Bracket Maker vs Brackly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bracket Maker
Easily create, manage, and share tournament brackets for various events, from sports to casual competitions. This app allows for offline use and requires no account, offering a private and efficient way to run any tournament.
- Create brackets for up to 128 entries
- Supports 8 tournament formats
- Offline bracket management
- No account required
- Shareable bracket images and PDFs
- Private by design, no tracking
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Create, seed, schedule, run, and share polished tournament brackets—without an account or internet connection. Roundra turns a pasted roster into a complete tournament command center. Pick the format that fits, enter results as matches happen, keep every court or station moving, and share a bracket everyone can follow. BUILD A TOURNAMENT IN MINUTES • Paste names from any list or add teams, players, songs, movies, foods, or custom entries • Use guided setup when you are not sure which format fits • Seed as entered, shuffle, reorder manually, sort alphabetically, reverse seeds, or spread affiliations • Save favorite rosters and reuse them for future events • Create brackets for up to 128 entries on supported formats CHOOSE FROM 8 FORMATS • Single Elimination • Double Elimination • Round Robin • League + Playoff • Pools + Playoff • Swiss • King of the Hill • Ladder RUN THE EVENT FROM ONE DESK • Record winners, scores, best-of series, forfeits, and no-shows • Track live standings with configurable tiebreakers • Add bronze and consolation matches where supported • Schedule courts, tables, stations, or lanes in smart match waves • Set match length, buffers, breaks, statuses, assignments, and notes • See what is ready now, what is up next, and the projected finish time • Repair downstream results safely when an earlier winner changes MAKE THE TOURNAMENT EASY TO FOLLOW • Open a presentation view for a venue display • Show the next matchup, progress, standings, and champion • Export polished bracket or standings images • Create clean, dark, or scoreboard-style PDFs • Share run sheets, results CSV files, and tournament summaries PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your brackets and rosters are saved locally on your device. Roundra requires no account, includes no third-party ads, and does not track you. Back up and restore your tournament library whenever you choose. MADE FOR MORE THAN SPORTS Run club tournaments, rec leagues, school or PE events, esports brackets, office competitions, game nights, or just-for-fun showdowns between songs, movies, foods, and ideas. Roundra is built for iPhone and iPad and is available in 37 languages, including full right-to-left support for Arabic and Hebrew.
Brackly
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Create tournaments, brackets, leagues, and competitions in seconds with Brackly — an easy tournament bracket maker for sports, eSports, leagues, teams, coaches, and friends. Brackly is the all-in-one tournament maker for coaches, league organizers, and weekend warriors. Create a bracket in seconds, invite your players, track scores live, and let Bracket handle the math — seeding, byes, standings, and who plays who next. Run any tournament like a pro — right from your phone. BUILT FOR EVERY FORMAT Single Elimination — fast, simple, winner takes all Double Elimination — every team gets a second chance Round Robin — everyone plays everyone, best record wins Groups + Knockout — group stage into a knockout bracket, World Cup style EVERY SPORT, ONE APP Football, Basketball, Tennis, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Badminton, plus a flexible best-of-N mode for eSports, chess, or anything else you compete in. Each sport gets its own scoring — goals, points, sets, you name it. YOUR SQUAD, SAVED Build a player roster once — name, jersey number, custom photo, shirt color — then drop them into any tournament instead of retyping names every time. LIVE BRACKETS THAT UPDATE THEMSELVES Enter a score and watch the winner advance automatically. Byes resolve on their own. Standings recalculate instantly. Made a mistake? Fix a score after the fact — safely, without breaking the bracket. PUBLIC OR PRIVATE — YOUR CALL Keep a tournament just for you, or make it public so anyone can find it in Discover and follow along in real time. SIGN IN YOUR WAY Get started in seconds with Sign in with Apple, Google, or email — your data syncs securely across devices. MODERN, FAST, NO CLUTTER A clean, card-based design built for iPhone and iPad, with dark mode support and zero learning curve. Whether it's a backyard ping-pong championship or a citywide football league, Bracket keeps everyone on the same page — no spreadsheets, no whiteboards, no arguments about who's up next. Download Brackly and run your next tournament the easy way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bracket Maker at 16.4 against Brackly's 26.5. On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Bracket Maker | Brackly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mobin Akhter | Hamid Sher agha |
In-app purchases
Bracket Maker
No in-app purchases
Brackly
No in-app purchases
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