Bracket Master vs The Show
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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 accounts. The app assists both experts and novices in picking tournament brackets, offering data-driven predictions or automatic bracket generation.
- Complete tournament history (1939-present)
- 85+ championship brackets
- Detailed team 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!
The Show
This app allows users to browse, filter, and search for player cards within a sports game. It also features a program tracker to monitor mission progress and view rewards.
- Browse, filter, and search player cards
- Create market orders
- View all programs in one place
- Track mission progress
- View program rewards
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Player cards * Browse, find, filter, and search through every card in the game * Various filters based on player details as well as custom presets * View player details and create market orders Program tracker * View all your programs in once place * Keep track of your mission progress and view rewards
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Show at 4.8 against Bracket Master's 4.1. The Show also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Bracket Master's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (121 vs 5). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
The Show holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Master has 121 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bracket Master ships an update every 4 weeks, The Show every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Master | The Show |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (121 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 121 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scrutinous, LLC | Ryan Bautista |
Customer experience
Bracket Master
The Show
Bugs and requests
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
The Show
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bracket Master
No in-app purchases
The Show
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bracket Master free?
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