Type “board game stats app” into any app store and you’ll get a handful of solid options that all do slightly different things. The problem is there isn’t one “best” app, because “best” depends on whether you’re tracking your own personal collection, your whole game group, or you just want the scoring math done for you at the table.
We’ve used most of these ourselves. Here’s a rundown of the apps worth knowing about in 2026, what each one is for, and where each one falls short, including where we (Skorio) fall short too.
BG Stats (Board Game Stats)
The best-known name in this space, built by Dutch developer Eerko Vissering (known in the community as “BG Stats,” listed on the app stores as “Board Game Stats”). It’s a deep, polished app for logging plays, managing your collection, and generating detailed statistics and charts, with tight integration into BoardGameGeek so your collection and play history can sync with your BGG profile.
Platforms: iOS and Android. Price: Free to download, with optional in-app purchases for cloud sync and a “deep stats” expansion with more advanced charts.
Good for: Serious hobbyists who want to log every play of every game in their collection and get detailed personal statistics out of it. If you already live on BoardGameGeek, this is the natural extension of that.
The catch: It’s built around your collection and your plays first. You can log who else played, but comparing your record against a specific friend over time isn’t really the point of the app — the social side is secondary to the personal archive.
NemeStats
A free, open-source web tracker built specifically around gaming groups rather than individual collections. You create a Gaming Group, invite your regular players, and log results as you go — it calculates win percentages, streaks, and a fun “Nemesis” and “Minion” system that tracks your toughest rival and your easiest opponent.
Platforms: Web-based (mobile-friendly), with an Android app. Price: Completely free, no ads, open source on GitHub.
Good for: Groups who want group-first stats and like the idea of contributing to (or at least trusting) an open-source project. The Nemesis/Minion framing is a fun way to surface rivalries.
The catch: The interface is functional rather than polished, and it doesn’t currently offer the multi-language support or the guest-player-to-account-linking flow that matters if your group isn’t all English-speaking or all signed up yet.
Score Door
A newer, privacy-first entry: a free app with pre-configured scoring for 45+ popular games, six adaptive scoring methods (race, round-based, win/loss, final score, ELO rating, and cooperative), and leaderboards. Its standout feature is that it works entirely offline — no account, no server, nothing leaves your device.
Platforms: iOS and Android. Price: Free.
Good for: Anyone who wants fast, no-friction scorekeeping during a game and cares about privacy — there’s no sign-up and no data collection at all.
The catch: Because everything stays on one device, there’s no shared, synced history across your group. If two different people log the same game night on their own phones, those two records never talk to each other.
A shared, social tracker for your whole group
All three apps above are good at what they do, and all three are built primarily around one person’s device or collection. If your games are a group thing, the gap is a tracker built around your shared history from the start, so the group’s record exists in one place instead of scattered across everyone’s individual logs.
That’s what we built Skorio to be. After a session, one person checks in, logs who played and the scores, and it’s saved for the whole group — not just for whoever happened to open the app that night.
- Nothing to install to start. It’s a mobile-first web app — a shared link or QR code gets everyone going, on any phone.
- Include everyone, even non-users. Log friends who aren’t on Skorio yet; when they join, their history links up automatically.
- Head-to-head records and tournaments are core here, not an afterthought, because for a regular group that’s usually the most interesting part.
- It speaks your language. Available in English, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
- Free, too: the essentials are free forever, and a Pro upgrade adds advanced statistics, compound scoring, and more storage.
The catch: we’re newer than the others, and we don’t have BG Stats’ depth of personal collection management or its BoardGameGeek sync yet. If cataloguing your entire collection game-by-game is what you want, Board Game Stats still does that better than we do.
Which one should you actually use?
| If you want… | Use this |
|---|---|
| Deep personal collection stats & BGG sync | Board Game Stats |
| A free, open-source group tracker | NemeStats |
| Fast, private, offline scoring at the table | Score Door |
| A shared history for your regular group, with head-to-head & tournaments | Skorio |
Plenty of people use more than one — Board Game Stats for a personal collection log, and something group-focused like Skorio or NemeStats for the friends they play with every week. There’s no rule against using two tools for two different jobs.
What actually matters when you’re choosing
- Who is it for — you, or the group? This is the single biggest fork in the road. Everything else is a detail by comparison.
- Will everyone actually use it? The best-specced app is useless if half your group won’t install it or sign up. Low-friction beats feature-rich.
- Do you care about privacy or about syncing? Offline-only (Score Door) and cloud-synced group tools (Skorio, NemeStats, Board Game Stats’ cloud sync) make a real trade-off in opposite directions.
Play regularly with the same group and want the shared history to just exist? Skorio tracks scores, head-to-head records, and tournaments for your whole group, free.
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