Bracket Maker vs Golf Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Fast bracket generation
- Flexible customization
- Live progress tracking
- Real-time sharing
- Automatic bracket updates
- Score updating by participants
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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
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.
- Round diary and score tracking
- Practice session documentation
- Photo and video gallery
- Performance graphs
- iCloud syncing
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Bracket Maker ships an update monthly, Golf Journal weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Maker | Golf Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (84 ratings) | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charles-Adrien Fournier | Gruffydd Johnston |
Customer experience
Bracket Maker
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In-app purchases
Bracket Maker
- 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
- Unlock pro$5.99
- Clashly Premium$34.99
Golf Journal
- 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
- Lifetime$49.99
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