Comparison

Bracket Master vs Pit Dash

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Complete tournament history (1939-present)
  • 85+ championship brackets
  • Detailed team accounts
  • Bracket picking assistance
  • Automatic bracket generation
  • Tournament field simulation
Features
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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!

About

Pit Dash

This app provides real-time FRC competition data for your team's pit. It features match countdowns, queuing status, alliance views, and an interactive pit map. Access event schedules, replay past moments, and view robot specifications.

Highlights
  • Live match countdown timer
  • Queuing status updates
  • Alliance partner and opponent stats
  • Interactive pit map
  • Full event schedule with filtering
  • Time travel for event replay
  • Robot reference data integration
Features
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Pit Dash turns your phone or tablet into an always-on competition dashboard for your FRC team's pit. MATCH COUNTDOWN A large countdown timer shows exactly how long until your next match. The timer border tells you where the estimate comes from: green for FRC Nexus real-time data, amber for TBA predictions, grey for the original schedule. When your team is on the field, the timer switches to an elapsed match clock. A small "(late)" or "(early)" tag warns when the field is running off-schedule. QUEUING STATUS When FRC Nexus data is available, banners show your queuing state: QUEUING SOON → NOW QUEUING → ON DECK → ON FIELD. Never miss a queue call again. ALLIANCE VIEW See your alliance partners and opponents with team avatars, rankings, win/loss records, and EPA ratings from Statbotics. Two prediction bars show win probability and total alliance EPA. Tap any team for detailed stats, match history, and awards. Long-press to "peek" at the dashboard from another team's perspective. PIT MAP Tap any team's pit chip to open an interactive pan and zoom pit map centered on that team. Your team's pit pulses to draw your eye. At multi-division events like World Championship, switch between halls with a single tap and toggle sibling divisions on or off. EVENT SCHEDULE The full event schedule with auto-scroll to your current match. Filter by team, hide past matches, and tap any match for a detailed breakdown including the score, Statbotics's pre-match prediction with per-RP probabilities, a YouTube replay link when available, and a timing card listing scheduled, predicted, estimated, and actual start times side by side. TIME TRAVEL Tap the hourglass icon to scrub backward through any moment of the event you've watched live. Replay queuing moments, alliance shifts, and ranking jumps at 1×, 10×, or 60× speed. TABLET LAYOUTS On tablets in landscape, Pit Dash splits into two or three columns so different views stay on screen at the same time. Long-press a team card to route the resulting detail view to a specific column, keeping the timer and alliances in view while you read another team's stats. ROBOT REFERENCE Connect a public Google Spreadsheet and your robot's CAN devices, port mappings, and specs appear automatically. SEASON MODE Between events, see your team's season EPA breakdown, awards collected, and district standings. Tap any past event to revisit its schedule and results. SMART DATA FUSION Pit Dash combines data from The Blue Alliance, FRC Nexus, and Statbotics to always show the most accurate information available, with clear visual indicators of data quality. WORKS OFFLINE All data is cached locally. If event Wi-Fi drops, the app keeps working with the last known data and shows a staleness indicator. Built by FRC Team 2363, Triple Helix. Free for the entire FRC community.

Screenshots

Bracket Master4 screens
Pit Dash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pit Dash at 5.0 against Bracket Master's 4.1. Pit Dash also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Bracket Master's advantage is ratings volume (121 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pit Dash holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Master has 121 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bracket Master ships an update every 4 weeks, Pit Dash monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bracket Master versus Pit Dash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket MasterPit Dash
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (121 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings121 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size187 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScrutinous, LLCChristopher Larrieu

Customer experience

Bracket Master

All ratings121 ratings
Positive77.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive82.6%
Neutral6.5%
Negative10.9%

Pit Dash

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Pit Dash

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bracket Master

No in-app purchases

None

Pit Dash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bracket Master free?
Bracket Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pit Dash free?
Pit Dash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Master or Pit Dash?
Pit Dash is rated higher. Bracket Master averages 4.1 out of 5 from 121 ratings, while Pit Dash averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bracket Master or Pit Dash have ads?
Bracket Master shows ads; Pit Dash does not.
Which is updated more often, Bracket Master or Pit Dash?
Bracket Master ships an update every 4 weeks, and Pit Dash monthly. Most recently, Bracket Master was updated on October 29, 2026 and Pit Dash on October 31, 2026.

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