Cartridge: Game Collection

Cartridge turns the games on your real shelves into a game shop on your phone.

Cartridge is a game collection app for anyone who still buys their games on discs and cartridges. Scan what you own and it builds a catalog of your physical game library, all on one shelf that looks like your own.

It works as a video game barcode scanner too. Point your camera at the barcode on the back of a case and Cartridge finds the game, its platform and its box art, then stands it on the shelf under that platform's neon sign. Spines look like the real thing: a blue PS4 banner, a red Switch strip, a green Xbox band, with the rest of the spine taking its color from the cover. Cases keep their real proportions, so a Switch case stands shorter and thinner than a PS2 case, and an N64 box stands chunky.

Got loose cartridges? Mark a game as loose and it stands face out as the cartridge itself, with the box art on its label. Game Boy, GBA, SNES, N64, NES, Mega Drive, Switch cards and DS cards all have their own shape.

Tap a game to take it off the shelf. The case swings round to face you and you can track:
• Play status: backlog, playing, beaten, 100% or wishlist
• Condition: loose, boxed, complete in box or sealed
• What you paid, with a running total for the whole collection
• A star rating and your own notes

It works as a game collection tracker as well. You can see what's still in your backlog, what you've beaten and what the whole collection cost you, and it doubles as a list of your physical media if you ever need to know what you own.

No barcode? Search by name and pick the right game from the results, with box art. That works for loose carts, imports and anything the barcode lookup hasn't heard of. If the cover isn't quite right, pick another one.

Keep a wishlist for the games you're hunting, search your shelves, sort by title, date added, release year or play status, and export the whole collection as a spreadsheet whenever you like.

Whether you collect retro games or just keep the current generation on a shelf, Cartridge covers more than 60 platforms: PlayStation 1 to PS5, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox Series X|S, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Switch and Switch 2, Nintendo 64, SNES, NES, Game Boy, DS and 3DS, Dreamcast, Saturn, Mega Drive, Neo Geo, Atari and the ZX Spectrum. No barcode on an old cartridge? Take a photo of it and Cartridge reads the title.

Cartridge is completely free. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no account to sign up for. Your collection stays on your phone.

Barcode lookups by UPCitemdb. Game summaries and cover art from Wikipedia; cover art belongs to its publishers. Cartridge isn't affiliated with Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft or Sega.