Tournament Mgr vs Bracket App
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 App
Easily create and manage single or double elimination tournament brackets for up to 64 teams. Offers manual or randomized seeding, light/dark modes, and cross-device syncing. Ideal for organizing competitions.
- Create unlimited brackets
- Single and double elimination support
- Up to 64 teams per bracket
- Manual or random seeding
- Light and dark modes
- Cross-device syncing
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Bracket App is a simple way to create single and double elimination tournament brackets. FEATURES - No limit on the amount of brackets you can create. - Supports single and double elimination. - Can have up to 64 teams in a bracket. - Manually manage or randomize team seeding. - Light and Dark mode support plus personalized color customization. - Brackets sync across iPhone/iPad associated with Apple Id. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tournament Mgr at none against Bracket App's 2. Tournament Mgr also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 123) and device support (3 vs 1). Bracket App's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 48%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating and ads 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. Bracket App sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Tournament Mgr asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Tournament Mgr against 4.3 for Bracket App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tournament Mgr has 1.4K ratings behind it against 123, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Tournament Mgr's written reviews are positive against 75% of Bracket App's.
Tournament Mgr ships an update every 6 weeks, Bracket App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tournament Mgr | Bracket App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.3 (123 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 123 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tournament Manager LLC | Sean Postler |
Customer experience
Tournament Mgr
Bracket App
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 App
From 123 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Free to use
- 👍 Supports large team numbers (64+)
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Good for various tournament types
- 👍 Effective for casual games
Room to improve
- 🐌 Slow performance
- 💥 Frequent crashes/kicking out
- 💸 Paid features for animations
- ⚠️ Ads present
- 🐛 Buggy in double elimination
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 App
Reported bugs
16 issues- Runs slower than molasses
- Kicks user out when executing commands
- Double elimination bracket doesn't work correctly
- Teams not popping up in loser's bracket
- Stuck on TBD in matches
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- Bracket resets when switching apps
- Deleted players in double elimination
- Cannot pick winner of each round
- First round byes for most seeds
- Teams go straight to second round
- Can't handle large brackets, inserts multiple people into one match
- Loses teams in the mix
- Freezes when switching from single to double elimination
- Seed numbers not showing up, only '...'
- Team in Round 2 has no opponent when Round 1 is complete
- First 15 songs are solo and not in the first round
Requested features
26 requests- Round robin tournaments
- Different bracket layouts
- Third place matches
- Champion animations (free)
- Better presentation (trophy logo, background)
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- Standings (win/loss record)
- Tab for all winners
- Confetti/trophy animation on win
- Delete brackets
- Create conferences
- Edit bracket without resetting
- Duplicate brackets
- Labels for stages (quarter-finals, etc.)
- Customize stage names
- Add more teams (beyond 9)
- Separate conferences
- Bracket history/results tab
- Actual bracket view (like Bracket Builder)
- Duplicate or reset a bracket
- Add scores to games
- Full view of brackets
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd ranking
- Un-click a winner (undo accidental click)
- Add pools/group stages
- Keep seed numbers visible
- Start tournament option/button
In-app purchases
Tournament Mgr
No in-app purchases
Bracket App
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
Questions
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