Comparison

Set Match! vs Tournament Bracket Maker

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

Head to head
About

Set Match!

Features
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**Set Match! Your Ultimate Tournament & Social Play Organizer** Stop wrestling with notebooks and spreadsheets. Set Match! is a free tournament and social session manager built for players and club organizers who want to run competitive matches with clarity, fairness, and precision. Designed for Tennis, Padel, Pickleball, and Table Tennis — with more sports coming soon. You focus on the game. We handle the brackets, scores, matchmaking, and rankings. **Tournament Formats** • Round Robin — everyone plays everyone, groups supported • Knockout — classic single-elimination with seeding • Swiss — balanced round-by-round matchups, no rematches • Compass Draw — no one is eliminated; every player finishes with a final placement from 1 to N • Switch Doubles — rotating partners so everyone teams with everyone • Manual — full control over custom pairings For 8-player round robins, pick a structured Semi-Finals stage with cross-group matchups, or proceed straight to knockouts. **Compass Draw — Everyone Plays, Everyone Places** Perfect for club events where you want to maximise court time. Winners advance toward 1st place; losers drop into consolation brackets to play for every other position. Every player is guaranteed multiple matches and a final placement. Includes a visual bracket viewer with Round 1 in the centre, winners flowing right and consolation flowing left. Works for any number of players in Singles or Fixed-Partner Doubles. **Social Play Sessions** Run social play nights with full control: • Up to 12 courts • Smart matchmaking — no repeat partners in doubles, no repeat opponents in singles • Skill-balanced groupings keep matches competitive • Courts run independently — finish a match, enter the score, fill the next • Manage resting players, add latecomers mid-session • Full post-session report with match history and leaderboard **Smart Player Rankings** Modern rating algorithms rank players fairly: • Elo-style system for Singles • Advanced team-rating logic for Fixed Doubles • Partner-independent TrueSkill-style ratings for Switch Doubles Sortable leaderboards let you compare players across metrics quickly. **Custom Match Lengths** Single Set • Best of 3 • Best of 3 with Tiebreak • Best of 5 Sets **Player Database** Save and manage your roster once. Select participants instantly for new tournaments or sessions without re-entering data. **Score Tracking** Fast, intuitive set-by-set entry designed for courtside use. Tiebreak sets are automatically detected and counted correctly in standings. **History & Sharing** Full records of past tournaments and sessions — standings, match history, ratings progression. Tournament cards show player names at a glance. Share standings and leaderboards as images directly from the app. **Scales to Any Size** Any number of players or teams from 2 to 64. Automatic BYE handling for odd counts. Switch Doubles supports up to 64 players with smart rotation. **Completely Free** All features free — unlimited players, tournaments up to 64 players or teams, multi-court social sessions. No paywalls, no subscriptions. Download Set Match! today and bring professional organization and fair competition to your matches.

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Tournament Bracket Maker

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Run your whole tournament from your phone. Set up a bracket in under a minute, enter scores as the games finish, and share a card that looks like it came from a broadcast. UNLIMITED TEAMS, EVERY FORMAT — FREE No cap on entrants and no format locked behind a purchase. Pick the shape your event actually needs: • Single elimination — with an optional third-place match • Double elimination — full losers bracket and grand final reset • Round robin — everyone plays everyone, with live standings • Swiss — pair on record, nobody goes home early • Groups then knockout — pool play into a cross-seeded bracket • Leaderboard — score-per-round events with no bracket at all BUILT FOR 48 SPORTS AND GAMES Soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball, tennis, badminton, pickleball, chess, TCG, esports, bowling, golf, darts, running, karting, trivia and more — or make your own category. Each one knows how its results are scored, so a chess match asks for games and a bowling round asks for pins. SCORE ENTRY THAT KEEPS UP WITH THE GAMES Two taps to record a result. Walkovers, byes and third-place matches are handled for you, and the bracket redraws itself the moment a score lands. Made a mistake? Undo puts it back, and every match that depended on it follows. SHARE SOMETHING WORTH POSTING Result cards, champion posters and 9:16 story cards, rendered on device and ready for wherever you post them. Add a cover photo, team logos and player photos to make the bracket yours. WORKS WHEREVER YOU ARE No account. No cloud. No sign-in. Your tournaments live on this device, so a gym with no signal, a park, or a plane are all fine. Nothing about running your event needs a connection. GG PRO — ONE PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Everything above stays free. GG Pro is a single purchase that unlocks the finishing touches: • No ads • Watermark-free exports • Custom covers and the full preset pack • Team logos and player photos • Match story cards for Stories • Win-rate stats, titles and Player of the Match across events • Premium colour themes Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription, no renewal, no tiers. WHO IT IS FOR League organisers, tournament directors, coaches, teachers, esports admins, chess clubs, pub quiz hosts, office competitions, and anyone who has ever drawn a bracket on a whiteboard and lost track of it. A note on very large fields: creating is instant at any size, but drawing a bracket of several hundred teams can slow older phones. Questions or a format you want next? Get in touch from Settings — we read everything.

Screenshots

Set Match!4 screens
Tournament Bracket Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Set Match! at none against Tournament Bracket Maker's shown. On price, in-app purchases, 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. Set Match! sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Tournament Bracket Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Set Match! versus Tournament Bracket Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSet Match!Tournament Bracket Maker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB33 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTwimlerGamePlayLabs LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Set Match!

One-time4
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee!$1.99
  • Large Coffee$2.99
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  • Mega Coffee$4.99
1 purchases

Tournament Bracket Maker

One-time1
  • GG Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Set Match! free?
Set Match! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tournament Bracket Maker free?
Tournament Bracket Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Set Match! or Tournament Bracket Maker have ads?
Tournament Bracket Maker shows ads; Set Match! does not.

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