Comparison

Crowd Sound vs Bracket Builder

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

Head to head
About

Crowd Sound

Enhance your sports viewing experience by adding authentic stadium crowd sounds to your home setup. This app allows you to select from various global stadium atmospheres and play them in the background, even when your phone is asleep or you're using other apps. Enjoy independent volume control for an immersive audio experience.

Highlights
  • Authentic stadium atmospheres
  • Background audio playback
  • Independent volume control
  • Bluetooth/AirPlay broadcasting
  • Phone sleep mode compatibility
Features
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Crowd Sound brings the stadium atmosphere to your home. Crowd Sound enables you to add a stadium atmosphere while watching a game with no crowd. - Choose from a selection of authentic atmospheres from stadiums around the world. - Audio continues to play in the background while you watch the game in another app, without interfering with the audio from the game. - Audio continues to play while the phone is asleep, while you watch the game on TV. - Broadcast audio over Bluetooth or AirPlay. - Change audio volume independently from device volume or volume of other apps.

About

Bracket Builder

Create, track, and share custom tournament brackets for various sports and games. Supports multiple elimination formats and team sizes, with automatic seeding and BYE insertion. Progress can be monitored and winners easily updated within the app.

Highlights
  • Create single/double-elimination and round-robin brackets
  • Supports up to 128 teams
  • Generate random double round-robin tournaments
  • Share tournament brackets as images
  • Automatic team ordering and BYE insertion
  • Track tournament progress and remove winners
Features
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Make a tournament bracket in seconds and follow every game to the final. Bracket Builder is a bracket maker for iPhone and iPad. Create single-elimination, double-elimination, round-robin and group-stage tournaments, enter scores as you play, then share the bracket or show it live on a TV. No account needed. FORMATS - Single elimination, up to 128 teams - Double elimination with a losers bracket, up to 64 teams - Round robin, up to 50 teams, with random doubles for pickleball, tennis and padel - Group stage to knockout, up to 128 teams - Best of 3, 5 or 7 series, a third-place match and two-sided brackets DURING THE TOURNAMENT - Tap a team to pick the winner; press and hold to enter the score - Winners move on by themselves, and the path to the title lights up - Undo any pick at any time - Live standings: wins, draws, losses, goals for and against, and goal difference - Automatic seeding with byes placed for you, or a random draw SEASONS AND LEAGUES - Run a league with its own schedule, table, play-in and playoffs - Or group your brackets into a season and see every team's record in one table SHOW IT OFF - Show on TV: put the live bracket on an Apple TV or any AirPlay TV - Share the bracket as an image or PDF, or print a scoresheet - Pick your app icon, including a new gold trophy YOUR TEAMS - Save teams in rosters once and reuse them in every tournament - Add a photo and a color for every team or player - Rename, reorder or remove teams even after the bracket is made SYNC AND BACKUP - iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad, with no sign-up - Import and export brackets as files - Bring back a deleted bracket from the Trash Made for pool and darts leagues, pickleball and tennis clubs, cornhole, soccer and basketball, esports, PE classes, office pools, family game night, or a bracket of anything: songs, movies, snacks. SUBSCRIPTION PLANS - Yearly Plan - Lifetime Plan Terms: https://aberkane.io/terms Privacy: https://aberkane.io/privacy

Screenshots

Crowd Sound2 screens
Bracket Builder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crowd Sound at 100% against Bracket Builder's 49%. Crowd Sound also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Bracket Builder's advantage is ratings volume (2.7K vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Bracket Builder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Crowd Sound asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Crowd Sound holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Builder has 2.7K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Crowd Sound's written reviews are positive against 49% of Bracket Builder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crowd Sound ships an update every 5 days, Bracket Builder every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Crowd Sound versus Bracket Builder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrowd SoundBracket Builder
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.4 (2.7K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better49.5% of reviews
Number of ratings32.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColour SoftwareAberkane Software House FZ-LLC

Customer experience

Crowd Sound

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bracket Builder

All ratings2,692 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews275 reviews
Positive49.5%
Neutral4.7%
Negative45.8%

Bugs and requests

Crowd Sound

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bracket Builder

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when creating large brackets
  • Deleted brackets not recoverable
  • Inability to edit created brackets

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add bulk/batch team entry
  • Implement double-sided brackets
  • Include scoreboard and scoring features
  • Ability to rearrange/reorder teams

In-app purchases

None

Crowd Sound

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Bracket Builder

Subscriptions2
  • Full access for 1 year$4.991 Year
  • Full access for 1 year$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Full access for Lifetime$14.99
  • Full access for Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Crowd Sound free?
Crowd Sound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bracket Builder free?
Bracket Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crowd Sound or Bracket Builder?
Crowd Sound is rated higher. Crowd Sound averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Bracket Builder averages 4.4 from 2.7K ratings.
Do Crowd Sound or Bracket Builder have ads?
Neither Crowd Sound nor Bracket Builder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crowd Sound or Bracket Builder?
Crowd Sound ships an update every 5 days, and Bracket Builder every 6 days. Most recently, Crowd Sound was updated on October 12, 2026 and Bracket Builder on October 16, 2026.

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