Comparison

SmartBracket vs BracketIT

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

Head to head
About

SmartBracket

This app helps you create and optimize college basketball tournament brackets. It analyzes team performance and potential upsets to give you an edge in your pool, offering both automated generation and personalized selection options.

Highlights
  • Create custom brackets for your pool
  • Compare upset vs. favorite picking strategies
  • Evaluate bracket competitiveness
  • Select favorite teams to advance
  • Automated bracket generation
  • Analyze 9 quintillion possible brackets
Features
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SmartBracket helps you fill out a college basketball bracket—and get an edge! Features: • Create a bracket tailored to your specific pool • Compare the opportunity and risk between picking upsets, favorites, and every team in between • Evaluate how your overall bracket will likely compare with your competition • Choose your favorite teams to advance, then let SmartBracket complete your bracket with teams that are likely to give you an edge • OR, let SmartBracket generate a robust bracket for you in less than a minute. Now that’s Smart! SmartBracket works by capitalizing on opportunities to get relative points, which arise when teams are over- or undervalued. The secret is — there is a difference between how good a team actually is, and how good your friends think they are—and we take advantage of that difference! SmartBracket evaluates opportunities for relative points in all 9 quintillion possible brackets (in less than a second!), to make selections that give your bracket the highest chance of success. SmartBracket is powered by Rapid Recursive, which consists of patented and patent-pending technology. A scorecard of SmartBracket’s success in past years: In 2016, SmartBracket’s 1-click bracket finished in the 95th percentile out of more than 12 million college basketball brackets in leading tournament bracket challenges. 60% of SmartBracket survey respondents reported finishing 3rd or better in their pools. More than 35% of those respondents won their pool. The leading business publication in America named SmartBracket as the Best Way to Pick a Winning Tournament Bracket! In 2017, SmartBracket’s example 3-question bracket was perfect after day 1; ranked in the 98.5th percentile in the finals, picking both finalists; and finished the tournament in the 88.4th percentile. Over 55% of SmartBracket survey respondents reported finishing in the top 10 in their pools SmartBracket was listed in the leading business publication in America as one of The Best Ways To Win Your NCAA Tournament Office Pool for the second year running. In 2018, SmartBracket's One-Click Bracket finished in the 96th percentile in ESPN's Tournament Challenge! Have a question? Visit www.smartbracket.io Follow and like our parent tech company, Supported Intelligence, on social media at https://www.twitter.com/supintel and https://www.facebook.com/SupportedIntelligence/ Note: SmartBracket and its services (including any freely available information) are provided for entertainment and information purposes only. It is not intended for gambling, and no representation, warranty, or guarantee is provided regarding the likelihood of any particular outcome.

About

BracketIT

Create, share, and compete in sports brackets with friends. Predict scores and climb leaderboards to enhance the excitement of watching sports together.

Highlights
  • Create custom sports brackets
  • Share brackets with friends
  • Predict game scores
  • Compete with friends
  • View leaderboards
  • Social sports engagement
Features
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BracketIT is a mobile application designed to allow several users to come on board and share their excitement and passion for sports. The idea behind it is for you to make brackets, share them with your friends, and compete in them so that everyone may enjoy the sport. You can predict and compare the scores through leaderboard to make it exciting for all users.

Screenshots

SmartBracket4 screens
BracketIT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: BracketIT at fortnightly against SmartBracket's every 12 months. BracketIT also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 2). SmartBracket's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, 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

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

BracketIT holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartBracket ships an update every 12 months, BracketIT fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SmartBracket versus BracketIT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartBracketBracketIT
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)3.2 (6 ratings) — better
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSupported Intelligence, LLCSpiralogics, Inc.

Customer experience

SmartBracket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

BracketIT

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

SmartBracket

No in-app purchases

None

BracketIT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartBracket free?
SmartBracket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BracketIT free?
BracketIT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SmartBracket or BracketIT?
BracketIT is rated higher. SmartBracket averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while BracketIT averages 3.2 from 6 ratings.
Do SmartBracket or BracketIT have ads?
Neither SmartBracket nor BracketIT shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartBracket or BracketIT?
SmartBracket ships an update every 12 months, and BracketIT fortnightly. Most recently, SmartBracket was updated on September 14, 2026 and BracketIT on October 5, 2026.

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