed pricing and features as of August 2026 (backloggd.com) - pricing and features change over time, so check backloggd.com for current details. Backloggd is a trademark of its respective owner; this comparison is for informational purposes and isn't sponsored by or affiliated with Backloggd.
No separate account for your game data - it's stored on your own device. You do sign in with your one shared Metre2 account, the same login used across every Metre2 app, but your collection itself is local-first and never required to sync anywhere.
Search by title to pull cover art, platform and release year automatically via TheGamesDB - no API key or setup required. Or add a game manually with your own details. Camera barcode scanning isn't wired up in this first Windows build yet.
Shelf view groups your collection by platform with cover-art tiles, like a physical game shelf. Grid view is a denser cover-art-only layout for scanning a large collection quickly. List view is a detailed sortable table with title, platform, status, rating and tags.
Yes - export your entire collection to a clean, readable JSON file at any time from Settings, and import it back in later. No lock-in.
Playing, Completed, Owned, Backlog, Wishlist and Lent - six statuses covering the full lifecycle of a game in your collection, including titles you've lent out to someone else.