Comparison

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.

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

Screenshots

Bracket Maker4 screens
Chess Tournament Manager Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bracket Maker versus Chess Tournament Manager Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket MakerChess Tournament Manager Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (85 ratings) — better4.6 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings85 — better13
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCharles-Adrien FournierDaniel Milano

Customer experience

Bracket Maker

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

Chess Tournament Manager Pro

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
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
2 purchases

Chess Tournament Manager Pro

Subscriptions1
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Swiss system$3.99

Questions

Is Bracket Maker free?
Bracket Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chess Tournament Manager Pro free?
Chess Tournament Manager Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Maker or Chess Tournament Manager Pro?
Bracket Maker is rated higher. Bracket Maker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 85 ratings, while Chess Tournament Manager Pro averages 4.6 from 13 ratings.
Do Bracket Maker or Chess Tournament Manager Pro have ads?
Neither Bracket Maker nor Chess Tournament Manager Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bracket Maker or Chess Tournament Manager Pro?
Bracket Maker ships an update monthly, and Chess Tournament Manager Pro every 5 days. Most recently, Bracket Maker was updated on October 24, 2026 and Chess Tournament Manager Pro on October 30, 2026.

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