Friends Tournament vs Bracket Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Friends Tournament
Organize competitive events with ease. This app handles tournament scheduling, live scoring, and final standings for various formats like leagues and knockout rounds. It's perfect for game nights and casual sports, eliminating the need for manual tracking.
- Multiple tournament formats (League, Knockout, Round-robin, Teams)
- Live scoring and leaderboards
- Automatic schedule generation
- Tournament history and playback
- Player management (add/remove/rename)
- Results sharing
- Offline data backup and import
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Game night, sorted. Friends Tournament turns any group of players into a real tournament — brackets, live scores and a final podium — with no spreadsheets and no mental math. Pick a format, type in the names, and the app builds the whole schedule for you. Then just tap to score. FOUR FORMATS, ONE TAP AWAY • League — a classic points table where every match counts • Knockout — single-elimination bracket, winners keep advancing • Round-robin — everyone plays everyone, rounds and byes generated for you • Teams — pair players up and score each team as one row SCORING THAT KEEPS UP WITH THE ROOM • Tap a card to add a point, tap the number for an exact score • Every point saves itself — close the app mid-match and nothing is lost • Live leaderboard you can open at any moment • Rename, add or remove players without restarting the tournament THE PAYOFF • Full bracket view and a round-by-round recap • Final podium and complete standings when the last match ends • Share a results card straight into the group chat BUILT FOR GROUPS THAT PLAY AGAIN • Tournament history — resume anything unfinished, revisit past results • Recent players are suggested, so the same crew is two taps away • Play again rebuilds a tournament with the same format, players and rules • Export a .ft backup and import it on another phone WORKS FOR ANYTHING YOU CAN SCORE Board games, video games, ping pong, darts, pool, padel, FIFA nights, quiz nights, karaoke, office ladders, holiday sports days. NO ACCOUNT, NOTHING TO SET UP Friends Tournament never asks you to sign up or sign in. Your tournaments stay on your device. Start your first tournament tonight.
Bracket Maker
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Create, seed, schedule, run, and share polished tournament brackets—without an account or internet connection. Roundra turns a pasted roster into a complete tournament command center. Pick the format that fits, enter results as matches happen, keep every court or station moving, and share a bracket everyone can follow. BUILD A TOURNAMENT IN MINUTES • Paste names from any list or add teams, players, songs, movies, foods, or custom entries • Use guided setup when you are not sure which format fits • Seed as entered, shuffle, reorder manually, sort alphabetically, reverse seeds, or spread affiliations • Save favorite rosters and reuse them for future events • Create brackets for up to 128 entries on supported formats CHOOSE FROM 8 FORMATS • Single Elimination • Double Elimination • Round Robin • League + Playoff • Pools + Playoff • Swiss • King of the Hill • Ladder RUN THE EVENT FROM ONE DESK • Record winners, scores, best-of series, forfeits, and no-shows • Track live standings with configurable tiebreakers • Add bronze and consolation matches where supported • Schedule courts, tables, stations, or lanes in smart match waves • Set match length, buffers, breaks, statuses, assignments, and notes • See what is ready now, what is up next, and the projected finish time • Repair downstream results safely when an earlier winner changes MAKE THE TOURNAMENT EASY TO FOLLOW • Open a presentation view for a venue display • Show the next matchup, progress, standings, and champion • Export polished bracket or standings images • Create clean, dark, or scoreboard-style PDFs • Share run sheets, results CSV files, and tournament summaries PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your brackets and rosters are saved locally on your device. Roundra requires no account, includes no third-party ads, and does not track you. Back up and restore your tournament library whenever you choose. MADE FOR MORE THAN SPORTS Run club tournaments, rec leagues, school or PE events, esports brackets, office competitions, game nights, or just-for-fun showdowns between songs, movies, foods, and ideas. Roundra is built for iPhone and iPad and is available in 37 languages, including full right-to-left support for Arabic and Hebrew.
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Verdict
Friends Tournament and Bracket Maker are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Friends Tournament | Bracket Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco Gomiero | Mobin Akhter |
In-app purchases
Friends Tournament
No in-app purchases
Bracket Maker
No in-app purchases





