Comparison

Award Expert vs Mirrorball Picks

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

Head to head
About

Award Expert

This app allows users to predict the winners of major movie awards like the Oscars and Golden Globes. Users can track friends, create watchlists, and analyze award races with community rankings and charts. Compete with others on leaderboards and track your prediction history.

Highlights
  • Predict Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA
  • Follow friends and track updates
  • Add films to watchlist
  • Analyze award races with charts
  • Compete on leaderboards
  • Track prediction history
Features
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The largest social awards predictions platform in the world • Predict Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA, and more • Follow friends, track their prediction updates • Join the conversation with active social feed • Analyze the race with aggregate community rankings and detailed charts • Compete in leaderboards, compare your performance to your friends • Automatically track your updates history Auto-renewing subscriptions available: - Award Expert Plus - monthly 5.99/mo USD (1-week free) - yearly 49.99/yr USD (1-week free) By using this app, you agree to the standard Apple Terms of Service (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/oscarexpert-predictawards/privacy

About

Mirrorball Picks

Engage in a fantasy prediction game for a popular dance competition. Create season brackets, predict weekly eliminations, and compete with friends. Track your scores against the community and see who truly knows the show best.

Highlights
  • Build season brackets
  • Predict weekly eliminations
  • Compete with friends in private leagues
  • Global leaderboards
  • Automatic scoring and updates
  • Push notifications for locks and results
Features
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Mirrorball Picks is the fantasy bracket and prediction game for Dancing with the Stars fans. Build your season bracket, predict who’s going home each week, compete with friends, and see how your picks stack up against fans across the community. Think you know who’s taking home the Mirrorball? Put your predictions to the test all season long. PRE-SEASON BRACKET Before the bracket locks, rank every couple from first eliminated all the way to your predicted champion. Once it locks, your picks are set for the season. Earn points as the real elimination order unfolds and see how close your bracket comes to getting it right. WEEKLY PICKS Make a fresh elimination prediction each week. Picks lock before the results are revealed, so everyone has to make their call before they know what happens. PRIVATE LEAGUES Create a league and invite friends with a simple code. Compete against your group, follow the standings, and see who really knows the show best. PREMIUM LEAGUES & CHAT Mirrorball Pass members can create a Premium League for up to 10 people, giving everyone in the league access to premium features and an in-app group chat. GLOBAL LEADERBOARDS See how your bracket compares with players and leagues across the entire Mirrorball Picks community. COMMUNITY PICKS See who the community picked to win it all once brackets lock. AUTOMATIC SCORING When official elimination results are entered, your bracket, weekly picks, scores, and leaderboards update automatically. No spreadsheets. No keeping score yourself. No arguing about who called it first. NEVER MISS A LOCK Get push notifications before brackets and weekly picks close, plus updates when results are posted. SIGN IN YOUR WAY Get started with email, Google, or Sign in with Apple. Whether you’re watching every dance, debating eliminations with friends, or trying to prove you picked the winner from the beginning, Mirrorball Picks gives you another reason to look forward to every episode. Mirrorball Picks is an independent fan-made companion app for Dancing with the Stars fans. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Disney, ABC, BBC, Dancing with the Stars, or the producers of the program.

Screenshots

Award Expert4 screens
Mirrorball Picks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mirrorball Picks at none against Award Expert's shown. Mirrorball Picks also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Award Expert's advantage is ratings volume (252 vs 41). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Award Expert sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Mirrorball Picks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Award Expert against 4.8 for Mirrorball Picks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Award Expert has 252 ratings behind it against 41, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Award Expert's written reviews are positive against 85% of Mirrorball Picks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Award Expert ships an update weekly, Mirrorball Picks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Award Expert versus Mirrorball Picks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAward ExpertMirrorball Picks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (252 ratings)4.8 (41 ratings)
Positive reviews92.5% of reviews — better84.6% of reviews
Number of ratings252 — better41
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB61 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJustin JaegerTyler Randolph

Customer experience

Award Expert

All ratings252 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral0.8%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.5%
Negative6.0%

Mirrorball Picks

All ratings41 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

Bugs and requests

Award Expert

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes
  • No live updates
  • Cannot access account (Twitter login removed)
  • App closes almost at random on iPad
  • Predictions not saving
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  • Ineligible films in selections
  • App crashes within seconds of opening

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add music award shows
  • Add casting section
  • Add stunts/choreography section
  • Create a 'personal awards pick' list separate from official predictions
  • Add a 'next' button to move to the next category
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  • Ability to make predictions for next year's films
  • Improve elimination of ineligible films
  • Add a search function for movies
  • Add TV award predictions
  • Notification system for new followers
  • Add 'Peaches' from the Mario movie to Original Song

Mirrorball Picks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Award Expert

Subscriptions6
  • Award Expert Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Award Expert Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Award Expert Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
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  • Award Expert Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Award Expert Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Award Expert Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
1 purchases

Mirrorball Picks

One-time1
  • Mirrorball Pass - Season 35$4.99

Questions

Is Award Expert free?
Award Expert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mirrorball Picks free?
Mirrorball Picks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Award Expert or Mirrorball Picks?
Award Expert and Mirrorball Picks are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 252 and 41 ratings respectively.
Do Award Expert or Mirrorball Picks have ads?
Award Expert shows ads; Mirrorball Picks does not.
Which is updated more often, Award Expert or Mirrorball Picks?
Award Expert ships an update weekly, and Mirrorball Picks every 3 days. Most recently, Award Expert was updated on November 3, 2026 and Mirrorball Picks on November 1, 2026.

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