Tournament bracket maker · Android & iOS

Brackets in seconds. Winners in one tap.

Bracket Maker turns a list of names into a running tournament - single and double elimination, round robin, groups + playoffs, Swiss or a league phase. Tap the winner or enter the score set by set, and the bracket moves on. Share the whole thing to the chat as an image or PDF. Fully offline, no ads, no account.

Office Ping-Pong CupSingle elimination · 8 players
Anna
Max
Sofia
Tomas
Marta
Igor
Olia
Omar
Up next · Anna vs Max

A look inside

The whole app in six screens

Real captures, not mockups - the same six that run on the store listing: a bracket scored set by set, the six formats, sharing as an image or PDF, a live standings table, your own color in dark mode, and the free score counter.

Bracket maker Six formats. Any sport.Score every set. League phase, Swiss, round robin, groups and knockouts - up to 256 players.
An eight-player knockout scored set by set: Emma Larsen is champion, with a third-place match and the final standings below.
Formats League phase.Plus five more formats. Draws, your own points, home and away.
The New tournament screen: the Five-a-Side Nations Cup with League phase picked out of six formats, the matches each team plays, how many advance, and the table points for a win, a draw and a loss.
Share Share as image or PDF.Every player in one tap. For the group chat, the email or the wall.
The share sheet over the City Chess Rapid bracket, offering Share as image, Share as PDF and Save backup file.
Standings Standings update live.Tiebreaks done for you. Points and Buchholz, re-sorted each match.
The Saturday Chess Swiss standings: ten players ranked by points, with wins, draws, losses and Buchholz, above the pairings of each round.
Customize Your color.Light or dark. Nine main colors or any of your own.
The tournament library in dark mode with a pink main color: saved tournaments, each with its format, player count, date and champion.
Score counter Keep score in any game.One tap per point. Players, colors and points - with Undo.
The Family Game Evening score counter: eight players, each in their own color, with minus and plus buttons beside every score and Sofia highlighted as the leader.

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How it works

From a list in the chat to a crowned champion

No spreadsheets, no paper, no redrawing the bracket when someone shows up late. One phone runs the whole event.

Paste the names

Type them in, or paste the whole list straight from the group chat. Playing doubles? Shuffle people into teams of two with one tap.

Pick the format

Single or double elimination, round robin, groups + playoffs, Swiss or a league phase. Byes come out fair for 7, 10, 13 - any count from 2 to 256.

Tap the winners

A result is one tap; the score is optional, set by set when you want it. The bracket advances, standings update live, and the app always shows who plays next.

Share the picture

The whole bracket - even 64 teams - renders as one crisp image for the chat, or a PDF for the clubhouse wall.

Features

Built for the organizer with a phone in one hand

Everything a tournament night actually needs - and none of the things that break it halfway through.

Six formats, all unlocked

Single and double elimination, round robin, groups + playoffs, Swiss and a league phase. All open from your first tournament, with fair byes for any count from 2 to 256.

Scores, sets and draws

Winner in one tap, or a best of three, five or seven entered set by set. Draws count wherever a table decides, with your own points for a win, a draw and a loss.

Standings and tiebreaks

The table re-sorts after every match - points, score difference and, in Swiss, Buchholz. Fixing an old result clears only what depended on it.

Dropouts, walkovers, re-seeding

Someone dropped out? Walkover or replace them without remaking the bracket. Reorder and re-seed until the first match starts.

A free score counter

Not every game needs a bracket. Add the players, give each one a color and tap + as the points come in - free for everyone, no purchase needed.

Share as an image or PDF

Share the full bracket to any chat as a single readable picture, or export a PDF. 64 teams stay legible.

No ads, no account, offline

Every move autosaves on your phone and works with no signal. No sign-up, no banners, and nothing you create goes to a server of ours.

Your color, thirty languages

Pick your main color, in light or dark. Thirty languages, from English and Ukrainian to Japanese, Korean and Arabic.

Pricing

The first tournament is free. Fully.

Every format, up to 256 participants, image and PDF sharing - your first tournament shows the whole product and stays usable forever. Pay only when you come back for the next one.

Free

Your first tournament, full-featured, forever. No trial timer, no locked formats, no participant limit. What is free today stays free - and your data never expires, whatever happens later.

Tournament Pass

$4.99
30 days · one-time

One payment for one busy month. Not a subscription - it simply ends, nothing to remember to cancel.

Lifetime

$39.99
once · yours forever

One payment, every future update included. Not a subscription - buy it and forget the pricing page exists.

All three unlock the same thing: creating tournaments beyond the free first one. Prices in US dollars; your app store shows them in your local currency, so the exact amount can differ by country. The Yearly plan renews automatically until cancelled in your App Store or Google Play account; the Pass and Lifetime never renew. Purchases are billed by Apple or Google - see the Terms of Use.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers

The things organizers ask before trusting an app with their tournament night.

What is Bracket Maker?

A tournament bracket maker for Android, iPhone and iPad. You type or paste a list of names, pick one of six formats, and the app draws the bracket, seeds it, distributes the byes and keeps the whole event running as you enter the results. One organizer with a phone runs the night; nobody else installs anything.

Does Bracket Maker work offline?

Yes, fully. Tournaments, brackets, results and shared images live on your phone, and every feature works with the radio off. Nothing you create goes to a server of ours - the only copies that ever leave the phone are the ones your own iCloud or Google backup makes, and the images you choose to share.

Do players need to install anything?

No. The organizer is the only one who needs the app. Players and spectators just see the bracket image you share to the chat - they never pay and never install anything.

Which sports and games is it for?

Anything decided by one match between two sides: table tennis, padel, tennis, badminton, squash, football, basketball, volleyball, darts, pool, chess, board games, card games and esports. The app tracks names, rounds and results, not sport-specific statistics, so the same bracket serves all of them.

How many players can one tournament have?

From 2 to 256, and every count in between. Teams count the same way: 16 teams is a 16-participant tournament, whatever the size of each team.

Which tournament formats are supported?

Single elimination, double elimination, round robin, a group stage followed by playoffs, Swiss and a league phase. All six are available from your first tournament, at any count from 2 to 256, with fair byes wherever the number does not fit.

How does double elimination work?

Losing once drops you into the losers bracket instead of out of the tournament, and the two halves meet in the grand final. If the losers-bracket winner takes that match, the app plays the grand final reset - the decider both sides have earned.

How does a group stage work?

Participants are split into groups that play round robin, and the standings table updates as results come in: played, won, drawn, lost, score difference and points. The top finishers move into a playoff bracket the app seeds from those standings, and you can override the seeding by hand before the first match.

How does the Swiss system work?

Nobody is knocked out. Each round pairs players on the same score, avoiding rematches, and the table ranks them by points with Buchholz - the sum of their opponents’ points - as the tiebreak. You set the number of rounds; it suits chess clubs and any field too big for everyone to play everyone.

What is the league phase?

One table for the whole field, but each participant plays only a set number of matches, against opponents drawn from seeding pots - the format big European club competitions now use. After it, the top places go straight into a knockout and the next ones play a play-in for the remaining spots.

What happens when the player count is not a power of two?

The app hands out byes - a free pass into the next round - and spreads them evenly across the bracket. Ten players never means six byes, and after a group stage the playoff always comes out at the right size.

Can I split a list of people into teams?

Yes. Enter everyone, set a team size, and the app shuffles them into teams of that size and enters the teams as the participants. You can also type the teams in yourself if the sides are already decided.

Can I record scores, or only the winner?

Either. A result is one tap on the winner, and the score is optional - enter goals or points, or play a best of three, five or seven set by set. Draws count wherever a table decides, with your own points for a win, a draw and a loss.

What if a player drops out mid-tournament?

Record a walkover for the match they missed, or replace them with someone else. Neither remakes the bracket. Before the first match starts you can still reorder participants or shuffle the seeding entirely.

Can I fix a result I entered by mistake?

Yes, and correcting an old result clears only the results that depended on it - never the whole bracket. Undo is available throughout.

How do I share or print the bracket?

The whole bracket renders as one image, readable even at 64 teams, and goes to any chat like a photo. For printing there is a PDF, and a backup file saves the tournament itself so you can move it to another phone.

Can I keep score in a game without a bracket?

Yes, with the score counter, which is free for everyone. Start a game, add the players, give each one a color and tap + or − as the points come in, or tap a score to type it. The leader is highlighted, and any change can be undone.

Which devices and languages does it support?

Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad. The interface ships in thirty languages, from English and Ukrainian to Japanese, Korean and Arabic, and follows your system language unless you pick another in Settings.

What is free in Bracket Maker?

Your first tournament, full-featured: every format, 2–256 participants, image and PDF sharing. It stays fully usable forever, and the score counter is free for everyone. Paying unlocks creating more tournaments - and nothing that is free ever moves behind the paywall.

Is Bracket Maker a subscription?

Only if you want it to be. The Tournament Pass ($4.99 for 30 days) and Lifetime ($39.99) are one-time purchases that never renew. The Yearly plan ($14.99 a year) is the one auto-renewing option, and you can cancel it anytime in your store account.

What happens when my Tournament Pass ends?

Everything you created stays on your phone, readable and exportable. Data never expires in Bracket Maker - a finished pass only means you buy again to create new tournaments.

Get Bracket Maker

The next tournament night starts here.

For Android and iPhone. The first tournament is free, full-featured.

About

Who makes Bracket Maker

Bracket Maker is a tournament bracket app for Android, iPhone and iPad. The first tournament is free and full-featured; creating more is unlocked by a one-time Tournament Pass, a Yearly plan or a Lifetime purchase, billed by Apple or Google. The app is fully offline: no account, no ads, and nothing you create goes to a server of ours.

Bracket Maker is developed and operated by:

Individual Entrepreneur Yevhen Troshchii
Odesa, Ukraine
bracketpad@gmail.com