Comparison

Tournament Master vs SideSweep

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

Head to head
About

Tournament Master

Organize and manage sports competitions, tournaments, and leagues of any size. Create custom events, track teams, generate fixtures, and record results with automatic real-time standings updates. This app simplifies complex tournament management with a user-friendly interface.

Highlights
  • Organize tournaments and leagues
  • Support for League, Knockout, and Group formats
  • Add teams with custom logos
  • Automatic fixture generation
  • Real-time standings updates
  • Record match results
  • Detailed statistics tracking
Features
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VC Manager is a mobile app for organizing and managing sports competitions, tournaments, and leagues. Whether you're running a local league, organizing a knockout tournament, or managing a multi-stage championship, VC Manager handles it. Create unlimited competitions with support for League, Knockout, and Groups & Knockout formats. Add teams with custom logos, detailed information, and team profiles. The app automatically generates fixtures using smart scheduling algorithms, ensuring fair matchups for round-robin leagues, single-elimination tournaments, and complex group-stage competitions. Record match results with an intuitive interface, and watch as real-time standings update automatically with points, goal differences, wins, draws, and losses calculated instantly. Track progress across multiple competitions, view detailed statistics, and manage everything from your phone or tablet. With a modern, responsive design that works on all screen sizes, persistent local storage that keeps your data safe, and a clean interface that makes complex tournament management simple, VC Manager transforms how you organize and track competitions. Stop juggling spreadsheets and paper brackets—VC Manager puts professional tournament management in the palm of your hand.

About

SideSweep

Organize private football tournament pools with friends, family, or colleagues. This app simplifies setting up draws, assigning teams, and tracking progress, eliminating the need for spreadsheets or manual admin.

Highlights
  • Create private football pools
  • Add players easily
  • Run random team draws
  • Track tournament progress
  • Advanced draw modes (premium)
  • Bonus scoring categories (premium)
Features
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Run a private football tournament pool with your crew. SideSweep is a fast, simple way to set up a private football draw for friends, family, colleagues, pub groups or social clubs. Create a pool, add your players, run the team draw and follow the rivalry through the tournament — without messy spreadsheets or endless chat admin. How it works: • Create a private pool • Add your players • Run a random team draw in seconds • See who has which teams • Track your group as the tournament progresses • Keep the rivalry going all the way to the final Go premium for more variety: Unlock advanced draw modes including Seeded Pots, Snake Draft, World Tour, Group Owner and Top & Tail, plus bonus scoring categories for extra ways to compete. Perfect for: • Football tournament pools with mates • Office football pools • Family group chats • Pub leagues and social clubs • Casual tournament competitions SideSweep keeps things simple: create your pool, invite your players, run the draw and enjoy the tournament. SideSweep does not provide betting, gambling, paid contest entry, cash handling, credits, virtual currency, or real-world prizes. It is a private group draw organiser / names-in-a-hat utility. SideSweep is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or officially connected to any tournament organiser.

Screenshots

Tournament Master4 screens
SideSweep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tournament Master at none against SideSweep's 2. Tournament Master also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). SideSweep's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. SideSweep sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Tournament Master asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tournament Master against 5.0 for SideSweep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tournament Master ships an update every 2 months, SideSweep every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tournament Master versus SideSweep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTournament MasterSideSweep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB85 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHafid Chaikh Sidi BoubakkarSyntec Solutions Ltd

Customer experience

Tournament Master

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SideSweep

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

In-app purchases

None

Tournament Master

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SideSweep

One-time2
  • Premier League 2026/27 Premium$1.99
  • SideSweep Premium$1.99

Questions

Is Tournament Master free?
Tournament Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SideSweep free?
SideSweep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tournament Master or SideSweep?
Tournament Master and SideSweep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tournament Master or SideSweep have ads?
Tournament Master shows ads; SideSweep does not.
Which is updated more often, Tournament Master or SideSweep?
Tournament Master ships an update every 2 months, and SideSweep every 3 days. Most recently, Tournament Master was updated on October 24, 2026 and SideSweep on October 24, 2026.

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