Tournament Mgr vs Bracket Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tournament Mgr
This app helps you create, manage, and run tournaments of various types. Participants can subscribe to view details and stay updated on matchups. Easily share tournaments with friends and family, and access information like live scores and locations.
- Create single elimination tournaments
- Manage tournament grids and generate brackets
- Self-registration for participants
- Add players/teams from database or contacts
- View live score updates and matchup details
- Sync tournaments across multiple devices
- Share tournaments with others
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Tournament Manager is an all in one tournament management application. Use Tournament Manager to create, manage and run a tournament. Make sure to have your tournament participants subscribe to your tournaments so they can view details about the tournament or matchup’s they are playing in. Stay up to date with your friends and family by sharing and subscribing to tournaments they are playing in. Use Tournament Manager to: * Create single elimination tournaments with single matchups or series * Manage tournament grids. * Generate brackets with up to 128 players or teams with or without automatic seeding * Self registration * Manage your tournaments with an easy and intuitive management portal allowing you to customize tournament details * Add players and teams from our Tournament Manager database, create your own players or import them from your phone contacts * View matchups to see, live score updates, the matchup location, location guidance to your matchup, date and time, field location and more * Login on multiple devices and sync your tournaments and settings * View tournaments you are playing in, and view your upcoming scheduled matchups in your user profile * Share your tournament with with your friends, family, players, coaches, and everyone you know * View your tournament on the web at tournamentmgr.com
Bracket Master
Explore the complete history of the Men's College Basketball Tournament, from 1939 to the present. Examine over 85 championship brackets and detailed team histories. Perfect for bracketology enthusiasts and novices looking to create tournament pools.
- Complete tournament history (1939-present)
- 85+ championship brackets to examine
- Detailed team and game accounts
- Bracket picking assistance
- Automatic bracket generation
- Tournament field simulation
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Bracket Master delivers the complete history of the Men's College Basketball Tournament. Every tourney game is presented, from the inaugural 1939 championship to the current day. Each of the 85+ championship brackets can be examined within the app. View detailed accounts of every team that has appeared in the tourney. From Cinderella upstart to Blue-Blood favorite, reminisce over each game of your team's magical run through the bracket. Designed for bracketology experts and novices alike, Bracket Master helps you pick a bracket for all your March pools. Use the extensive team, seed, and conference data to meticulously pick every tournament game, or have Bracket Master automatically fill in your bracket using one of several winning team rating methodologies. Simulate tournament fields of the past - try to get your favorite team to win the championship!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bracket Master at 83% against Tournament Mgr's 48%. Bracket Master also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Tournament Mgr's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 118). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tournament Mgr holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tournament Mgr has 1.4K ratings behind it against 118, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of Tournament Mgr's written reviews are positive against 83% of Bracket Master's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tournament Mgr ships an update every 6 weeks, Bracket Master every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tournament Mgr | Bracket Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.1 (118 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.7% of reviews | 82.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 118 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tournament Manager LLC | Scrutinous, LLC |
Customer experience
Tournament Mgr
Bracket Master
User reviews
Tournament Mgr
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 🚀 Efficient tournament management
- 💡 Customizable tournament options
- 🎨 Visually appealing interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- 💤 Slow performance and responsiveness
- 🔁 Losing progress and tournament data
- 🔒 Login and account issues
Bracket Master
From 118 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great historical data
- 👍 Love the app
- 👍 Excellent for March Madness
- 👍 Simulates tournaments well
- 👍 Informative and fun
Room to improve
- 🐛 Ads are intrusive
- 🐛 App makes phone hot/slow
- 🐛 Slow typing and loading speed
- 🐛 Incorrect team data
- 🐛 Can't make custom brackets
Bugs and requests
Tournament Mgr
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to update scores and tournament details
- Crashes when trying to access existing tournaments
- Deleted tournaments and lost progress
- Compatibility issues with newer device updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add double elimination tournament option
- Implement round-robin and other tournament formats
- Introduce standings and schedule features
- Allow saving and reusing teams/players
Bracket Master
Reported bugs
7 issues- Long Beach State team name incorrect
- NW State and SLU teams missing
- Oklahoma State championship count incorrect
- Down arrow doesn't work when making picks
- App shows glimpse of next round instead of allowing picks
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- 2019 tournament teams brackets shown incorrectly
- Marquette team in wrong conferences
Requested features
35 requests- Add custom bracket builder
- Add NCAA Football, NFL Football, MLB
- Option to pay to remove ads
- Add rival teams feature
- Simulate brackets back to 1939
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- Pick brackets back to 1939
- Add conference tournaments
- Add NIT results
- Add custom tournament builder
- Add women's brackets
- See NIT results
- See conference tournament results
- Create own brackets
- See rosters for other teams
- Simulate a season with own team
- Add team stats (points per game, etc.)
- Print created brackets
- Add Strength of Schedule (SOS) stat
- Update bracket weekly
- Add Duke to bracket
- Add college football version
- Ability to change teams in projected/old brackets
- See Monte Carlo simulation wins per team
- Custom tournament with teams from any year
- Custom tournament with teams from a specific year
- Option to turn off pick feedback (red/green)
- Simulate with different team overalls
- Update team data for conferences
- Add more teams from scrapped conferences
- Add game summaries
- Add roster information
- Add stats
- Add game summaries
- Add roster information
- Add stats
In-app purchases
Tournament Mgr
No in-app purchases
Bracket Master
No in-app purchases
Questions
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