Comparison

Bracket Builder vs Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬

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

Head to head
About

Bracket Builder

Easily create and manage various tournament formats, from single elimination to round-robin. Track scores live, share brackets, and organize entire seasons. Save team rosters for future use and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Multiple tournament formats
  • Live score tracking
  • Bracket sharing and display
  • Team roster saving
  • Season and league management
  • iCloud sync
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

About

Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬

Easily organize sports, esports, or any competition with this bracket builder. Create custom tournaments, manage teams, and track scores with various elimination methods. Share results and leaderboards instantly.

Highlights
  • Unlimited bracket building
  • Custom team/player names
  • Modify generated competitions
  • Multiple bracket methods (single, double elimination, round robin)
  • Social sharing of brackets
  • Score management
  • Real-time leaderboards
Features
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Tournament Bracket maker is a popular bracket builder app for organizing tournaments. Stop manual organization and simply create a tournament, add teams, choose bracket methods (single elimination, double elimination, round robin) and get started. Using our Tournament bracket app, you can launch unlimited tournaments, so whether it’s a sports organization, eSports league owners, or any institute that wants to manage a tournament, this is the app you need. Our bracket maker has different elimination algorithms which makes it ideal for all types of competitions and tournaments. Besides that, it also allows you to customize team names and even make changes to the generated schedules which makes it among the best-rated apps in the market. Leave the tournament schedule on us and start focusing on other things, just import your team names or player names, and our generator will build an entire schedule of competitions (which you can edit). Isn’t it cool? Features - Unlimited Bracket Building: Our PRO users can make unlimited brackets and launch unlimited tournaments, so whether you want to manage a single tournament or want to manage multiple tournaments, our app can do it all - Customizing Team / Player Names: Unlike most bracket makers in the market that only shows “Team 1 vs Team 2”, you can actually add up your team names in our app which makes it easier to manage and remember. Isn’t it what every tournament/esports organizer wants? - Modify Generated Competitions: Once you enter the number of teams/players who are going to play the tournament, our app shall generate the matches and challenges between those teams, as a user you can modify or change which team shall compete with which one, that too just by simple drag and drop. Wanted that? We got you covered. - Bracket Methods: Most of the tournament bracket maker apps come with single elimination methods. However, that’s not the ideal way to run a tournament, that’s why we sat down with different tournament organizers and have added 3 different elimination methods i.e. Single, Double and Round Robin. - Social Shareability: The world is becoming more and more social, everyone wants to post everything on social media. One of the tournament managers we interviewed wanted to share every single competition and the entire bracket on social media and our app has it integrated, you can generate a PDF or just share a Image on your social media accounts. - Score Management: Besides generating the entire tournament, our app also allows you to add scores for individual competitions. This way, you can just enter the score and the winner shall be decided. - Realtime Leaderboard: As and when a team wins, the results shall be updated on our leaderboard on a real-time basis. So just open the leaderboard for a tournament and know which team is ruling the tournament and by how many points. Combine all the above mentioned features with multiple tournaments which makes managing, building, and organizing tournaments much effortless and easy. What are you waiting for, install the Tournament Bracket Maker app now! Privacy Policy: https://tournament-maker.appstraw.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://tournament-maker.appstraw.com/terms-conditions

Screenshots

Bracket Builder4 screens
Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Bracket Builder at none against Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬'s shown. Bracket Builder also leads on ratings volume (2.8K vs 82). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 and Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Bracket Builder against 4.3 for Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Builder has 2.8K ratings behind it against 82, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Bracket Builder's written reviews are positive against 44% of Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bracket Builder ships an update every 6 days, Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bracket Builder versus Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket BuilderTournament & Bracket Maker ۬
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better4.3 (82 ratings)
Positive reviews49.8% of reviews — better44.4% of reviews
Number of ratings2.8K — better82
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB27 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAberkane Software House FZ-LLCBoltQ Media

Customer experience

Bracket Builder

All ratings2,761 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral3.1%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews277 reviews
Positive49.8%
Neutral4.7%
Negative45.5%

Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬

All ratings81 ratings
Positive84.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%

Bugs and 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

Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
4 purchases

Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬

Subscriptions2
  • Tournament Maker Pro - Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Bracket Maker Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Bracket Maker Pro - Gift$3.99
  • Bracket Maker Pro - Lifetime$7.99

Questions

Is Bracket Builder free?
Bracket Builder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ free?
Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Builder or Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬?
Bracket Builder is rated higher. Bracket Builder averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.8K ratings, while Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ averages 4.3 from 82 ratings.
Do Bracket Builder or Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ have ads?
Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ shows ads; Bracket Builder does not.
Which is updated more often, Bracket Builder or Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬?
Bracket Builder ships an update every 6 days, and Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ every 8 days. Most recently, Bracket Builder was updated on November 14, 2026 and Tournament & Bracket Maker ۬ on November 4, 2026.

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