Pickster vs Random Name & Team Picker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pickster
This app simplifies random name selection, mimicking a "draw from a hat" experience digitally. It offers customizable drawing modes, easy list management, and a new winner page for sharing results with fanfare. Supports multiple lists via a one-time purchase.
- Random name selection
- Customizable drawing modes
- Screenshot-friendly winner page
- Multiple list creation (in-app purchase)
- Paste text to create lists
- Quick Add Widget
- Auto-alphabetize or custom ordering
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Pickster is a simple little app to help you pick names randomly from a collection - just like drawing names out of a hat, but with less paper... and hats. New in version 2.5: • New screen-shot friendly winner page! Now you can show everyone the result of the drawing with some fanfare, and without displaying everyone else's name in the list. Switch it on per list in the Settings page Other Features: • Easily increment the number of entries for each name just by tapping on it • Chose how many unique names are picked • Auto-alphabetize the names list, or do your own custom ordering • Handy swipe actions to copy a list, and clear or delete an entry • Choose from two drawing modes: • Natural Drawing Mode (default). When a name is picked, remove one of its entries from the hat • Original Drawing Mode. When a name is picked, its number of entries stays the same • Multiple Lists - Enable this feature through a one time in-app purchase and you'll be able to create as many lists as you want • Paste in text as a new list! Copy names to your phone's clipboard with commas, tabs, or newline characters separating each name. Tap the Add button, name the list, and tap the Paste button to import all the copied names into the list. Each name will receive 1 entry. • Make copies of existing lists just by swiping to the left and tapping the Copy button • Quick Add Widget makes entering names fast and easy. It automatically checks for duplicate names in the list as you type • iPad support • Still ad-free as always! Need more help? Visit our How To guides at https://picksterapp.weebly.com/help.html
Random Name & Team Picker
Effortlessly select random names for various scenarios like choosing a movie, restaurant, or splitting bills. It also helps in randomly forming teams for games or organizing Secret Santa gift exchanges. Simply input names and let the app handle the random selection process.
- Random name selection
- Team formation
- Secret Santa organizer
- Bill splitting helper
- Movie/restaurant chooser
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Do you want an easy way to choose who’s for example picking the movie for tonight, choosing the restaurant or paying the dinner bill? Maybe it’s game night and you need teams picked out randomly? You need to pick out a random number or create a Secret Santa game? If that’s so then Random Name & Team Picker is the perfect app for you! Start with writing everyone’s name and let our program do the rest. Simple, fast and effective.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Random Name & Team Picker at 4.8 against Pickster's 3.3. Random Name & Team Picker also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Pickster's advantage is ratings volume (64 vs 4) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Pickster sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Random Name & Team Picker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Random Name & Team Picker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pickster has 64 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pickster ships an update every 2 months, Random Name & Team Picker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pickster | Random Name & Team Picker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (64 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tom Soderling | Carl Emil Olle Skoglund |
Customer experience
Pickster
Random Name & Team Picker
In-app purchases
Pickster
- Multi-List Feature$2.99
Random Name & Team Picker
- Random number$0.49
- Secret Santa View$0.99
- Pro Version$1.99
Questions
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