User Picks vs CFB Pickems
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
User Picks
Predict college football outcomes weekly by selecting your top 5 teams. Compare your choices with other users to see how your predictions measure up against the community. Test your college football forecasting skills.
- Weekly team selections
- Top 5 team picks
- Community comparison
- Predictor rankings
- College football focus
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User Picks is a free college-football pick'em with two games in it. 5-Lines is the original: every week you pick five teams to cover the spread. Your lines lock the moment you submit, so you are graded against the number you actually took, not a later move. Death Race 100 is the survivor game. Pick as many teams as you like each week, straight up — no spread, just win the game. First to 100 wins takes the season. One loss and your race is over. The format is Shane Ryan's, credited and linked in the app. Everyone plays in one global pool. Picks are public as soon as they land — copying a rival is fair game. 5-Lines standings rank by wins only, with equal wins sharing a rank. The Death Race 100 board ranks by win count, with finishers in finishing order. Leagues are a lens, not a second competition. Create or join with a code to watch a smaller board, across both games. Your picks still count in the same pool. No money changes hands. No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. Sign in with Apple or Google. Delete your account any time from the profile menu. The regular season only — week 1 through conference-championship week.
CFB Pickems
Organize private college football pick'em leagues with friends. Compete weekly by picking games against the spread, track standings, and receive deadline reminders. Enjoy friendly competition without money or prizes.
- Private league creation
- Invite code joining
- Weekly game picks against spread
- Standings tracking
- Deadline reminders
- Results sharing
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Always ad-free. No gambling. One purchase — no ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. Private CFB pick'em leagues, Against the Spread or Straight Up. COLLEGE FOOTBALL PICK'EM LEAGUES Start a league in minutes or join with an invite code. Commissioners set the rules — who selects games, how many games are on the slate, deadlines, and tie-breakers. Every league is either Against the Spread or Straight Up: pick who covers the line, or pick the outright winner. SELECTIONS, THEN PICKEMS Each week starts with Selections: choose the college football games that make your league's slate. Then make your Pickems on every game. ATS leagues show the spread on the card; Straight Up leagues hide the line and grade the winner. LIVE SCORES EVERY SATURDAY Follow Top 25, Power 4, and conference games with live scores from ESPN. Filter the board, track your league slate, and see results as games go final. YOUR TEAM, YOUR LEAGUE Pick your favorite team and CFB Pickems themes the app around your colors. Invite friends, manage members, and keep weekly standings, season records, and titles in one place. Download CFB Pickems and run a real college football pick'em league every Saturday.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: User Picks at Free against CFB Pickems's $1.99. User Picks also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). CFB Pickems's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
User Picks is free to download; CFB Pickems costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for User Picks against 5.0 for CFB Pickems. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CFB Pickems has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
User Picks ships an update weekly, CFB Pickems every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | User Picks | CFB Pickems |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Krueger Health LLC. | JOHN MATTHEW FANNING |
Customer experience
User Picks
CFB Pickems
In-app purchases
User Picks
No in-app purchases
CFB Pickems
No in-app purchases
