Bracket Tracker vs Bracket Master
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.
Bracket Master
Explore the complete history of the Men's College Basketball Tournament, from 1939 to the present. Examine over 85 championship brackets and detailed team accounts. The app assists both experts and novices in picking tournament brackets, offering data-driven predictions or automatic bracket generation.
- Complete tournament history (1939-present)
- 85+ championship brackets
- Detailed team accounts
- Bracket picking assistance
- Automatic bracket generation
- Tournament field simulation
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Bracket Master delivers the complete history of the Men's College Basketball Tournament. Every tourney game is presented, from the inaugural 1939 championship to the current day. Each of the 85+ championship brackets can be examined within the app. View detailed accounts of every team that has appeared in the tourney. From Cinderella upstart to Blue-Blood favorite, reminisce over each game of your team's magical run through the bracket. Designed for bracketology experts and novices alike, Bracket Master helps you pick a bracket for all your March pools. Use the extensive team, seed, and conference data to meticulously pick every tournament game, or have Bracket Master automatically fill in your bracket using one of several winning team rating methodologies. Simulate tournament fields of the past - try to get your favorite team to win the championship!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bracket Master at every 4 weeks against Bracket Tracker's every 12 months. Bracket Master also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 69%). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bracket Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 56 and 121 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Bracket Tracker's written reviews are positive against 83% of Bracket Master'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, Bracket Master every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Tracker | Bracket Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (56 ratings) — better | 4.1 (121 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | 82.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 56 | 121 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 187 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JEFFREY RICHARDS | Scrutinous, LLC |
Customer experience
Bracket Tracker
Bracket Master
Bugs and requests
Bracket Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bracket Master
Reported bugs
7 issues- Long Beach State team name incorrect
- NW State and SLU teams missing
- Oklahoma State championship count incorrect
- Down arrow doesn't work when making picks
- App shows glimpse of next round instead of allowing picks
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- 2019 tournament teams brackets shown incorrectly
- Marquette team in wrong conferences
Requested features
35 requests- Add custom bracket builder
- Add NCAA Football, NFL Football, MLB
- Option to pay to remove ads
- Add rival teams feature
- Simulate brackets back to 1939
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- Pick brackets back to 1939
- Add conference tournaments
- Add NIT results
- Add custom tournament builder
- Add women's brackets
- See NIT results
- See conference tournament results
- Create own brackets
- See rosters for other teams
- Simulate a season with own team
- Add team stats (points per game, etc.)
- Print created brackets
- Add Strength of Schedule (SOS) stat
- Update bracket weekly
- Add Duke to bracket
- Add college football version
- Ability to change teams in projected/old brackets
- See Monte Carlo simulation wins per team
- Custom tournament with teams from any year
- Custom tournament with teams from a specific year
- Option to turn off pick feedback (red/green)
- Simulate with different team overalls
- Update team data for conferences
- Add more teams from scrapped conferences
- Add game summaries
- Add roster information
- Add stats
- Add game summaries
- Add roster information
- Add stats
In-app purchases
Bracket Tracker
No in-app purchases
Bracket Master
No in-app purchases
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