BacklogBox alternative
The all-in-one tracker you can’t currently reach.
BacklogBox pitched itself as exactly this kind of app — one Kanban board per media type. We checked right before writing this, and the site would not load.
What we could and couldn’t verify
BacklogBox, if you can reach it
- Its last documented design used Kanban-style boards per media type, which some people prefer to a single timeline.
- It supported podcasts as a category, which Stadu does not have a dedicated type for (use a custom entry).
- If the site comes back online, its free tier reportedly covered a small number of boards and items before asking you to pay — worth checking current terms yourself.
Stadu, which is live today
- A native Android app, not a website — nothing to “check if it’s up”.
- No account, so there is no service to go quiet on you.
- The same breadth — films, TV, books, games, concerts, places, trips — plus a life event type and a proper chronological timeline, not boards.
- Free, with no tier that caps how much you can log.
Stadu vs BacklogBox
| Stadu | BacklogBox | |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable right now | Live on Google Play | backlogbox.com did not load when we checked, Sept 2026 |
| Mobile app | Native Android app | No app store listing found, on either store |
| What it tracked | Films, TV, books, games, concerts, places, trips, life events | Films, TV, books, games, podcasts, per its last documented description |
| Structure | One chronological Lifeline, anchored to your birthdate | Kanban-style boards per category |
| Account | None | Required, per its last documented sign-up flow |
| Price | Free, no tier, no cap | A limited free tier plus a paid plan, per its last documented pricing |
We attempted to load backlogbox.com directly on 18 September 2026 and it did not respond (no page, no error page — a connection-level failure). The most recent working snapshot we could find in the Wayback Machine is from 22 April 2026. We found no current app store listing and no active social account. Anything above attributed to BacklogBox reflects what was documented before the site stopped responding, not something we could verify today — if it is back up when you read this, check its current site directly rather than relying on this table.
We are not going to pretend we’re certain
Calling a company "dead" from the outside is easy to get wrong, so here is exactly what we know rather than what we assume. On 18 September 2026 we tried to load backlogbox.com and got nothing back — not a 404, not an error page, a plain connection failure, the kind you get when a domain has stopped pointing anywhere or a server has gone away. The last time the Wayback Machine has a working copy on record is 22 April 2026, roughly five months earlier. We found no current listing for it on Google Play or the App Store, and no social account showing recent activity.
None of that proves the company is gone for good — domains lapse, hosting gets migrated, founders take a break. It does mean that right now, today, you cannot sign up for it, and a tracker you cannot reach is not a tracker.
Why it kept getting recommended anyway
BacklogBox is worth naming specifically because, while it was up, it was arguably the closest thing to what Stadu is trying to be: one app, several media types, instead of Letterboxd for films and Goodreads for books and a third thing for games. It even ran content explicitly pitching itself as "the Goodreads and Letterboxd alternative" — which is exactly the search that keeps sending people looking for it.
That is a real gap it was trying to fill, and the gap is still there. The app that was filling it just is not currently reachable.
The wider field is fine, for what it’s worth
To be fair to the category: this does not appear to be a mass extinction. Other all-in-one and multi-media trackers we’re aware of — Sofa, Sequel, Watchlistfy among them — look actively maintained as of late 2026, and Sofa in particular has been absorbing users from TV Time, a much bigger show-tracking app that was discontinued in July 2026. Products in this space do shut down; BacklogBox would not be the first. It does appear, right now, to be one of them.
The structural difference, if it does come back
Even setting availability aside, the two apps solved the "one app, many media types" problem differently. BacklogBox organised everything into boards — a Kanban view per category, which suits people who think in columns and status.
Stadu organises everything into one chronological Lifeline, anchored to your birthdate, where a film and a book and a trip from the same month sit next to each other rather than in separate boards. Neither structure is objectively better; they answer different questions. Boards answer "what’s in progress in each category." A timeline answers "what was that month actually like."
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