Comparison

Bracket Maker vs Brackets

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Brackets

Easily create and manage various tournament formats, including single elimination, double elimination, and round robin. This app handles player additions, seeding, byes, and matchups automatically, allowing for real-time updates and sharing of results.

Highlights
  • Create single elimination tournaments
  • Create double elimination tournaments
  • Create round robin tournaments
  • Automatic seeding and byes
  • Real-time score updates
  • Export brackets as image or PDF
  • Works offline
Features
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Create and run beautiful tournament brackets in seconds. Brackets is a fast, private tournament maker for single elimination, double elimination, and round robin competitions on iPhone and iPad. ADD PLAYERS. PICK A FORMAT. START PLAYING. Enter 3 to 64 players or teams, keep your seed order or shuffle the field, and let Brackets handle byes and matchups automatically. RUN THE TOURNAMENT FROM THE BRACKET Tap a player to choose the winner and watch them advance. Add an optional score, correct a result, or undo changes without rebuilding everything by hand. THREE TOURNAMENT FORMATS • Single elimination • Double elimination, including the grand final reset when needed • Round robin with live standings BUILT FOR REAL-WORLD CHANGES Edit names, fill an undecided slot, substitute a participant, duplicate a tournament, or reuse a player list for a new format. SHARE THE RESULT Export a clean bracket as an image or PDF, print it, or send it through the iOS share sheet. PRIVATE AND RELIABLE Brackets works offline with no account and no ads. Your tournament history stays on your devices and can sync through your private iCloud account. DESIGNED FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Use portrait or landscape, zoom and pan large brackets, and fit the full tournament to the screen. From a quick game night to school, office, club, pickleball, esports, or family competitions, Brackets keeps every matchup clear from the first round to the champion. BRACKETS PRO Your first tournament is free. Brackets Pro unlocks unlimited tournaments with a yearly subscription, which starts with a free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://digitalbunker.dev/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Bracket Maker4 screens
Brackets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bracket Maker at none against Brackets's 2. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Brackets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Bracket Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bracket Maker against 5.0 for Brackets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bracket Maker versus Brackets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBracket MakerBrackets
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobin AkhterAryaman Sharda

Customer experience

Bracket Maker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Brackets

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bracket Maker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Brackets

Subscriptions1
  • Brackets Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Brackets Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Bracket Maker free?
Bracket Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brackets free?
Brackets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bracket Maker or Brackets?
Bracket Maker and Brackets are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Bracket Maker or Brackets have ads?
Neither Bracket Maker nor Brackets shows ads.

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