Comparison

Bracket Maker for the iPad 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

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

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

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets at Free against Bracket Maker for the iPad's $0.99. KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 65%). Bracket Maker for the iPad's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets is free to download; Bracket Maker for the iPad costs $0.99 up front. KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.29 per 7 days. Bracket Maker for the iPad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Bracket Maker for the iPad's written reviews are positive against 100% of KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bracket Maker for the iPad versus KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket Maker for the iPadKeepaScore Pickleball Brackets
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (44 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacques RomanoKeepa Tech LLC

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%

KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets

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

In-app purchases

None

Bracket Maker for the iPad

No in-app purchases

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 Bracket Maker for the iPad free?
Bracket Maker for the iPad costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets free?
KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Maker for the iPad or KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets?
KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets is rated higher. Bracket Maker for the iPad averages 4.0 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Bracket Maker for the iPad or KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets have ads?
Neither Bracket Maker for the iPad nor KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bracket Maker for the iPad or KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets?
Bracket Maker for the iPad ships an update every 2 months, and KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets every 2 months. Most recently, Bracket Maker for the iPad was updated on October 6, 2026 and KeepaScore Pickleball Brackets on October 2, 2026.

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