Award Expert vs Mirrorball Picks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- Build season brackets
- Predict weekly eliminations
- Compete with friends in private leagues
- Global leaderboards
- Automatic scoring and updates
- Push notifications for locks and results
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Award Expert | Mirrorball Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (252 ratings) | 4.8 (41 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.5% of reviews — better | 84.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 252 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Jaeger | Tyler Randolph |
Customer experience
Award Expert
Mirrorball Picks
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
Award Expert
- 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
Mirrorball Picks
- Mirrorball Pass - Season 35$4.99
Questions
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