Tournament Edition vs That's Brackets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tournament Edition
Manage and participate in competitive events with this comprehensive platform. Create, follow, and join tournaments, seasons, or teams. Receive notifications, track player progress, and utilize various tournament formats. It supports both online and offline use, syncing data when connected.
- Create and manage tournaments, events, seasons, and teams
- Real-time notifications for matches and updates
- Follow favorite players and track their achievements
- Support for multiple tournament formats (Single/Double Elimination, Round Robin, Swiss)
- Offline and online functionality with data syncing
- Player and team registration and approval
- Social media integration for promotion and sharing
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Designed from the ground up with Tournament Organizers, players, and fans in mind, Tournament Edition is the worlds most comprehensive tournament and event management platform. T.E Is a cloud based system working online and offline. It’s not just a tournament bracket generator, it’s an app for anyone who wants to be involved in competition! Best of all it’s free! - Create, Participate, and follow Tournaments, Events, Seasons, or Teams - Send and receive notifications of many kinds including match notifications, player to fans, match updates, and more. - Follow your favorite players and never miss when they are playing or what they’ve accomplished. - Auto seeding based on player location and teams as well as manual seeding. - Shuffle, lock, swap and, insert seeding - Single Elimination, Double Elimination, Round Robin, and Swiss tournaments are supported - Use offline or online and sync when internet is available, never having to worry about losing internet or not having it! - T.E tracks all your accolades and history for the world to see - Register for tournaments, approve paying teams/players - One button dynamic tweets of upcoming matches including player twitters, live streams, hashtags, and more - Link Twitter, Twitch, Facebook, or Google accounts to be promoted and share any tournament results - Participate in team based or individual based tournaments - Promote your Events or tournaments with our Hype feature to reach new audiences for your tournaments. Enhance your Tournament Edition experience by going casual or pro! With a casual subscription you get: • Ad free experience • Your teams icon in tournament brackets on the web • Your teams colors in tournament brackets on the web • A premium subscriber badge 1 month casual subscription is 2.99 12 month casual subscription is $29.99 With a pro subscription you get: • Ad free experience • Your teams icon in tournament brackets on the web • Your teams colors in tournament brackets on the web • A premium subscriber badge • Hype (2 free regional and 1 national per month) • Exports results to XML or XLS format from the web • Access to the TE API. 1 month pro subscription is $7.99 12 month pro subscription is $79.99 Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Tournament Edition is all about promoting offline and online events and growing the competitive community. To learn more about Tournament Edition including tutorial videos and much more visit https://www.tournamentedition.com Privacy and Policy and TOS at https://www.tournamentedition.com/privacy A product of V Group Digital. www.vgroupdigital.com
That's Brackets
This app transforms group opinions into a tournament-style bracket. Seed 16 items, vote on matchups, and declare a champion. It's designed for offline play with no accounts needed.
- Create bracket tournaments for group opinions
- Offline play, no Wi-Fi or accounts required
- Host tallies votes round by round
- Export and share final bracket results
- Pre-built bracket themes included
- Unlockable premium bracket packs
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That's Brackets! turns any group's opinions into a tournament. Seed 16 items, run the matchups, and crown a champion — no Wi-Fi, no accounts, no setup required. How it works: - One person runs the bracket as the host. Everyone calls out their votes. The host tallies as you go, round by round, until one item survives. The debate is half the fun. Ready to play instantly Free built-in brackets get you started in seconds — TV characters, chip flavors, movie genres, cheeses, and more. Export and share - Finished bracket? Export the full results as an image and share it with the group. Premium bracket packs - Unlock themed packs for your crew: Road Trip, Food Lovers, Pop Culture, and more. - Buy before you leave — they work completely offline. Works anywhere - Designed for places without Wi-Fi. All data stays on your device. No account required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: That's Brackets at 100% against Tournament Edition's 22%. That's Brackets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Tournament Edition's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tournament Edition sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and That's Brackets sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
That's Brackets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of Tournament Edition's written reviews are positive against 100% of That's Brackets's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Tournament Edition | That's Brackets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | V Group Inc | Michael Engel |
Customer experience
Tournament Edition
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In-app purchases
Tournament Edition
- 1 Local Hype 100 views$0.99
- 1 National Hype 200 views$1.99
- 1 Month Casual Subscription$2.99
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- 5 Local Hypes 100 View$3.99
- 10 Local Hypes 100 View$7.99
- 1 month Pro Subscription$7.99
- 5 National Hypes 200 views$8.99
- 10 National Hype 200 views$17.99
- 1 Year Casual Subscription.$29.99
- 1 Year Pro Subscription$79.99
That's Brackets
- Food Lovers Pack$0.99
- Pop Culture Pack$0.99
- Road Trip Pack$0.99
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