Bracket Maker vs Chess Tournament Manager Pro
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
Chess Tournament Manager Pro
This app helps chess organizers create, manage, and share tournament reports for various formats like Swiss, Round-Robin, and Arena. It supports team events with detailed standings and individual tournaments with fast result entry and Elo updates. Professional PDF exports are available for pairings and rankings.
- Multiple tournament formats (Swiss, Round-Robin, Arena)
- Team Swiss event management
- Fast result entry and Elo updates
- Custom tie-break ordering
- Player and team statistics
- PDF sharing for reports
- Cloud backup
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Chess Tournament Manager helps chess organizers run tournaments from iPhone and iPad. Create events, manage players, enter results, handle byes and forfeits, follow standings and share tournament reports from one practical mobile app. Supported formats include Round-Robin, Knockout, Swiss, Dutch Swiss, Team Swiss and Arena tournaments. Dutch Swiss is a FIDE-aware Swiss pairing system designed for organizers who need stricter pairing behavior, clearer round handling and support for real tournament situations such as forfeits, technical byes and requested byes. Team Swiss makes it easier to run team-based chess events with board lineups, match points, game points and clear team standings. For individual events, you can manage Swiss, Dutch Swiss, Arena, Knockout and Round-Robin tournaments with fast result entry, Elo updates, player changes where supported, professional PDFs and flexible bye management. Key features: - Round-Robin, Knockout, Swiss, Dutch Swiss, Team Swiss and Arena formats. - FIDE-aware Dutch Swiss pairings for more structured Swiss tournaments. - Support for forfeits, technical byes and requested byes. - Clear round screens with player scores, Elo and rating changes. - Team match cards with board labels and balanced player details. - Custom tie-break ordering for Swiss, Dutch Swiss, Arena and Team Swiss events. - Direct Encounter, Buchholz, Buchholz Cut 1, Sonneborn-Berger and Most Wins support. - Player and team statistics with Elo history and tournament records. - Saved player lists for recurring clubs and events. - Tournament archiving for completed or inactive tournaments. - PDF sharing for pairings, rankings and tournament reports. - Cloud backup when available with a signed-in account. Designed for clubs, schools, coaches, arbiters and chess communities that need a reliable way to organize events without manual spreadsheets. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Bracket Maker and Chess Tournament Manager Pro both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Chess Tournament Manager Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Bracket Maker's. Chess Tournament Manager Pro also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). Bracket Maker's advantage is ratings volume (85 vs 13). 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 Chess Tournament Manager Pro sells 2 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 4.6 for Chess Tournament Manager Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Maker has 85 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Bracket Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chess Tournament Manager Pro's.
Bracket Maker ships an update monthly, Chess Tournament Manager Pro every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Maker | Chess Tournament Manager Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (85 ratings) — better | 4.6 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charles-Adrien Fournier | Daniel Milano |
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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
Chess Tournament Manager Pro
- Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Swiss system$3.99
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