Comparison

Bracket Maker vs Golf Journal

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

Head to head
About

Bracket Maker

Easily create and manage single-elimination tournaments for gaming, school, or sports events. Set up brackets instantly, customize matchups, and track progress live. Share tournaments with others for real-time updates.

Highlights
  • Fast bracket generation
  • Flexible customization
  • Live progress tracking
  • Real-time sharing
  • Automatic bracket updates
  • Score updating by participants
Features
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Create brackets, round robin schedules, league tables, standings, and shareable tournament pages in minutes. Clashly helps you organize sports events, school competitions, game nights, and local leagues from setup to final score. Build the format you need Start with single elimination, double elimination, or round robin. Add teams or players, generate matchups, and keep every round organized in one place. Track scores and standings Update match results as the tournament unfolds. Brackets advance automatically, while round robin events keep schedules and standings clear for everyone. Share with participants Send a live tournament link so players, parents, teammates, and spectators can follow results. Allow score updates from others when you want help managing the event. Made for real competitions Use Clashly for sports brackets, esports tournaments, school contests, office events, local clubs, board game nights, and any competition that needs a clean bracket or league table. Clashly gives you the tournament maker you need to plan faster, run smoother events, and share results without spreadsheets. ---- Privacy policy: https://cafournier.com/BracketMaker/privacypolicy.html Terms of use: https://cafournier.com/BracketMaker/terms.html

About

Golf Journal

Track your golf performance with this app, logging rounds, practice sessions, scores, and media. Analyze your game with performance graphs and iCloud syncing. Ideal for golfers of all levels aiming to improve.

Highlights
  • Round diary and score tracking
  • Practice session documentation
  • Photo and video gallery
  • Performance graphs
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Golf Journal is a golf diary for your rounds, your practice and your handicap. Log a round from its total in about 20 seconds, or hole by hole, and watch your handicap estimate move as you play. ROUNDS • Log the total, or score hole by hole: strokes, putts, fairways, greens in regulation and penalties. • Out and In totals, and a scorecard with your birdies, bogeys and doubles marked. • Notes, a feel rating, photos and videos for every round. • Scan a paper scorecard: take a photo and the hole scores are read on your iPhone for you to check. • Golf workouts recorded with the Workout app on Apple Watch show up ready to become rounds, with the date filled in. HANDICAP ESTIMATE • Uses the World Handicap System formula: the best 8 of your last 20 rounds, with nine-hole rounds paired. • See your trend, which rounds count, which one drops out next and what score would bring your estimate down. • Course handicap for each set of tees, net score and Stableford points. • Have an official Handicap Index from your club? Enter it and Golf Journal uses it for course handicap, net and Stableford. It's an estimate to follow your game, not an official Handicap Index. COURSES • Tees with course rating, slope, par and yardage, and a scorecard with par and stroke index for every hole. • Look up courses near you or by name. Course data comes from OpenStreetMap. • Your average and best score at each course. PRACTICE • Log practice sessions: range, putting, chipping, bunker, on course, lessons and more, with time, balls and notes. • Keep your swing cues and drills from one session to the next. • Start the practice timer and fill in the rest when you finish. • Turn a round's notes into a plan for your next session. INSIGHTS • How often you make birdie, par, bogey and worse, and how you score on par 3s, 4s and 5s. • Your hardest holes, your scoring by course and by month, and where your practice time goes. • Set a goal, such as breaking 90 or getting down to 15, and see how far off it you are. ON ALL YOUR DEVICES • iCloud sync between your devices. No account to create; your diary stays on your devices and in your iCloud. • Widgets for your handicap estimate and your last round. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Log round", "Log practice", "What's my handicap". • A reminder when you haven't logged a round for a while. • Yards or meters. GOLF JOURNAL PRO Golf Journal is free for up to 3 rounds, 3 practice sessions and 2 courses. Golf Journal Pro removes the limits and adds export: your rounds as a spreadsheet (CSV) and a printable season report (PDF). Pro is available as a subscription or a one-time purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mygolfjournal.app/posts/privacy

Screenshots

Bracket Maker4 screens
Golf Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Golf Journal at weekly against Bracket Maker's monthly. Bracket Maker's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 12) and iOS requirement (17.2 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bracket Maker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Golf Journal sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 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 — 4.7 for Bracket Maker against 4.8 for Golf Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Maker has 84 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bracket Maker ships an update monthly, Golf Journal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bracket Maker versus Golf Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket MakerGolf Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (84 ratings)4.8 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings84 — better12
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.2 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCharles-Adrien FournierGruffydd Johnston

Customer experience

Bracket Maker

All ratings84 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral1.2%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Golf Journal

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Bracket Maker

Subscriptions4
  • Clashly Premium$3.997 Days
  • Clashly Premium Weekly$4.497 Days
  • Clashly Premium3 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Clashly Premium Annual3 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Unlock pro$5.99
  • Clashly Premium$34.99
5 purchases

Golf Journal

Subscriptions4
  • Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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  • Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Bracket Maker free?
Bracket Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Golf Journal free?
Golf Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Maker or Golf Journal?
Golf Journal is rated higher. Bracket Maker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 84 ratings, while Golf Journal averages 4.8 from 12 ratings.
Do Bracket Maker or Golf Journal have ads?
Neither Bracket Maker nor Golf Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bracket Maker or Golf Journal?
Bracket Maker ships an update monthly, and Golf Journal weekly. Most recently, Bracket Maker was updated on October 7, 2026 and Golf Journal on October 21, 2026.

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