Comparison

Simple Pik vs PickemBOSS

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

Head to head
About

Simple Pik

Engage in social sports pick challenges with friends or global competitors. Make weekly predictions on real games across various sports and track your performance on leaderboards. Enjoy a fun, competitive experience without real-money betting.

Highlights
  • Create or join groups with friends
  • Weekly pick challenges for major sports
  • Global competition mode
  • Live results and scoring
  • Group chat and leaderboards
  • Performance tracking
Features
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Simple Pik is the easiest way to pik winners with your friends, family, coworkers and fans. Every game in the leagues you follow lives on one slate. Tap who wins, and that pik counts everywhere: on the worldwide board, in every group you're in, and against every host. No odds. No sportsbooks. No cash-out. Just simple piks, live results, streaks and real bragging rights. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick your leagues: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and more. 2. Tap a team on the game card to make your pik. Piks lock at kickoff. 3. Sweat it live: scores, the crowd split and your streak update all game long. 4. Climb the boards: your groups, the worldwide ranks and the week's awards. ONE SLATE Swipe through big game cards. See who the crowd is on, watch live scores, and jump to "All games" to pik the whole week. RIVALS Challenge a friend who picked the other side of any game. Both piks lock, the winner gets the point, and the loser gets egged. Keep a head-to-head record with everyone you play. STREAKS Every right pik keeps your streak alive. Go Full Slate for +3, put a Clutch Pik on the game you're surest of, and use Skip Passes and Streak Shields to save a run. GROUPS Start a group for your crew, office, bar or fantasy league and get a real leaderboard for the week, the month and the season. Your first group is free for up to 10 people. Need more room? Crew holds 25, League holds 50, and a Club has no limit. TALK YO ISH Every game has its own comment thread, and group chat sits right next to the board. Send Chat Plays like Sweep, Heater and Ice cold when your friends hit or miss. FEATURED HOSTS Play along with, or against, athletes, creators and communities, and see if you can beat the host. PLAYOFF MODE Series piks and a champion pik when the postseason starts. SHARE THE SWEAT Turn your piks, sweats and big calls into share cards, and send your profile link to anyone, no app needed. WIDGETS & LIVE ACTIVITIES See today's piks on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, and follow your rival and Clutch games live on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. INVITE FRIENDS Invite friends and earn Clutch Tokens and Streak Shields when they play. Simple Pik is built for sports fans who want the competition without the stress of betting apps. Points only, never money. Simple piks. Real bragging rights. Club is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly through your Apple ID. It renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://simplepik.com/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://simplepik.com/privacy-policy/

About

PickemBOSS

Create and join pick'em, survivor, and confidence pools for football games with friends. Features secure pick locking, shareable recaps, and integrated trash talk. Track your stats and manage pools easily.

Highlights
  • Pick'em, Survivor, and Confidence pool formats
  • Losers mode for all formats
  • Secure server-side pick locking
  • Shareable weekly recap decks
  • Integrated trash talk and discussion board
  • Detailed personal stats and performance tracking
  • Easy pool creation and management tools
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Run the pool. Win the pool. Talk the most trash. PickemBOSS is pick'em, survivor, and confidence pools for pro and college football, built for the group chat you already have. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Pick'em — pick every game, one point per correct pick. Survivor — one team a week, never twice. Lose and you're out. Confidence — rank every game. The surer you are, the more it's worth. Every format also runs in Losers mode, where picking the loser is the point. BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO Unfold and every screen gets a second page. Your stats sit beside your pools. Your picks sit beside the pool's roster. The week's picks grid sits beside the standings. Managers see the pools they run beside a new one. Fold it back up and it's the same PickemBOSS on the cover screen, and anything you were in the middle of comes with you. BUILT SO NOBODY CAN CHEAT Picks lock at each game's kickoff, and locking is enforced on our servers — not on your phone. A no-pick is a loss and can't be filled in afterward. Nobody sees another player's pick until that game starts, so there's no copying the sharp in your pool and no reading the room on Sunday morning. THE TUESDAY RECAP When the week is graded, your pool gets a recap deck. Who topped it, who bottomed out, the pick only one person made that came in, the game the whole room got wrong. Every card is shareable, and one tap fires it into your pool's Trash Talk with your name attached. TRASH TALK Every pool gets a board. PickemBOSS itself posts when games lock, when an upset lands, and when the week is graded — so there's always something to argue about. Five reactions, a pinned commissioner note, and the tools a manager needs: report, mute, hide, delete. MY STATS Your record everywhere you've played. Win rate overall, by pool type, and by league. Current streak and your best ever. Weeks won, weeks lost. The teams you read best and the ones you should stop picking. Splits for home and away, prime time, one-score games, and the picks where you went against the room — with badges when you earn them. FOR MANAGERS Create a pool in about a minute. Choose the format, the mode, the start week, and whether the playoffs count. Share one invite code. Approve players, edit names, see who hasn't picked, print the standings or a full picks grid for the wall at the bar. Set a message every member sees when they open the pool. FOR PLAYERS Enter a code and you're in. Pick from the schedule with team logos, scores, and live results. Watch the leaderboard reorder as games finish. Get a push when picks are about to lock, when the week is graded, and when someone takes a week off you. PRO AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL Full regular season, plus playoffs and the championship if the manager turns them on. Schedules and scores update automatically. FREE TO PLAY Creating a pool, joining a pool, and making picks are all free. Optional one-time purchases remove ads, unlock multiple entries per player, and add extra pools for managers who run more than one. PickemBOSS does not handle real money, does not facilitate wagering, and does not track who owes whom. It's a pick'em pool app for friends who want to settle who's the better picker. PRIVACY We don't sell your data and we don't track you across other apps. We store what's needed to run your pools and nothing more. You can delete your account and all its data from inside the app at any time. QUESTIONS? support@pickemboss.com Privacy: https://pickemboss.com/privacy/ Terms: https://pickemboss.com/terms/

Screenshots

Simple Pik4 screens
PickemBOSS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Simple Pik at none against PickemBOSS's shown. PickemBOSS's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Simple Pik sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and PickemBOSS sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. 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 — 5.0 for Simple Pik against 5.0 for PickemBOSS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Pik ships an update every 5 weeks, PickemBOSS every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Simple Pik versus PickemBOSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple PikPickemBOSS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size223 MB23 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJunior LangeRicardo Guerrera

Customer experience

Simple Pik

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PickemBOSS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Simple Pik

One-time3
  • 10 Member Group$2.99
  • 20 Member Group$6.99
  • Unlimited Member Group$19.99
4 purchases

PickemBOSS

One-time4
  • Player Extra Entry, +50 Manager Fee$0.99
  • Additional Pools$1.99
  • Multiple Player Entry Unlock$1.99
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  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Simple Pik free?
Simple Pik is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PickemBOSS free?
PickemBOSS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Pik or PickemBOSS?
Simple Pik and PickemBOSS are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Pik or PickemBOSS have ads?
PickemBOSS shows ads; Simple Pik does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Pik or PickemBOSS?
Simple Pik ships an update every 5 weeks, and PickemBOSS every 8 days. Most recently, Simple Pik was updated on October 24, 2026 and PickemBOSS on October 15, 2026.

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