In version 6.14 of the app the New Play and Edit Play screens are improved!
The screen is more compact and these options are now accessible directly from the New Play and Edit Play screens:
The remaining sub screens are also simplified and easier to use.
This update contains lots of bigger and smaller improvements!
The most important of these are described below.
When you log a play in BG Stats you now can add names to one or more Anonymous Players. In a play, just tap the anonymous player to add a name.
A so-called Named Anonymous Player only appears in that Play, not in any other lists of players, and does not have player stats.
You can find all information about named Anonymous Players here: Naming an Anonymous Player, and about Anonymous Players in general here: Anonymous Players.
When searching for a game in the List of Games the following is now also possible:
As before, you can also find a game by its BGG ID.
When selecting players for a play, there are two extra options to sort the players available. Next to Alphabetical, Recent play and Most plays, you can now also sort players on Recent play of this game and Most plays of this game.
The extra sorting options are added to the list of sorting options.
Once you select Recent play or Most plays, an extra option will become available, “of this game“. Once enabled the Player List filters will only take into account the plays for the game that is being played.
You can now set a Default tag that will always be added to plays when they are logged on that location.
A default play tag can be added for every location:
When you search for a game and the game already exists in your app, with the extra option you can go to that Game entry directly.
When you tap on the + button on the list of Games, you can search for a game on BoardGameGeek. Type the name of the game (or BGG ID) and tap Search BGG.
If you tap on one of the search results, but that game is already in your app, you’ll now have three options:
You can now tap the Heat map legend to switch the heat map display from colors to grayscale. For each value, the number will be displayed as well.
The Heat map is available with the Power expansion. You can access it from the Insights screen, when you are viewing a Year or All time period.
BG Stats now adjusts its behavior based on the Accessibility Settings Reduced Motion and Differentiate without color. Larger Text, Dark Interface and Reduce Transparency were already supported.
BG Stats will soon list “Accessibility Nutrition Labels” in the App Store with all supported accessibility features.
Lots of other small bug fixes and improvements:
On the Game overview screen an extra statistics section has now been added to the Stats Segment: Score margins!
The Score Margins sections shows the win and loss margins for plays of a game. Details about Score Margins can be found here: Score Margins.
For all relevant bar charts it is now possible to tap on it to view the related play(s). You can recognise these lines by the > at the end. This option is available with the Power expansion.
Tap the name of the Stats Segment to access the drop-down menu and quickly switch between sections.
More information about all these stats sections can be found here: Game page – Stats segment.
The Games list now has a third option: Grid view!
You can view just the box covers, or choose to show Game name, Play count, Sort or Filter data (for instance: when you sort on Year published, this will show the Year) and Collection status.
Tap on the green gear icon on the top right of the Games list and select Grid view.
Tap on the green gear icon on the top right of the Games list and select List View Settings.
Here you can enable one or more of the following:
All information about List View Settings can be found here: Games list view settings.
From v6.10 there is a QR scanner on the Overview screen, this can be used to scan shared Play QR-codes directly from the app!
For all relevant challenges an option was added that, if enabled, makes sure plays that are counted for a challenge actually appear in the challenge.
This situation could happen in Challenges where there is a filter on Play count: when you play a Game the Play count goes up and the game was no longer eligible in the Challenge.
The option will be enabled by default for new Challenges, and can be enabled in older challenges by editing the Challenge.
The following has also been added/improved:
With this version it is now possible to add more calculations to score fields.
After addition and subtraction that were already possible, you can now multiply and divide.
Using the parentheses you can combine multiple of these calculations in one score field.
The entire calculation is saved in the score field, so you can always view and or edit it later!
Read more about it here: Calculations
The publishers Minerva Tabletop Games and Steinbock Brettspiele have allowed us to add some of the characters in their games as avatars in the app.
The Minerva Tabletop Games avatars are from their game Crumbs! The Sandwich Filler Game with art from BG Stats avatar veteran Rory Muldoon.
The Steinbock Brettspiele avatars are from their games Der König des Waldes and Bobbidi Boom with art from respectively Roland Deaconu and Lorenzo Fornaciari.
Please see our Score sheet page here: Requesting score sheets for an update on requesting score sheets.
The final new features we bring to the app in 2025 are all for Insights!
Available for everyone, we have added the Achievement level Editor!
The Achievement level Editor lets you create your own achievement levels on the Games tab, with custom colours!
You can:
All options of the Achievement level Editor are explained here: Insights.
You can also find this explanation by tapping on “More info…” at the bottom of the Achievement level Editor page.
Two new features added on the Players tab are:
For users of the Power expansion the following is also added:
On the Games tab:
On the Players tab:
We wish you all a happy time with friends & family and as much board gaming as you want!
Eerko & Suzan
PS: keep an eye out for more insights, later this year 
You might want to wait to include your holiday gaming, but if you can’t, our annual Year Stats are available now!
After all the options added last year, still more is possible this year! Optionally change lists to Artists, Categories and/or Mechanics.
When you’ve updated to version 6.7, you will see the Year Stats banner on the main overview screen of the app. Tap this banner to go directly to your Year Stats! (depending on your stats and device this may take a little while)
The Year Stats will be created from your Insights, with the period 2025. The default sorting of the list of games will be on Play count.*
You can go to Insights from your Year Stats, change any filters you want and go back to the Year Stats through the Share menu, option “Year Stats“. Here you can for instance use the new Digital play tag!**
If you’ve accidentally closed the banner you can enable it by going to Settings –> View and Share your 2025 stats.
* Your previously selected Insights settings like filters and sorting are temporarily replaced. When you leave the Year Stats and Insights screen without making adjustments, the next time you open Insights your original settings will be restored.
** available with the Power expansion.
The options on the Year Stats screen are the same as on the Stats-o-grapic. You can read all about these options here: Stats-o-graphic. Below the differences and new options are described. These new options will also be available on the Stats-o-graphic from now on!
Year Stats have their own background. You can choose to keep this (Option ‘Standard‘) or change it to the option ‘Game‘.
Two options are added. Here you can select what is to be displayed in the top and bottom lists. When opening the Year Stats the app estimates which list could be interesting for you. You can always change this:
Here you can select the following options:
Here you can select the following options:
Really only interested in one of the list options? Select it for both the options and the lists will be combined.
The percentage shown for these is over all your unique played Games, not plays.
These options are also available in the green gear menu on the Display line.
In version 6.6 we introduce Publisher avatars!
You can now also choose an avatar from 100+ avatars based on art from more than 15 games.
The art for these avatars is provided by the publishers, big thanks goes out to:
When selecting an Illustration, tap on “Board Game Stats” to see the original avatars, tap on “Publishers” to see these new avatars!
Tap on “About” to learn more about a publisher and to see from which games the art for the avatars came from.
More on Avatars can be found here: Avatars.
Version 6.5 of the app introduces Play Tagging!
With Play tagging you can create groups of plays based on any criteria you want.
Use these play tags to filter the list of plays, the Game page, Insights and use them in Challenges!
The combined Play Stats will give an overview of stats of filtered plays, a perfect recap for a gaming weekend or series of plays.
If you have imported plays from BoardGameArena or Yucata previously, using the already created “Digital” play tag helps to view your stats just the way you want.
You can read all about Play tagging on our Tagging page. Tagging is part of the Power expansion.
You can add the “Digital” tag to any play you want, but you can also add the tag to previous plays with Multiple Select.
As an example, if you logged some plays on the location “Watergate app“:
We want to thank our wonderful volunteers who worked very hard on translating the app into Catalan!
This is the 16th language in BG Stats after: Chinese (simplified), Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian!
Activating a different language in the app
Go to Settings –> App Settings –> Language
We are very grateful for all our translators for not only translating the app, but also for their continued support with translating new features!
Power Expansion
The Power expansion combines the previous two expansions: Deep Stats and Tagging into one.
This gives us the ability to create new features that use parts of both these older expansions. A new feature like this will come to the app soon!
If you already own the Deep Stats and/or Tagging expansion, you will automatically get the Power expansion, including all features. This can only add options, nothing will be removed.
You can read about all features here: Power Expansion.
For the fourth time we have awarded our annual Most Popular New Game Award. This year the award went to Johan Benvenuto for his game Harmonies!
This year the award could not be handed over at Spiel, so it was send to the designer in France.
Congratulations to the winner Harmonies, designer Johan Benvenuto, and the whole team behind creating this game!
Games that are released in 2024 are eligible. The popularity of the game is determined as follows: we looked at the unique users that logged at least one play of a game between 7 October 2024 and August 2025. The new game that was logged by the most unique users, Harmonies in this case, won. This means it doesn’t matter how many times a user played the game, or how many people were in the game.
In version 6.3 we’ve added some much requested features throughout the app:
You can now set if you want to see the game image in the Plays list.
Tap the green Gear icon at the top of the list and choose “Display game image“.
This can be combined with Avatars, Expansions and Board/variants.
In the “Statistics per:” section on the game page you can now tap a Player or Role. This will show you a list of related plays. If you tapped a:
(Available with the Deep Stats expansion)
It is now possible to select a random Board/Variant when logging a play.
You can read about all options of the Board/Variant randomizer here: Board/variant Randomizer
It is now possible to let the randomizer select additional Roles after one or more Roles are already selected for a Player.
You can read about all options of the Role randomizer here: Role Randomizer.
You can now see the number of players at the top of the Player list when logging a New Play (if more than 4).
You can also see the number of selected players at the top of the Player selector screen.
When you tap on a pie chart, you will see percentages and absolute numbers for each entry in the legend.
The most noticeable updates are
This last change has the unexpected effect that updating Player’s avatars (or Player image) will also set plays for this Player as needs to be updated. We are working on an update to prevent this.
You can post all unposted and updated plays to BGG in one go with Multiple Select:
From our FAQ:
What does the green bullet or open circle mean on the Plays list?
A filled green circle means: the play is not posted to BGG.
An open green circle means: the play is posted to BGG, but updated in the app since then.
You can enable display of the circles in the BGG settings in the app.
You can go to the Version History on our site, or check the Version History in the app through: Settings –> Help, About and Contact –> Version History
In this new version of the app there are more Avatar options, more Avatar settings and more Avatars!
You can now use Multiple Select to set Illustrations, Background colours and Shapes for multiple selected Players. This makes it even easier to visually create a group of Players!
It is now possible to:
Read more about Avatars and all options here: Avatars
Illustrator Annika was so generous to create another illustration!
You can now use her chameleon to create even more Avatars.
Her range of pöppels is also expanded with 5 new colours!
We are really excited to introduce Avatars in BG Stats!
Avatars offer a way, in just three steps, to easily and quickly create a beautiful picture to use as your player icon.
Multiple talented artists created sets of illustrations you can use together with a background colour and a shape to create a unique Avatar for you and other Players in the app.
The Illustrations you can choose from are created by the following 5 talented artists:
Select your own Avatar, (optionally) receive your friends Avatars when they share plays, or create sets of Avatars with the same background colour or shape for different game groups!
With 50 illustrations, 450+ colours and more than 25 shapes you can make each players avatar unique!
On the Matching screen, when you import a play file / QR code, you can choose which avatars to import, so you can use a players own chosen avatar in your app. Or you can keep the avatar you’ve chosen for that player yourself!
On the plays list there is an option to show avatars for all players, or just the winner(s).
On the Plays list it is now possible to show board/variants for plays. Just like expansions, you can now toggle “Display board/variants” in the gear menu at the top right of the list.
We are very proud that thanks to the hard work of our wonderful volunteers Hungarian becomes the 16th language in BG Stats!
Languages already available are: Chinese (simplified), Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian!
Activating a different language in the app
Go to Settings –> App Settings –> Language
We are very grateful for all our translators for not only translating the app, but also for their continued support with translating new features!
As you may have seen already, over the last week a new update has been rolled out: version 5.8 with Personal Ratings!
With Ratings in BG Stats you will be able to rate games, as well as filter and sort on your own ratings.
If you have Collection sync enabled your rating will automatically be synced with BGG as well.
You can find all information about Ratings here: Rating Games
If you haven’t done so already, you can read how to enable Ratings here: Enabling Personal Ratings
From version 5.7 it is possible to create a QR code to share your play(s). Let friends* scan the code direct from your phone or send the image or link whichever way you like!
Creating a QR code for sharing play(s) works exactly like sharing play files, just choose the option “Share via QR code” instead.
More information can be found here: Sharing plays using a QR code.
* BG Stats users with version 5.7 or higher
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