Bracket Genius vs Loop Golf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bracket Genius
Explore historical and current NCAA basketball tournament brackets. Compete in a unique bracket game where you claim a bracket and aim to be the last one standing, with automatic corrections based on game results. A free account is required to play.
- Browse historical NCAA brackets
- View current NCAA tournaments
- Play King of the Hill bracket game
- Claim unique brackets
- Automatic bracket correction
- Intuitive interface
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Bracket Genius is the largest library of browsable NCAA basketball tournament brackets available in one place — plus user-games like King of the Hill, a competitive bracket game. King of the Hill Claim a unique bracket and be the last one standing. Pick your winners from the final 16 teams — but every bracket can only be claimed by one person. When a game result busts your bracket, Auto-Correct swaps in the winner. Create a free account to play. Explore the Archives Dive into historical tournament brackets. Relive past tournaments and see how the brackets played out year after year. Browse Current Tournaments View complete NCAA Division I Men's and Women's basketball tournaments. Simple No account needed to browse — just open the app and start exploring. Create a free account to play King of the Hill. Bracket Genius uses a clean, intuitive interface designed to make bracket exploration and competition effortless. Your Account, Your Call Browsing needs no sign-up. If you create a free email-and-password account to compete, we store your email address and the things the game runs on — your claimed brackets, predictions, and any comments you post. No ads, and you can delete your account anytime from the Profile screen. Bracket Genius is free. It requires iOS 18, and runs on iPhone and iPad. Bracket Genius is built by Bracket Race Ltd. Data sourced from public sources and deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Kaggle "Team Id" used to maintain team identity across years. NCAA is a trademark of the National Collegiate Athletic Association; Bracket Genius is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NCAA.
Loop Golf
This app simplifies golf trip planning and management for groups. It centralizes trip details, manages game formats and scoring, handles expense splitting, and archives past trip data for easy retrieval.
- Centralized trip itinerary
- AI-generated trip details
- Multiple golf game formats
- Live leaderboard
- Expense splitting with Venmo
- Trip and score archive
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The trip management app for golf groups. Plan the trip. Run the games. Remember the loop. Built by Captains who actually run these trips, for the Captains who run them. No more shared docs nobody updates. No more group texts about who owes who. No more digging through camera rolls for last year's scores. — The Trip — Courses, lodging, and itinerary in one place. Invite players with a link. AI-generated trip details so everyone shows up knowing the plan. — The Round — Stroke play with handicaps, dialed in. Wolf, Nassau, Skins — set the format, the app handles the math. Live leaderboard the whole crew can see in real time. — The Settlement — Expense splitting with Venmo deep links. Nobody chasing nobody for $43. Done in five minutes, not five days. — The Archive — Every trip, every round, every game— kept forever. Pull up scores from 2022 in two taps. The Commissioner writes a recap of every trip: readable, shareable, slightly biased toward whoever buys him dinner. — Pricing — Free for invited Players Captain — $199/year. Unlocks the full kit. Player — $39/year. Full access without needing an invite. Subscriptions are managed on the web at loopgolf.ai. — Loop Golf started as a tool for one trip — the Arizona Copper Cup. It turned out every group has the same headaches. So we built it for everyone. If you've ever been the guy who plans the trip, this is for you. Questions? hello@loopgolf.ai Terms of Use (EULA): https://loopgolf.ai/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bracket Genius at none against Loop Golf's 3. Bracket Genius also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Loop Golf's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Loop Golf sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.00 per year. Bracket Genius asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bracket Genius against 5.0 for Loop Golf. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Bracket Genius ships an update every 4 days, Loop Golf every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Genius | Loop Golf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Fast Five Products LLC | Loop Technologies LLC (Arizona) |
Customer experience
Bracket Genius
Loop Golf
In-app purchases
Bracket Genius
No in-app purchases
Loop Golf
- Loop Golf Player1 Year trial$49.001 Year
- Loop Golf Captain1 Year trial$199.001 Year
- Single Trip$79.00









