Comparison

Bracket Maker for the iPad 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 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

Tournament & Bracket Maker

Easily create and manage various sports tournaments and leagues, from casual friend groups to organized clubs. Supports multiple formats, real-time tracking, and sport-specific scoring. Simulate matches and share tournaments instantly.

Highlights
  • Multiple tournament formats (League, Playoff, League+Playoff, Groups+Playoff)
  • Supports 14 different sports
  • Customizable scoring and tiebreaker rules
  • Real-time sync and collaboration features
  • Match simulation for fantasy scenarios
  • Flexible bracket generation up to 512 competitors
Features
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Tournaments made simple — whether it's just you, a group of friends, or an entire organization. Maybe you want to simulate your dream World Cup. Maybe your friends need someone to run the office tournament. Maybe your club needs a proper league system. This app works for all of it — from solo fantasy play to full-scale competitions. Set up in minutes, invite your people, track everything in real-time. 14 SPORTS SUPPORTED • Football (Soccer) • Basketball • Ice Hockey • American Football • Rugby • Tennis • Table Tennis • Volleyball • Badminton • Handball • Baseball • Cricket • Floorball • Field Hockey 4 TOURNAMENT FORMATS • League — Round-robin with standings tables and customizable point systems • Playoff — Single or double elimination brackets with seeding options • League + Playoff — Regular season followed by elimination rounds (NBA/NHL style) • Groups + Playoff — Group stage into knockout rounds (World Cup/Champions League style) LEAGUE FEATURES • Multiple round-robins — Play 2x, 3x, or more complete cycles • Customizable point systems — Configure points for win, draw, and loss • Tiebreaker rules — Set priority order for goal difference, head-to-head, goals scored • Overtime settings — Enable or disable extra time with custom rules • Live standings — Automatic table calculation after each match PLAYOFF FEATURES • Single match — One game decides the winner • Home & Away Legs — Two-legged ties with optional away goals rule • First-to-N-wins — Play until one side reaches the required wins (NHL/NBA style) • Best-of Series — Set maximum matches, first to majority wins (BO3, BO5, BO7, or any number) • Bracket generation — Random draw, seeded pairings, or coefficient-based matchups • Flexible brackets — From 2 to 512 competitors SPORT-SPECIFIC SCORING • Goals/Points tracking (Football, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Field Hockey, Handball, Floorball) • Goals per half/period (Football, Ice Hockey, Rugby, Handball, Floorball, Field Hockey) • Points per quarter/period (Basketball, American Football) • Sets & games (Tennis, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Badminton) • Runs, wickets & overs (Cricket) • Innings scoring (Baseball) • Bonus points for tries (Rugby) • Overtime modes: Sudden death, extra time, extra innings, super over • Fully customizable — Adjust number of periods, sets, or innings for any sport COLLABORATION & SHARING • User Roles — Owner, Admin, Member with different permissions • QR Code Sharing — Scan to join any tournament instantly • Real-Time Sync — All changes update across devices • Deep Links — Share tournaments via messaging apps MATCH SIMULATION Simulate entire tournaments for fun. Generate realistic match results based on sport-specific algorithms. Perfect for testing brackets, running fantasy scenarios, or adding gamification to your competitions. FREE FEATURES • All 4 tournament formats • Up to 16 competitors • Enter final scores or scores for each period • Log individual scorers with minute timestamps and own goals • Track overtime with separate scores • Live standings, match history, and scorer statistics • Simulate individual matches with final results • Invite 1 collaborator • Max 2 seasons • Basic color themes PREMIUM FEATURES • Up to 512 competitors • Unlimited collaborators • Simulate rounds or tournaments with detailed period-by-period scores • PDF export • Custom logos • Unlimited number of seasons • Premium color themes (Premier League, Champions League, Bundesliga) Download the app and transform how you organize sports competitions! Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/champify-terms-of-use

Screenshots

Tournament & Bracket Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tournament & Bracket Maker at Free against Bracket Maker for the iPad's $0.99. Tournament & Bracket Maker also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0). Bracket Maker for the iPad's advantage is review sentiment (65% vs 25%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). 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

Tournament & Bracket Maker is free to download; Bracket Maker for the iPad costs $0.99 up front. Tournament & Bracket Maker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Bracket Maker for the iPad asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tournament & Bracket Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 45 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Bracket Maker for the iPad's written reviews are positive against 25% of Tournament & Bracket Maker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bracket Maker for the iPad ships an update every 2 months, Tournament & Bracket Maker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bracket Maker for the iPad versus Tournament & Bracket Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket Maker for the iPadTournament & Bracket Maker
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (51 ratings)4.4 (45 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.6% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings51 — better45
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB147 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJacques RomanoMichal Belohoubek

Customer experience

Bracket Maker for the iPad

All ratings44 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral2.3%
Negative22.7%
Written reviews99 reviews
Positive64.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative24.2%

Tournament & Bracket Maker

All ratings40 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bracket Maker for the iPad

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Tournament & Bracket Maker

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly, Premium$1.997 Days
  • Monthly, Premium$6.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Bracket Maker for the iPad free?
Bracket Maker for the iPad costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tournament & Bracket Maker free?
Tournament & Bracket Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Maker for the iPad or Tournament & Bracket Maker?
Tournament & Bracket Maker is rated higher. Bracket Maker for the iPad averages 4.0 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while Tournament & Bracket Maker averages 4.4 from 45 ratings.
Do Bracket Maker for the iPad or Tournament & Bracket Maker have ads?
Neither Bracket Maker for the iPad nor Tournament & Bracket Maker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bracket Maker for the iPad or Tournament & Bracket Maker?
Bracket Maker for the iPad ships an update every 2 months, and Tournament & Bracket Maker every 6 weeks. Most recently, Bracket Maker for the iPad was updated on October 23, 2026 and Tournament & Bracket Maker on October 22, 2026.

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