GamePal vs Thusfar

GamePal is an iOS app for tracking gaming activity and keeping a game collection. Users can mark games as played, completed or wishlisted, and record thoughts, memories and experiences in a journal. Live Activities show session updates on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, while widgets display gaming stats, recent games and upcoming releases. The app can track gaming events and alert users when upcoming games are about to release. Siri Shortcuts offer actions for logging games and checking stats. Discover provides personalized recommendations, curated lists and trending titles across platforms; Monthly Games lists titles available through services such as PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass. GamePal requires iOS 18.0 or later. The download is free, though some features require Platinum. Platinum adds features including unlimited collections, advanced journal entries with media, widgets, Live Activities, a Monthly Games calendar and Shortcut actions. Its prices are $2.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $49.99, paid once for lifetime access.

Thusfar is a free, open-source Windows tray app for remembering where you stopped in a game. It reads the local Steam library, detects installed Steam games across drives, and watches for sessions to end. After a session longer than 10 minutes, it offers a skip option, a one-line note, or three prompts about location, what comes next, and what to remember. Sessions shorter than 10 minutes are recorded without that prompt. The app provides a game library and per-game recaps containing notes, playtime, last-played information, and session history. Steam games are detected automatically; console, emulator, and non-Steam sessions can be logged manually, including games from Epic or GOG in the first version. Data is stored locally in SQLite. Optional IGDB cover art needs free Twitch developer credentials; without them, placeholder art is used. The portable release is a ZIP archive requiring Windows 10 or 11 x64 and Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime. It has no installer, and its unsigned release may trigger Windows SmartScreen.