Survivor Pool Optimizer vs Pickster.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Survivor Pool Optimizer
This tool helps you win your NFL survivor pool by optimizing your picks. Customize future week importance, required picks, team exclusions, and minimum win percentages. View the NFL schedule with projected win percentages for every game to find the highest probability path to survival.
- Customize future week importance
- Set required picks per week
- Define team pick/exclusion rules
- Set minimum win percentage for suggestions
- Optimize until a specific week
- View NFL schedule with win percentages
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The survivor pool optimizer is your ultimate tool to win your survivor pool. This app allows you to customize how important future weeks are, customize how many picks are required each week, customize what teams you require to be picked/ excluded each week, customize the minimum win % allowed to be suggested, customize the week you are planning to optimize until, and see the entire NFL schedule with projected win % attached to every game. We guarantee to give you the highest probability path to survival in your NFL Survivor Pool. A subscription allows you to access the app and all of the features above. A subscription is required to access the app content
Pickster.
Easily manage friendly prediction contests with friends and family. Make your picks through an intuitive interface, track your progress on a leaderboard, and communicate with other participants. Organize your pool and its members seamlessly.
- Friendly prediction interface
- Leaderboard tracking
- In-pool chat
- Pool and participant management
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A mobile app that helps you manage a Pick'em or Survivor pool with your friends and family. - Make your predictions with a friendly interface - See the leaderboard - Chat with your pool participants - Manage your pool and participants
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Survivor Pool Optimizer at 5.0 against Pickster.'s 4.0. Survivor Pool Optimizer also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). Pickster.'s advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Survivor Pool Optimizer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month and Pickster. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Survivor Pool Optimizer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Survivor Pool Optimizer has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Survivor Pool Optimizer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pickster.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Survivor Pool Optimizer ships an update daily, Pickster. weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Survivor Pool Optimizer | Pickster. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael Montalbano | Pickster LLC |
Customer experience
Survivor Pool Optimizer
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In-app purchases
Survivor Pool Optimizer
- All Access3 Days trial$9.991 Month
Pickster.
- Pickster Plus - World Cup$9.99
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