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
Easily create and manage various tournament formats, from single elimination to round-robin. Track scores live, share brackets, and organize entire seasons. Save team rosters for future use and sync across devices.
- Multiple tournament formats
- Live score tracking
- Bracket sharing and display
- Team roster saving
- Season and league management
- iCloud sync
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Make a tournament bracket in seconds and follow every game to the final. Bracket Builder is a bracket maker for iPhone and iPad. Create single-elimination, double-elimination, round-robin and group-stage tournaments, enter scores as you play, then share the bracket or show it live on a TV. No account needed. FORMATS - Single elimination, up to 128 teams - Double elimination with a losers bracket, up to 64 teams - Round robin, up to 50 teams, with random doubles for pickleball, tennis and padel - Group stage to knockout, up to 128 teams - Best of 3, 5 or 7 series, a third-place match and two-sided brackets DURING THE TOURNAMENT - Tap a team to pick the winner; press and hold to enter the score - Winners move on by themselves, and the path to the title lights up - Undo any pick at any time - Live standings: wins, draws, losses, goals for and against, and goal difference - Automatic seeding with byes placed for you, or a random draw SEASONS AND LEAGUES - Run a league with its own schedule, table, play-in and playoffs - Or group your brackets into a season and see every team's record in one table SHOW IT OFF - Show on TV: put the live bracket on an Apple TV or any AirPlay TV - Share the bracket as an image or PDF, or print a scoresheet - Pick your app icon, including a new gold trophy YOUR TEAMS - Save teams in rosters once and reuse them in every tournament - Add a photo and a color for every team or player - Rename, reorder or remove teams even after the bracket is made SYNC AND BACKUP - iCloud sync between iPhone and iPad, with no sign-up - Import and export brackets as files - Bring back a deleted bracket from the Trash Made for pool and darts leagues, pickleball and tennis clubs, cornhole, soccer and basketball, esports, PE classes, office pools, family game night, or a bracket of anything: songs, movies, snacks. 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 50%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Bracket Builder's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days 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.
Bracket Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bracket Builder has 2.8K ratings behind it against 56, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of Bracket Tracker's written reviews are positive against 50% of Bracket Builder'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 Builder every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bracket Tracker | Bracket Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (56 ratings) | 4.5 (2.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better | 49.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 56 | 2.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 43 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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