Make Your Picks vs Award Expert
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Make Your Picks
Create and join pools for various sports and reality TV shows. Engage in fantasy drafts, pick'em games, and bracket challenges with friends or in public competitions. Enjoy automated scoring and an anti-spoiler feature to enhance your viewing experience.
- Fantasy drafts
- Pick'em games
- Bracket challenges
- Custom pool formats
- Public and private pools
- Automated score updates
- Anti-spoiler feature
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The pool app for sports, TV shows and more! Make Your Picks makes fantasy and pick'em pools for a wide variety of sports and reality tv shows. Create your own pool to play with friends, or join a free-to-play public pool. We offer a variety of pool types including fantasy, pick'em, brackets and question-based formats that make watching your favorite sports and tv shows more enjoyable! Fantasy Survivor -- Draft contestants and win points if they make it far, win challenges, play idols, and more! Pick each week who you think will be voted out. Fantasy Golf -- Draft golfers and earn points based on their tournament scores. Fantasy Bachelor -- Draft contestants and win points if they get roses, go on one-on-one’s, make it to home-towns, and more! Pick who you think will go home each week. Pro Football Pick'em -- Pick six professional football teams each week and get points if your picks win! Underdogs are worth more points. College Hoops Pick'em -- Fill your college hoops bracket in a round-by-round format. Earn extra points for taking underdogs! Why use the Make Your Picks App? • More than Traditional Sports • Custom Pool Formats • Play on Any Device • Free to Play! • Automated Score Updates • Anti-Spoiler Feature https://makeyourpicks.com/terms-of-service https://makeyourpicks.com/privacy-policy
Award Expert
This app allows users to predict the winners of major movie awards like the Oscars and Golden Globes. Users can track friends, create watchlists, and analyze award races with community rankings and charts. Compete with others on leaderboards and track your prediction history.
- Predict Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA
- Follow friends and track updates
- Add films to watchlist
- Analyze award races with charts
- Compete on leaderboards
- Track prediction history
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The largest social awards predictions platform in the world • Predict Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA, and more • Follow friends, track their prediction updates • Join the conversation with active social feed • Analyze the race with aggregate community rankings and detailed charts • Compete in leaderboards, compare your performance to your friends • Automatically track your updates history Auto-renewing subscriptions available: - Award Expert Plus - monthly 5.99/mo USD (1-week free) - yearly 49.99/yr USD (1-week free) By using this app, you agree to the standard Apple Terms of Service (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/oscarexpert-predictawards/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Award Expert at weekly against Make Your Picks's every 5 weeks. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Make Your Picks sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Award Expert sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Make Your Picks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 163 and 251 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Make Your Picks's written reviews are positive against 93% of Award Expert's.
Make Your Picks ships an update every 5 weeks, Award Expert weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 11, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Make Your Picks | Award Expert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (163 ratings) — better | 4.8 (251 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.0% of reviews — better | 92.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 163 | 251 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | TOUCHPOINT GAMES LLC | Justin Jaeger |
Customer experience
Make Your Picks
Award Expert
User reviews
Make Your Picks
From 163 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Very user-friendly and easy to use
- 🤩 Makes watching shows more exciting and fun
- 💡 Innovative features like earning advantages
- 🏆 Great for playing fantasy pools (Survivor, Bachelorette, Big Brother)
- 💬 Responsive mods and support team
Room to improve
- 🐛 "Sign in with Apple" option missing after update
Award Expert
From 251 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use interface
- ✨ Fantastically designed interface
- 🌟 Seamless and well-designed UI
- 🚀 Smooth app performance
- 💡 Great community features
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Glitches too much
- 🐛 Saving features not working
- 🐛 App crashes within seconds
- 🐛 No live updates
Bugs and requests
Make Your Picks
Reported bugs
1 issue- "Sign in with Apple" option disappeared after app update, preventing account access.
Requested features
3 requests- Expand to other shows and sports games
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Award Expert
Reported bugs
7 issues- App crashes
- No live updates
- Cannot access account (Twitter login removed)
- App closes almost at random on iPad
- Predictions not saving
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- Ineligible films in selections
- App crashes within seconds of opening
Requested features
11 requests- Add music award shows
- Add casting section
- Add stunts/choreography section
- Create a 'personal awards pick' list separate from official predictions
- Add a 'next' button to move to the next category
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- Ability to make predictions for next year's films
- Improve elimination of ineligible films
- Add a search function for movies
- Add TV award predictions
- Notification system for new followers
- Add 'Peaches' from the Mario movie to Original Song
In-app purchases
Make Your Picks
- Gem Pass$14.991 Year
- 25 Gems$0.99
- 50 Gems$4.99
- 125 Gems$9.99
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- 250 Gems$14.99
Award Expert
- Award Expert Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Award Expert Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Questions
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