Bracket Tracker vs Bracket Builder
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 Builder
Create, track, and share custom tournament brackets for various sports and games. Supports multiple elimination formats and team sizes, with automatic seeding and BYE insertion. Progress can be monitored and winners easily updated within the app.
- Create single/double-elimination and round-robin brackets
- Supports up to 128 teams
- Generate random double round-robin tournaments
- Share tournament brackets as images
- Automatic team ordering and BYE insertion
- Track tournament progress and remove winners
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Easily track and share custom tournaments Features - Create Single-elimination, double-elimination and round-robin brackets - Create group stage to knockout tournaments - Supports up to 128 teams for single-elimination, 32 for double-elimination and 26 for round-robin - Generate random double round-robin tournaments with new teammates each round - Share tournament brackets as images with participants and friends - Automatic ordering of teams based on seed - Automatic "BYE" match insertion - Track tournament progress directly in the app - Easily remove winners - Effortlessly remove winners as matches progress - Light and dark mode support Perfect for organizing and tracking tournaments in pool, tennis, baseball, basketball, eSports, pong, die and virtually any other game you can imagine! Subscription Plans - Yearly Plan - Lifetime Plan *** Terms: https://aberkane.io/terms Privacy: https://aberkane.io/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bracket Tracker at none against Bracket Builder's 4. Bracket Tracker also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 49%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Bracket Builder's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 12 months). On price, rating 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. Bracket Builder sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Bracket Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Bracket Tracker against 4.4 for Bracket Builder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Builder has 2.6K ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Bracket Tracker's written reviews are positive against 49% of Bracket Builder's.
Bracket Tracker ships an update every 12 months, Bracket Builder weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Tracker | Bracket Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (54 ratings) | 4.4 (2.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 49.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 | 2.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JEFFREY RICHARDS | Aberkane Software House FZ-LLC |
Customer experience
Bracket Tracker
Bracket Builder
Bugs and requests
Bracket Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bracket Builder
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when creating large brackets
- Deleted brackets not recoverable
- Inability to edit created brackets
Requested features
4 requests- Add bulk/batch team entry
- Implement double-sided brackets
- Include scoreboard and scoring features
- Ability to rearrange/reorder teams
In-app purchases
Bracket Tracker
No in-app purchases
Bracket Builder
- Full access for 1 year$4.991 Year
- Full access for 1 year$9.991 Year
- Full access for Lifetime$14.99
- Full access for Lifetime$19.99
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