PlayTracker vs Thusfar

PlayTracker connects gaming platform profiles and combines games, achievements, statistics and activity graphs in one place. It can import and sync data from platforms including Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, GOG, EA Origin, Battle.net and Guild Wars 2. Players can combine libraries and achievements, customize profiles, follow friends, compare achievements and use leaderboards. Quest adds cross-platform achievement challenges, seasonal rewards, Guilds and friend-created challenges. Insight provides game ownership and active-player estimates, historical activity graphs, playtime and engagement statistics, and audience overlap analysis. The Windows desktop app runs through Overwolf and includes pinned achievements, notes, challenges, relevant statistics and friends who play. The free service is for gamers. Indie costs €12 a month; Pro costs €80 a month and includes Lens audience segmentation. Enterprise offerings can include extra seats, custom surveys, training, support and API access. PlayTracker lists web, Windows, Android and iOS platforms, though no mobile app is listed.

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.