Comparison

Bracket Maker for the iPad vs TSD Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Bracket Maker for the iPad

Easily create and manage tournament brackets for various competitions, from sports to parties. This app handles the complex pairings and advancements, allowing you to focus on the event. Update brackets in real-time, even offline, and share results via email or print.

Highlights
  • Advance winners with a touch
  • Pair players by seeding, random, or manual assignment
  • Support for single, double, triple elimination, round robin, consolation, and compass tournaments
  • Enter scores and game dates/locations
  • Email or print bracket displays and results
  • Add players from contacts
  • Edit mistakes and save bracket images
Features
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This is a great portable program to help you create brackets for tournaments, friendly competition, small leagues, ping pong, bowling, volleyball, parties, beer pong, curling round robins, scout derby races, tennis tournaments and more. It's easy to use and it does the hard part of figuring out who goes where! Features: 1) Easy to advance the winners. Just touch the player to advance. 2) Pair the players using seedings or by random assignments or by manual assignment 3) Create tournaments for 4 to 32 players depending on tournament type: __* For single elimination brackets, the limit is 32 players. __* For double elimination brackets, the limit is 32 players. __* For Triple elimination brackets, the limit is 8 players. __* For Round Robin tournaments, the limit is 16 players (multiple pools available). __* For Consolation tournaments, you must use 8 or 16 players. __* For Compass tournaments, you must use 8 players. 4) You can enter scores. 5) Load previously saved tournaments 6) Email or print your bracket display. Including send results in a CSV format for elimination brackets. 7) Add players from your contact list. 8) Edit/erase mistakes (even after the tournament starts). 9) On single and double elim. tournaments, you enter game date and location. 10) You can setup doubles or partner play tournaments 11) Save bracket images to your photo album 12) Play unlimited number of round robin games. Also supports Ties! Having this program on your iPad makes it perfect for on-site and real time updating of the brackets. No wi-fi or internet needed. Print or email the results to participants when the competition is over. You can also setup a consolation tournament where each team/player plays exactly 3 games when 8 players or 4 games when 16 players. The Round Robin style is limited to 16 players but is a great way to keep track of wins and losses and ties. The iPad does it for you! You can even have up to four pools in one tournament. The iPad automatically matches each team to ensure everyone plays around. The program automatically adjusts the brackets for the number of players. Instead of showing "byes", it will automatically advance a player appropriately when the tournament is first setup. So, you can have 4 to 32 players. The program automatically adjust the brackets so you don't have to. Plus, you can load player names from your contact list to save typing. You can start a new tournament with as little as 4 players. Then select Copy to start your tournament. In the players list, you can re-arrange the order or delete an entry using the edit button. You can also edit a bracket after it is created. The program supports multiple ways to setup bracket assignments. a) Copy using seedings: it will put the names on the bracket based on seeding. (For example, Player ranked #1 plays player ranked #16) b) Copy using random draws, it will randomize the pairings using your list of players/teams. c) Copy using manual selection, it will put the selected player/team on the bracket in your selection order. d) Copy using top 4 seedings will place top 4 seeds on separate bracket sections (so they meet in the later rounds) while randomizing the other player placements. This is often used for Tennis tournaments. d) copy using partners will allow you set up doubles matches. Either random pairing or controlled pairing. e) copy names in list order. Great feature if you want to completely control the assignments. Features are constantly added. I want this to be the best tournament bracket program in the app store. Email support or visit facebook if you want to see a particular feature added or you have an issue. I can't respond to review comments. Now with color. Choose team/player colors. IT EVEN HAS A HELP DOCUMENT for beginners. See this program in action before buying it. Find it on youtube or watch the app preview. There are also more tutorial videos on the support website.

About

TSD Tracker

This app supports table shuffleboard enthusiasts by providing live tournament scores and results. It also offers a free scoreboard for players and directors, with automatic result uploads for streamlined tournament management.

Highlights
  • Live tournament scoring
  • View results
  • Search players and venues
  • Free scoreboard
  • Automatic result uploads
Features
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The TSD Tracker is the mobile companion app to The Shuffle Director website built exclusively in support of Table Shuffleboard. On the Tracker users can easily view ongoing tournaments with live scoring and results, search for players or venues and utilize a free scoreboard. Tournament Directors can also leverage the scoreboard's capabilities to automatically upload results to The Shuffle Director to help streamline tournament management.

Screenshots

TSD Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TSD Tracker at Free against Bracket Maker for the iPad's $0.99. TSD Tracker also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). Bracket Maker for the iPad's advantage is ratings volume (44 vs 9). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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

TSD Tracker is free to download; Bracket Maker for the iPad costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TSD Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Bracket Maker for the iPad's written reviews are positive against 100% of TSD Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bracket Maker for the iPad ships an update every 2 months, TSD Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bracket Maker for the iPad versus TSD Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket Maker for the iPadTSD Tracker
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (44 ratings)4.3 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB135 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacques RomanoChristopher Treadway

Customer experience

Bracket Maker for the iPad

All ratings44 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative22.7%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive65.2%
Neutral8.7%
Negative26.1%

TSD Tracker

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral11.1%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bracket Maker for the iPad

No in-app purchases

None

TSD Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bracket Maker for the iPad free?
Bracket Maker for the iPad costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TSD Tracker free?
TSD Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Maker for the iPad or TSD Tracker?
TSD Tracker is rated higher. Bracket Maker for the iPad averages 4.0 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while TSD Tracker averages 4.3 from 9 ratings.
Do Bracket Maker for the iPad or TSD Tracker have ads?
Neither Bracket Maker for the iPad nor TSD Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bracket Maker for the iPad or TSD Tracker?
Bracket Maker for the iPad ships an update every 2 months, and TSD Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Bracket Maker for the iPad was updated on October 6, 2026 and TSD Tracker on October 3, 2026.

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