Comparison

Round Robin Assistant vs KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets

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

Head to head
About

Round Robin Assistant

This app automates the creation of Round Robin tournaments for pickleball, handling player distribution, court assignments, and match generation. It supports various formats, from singles to complex doubles and team play, ensuring fair and balanced matches for casual and organized events.

Highlights
  • Automatic round generation
  • Multiple tournament formats
  • Intelligent court assignment
  • Player list management
  • Support for casual and club events
Features
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Organize fast and flexible Round Robin tournaments. This app handles player distribution, court assignments and match generation automatically, so you can focus on playing instead of planning. Enter the players, choose your format, select the number of courts and start the tournament. The app creates all rounds needed and ensures that everyone plays fair and balanced matches. Included Formats Round Robin Singles Every player meets all other players once. Perfect for single player rotation. Round Robin Doubles, Fixed Teams Set predefined teams and let every team face each other once. Round Robin Doubles, Random Teams (Americano) All players are paired with everyone else one time. Full coverage without repeats. Mixed Round Robin Teams are automatically formed with one woman and one man per team. Unlimited Doubles Players can join or leave at any time. Rounds are generated continuously and sit-outs are evenly distributed. Ideal for spontaneous or shifting groups. Mexicano Matches are generated based on the current leaderboard so that players meet opponents of similar level. Creates balanced rounds throughout the tournament. Mixicano The same matchmaking logic as Mexicano, but every team always contains one man and one woman. Super Mexicano Mexicano with an additional scoring system where players earn extra points depending on how close they are to the winning court. Team Mexicano Mexicano played with fixed teams instead of rotating partners. Club Team Round Robin Players are divided into two teams and face each other over multiple courts using balanced matchups. Beat the Box Players start on assigned courts, play three matches, then move to new courts based on performance. Supports 8, 12 or 16 players. Group Stages – Doubles Create multiple groups where each group plays its own doubles Round Robin. Every player partners with all others inside the group. Group Stages – Teams Organize team-based group play where every team meets all other teams in the group. Champions League Play a structured format with up to 36 teams split into groups and subsequent knockout-style play. Highlights • Automatic generation of balanced rounds • Support for many tournament structures and group sizes • Intelligent court assignment • Tools for managing player lists and bulk adding names • Designed for both casual play and organized club events Whether you run a weekly club session or arrange a larger event, this app gives you a complete and flexible toolkit for Round Robin-based formats. Terms of Use: https://perkodar.se/terms

About

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets

Manage pickleball tournaments and leagues with this versatile app. It offers a kiosk-style scoring approach or a centralized hub for tournament desks, supporting offline use and easy scorecard generation. Publish event data and brackets for players to review.

Highlights
  • Tournament and league management
  • Kiosk-style scoring
  • Centralized tournament desk hub
  • Offline capability
  • QR code scorecards
  • Publish event data and brackets
  • DUPR® score uploading
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Say goodbye to paper and spreadsheets for managing your pickleball tournament or league! KeepaScore™, trusted by professional tournament directors and enthusiasts alike, brings you KeepaScore Brackets — an incredibly versatile application for events, tournaments and league management. Whether you prefer a self-service, kiosk-style scoring approach or want a centralized hub for your tournament desk, KeepaScore Brackets has you covered. Event desks can efficiently manage an entire tournament using a single iPhone or iPad. With integrated features like seamless event switching for same-day events/divisions, visually appealing brackets for various formats, effortless scorecard generation and capture, fast publishing of event data and streamlined event flow management, KeepaScore offers a comprehensive solution for any tournament organizer. If you're the pickleball score keeper for any event, then make it easy on yourself and become the organizational hero using KeepaScore. KeepaScore is an offline-capable app, eliminating the need for an internet connection. Collecting scores is as simple as a few taps, even in areas with poor or no cell coverage. KeepaScore does not require creating an account for use. When a connection does exist you can use the app's easy-to-generate and scan QR code based scorecards. Once you've updated event stats and brackets you can easily publish these for players to review. Support for DUPR® score uploading to your club is available. All your event data can be output in various formats or even published online for easy player access. There are two options to choose from: Community Edition - or - Tournament Edition (see the in-app store for more information or visit https://keepascore.com) - Community Edition includes all available brackets, unlimited players, teams and events and simply requires a minimal subscription if wanting to include more than 14 participants within any given event. This version, plus the Unlimited participants subscription, will likely satisfy the needs of most recreational organizations. It allows for up to 5 same-day events. - Tournament Edition is for use by professional organizers and clubs which may end up charging for their professionally organized events. A Tournament Edition subscription is offered at three levels. - Standard allows up to 8 same-day events within tournaments. - Professional allows up to 16 same-day events within tournaments. - Unlimited is exactly what is means, an unlimited number of same-day events within tournaments. Explore our quick-start videos accessible from within the app's menu or by visiting https://keepascore.com/videos. We enjoy reading your feedback or questions which can be provided within the application using the Feedback menu or visiting https://keepascore.com/feedback/ Terms of Service — https://keepascore.com/terms Privacy Policy — https://keepascore.com/privacy

Screenshots

Round Robin Assistant4 screens
KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets at 100% against Round Robin Assistant's 47%. KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.3). Round Robin Assistant's advantage is ratings volume (256 vs 15) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Round Robin Assistant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.29 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Round Robin Assistant has 256 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Round Robin Assistant's written reviews are positive against 100% of KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Round Robin Assistant ships an update every 2 weeks, KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Round Robin Assistant versus KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRound Robin AssistantKeepaScore Pickleball Brackets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (256 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings256 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPerkodar ABKeepa Tech LLC

Customer experience

Round Robin Assistant

All ratings256 ratings
Positive81.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive47.2%
Neutral19.4%
Negative33.3%

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Round Robin Assistant

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Doesn't know what mixed is
  • Unable to drag to move players
  • Front screen shows new tournament at the bottom
  • Odd numbers don't award points for sitting out
  • App continuously shuts down when adjusting no-shows
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  • Can't edit or delete a tournament
  • Doubles unlimited is truly random, not useful
  • Byes not spread evenly
  • Cannot see numbers to add scores on iOS (black boxes)
  • Round robin doesn't schedule matches against everyone
  • Sitting a player out didn't work, still included in rotation
  • Team repeated in rounds
  • Mistake or missed score entry leads to incorrect standings
  • Mixed round robin didn't have playoff feature (now added)
  • Accidentally bought, couldn't cancel
  • Did not keep males and females separate for games
  • Player sitting out twice before another sat out once
  • Cannot add additional players in iOS once tournament starts

Requested features

14 requests
  • Sort by time: Newest to Latest
  • Save player groups
  • Duplicate and edit drafts
  • Refresh matches to re-pair
  • Choose score number view
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  • More playoff options (customize teams, bronze match)
  • Double elimination tournament option
  • Ability to share access with committee members
  • Pre-set number of rounds
  • Track who is sitting out and for how long
  • Add court and break times
  • Login from another device
  • Automatic quarterfinals
  • Unlimited participants with subscription

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Round Robin Assistant

Subscriptions2
  • Premium$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium forever$99.99
9 purchases

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets

Subscriptions9
  • Unlimited participants weekly$1.297 Days
  • Unlimited participants monthly$3.991 Month
  • Tournaments Standard$24.991 Month
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  • Unlimited participants yearly$34.991 Year
  • Tournaments Professional$64.991 Month
  • Tournaments Unlimited$104.991 Month
  • Tournaments Standard$239.991 Year
  • Tournaments Professional$619.991 Year
  • Tournaments Unlimited$999.991 Year

Questions

Is Round Robin Assistant free?
Round Robin Assistant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets free?
KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Round Robin Assistant or KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets?
KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets is rated higher. Round Robin Assistant averages 4.3 out of 5 from 256 ratings, while KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Round Robin Assistant or KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets have ads?
Neither Round Robin Assistant nor KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Round Robin Assistant or KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets?
Round Robin Assistant ships an update every 2 weeks, and KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets every 2 months. Most recently, Round Robin Assistant was updated on September 26, 2026 and KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets on June 10, 2026.

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