Pools Runner vs PickemBOSS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pools Runner
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Pools - The Ultimate Weekly Picks Experience Compete with friends, family, and colleagues in the most engaging pick'em pools app. Create your own pools, make weekly picks, and track your progress on real-time leaderboards. WHY POOLS? CREATE OR JOIN POOLS Start your own pool and invite friends with a simple invite code, or join existing pools to compete against others. Creating a pool requires a one-time payment, but joining pools is completely free! MAKE YOUR WEEKLY PICKS Pick the winners for every game each week. Our intuitive interface makes it easy to select your picks with team logos and game times clearly displayed. Picks automatically lock when each game starts, so make your selections before kickoff! COMPETE ON LEADERBOARDS Track your performance with both weekly and season-long leaderboards. See how you stack up against your competition and watch your ranking change as games finish. Every correct pick earns you a point—simple and fair scoring. FAIR PLAY GUARANTEED Your picks stay hidden until games begin, preventing any unfair advantages. Once a game starts, you can see how everyone else picked, adding excitement and strategy to your pool experience. MULTIPLE POOLS Join as many pools as you want! Compete in your office pool, family pool, and friend group pool all from one app. Each pool has its own leaderboard and standings. REAL-TIME UPDATES See game scores update in real-time and watch your points accumulate as games finish. No need to manually track results—we handle everything automatically. PRIVATE & SECURE Create private, invite-only pools or join public pools. Your data is secure with Firebase authentication and AWS infrastructure. PERFECT FOR: • Office pools and workplace competitions • Family football traditions • Friend groups and fantasy football enthusiasts • Anyone who loves football and friendly competition FEATURES: • Create unlimited pools (one-time payment per pool) • Join unlimited pools for free • Weekly picks for all games • Real-time leaderboards (weekly and season) • Game-by-game pick locks • Hidden picks until game time • View all picks after games start • Simple 1-point-per-correct-pick scoring • Tie-breaker support • Multi-platform support (iOS and Web) Get started today and turn every week into a competition. Whether you're a casual fan or a die-hard football enthusiast, Pools makes following the season more exciting and engaging. Download now and start your first pool!
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.
- 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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pools Runner at none against PickemBOSS's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Pools Runner sells 2 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.
Pools Runner ships an update every 5 days, PickemBOSS every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pools Runner | PickemBOSS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 314 Apps LLC | Ricardo Guerrera |
In-app purchases
Pools Runner
- Small Tier Pool$4.99
- Small Tier Pool$9.99
PickemBOSS
- 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








