Comparison

Score Up vs SmartBracket

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Score Up

Easily create and manage tournament brackets for various competition formats, including leagues, playoffs, and cups. Share live score updates with friends and organize participants using photos or contacts. No internet or login required.

Highlights
  • Live score sharing
  • League season management
  • Playoff bracket generation
  • Cup tournament creation
  • Manual or randomized match scheduling
  • Participant creation with photos/contacts
Features
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KEY FEATURES: - Score Up LIVE - send link to your friends to let them watch your scores - league season (round robin) - playoffs - cup tournaments - randomize matches or schedule them manually - generate brackets - create participants - use Photos, Camera or Contacts No internet connection required. No need to login. Simple and easy. Terms of use: https://score-up.web.app/terms_of_use.html

About

SmartBracket

This app helps you create and optimize college basketball tournament brackets. It analyzes team performance and potential upsets to give you an edge in your pool, offering both automated generation and personalized selection options.

Highlights
  • Create custom brackets for your pool
  • Compare upset vs. favorite picking strategies
  • Evaluate bracket competitiveness
  • Select favorite teams to advance
  • Automated bracket generation
  • Analyze 9 quintillion possible brackets
Features
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SmartBracket helps you fill out a college basketball bracket—and get an edge! Features: • Create a bracket tailored to your specific pool • Compare the opportunity and risk between picking upsets, favorites, and every team in between • Evaluate how your overall bracket will likely compare with your competition • Choose your favorite teams to advance, then let SmartBracket complete your bracket with teams that are likely to give you an edge • OR, let SmartBracket generate a robust bracket for you in less than a minute. Now that’s Smart! SmartBracket works by capitalizing on opportunities to get relative points, which arise when teams are over- or undervalued. The secret is — there is a difference between how good a team actually is, and how good your friends think they are—and we take advantage of that difference! SmartBracket evaluates opportunities for relative points in all 9 quintillion possible brackets (in less than a second!), to make selections that give your bracket the highest chance of success. SmartBracket is powered by Rapid Recursive, which consists of patented and patent-pending technology. A scorecard of SmartBracket’s success in past years: In 2016, SmartBracket’s 1-click bracket finished in the 95th percentile out of more than 12 million college basketball brackets in leading tournament bracket challenges. 60% of SmartBracket survey respondents reported finishing 3rd or better in their pools. More than 35% of those respondents won their pool. The leading business publication in America named SmartBracket as the Best Way to Pick a Winning Tournament Bracket! In 2017, SmartBracket’s example 3-question bracket was perfect after day 1; ranked in the 98.5th percentile in the finals, picking both finalists; and finished the tournament in the 88.4th percentile. Over 55% of SmartBracket survey respondents reported finishing in the top 10 in their pools SmartBracket was listed in the leading business publication in America as one of The Best Ways To Win Your NCAA Tournament Office Pool for the second year running. In 2018, SmartBracket's One-Click Bracket finished in the 96th percentile in ESPN's Tournament Challenge! Have a question? Visit www.smartbracket.io Follow and like our parent tech company, Supported Intelligence, on social media at https://www.twitter.com/supintel and https://www.facebook.com/SupportedIntelligence/ Note: SmartBracket and its services (including any freely available information) are provided for entertainment and information purposes only. It is not intended for gambling, and no representation, warranty, or guarantee is provided regarding the likelihood of any particular outcome.

Screenshots

Score Up4 screens
SmartBracket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Score Up at 4.3 against SmartBracket's 3.0. Score Up also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (129 vs 2). SmartBracket's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Score Up sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. SmartBracket asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Score Up holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Score Up has 129 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Score Up ships an update every 2 months, SmartBracket every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Score Up versus SmartBracket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScore UpSmartBracket
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (129 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews60.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings129 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichal SzatkowskiSupported Intelligence, LLC

Customer experience

Score Up

All ratings129 ratings
Positive81.4%
Neutral6.2%
Negative12.4%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive60.8%
Neutral10.8%
Negative28.4%

SmartBracket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Score Up

Subscriptions6
  • Weekly subscription$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Weekly subscription$3.997 Days
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  • Monthly Premium Subscription$5.991 Month
  • Yearly subscription1 Month trial$24.991 Year
  • Yearly subscription7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Score Up Premium$14.99
None

SmartBracket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Score Up free?
Score Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SmartBracket free?
SmartBracket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Score Up or SmartBracket?
Score Up is rated higher. Score Up averages 4.3 out of 5 from 129 ratings, while SmartBracket averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Score Up or SmartBracket have ads?
Score Up shows ads; SmartBracket does not.
Which is updated more often, Score Up or SmartBracket?
Score Up ships an update every 2 months, and SmartBracket every 12 months. Most recently, Score Up was updated on October 5, 2026 and SmartBracket on September 14, 2026.

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