Bracket Builder vs DD Dive Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Multiple tournament formats
- Live score tracking
- Bracket sharing and display
- Team roster saving
- Season and league management
- iCloud sync
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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
DD Dive Calculator
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Get the right dive score every time, without a regular calculator and without doing the math in your head. DD Dive Calculator works out a dive's total score from its degree of difficulty (DD) and the judges' awards, the same way it's calculated at a meet. Enter the DD, enter the scores, and the total appears as you type. The app knows which scores to throw out, so you never have to. Built for meet officials, table workers, volunteers, coaches, divers and parents who want fast, accurate scores on the pool deck. HOW IT WORKS 1. Enter the DD for the dive (for example 2.4) 2. Enter each judge's score 3. Read the total, which updates as you type 4. Tap AC to clear everything for the next dive EVERY PANEL SIZE - 2 judges: both scores × DD, with a note that the meet's final total is multiplied by 1.5 - 3 judges: all three scores × DD - 5 judges: high and low dropped, middle three × DD - 7 judges: two high and two low dropped, middle three × DD - 9 judges (NCAA): turn on the NCAA 9 switch; two high and two low dropped, middle five × 0.6 × DD SEE EXACTLY WHAT COUNTED Dropped scores are shown struck through, and the line under the total shows the math used, such as 25.0 × 3.5. If you've entered a number of scores that doesn't match a standard panel, the app tells you what's missing instead of showing a wrong total. FAST, ERROR-PROOF ENTRY - Entries advance to the next box automatically once complete - The .5 key adds a half point in one tap - Tap any box to jump straight to it and fix it - Hold delete to erase quickly - Only valid entries are accepted: DD from 1.0 to 4.9, scores from 0 to 10 in half points - Designed for one-handed use in portrait FOLLOWS THE RULEBOOKS Scoring follows the NCAA Swimming and Diving Rules (Rule 6), NFHS high school rules, and USA Diving / World Aquatics rules for springboard and platform diving. The scoring rules are always one tap away on the About screen. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE - Works fully offline, on the pool deck or anywhere else - No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no data collected - Supports light and dark mode Questions or suggestions? Contact us from the About screen. We'd love to hear from the diving community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DD Dive Calculator at none against Bracket Builder's 4. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Bracket Builder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. DD Dive Calculator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bracket Builder ships an update every 6 days, DD Dive Calculator every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Builder | DD Dive Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 49.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aberkane Software House FZ-LLC | Jeremey Rodriguez |
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
DD Dive Calculator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bracket Builder
- Full access for 1 year$4.991 Year
- Full access for 1 year$9.991 Year
- Full access for Lifetime$14.99
- Full access for Lifetime$19.99
DD Dive Calculator
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bracket Builder free?
Is DD Dive Calculator free?
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