Bracket HQ vs Tournmnt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bracket HQ
Easily create, manage, and share tournament brackets for various sports and custom formats. Track live updates, schedule games, and invite others to follow along or help manage.
- Create any bracket format
- Sport-specific templates
- Custom tournament rules
- Live bracket updates
- Web-based sharing
- Game scheduling
- Co-editor invites
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Bracket HQ makes running a tournament simple. Build a bracket, invite your players, and track it all live straight from your phone. CREATE ANY FORMAT • Single elimination, double elimination, pools + playoff, or round robin • Sport templates with built-in settings for tennis, volleyball, pickleball, and more • Or build a custom tournament with your own rules and scoring TRACK IT LIVE • Enter scores as games finish and watch the bracket update in real time • Switch between tree, radial, and list views to see the whole tournament at a glance SHARE WITH ANYONE • Send a link. Players, parents, and fans can follow along live on the web, no account or app needed on their end • Invite co-editors to help enter scores, set dates and times, and more SCHEDULE & ORGANIZE • Set dates, times, and locations for every game • Pin your active tournaments to the top of your home screen so you never lose track GO PRO • Free forever up to 16 teams. Pro unlocks unlimited brackets and 128 teams • Saved teams & locations you can reuse across events, plus cloud backup that keeps your brackets safe across multiple devices Whether it's a weekend pickup tournament, a league playoff, or a full-scale event, Bracket HQ keeps it organized from the first game to the championship. It runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Let's play! Made by a solo developer (hi, I'm Carson) who runs weekend tournaments with this app too. Bracket HQ Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy: https://bracket-hq.app/privacy
Tournmnt
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Run a live billiards tournament from your phone. Tournmnt turns any rack-sport event — pool, table tennis, badminton, dart and others — into a broadcast-style live tournament. Generate single-elimination brackets in seconds, score every rack as it happens, and share a live bracket that updates in real time. **For tournament directors** - Create tournaments, open registration, and check players in - Import players from CSV or add them one by one; randomize seeds or set the draw yourself - Close registration and generate a power-of-two bracket (8–128 players) with BYEs handled automatically - Manage 1–32 tables: mark them Available, Live, or Out of Service, and auto-assign matches to free tables - Watch the whole event on a live dashboard with the current match, round, and bracket - Award matches with an outcome reason (walkover, forfeit, injury, disqualification) and correct mistakes with Undo Last Rack and Reset From This Match - Review a complete match history and export the full tournament as one JSON file for backup or re-import **For table scorers** - Join a table with a one-time invite link or QR code - Score rack by rack with automatic first-to-N match completion - Score only your assigned table's active match — no more, no less **For spectators** - Follow any public tournament through a share link with a live-updating bracket - No app needed — open the link on any device, or cast it to a big screen in kiosk mode Every scoring action is recorded in an audit log, and live updates stream over WebSocket so the room and the bracket never disagree. Terms of Use: https://policies.row4studio.dev/tournmnt/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://policies.row4studio.dev/tournmnt/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bracket HQ at none against Tournmnt's 3. Tournmnt's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Tournmnt sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Bracket HQ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bracket HQ ships an update every 9 days, Tournmnt every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket HQ | Tournmnt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CARSON GRANT | DOMINIC DALIT JAVIER |
In-app purchases
Bracket HQ
No in-app purchases
Tournmnt
- Director Pro$1.991 Month
- Director Pro Annual$12.991 Year
- Tournament Pass$1.99
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