BoardGameGeek

Useful app for finding out more about Board Games, logging plays etc. Generally speaking the things missing that are included in the full website version aren't things I would use regularly anyway.

hi Team, thank you for a great app. Thanks for the reply. I am still figuring out how to get more out of card games. I have another question/ request: Is there a way to filter games based on number of players ? I am generally looking for games that can be played solo or duo & custom min & max search for games based on players would be very helpful

Final edit: Updated review as downloads work now with the new update :) Can't seem to download files via the app, always says unsuccessful Edit: Download via browser is fine but via app is not possible

The website is great, the app, I don't know what to say. You better don't provide an app like this, because the navigation is sooo bad. I can only recommend to everyone to access the website in the browser. Bad please don't get me wrong boardgamegeek itself is great, I visit it several times a week.

This has got to be one of the few cases where an app is legitimately worse at everything than a website. The UI is horrid, it's impossible to tell apart sections and content. It needs to be torched, re-designed by someone serious and rebuilt.

can't download files. can we please fix it.

Stop showing me ads for racist + ai slop games

Boardgame geek as a site is extremely useful and provides everything I could want as an acid fan of boardgames. The app provides all the functionality I could ask so I see no reason to rate it any less than 5 stars.

Essential BGG interface tool

A good record keeper. Including insurance and anti fraud purposes.

keeps crashing and not responding

Broken, does not load images.

Great app. BGG News and BGG Blog Posts on game pages do not load, please fix? 🙏 Edit: now that's support! Six stars

the app just keeps on loading. the website is way better.

Since the last update (1 week ago) it stopped working. I'm kewp getting logged out and it errors when I try to log in back... this wasn't an issue before.

The app screen keeps refreshing when you are trying to view updates to subscriptions. Very annoying.

The definitive board game library- and a good way to check in on the hobby or related activites.activities.

top-notch, best app in my personal opinion

I love this site. the app is just a mirror of it and I find it easy to use

it's fine. basically just a web wrapper for the website.

Boardgamegeek is a great database. But accessing it has become a nightmare. The app is poorly designed with a poor interface, it's slow, and crashes a lot. It signs you out when you close the app. The website itself is impossible to reach through almost any VPN you can imagine. Their "security" measures are simply disappointing. Not sure why they need security measures 100 times more rigorous than banks! A decade ago, it worked every time. Today, they only force you to search for alternatives.

Can't figure out how the add to collection feature works. The save button doesn't seem to save.

kind of a pain to submit reviews to. they do not always approve a review of a game right away...

Needs work. I still use the old open-source BBG because this one doesn't offer searching your collection by player count. I need to use it to find appropriate games for a group. Then the same notifications pop up again and again. My Geek > Notification Bar > [Notification Options] So, you have to just turn them off.

Just like the website, a horribly unintuitive app. The website is so poor on mobile devices (hey, it is only 2025 now to be fair) I had hoped this would improve that, but what it gains in some areas it loses in others. They really should listen to user feedback, but it seems they don't care. In the app, things like editing comments and voting on player count are extremely unintuitive. Why doesn't the filter to 'View ratings' with comments persist?

This is far from a good app and BGG missuses it to force views. Which is not nice and not quite objective.

can you give me some free games 😊

This is what they disconnected BG Catalog for? It's an inferior app with ADs. Just give him back access please.

please return compatibility with BGG Catalog app

great.

BGG content is good but this app is terrible. It's slow, it crashes all the time, and the functionality is surprisingly limited. A lot of things you just can't do in the app, like well-filtered searches, voting in polls, even viewing current trends. I paid the money to remove ads for a year to support BGG (and hoping to make the app less laggy), but when you hit a functionality that's missing in the app and it just links you to the website, they want you to pay again. Really can't recommend!

A bit clunky. I get that you want to monetize, but selling "no ads" as "adblocker" sounds so wrong. thanks for reminding me I have an adblocker in my browser? Then why even use the app. The ads are huge, too. Jeez, major turn off.

Looks like Most function work on the website

I love BoardGameGeek, and this app mostly let's me enjoy it in dark mode too!

Can't log in. After doing so, it stays on the same screen and if you go back it still says to log in. I already verified my email address. Yes! No message was the problem. I discovered on the site that my username was wrong, as you said: shouldn't be my e-mail. I thought that this username was only for display on the public profile. Thanks for the quick response!

This is not good. App layout is pretty bad, too many stuff shoved in your face. Please, make the UI cleaner, this is almost unusable.

Missing a lot of features from the actual website. Edit: For replying so quickly and caring what the community thinks of the app, I raised the rating. I appreciate and respect you for that. As for a couple of missing features, I would love to have some way to view our geek gold amounts and to be able to alter our profiles as you can do on the site. I can't view the desktop version from my phone any longer and forces it to use the app layout. I have to uninstall to view the desktop version now.

BGG has lots of smarter options to make money than pushing advertisements on consumers' mobile devices, wasting valuable screen real estate on small telephone displays. It would be o.k. to charge for getting rid of ads once, as a one-time purchase, like thousands of large and small app developers do, but milking users dry with recurring subscription fees ad infinitum is not an adequate form of monetization for a company whose content is largely created by its user community. Ads? => Uninstalled.

Good luck 🤞

Despite paying for adfree board game geek I still had ads shown to me in the app.

Will raise the rating if there is a search for player count in my collection

Can't even sign in with my account. Useless app. Edit to the response. Strangely, I've tried that multiple times. That's how I know you can't sign in. Useless app, worse developers who think people don't understand how to sign in before they comment. STOP TREATING PEOPLE LIKE IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!