Pixel In Waiting

Your game backlog and play history, in one place.

Pixel In Waiting is a Mac and iPhone app for keeping track of the video games you have played or want to play. It remembers what you have finished, and helps you decide what to pick up next.

What it does

• Find and add games. Search released and upcoming games and add them to your library.
• Covers and details. Cover art, how long a game takes to beat, its game modes and ratings, from IGDB, plus lists in Add a Game of what is popular, new and coming soon.
• Track and rate. Mark each game Upcoming, Wishlist, Owned, Playing, Played or Abandoned. Add a rating, how interested you are, a review, why you want to play it, and the dates and platform you played it on.
• Decide what to play next. Sort, search and filter your library by length, modes and rating, and see Play Next picks based on what you are keen on, how long a game takes and whether it is co-op.
• Home at a glance. What you are playing, upcoming releases on your wishlist, how many games you finished each year and what your friends played lately, all on one screen.
• Release-day reminders. Optional, and off until you turn them on: a notification at 9 AM on the day a game on your Upcoming list comes out. They are made on your device. Press and hold the app icon on iPhone, or use the Dock menu on Mac, to jump to a game you are playing or to Add a Game.
• Share with friends. Invite friends with a private link. You see each other’s libraries, and a friend can add a game to yours. See which of their games you don’t have yet. Only people you invite can see anything.
• Your devices stay in step. Your library lives in your own iCloud account and syncs between your Mac and iPhone. It works offline too.
• Your data is yours. Export your library as CSV or JSON whenever you like, import a list you already have (a CSV or JSON file opens straight from Messages or Files), undo removals for three days, and delete everything from inside the app.

Privacy

No account, no ads, no tracking. Your library is kept on your devices and in your own iCloud. A small server of mine looks up game details by game ID and keeps no record of what was asked. Read the full Privacy Policy.

Requirements

A Mac with macOS 27 or later, or an iPhone with iOS 27 or later. iCloud is needed for syncing and for sharing with friends.

Why I built it

A friend and I wanted a better way to track games than a shared spreadsheet. Read the story and what comes next.

Credits

Game data from Wikidata (public domain) and IGDB. Powered by IGDB.

Help

Questions, or something not working? See Support.