Bracket Tracker vs College Mascots Challenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bracket Tracker
Create and manage custom sports tournament brackets with friends. Track scores, standings, and customize scoring rules. Supports college basketball tournaments and allows for speculative game predictions.
- Create unlimited brackets and pools
- Custom scoring options (seed points, upset bonuses)
- Lock groups at tip-off (optional)
- Track live scores and standings
- Speculate on upcoming game results
- Customizable themes
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Manage the madness! Bracket Tracker allows you to create as many brackets and pools as you'd like. Challenge your friends or co-workers. Check the latest scores and keep up with the standings. Supporting both the men's and women's college basketball tournaments in March. Features: * Custom scoring including seed scoring. Award any number of points for wins in each round. Optionally include the seed as a bonus for upsets. * Locking groups at tip off is optional. Brackets and pools can be created anytime before or after tip off. * No limits on how many brackets and pools you create. If you're still collecting paper brackets for your group you can put them all in Bracket Tracker to keep the standings up to date for you. * Themes! Tired of your bracket app having the colors of a rival team? Change it! * "Speculate" allows you to fill in upcoming games in the results bracket to see how they impact your standings. *** Contact us directly at team@bracket-tracker.com to create a unique experience for your organization! *** Thanks to Lee Wells for his time designing the new layout. I've been thrilled with it and I hope you are as well.
College Mascots Challenge
Test your knowledge of college mascots by matching them to their respective universities. Compete against the clock or challenge friends in this fun and straightforward game. An optional purchase unlocks a larger mascot collection.
- Mascot matching
- Timed challenges
- Friend challenges
- Unlockable content
- Simple gameplay
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Race your friends or yourself against the clock to match college mascots with their colleges. That's it, fun and simple. Free version has 55 mascots. Optional in-app purchase lets you get 200 more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bracket Tracker at 69% against College Mascots Challenge's 0%. Bracket Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (54 vs 4). College Mascots Challenge's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months). On price 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. College Mascots Challenge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bracket Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
College Mascots Challenge holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Tracker has 54 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Bracket Tracker's written reviews are positive against 0% of College Mascots Challenge's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bracket Tracker ships an update every 12 months, College Mascots Challenge monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Tracker | College Mascots Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (54 ratings) | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JEFFREY RICHARDS | Daniel Meleney |
Customer experience
Bracket Tracker
College Mascots Challenge
In-app purchases
Bracket Tracker
No in-app purchases
College Mascots Challenge
- Get More Mascots$0.99
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