Savepoint.gg VS ViewForge

Savepoint.gg's answer

Two things.

First, coverage. Among the major game trackers, savepoint is the one with native iPhone and Android apps and a full web app, all synced. Most alternatives pick a side: Backloggd and How Long To Beat are web only, Stash is mobile only, GG is mobile first. Your library is the same whether you open it on a phone or a laptop.

Second, what it deliberately leaves out. There are no completion percentages over your collection, no streaks, no days-since counters, and no backlog-size warnings. A lot of backlog tools gamify your library into a chore list with scores and progress bars. savepoint treats it as a library: a place you keep games, not a to-do list that judges you for the games you keep.

Around that sit Steam library import, typo-tolerant search that finds the game even when you misspell it, and discovery by new releases, classics, and genre. It is free.

ViewForge's answer:

Three things. (1) Data ownership: ViewForge writes fitment as Shopify metaobjects native to your store — most competitors store fitment in their own database. (2) 8 verticals out of the box: auto, motorcycle, tractor, marine, power equipment, bicycle, printer, electronics — most competitors are automotive-only. (3) Smart Parse: extract fitment automatically from your existing product titles and descriptions instead of re-typing everything.

Savepoint.gg's answer

Because you probably game on more than one device, and because you do not need another app telling you that you are behind.

Cross-platform is the practical reason. If you browse games on a laptop but save them from your phone, most trackers make you choose one. Savepoint has native iPhone and Android apps plus full web app.

The no-guilt design is the reason people stay. Backlog tools tend to drift toward guilt mechanics: completion bars, scores out of 100, shame reports, streaks you can break. Savepoint has none of them, on purpose. Statuses are neutral and self-applied (Currently Playing, Beaten, Platinumed, On Hold, Backlog, Wishlist), and nothing in the app measures you against your own collection.

Practical extras: free, Steam library import in a couple of taps, and game data from IGDB.

If you want a tracker that pushes you to finish things, other tools do that well and you should use one. Savepoint is for people who want a calm place to keep games.

ViewForge's answer:

Data ownership. Fitment lives in your Shopify metaobjects, so uninstalling does not take your compatibility data with it. Convermax, EasySearch and PartFinder all keep it in their own databases, and getting it back depends on their export tooling on the day you cancel.

Cost at the low end. The search widget, the compatibility table on the product page and the saved-vehicle garage are all on the free tier, up to 50 products, with no expiry. EasySearch puts the table and the garage behind its $75/month Premium plan. Convermax starts at $250/month.

Automotive and non-automotive coverage. Eight built-in templates, and fully custom templates from $19/month, for catalogs that do not decompose into Year/Make/Model at all.

Savepoint.gg's answer

Gamers with more games than time.

Specifically, people who buy across several storefronts and platforms (Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Game Pass) and have lost track of what they own, what they meant to play, and what they thought of the ones they finished.

They tend to be adults whose gaming time has become limited and unpredictable, which is exactly why the pressure mechanics in other trackers land badly for them. They are also the sort of people who already keep a Goodreads or Letterboxd account: they enjoy logging and remembering their media, not just consuming it.

Secondary audiences: Steam users specifically, since the Steam import is the fastest way to fill a library, and returning players coming back to a collection they set aside a while ago.

ViewForge's answer:

Shopify merchants whose customers need to know whether a part fits before they will buy it — and who do not have an engineer on staff to build that themselves.

Concretely: auto and truck parts retailers, powersports and motorcycle dealers, tractor and agricultural parts sellers, marine and outboard suppliers, small-engine and power equipment stores, bicycle and e-bike component shops, printer supply merchants, and electronics accessory sellers.

Catalog sizes run from a few dozen products on the free tier up into the tens of thousands; it is running in production on a catalog of roughly 40,000 SKUs. The common thread is not the industry — it is that "does this fit my thing" is the question deciding the sale.

Savepoint.gg's answer

Savepoint is built by Adam, a solo developer and lifelong gamer.

It started as a personal problem. Every backlog tracker I tried made my hobby feel like homework: completion percentages, streaks, and a growing pile of "unfinished" games staring back at me. Gaming was the thing I did to relax, and my tracker had quietly turned it into a second job with a progress bar.

Meanwhile books and film had figured this out. Goodreads, Letterboxd, and Fable made it normal to keep a shelf, remember what you thought of something, and find your next one through people you trust. Games had trackers, but most were either web only or built around completion.

So savepoint became the opposite of a to-do list: a calm, cross-platform library where saving a game commits you to nothing. The name is the gaming term. A savepoint is where you come back to.

ViewForge's answer:

ViewForge came out of agency work. Normal View was building for a parts retailer running roughly 12,000 SKUs who needed fitment search, and every app we evaluated stored the merchant's compatibility data in the vendor's own database.

That is a strange trade when you look at it directly. Fitment data is genuinely expensive to produce — it is weeks of work — and the merchant would not own the result. It would belong to whichever app happened to be installed that year.

Shopify metaobjects made a different answer possible: write fitment as native structured data inside the merchant's own store. The theme reads it, the Storefront API queries it, Admin GraphQL exports it, and it is still there after an uninstall. That decision is what the rest of the app is built around.

Everything else came from real catalogs rather than a roadmap. Eight verticals exist because a tractor catalog is not Year/Make/Model. Smart Parse exists because that retailer had already written fitment into 12,000 product titles, and nobody was ever going to retype them.

Savepoint.gg's answer

React Native and Expo, one TypeScript codebase shipping to iOS, Android, and web. NativeWind (Tailwind for React Native) for styling.

Supabase (PostgreSQL and Storage) for the backend, split across two databases: a public game-data catalog and a private user database secured with row-level security. Clerk for authentication. TanStack Query for server state and Zustand for UI state. IGDB as the game data source, synced nightly.

EAS (Expo Application Services) for builds, deployment, and web hosting. Sentry for error monitoring, PostHog for product analytics.

ViewForge's answer:

• TypeScript
• Shopify metaobjects, as the fitment data store
• Shopify theme app extensions for the storefront components: fitment search, saved-vehicle garage, compatibility table, product-page fit notice
• Shopify Storefront API, for querying fitment from the theme
• Shopify Admin GraphQL API, for writing and exporting fitment records
• NHTSA vehicle database, for VIN decoding
• ACES and PIES XML parsing, for automotive catalog import

Savepoint.gg's answer

Not applicable. Savepoint is a free consumer app used by individual gamers, not a B2B product, so there are no company or enterprise customers.