Tournament vs Pickster.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tournament
Easily create custom tournament brackets for any size event. Supports various tournament types like Round Robin and Double Elimination, with options to add notes and share your brackets with others.
- Create custom tournament grids
- Round Robin tournament type
- Double Elimination tournament type
- Add notes to matches
- Share tournament brackets
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With this application you can create your own tournament tables, generate teams brackets of any size and properly seed all participants. - Create a grid according to the parameters that you need - Different tournament types. Round Robin and Double Elimination Tournaments - Add notes. Write notes for matches in the tournament grid - Share bracket. Send the bracket to your friends Terms of use: https://bracket.quest/terms.html Privacy policy: https://bracket.quest/privacy.html
Pickster.
Easily manage friendly prediction contests with friends and family. Make your picks through an intuitive interface, track your progress on a leaderboard, and communicate with other participants. Organize your pool and its members seamlessly.
- Friendly prediction interface
- Leaderboard tracking
- In-pool chat
- Pool and participant management
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A mobile app that helps you manage a Pick'em or Survivor pool with your friends and family. - Make your predictions with a friendly interface - See the leaderboard - Chat with your pool participants - Manage your pool and participants
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pickster. at 100% against Tournament's 19%. Pickster. also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). Tournament's advantage is ratings volume (309 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tournament sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per 7 days and Pickster. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pickster. holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tournament has 309 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Tournament's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pickster.'s.
Tournament ships an update every 4 days, Pickster. weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tournament | Pickster. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (309 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 309 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dmitriy Beloglazov | Pickster LLC |
Customer experience
Tournament
Pickster.
Bugs and requests
Tournament
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes frequently
- App glitches and turns off
- App crashes when adding teams
- App crashes with more than 20 players
- App crashes when loading tournaments
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- App crashes with more than 4 teams
- App crashes with more than 6 teams
- App crashes with more than 32 teams
- App crashes with more than 7 teams
- Purchaser invalid error
- Cannot fix glitch/crash
Requested features
12 requests- Fix crashing bugs
- Make app free
- Allow more teams for free
- Add dark mode
- Allow sorting tournaments by most recent
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- Implement two-stage tournaments (Round Robin + Knockout)
- Allow setting seeds and editing matches
- Allow undoing winner selection
- Improve match notes functionality
- Improve TV projection compatibility
- Fix PDF output
- Fix QR/Text code errors
Pickster.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tournament
- Bracket PRO - Weekly$4.497 Days
- Bracket PRO - Monthly$4.997 Days
- Bracket PRO - Monthly2 variants$7.991 Month
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- Bracket PRO - Yearly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Bracket maker PRO. One year.3 Days trial$34.991 Year
Pickster.
- Pickster Plus - World Cup$9.99
