Blinds Up vs iBrackMan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blinds Up
Manage all aspects of your poker tournaments, from structure and player management to prize pool calculation and sound effects. Track player statistics and championship rankings. Customize your game screen and sync data across devices.
- Rebuy and addon management
- Structure generation and customization
- Player and table management
- Automatic prize pool calculation
- Integrated sound effects and text-to-speech
- Customizable game screen
- Championship and ranking management
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With Blinds Up, you can manage all aspects of your poker tournaments: - Lot of features like rebuys and addons management, bounties… - Complete management of the structure, you can add round by round or generate instantly a structure through our structure generator. You can of course include breaks, chip races, etc. - Management of players and tables, with the random placement of players, tables balancing, the ability to print a list of the tables, to choose the order of tables closing, and more. - Prize pool can be calculated automatically by our system, or it can be set manually, with prizes based on percentages of the total Prizepool or fixed amounts. You can also manage non-monetary prizes. - Management of chips with the calculation of quantities needed for your tourney, and you can display chips on the game screen for players, etc. - Sound management with integrated sound effects to report events (player busted out, player moving, level ending, new round starting, etc). The announcements of tournament events (blind increases, breaks, etc.) are handled by our powerful text-to-speech system. You can even set yourself the text that the voice will say! - Full customization of your game screen, you can drag elements, change their size, color, font ... everything is customizable, and you can define different game screens depending on the moment go the game (round, break, bust, etc). And for those who want to save time, you can download 20 predefined skins. - The game screen can be displayed on the iPad, but it can also be exported to an external monitor (requires lightning/hdmi adapter or Apple TV). You can manage aspects of your tournament without clutter the display of the game screen to your players! Blinds Up but goes further that the management of a tournament ... - You can attach a tournament to a championship, and thus manage a ranking based on the results of several cumulative tournaments! With calculating points, itm, wins, etc. Rankings can also be exported to Excel directly from the application. - You can view detailed statistics about the players who are the sharks, who are the fish ... which players are most often ITM ... You will know everything through Blinds Up. - You can manage your chipsets, to change quantities and use one or the other of your sets according to the tournaments you are organizing. - All your data is synced live through your Blinds Up account, so you can retrieve all your data on all your iOS devices (requires iCloud). Blinds Up Premium: Please note that the application has limitations, thanks to the premium subscription, you can unlock additional features! The preset structures and predefined skins are part of the premium subscription, it cannot be downloaded separately. Current price for the Blinds Up Premium subscription varies based on the length of your auto-renewing subscriptions and may vary from country to country. For 1-month renewals, price is $9.99 USD per month per pay period, for 1-year renewals, price is $99.99 USD per year per pay period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of Use: https://blindsup.app/terms Privacy policy: https://blindsup.app/privacy We hope you take as much pleasure to use Blinds Up that we took to develop it! If you have questions, ask it on: X: https://x.com/BlindsUpPoker Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlindsUpPoker
iBrackMan
Create and manage tournament brackets for single or double elimination. Register individually or as a team, with live updates and notifications for tournament events and your turn.
- Free to use
- No ads
- No size limit on brackets
- Single or double elimination
- Individual or team registration
- Live updating
- Tournament notifications
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100% Free No ads No Size limit on the Bracket Single or Double Elimination Support Register individually or as a team Live Updating Notifications when Tournament Starts/Ends Notifications when it is your turn/on deck Login with Facebook or create an account in the app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iBrackMan at 100% against Blinds Up's 51%. iBrackMan also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 39). Blinds Up's advantage is ratings volume (126 vs 8) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Blinds Up sells 30 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. iBrackMan asks for nothing beyond the download.
iBrackMan holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blinds Up has 126 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Blinds Up's written reviews are positive against 100% of iBrackMan's.
Blinds Up ships an update monthly, iBrackMan every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blinds Up | iBrackMan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (126 ratings) | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 126 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JLBIZ | Joe Costa |
Customer experience
Blinds Up
iBrackMan
Bugs and requests
Blinds Up
Reported bugs
20 issues- Text input adds every letter and space multiple times
- Background customization difficult and glitchy
- App crashes when changing settings screens
- App crashes when adding players
- Login screen hangs and doesn't progress
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- Password reset functionality broken
- Premium features locked despite active subscription
- Cannot connect to iTunes store error
- Formula function fails when adding variables
- Text boxes blackened and hard to see during setup
- App closes every 3-5 minutes during use
- Cannot edit tournament settings in free version
- Settings click off immediately after single keystroke
- Tournament won't end and clock continues running
- Sounds and layouts not appearing or loading
- Screen mirroring causes app crashes and data loss
- Database migration on startup gets stuck at 0%
- App won't display when connected to TV via HDMI
- Sluggish and unresponsive after switching apps
- Subscription renewal doesn't unlock premium features
Requested features
10 requests- Multi-device control and synchronization
- Payment distribution calculator for tournament winners
- Custom sound clip uploads
- Improved formula editor for league calculations
- Better in-app help documentation and tutorials
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- Community forum for user support
- Ability to control app from multiple devices simultaneously
- One-time purchase option instead of subscription
- Classic version of app with old features
- Automatic chip distribution calculator
iBrackMan
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blinds Up
- Blinds Up Premium$3.991 Month
- Blinds Up Premium$5.997 Days
- Blinds Up Premium$6.991 Month
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- Blinds Up Premium$7.991 Month
- Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium4 variants$9.991 Month
- Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium$14.991 Month
- Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial2 variants$19.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium$19.991 Month
- Blinds Up Premium$23.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium3 Months trial$29.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium$29.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium$39.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium1 Month trial$39.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium2 variants$49.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium$69.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium3 variants$79.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium2 variants$99.991 Year
- Blinds Up Premium1 Month trial$149.991 Year
- SNG classic up to 10 players (6 hours max)Free
- Layout Vegas$0.99
- SNG turbo up to 10 players (4 hours max)$1.99
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- SNG turbo up to 30 players (4 hours max)$1.99
- SNG classic up to 30 players (6 hours max)$1.99
- Blinds Up PRO$11.99
- Blinds Up PRO$21.99
iBrackMan
No in-app purchases







