Comparison
Your log, alone — or your log, connected
BG Stats is a genuinely good personal tracker. The comparison is not about logging faster — it is about what a play log becomes when the other players, the game night and the shelf live in the same place.
The structural difference
Credit where due
BG Stats earned its reputation: fast logging, careful design, offline-first, BGG integration, and years of trust from exactly the kind of player who cares about their data. If a private, personal log is the whole goal, it is a fine tool and this page will not pretend otherwise.
The honest difference is architectural. BG Stats is a personal tracker: your log lives with you, and the people in it are names you typed. Ludoya's log is shared: the play you enter is the same play in your friends' histories, the game night that produced it is in the same app, and the stats know who everyone is. What follows from that one difference is the whole comparison.
Side by side
Tracker vs connected tracker
| BG Stats | Ludoya | |
|---|---|---|
| Fast play logging | ||
| Works offline | ||
| Personal statistics | Plus expectation-adjusted win rates | |
| One play, every player’s log | — | |
| Head-to-head vs a real account | — | |
| Score sheets that total themselves | — | |
| Web version | — | |
| Price | Paid | Free core |
| Monthly / yearly animated recap | Yearly views | Replay |
| Find players and game nights | — | |
| Collection with lending | Tracking only |
Shared plays
Five phones, one truth
In a solo tracker, the same game night becomes five diverging copies — or four people with no record at all. Here it is one play: same scores, same photo, everyone’s stats updated, comments underneath.
- Logged once, owned by all. The winner cannot quietly edit the score in their copy. There is no their copy.
- Guests become history. A friend without an account is a named player; if they join later, their plays are waiting.
- Rivalries are real. Head-to-head runs against a person’s actual record, not your transcription of it.
Around the log
The log is the start, not the product
The same account that holds your plays holds the game night that produced them, the shelf they came from, the players near you, and the recap they become — no second app, no export ritual.
- Events feed the log. RSVP, play, and the night’s tables arrive in your history on their own.
- People, by kilometres. A tracker knows what you played; this also knows who is 2.6 km away to play next.
- Replay ends the month. 36 plays, 43 hours, 10 games — animated and shareable, not a settings screen.
Switching
Your history comes with you
If your BG Stats plays sync to BGG, one Ludoya sync imports the lot — games, plays, dates, players — and the two-way sync keeps BGG current from then on. No retyping, no abandoned decade.
- BGG is the bridge. Push your history there once, sync it here, done.
- Labeled honestly. Imported plays stay marked as imported — your record keeps its provenance.
- The exit stays open. Everything exports back out; switching in is not locking in.
When BG Stats might be enough
If you want a purely private log, mostly play with the same offline group, and nobody else at the table tracks anything — a personal tracker does the job, and BG Stats is a good one.
Choose Ludoya when the table should share one record, when you want the game night and the players in the same app as the log, or when free-forever matters. Both can also coexist during a trial month: log here, and the BGG export keeps any BGG-synced tool current.
Connect the log to the people in it
Free, on iOS, Android and web — and tonight’s play lands in everyone’s history.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Ludoya’s logging as fast as BG Stats’?
Comparable — about twenty seconds for a scored play, with the dialog pre-filled from your group and last location. Kits go further at the table: score sheets with the game’s real categories that total themselves and become the logged play.
How do I migrate my BG Stats history?
Via BGG: sync your BG Stats plays to BGG (its integration does this), then connect BGG to Ludoya — one sync imports the collection and play history with dates and players, and imported plays stay labeled as imports.
Are Ludoya’s stats as deep?
Deep in a different direction: win rate against seat expectation, H-index (games and social), head-to-head against real accounts, player-count breakdowns, per-game and per-period slices. What a shared log adds is that the numbers involve real people, not typed names.
What does each cost?
Ludoya’s tracker, stats, sync and community are free without limits; paid tiers add extras (AI rules assistant, organizer tools) on a public pricing page. BG Stats is a paid app with its own unlocks — check their site for current pricing.
Do my friends all need Ludoya accounts?
No — plays accept named guest players. The difference from a solo tracker is what happens later: when a guest creates an account, their history is already there.
Can I keep my log private like in BG Stats?
Yes — visibility is per play and per surface: everything can be friends-only or fully private. Shared plays still work inside that; sharing with your table is not publishing to the world.