Bracket Maker: Tournament Pad

Run the whole tournament from your phone.

Type in the players, pick a format, and the bracket is drawn for you. Tap a winner and the next round fills itself in - no whiteboard, no spreadsheet, no redrawing the whole thing when someone drops out.

Built for pickleball, padel, darts and any weekend tourney, player versus player or team versus team. It doubles as a random team generator: paste the names, get the teams, and the standings work as a live leaderboard.

SIX FORMATS

• League phase - one league table for the whole field, opponents drawn from seeding pots, then a play-in and a knockout for the top places
• Swiss - players meet opponents on the same score each round, ranked with Buchholz tiebreaks; fix an old result and later rounds rebuild on their own
• Single elimination - one loss and you are out, with an optional third-place match
• Double elimination - a losers bracket, so nobody goes home after one bad match
• Round robin - everyone plays everyone, once or home and away, with a live league table
• Groups + playoffs - group stage first, then a knockout bracket for the ones who made it

Any number of players from 2 to 256. Byes are handed out evenly, seeding is respected, and the double elimination bracket avoids early rematches.

Draws and points: wherever a table decides, a match can end level, and you set the points for a win, a draw and a loss - 3-1-0 like a football league, 2-1-0 like a chess Swiss. A match can be one game or a best of three, five or seven, scored set by set for tennis, padel, pickleball, table tennis or volleyball, and the higher score sends the winner through.

MADE FOR THE ROOM YOU ARE STANDING IN

• Set up a tournament in under a minute - paste a list of names and it splits them up for you
• Tap a winner, and who plays next is already on screen
• Got a result wrong? Undo it, and only the matches that depended on it are cleared
• Share the bracket as an image or PDF, so the group chat sees it without installing anything
• A real podium: the champion gets a gold card with a trophy, and the final standings carry gold, silver and bronze cups
• Drag players to set the seeding before the bracket is drawn
• Play again: rerun a finished tournament with the same players, reshuffled
• Every tournament in the list shows how far it has got
• Works with no signal at all - everything lives on your phone
• No account, no sign-up, nothing you create leaves the device
• Pick your main color - nine presets or any of your own - in light or dark, in your own language
• Also on iPhone and iPad

FREE SCORE COUNTER

Not every game needs a bracket. Use it as a score keeper for board games, card nights or any game with points: add the players, give each one a color, and tap + or − as the points come in, or tap a score and type it. The leader is highlighted like on a scoreboard, and any change can be undone. Free for everyone - no Pro needed.

YOUR FIRST TOURNAMENT IS FREE

The first tournament is the whole app - every format, every size, image and PDF sharing, and it stays yours forever. After that, unlock unlimited tournaments with a 30-day pass, a yearly plan, or a one-time lifetime purchase.

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Recent changes:
Bracket Pad is now Bracket Maker – a new name for the same app. Your tournaments and Pro stay just as they were.