Offline tournament manager Mac · Windows

Your offline tournament bracket maker. Own the room.

Run elimination brackets, round robin and Swiss tournaments from your laptop. Twenty formats, live scoring and your own branding. No account. No subscription. Your records stay on your computer.

Choose your version See it in action ↓

No account No participant cap Your data stays local

20 structures · offline

Bracketware catalog showing all 20 tournament format topologies — All 20 formats · native app capture

08 → 04

Round 01·Inside the app04 views

From setup to final score.

One local workspace for the whole event.

Create Tournament screen with format, scoring, seeding and participant controls — 01Build the eventFormats · rules · seeding

Control Desk screen with event progress, ready matches and recent results — 02Run the roomCheck-in · stations · scores

Classic eight-player single-elimination bracket progressing from round one through the semifinal and final — 03Follow the bracketClassic single elimination

Standings screen showing ranked participants, records and points — 04Publish the resultStandings · display · exports

20 formats7 seeding modesUnlimited participantsAutosave + recoveryUndo score errorsCSV importPNG + SVG exportOffline

Organizer's desk·White-label presentationYour event

Run Bracketware. Present your brand.

Your identity across the dashboard, display and exports.

Branding controls

Your logo belongs above your bracket.

Set your name, tagline, accent color and logo. Changes apply instantly and stay on your Mac.

DashboardDisplay modeBracketsPrint exports

The signed app name and Dock icon remain Bracketware.

Real app screen · synthetic tournament data

Bracketware tournament dashboard showing event progress, status and metadata

Every tournament, under control

Progress, format, participants, rounds and activity in one view.

No app-enforced saved-event cap

Bracketware display mode with bracket, standings and matches views plus carousel control

A display that runs itself

Carousel rotates through brackets, standings and matches.

Bracket · standings · matches

Local-first reliability

Resume where the event stopped

Atomic autosaves, recovery snapshots and saved events that wait for you.

Autosave · resume · backup · recovery

04 → 02

Round 02·The format explorer20 formats

Twenty formats. Six families.

Every structure below is captured from Bracketware with synthetic data.

Elimination formats: single, double and triple elimination, step ladder and compass draw — **Elimination**5 formats

Round-robin formats: single round robin, double round robin and group pools — **Round robin**3 formats

Swiss formats: standard, Dutch, accelerated and McMahon Swiss — **Swiss**4 formats

Points and league formats: FFA leaderboard, grand prix, ladder and race — **Points & league**4 formats

Timed formats: time trial and timed rounds — **Timed**2 formats

Multi-stage formats: groups to knockout and custom pipeline — **Multi-stage**2 formats

Interactive structure explorer

Snake seed

Serpentine order across groups, so strength spreads evenly.

Slaughter

Top seed meets bottom seed: 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, 4v5.

Tiered

Bands drawn separately so tiers can't collide early.

Region-aware

Clubmates and same-region entrants kept apart in the draw.

02 → 01

Semifinal·Head to headMatch 01

Local app vs. bracket website

The honest version, including the point where the website wins.

Bracketware

Mac + Windows · offline

0—0

The bracket website

Account · online · monthly

Runs with the wifi down

Needs a connection

No account, ever

All 20 formats in the box

Formats behind a paid tier

Data is a file you own

Data is on their server

Pay once, keep it

Pay again next season

No public link to share

Live public bracket URL

No server dependency

Works while they're funded

The final

The Final·Two desktop options

Choose your computer.

Bracketware — full desktop app◆ Buy once

Mac · Apple Silicon

Mac App Store

For Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 12 or later. Apple handles purchase, installation and updates. The Store currently offers version 1.0.1.

One-time Store purchase Open Mac App Store

Windows · x64

Microsoft Store

Install and receive updates through Microsoft Store. Your local Store shows the price in your region.

One-time Store purchase Open Microsoft Store

All 20 tournament formats, no tiers
No app-enforced tournament or participant cap
Control desk, projector mode, match timer
Every export format, plus full JSON backups
Core tournament workflows work fully offline
Free updates within version 1

Mac App Store · Microsoft Store for Windows · Android planned · no Bracketware account

Run your next event off a laptop with the lid half closed.

Twenty formats. No Bracketware account. Run events offline after installing through your store.

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Rules·Read before you enter08 clauses

Tournament regulations

01Does it really work with no internet?−

Yes. Bracketware is a desktop application with a local database. Creating tournaments, entering scores, generating rounds, projecting the bracket and exporting results all happen on your machine. There is no server to be down and no sync to fail.

02How many participants can it handle?+

There is no artificial cap. The practical limit is the memory, storage and display of the machine running it. Long participant lists and match sets are paginated, and round robin schedules are generated round by round rather than all at once.

03What happens if my laptop crashes mid-event?+

Every save is atomic and retains the three previous snapshots. If the current snapshot is damaged, Bracketware opens the newest valid recovery snapshot and records that recovery in the activity log, so you know exactly what was restored.

04Can I fix a score I entered wrong?+

Recent saved actions can be undone while they remain in Bracketware's bounded recovery history. A completed result can also be corrected from its original checkpoint — the rounds that depended on it are recalculated rather than left contradicting the corrected result.

05Can I import my registrations?+

Yes, from CSV, with a local preview before anything is created. Supported columns include participant/name, seed, region/team/club and rating/Elo. Headerless one-name-per-line files work too. Duplicate names and seeds are rejected before the tournament is created.

06Is any of my data sent anywhere?+

No. Tournament and roster data stays in the app's local SQLite database and preferences stay in local application storage. Exports are written only when you ask for them, into a folder on your own disk. Imported backups are validated before a transactional merge, and CSV cells are escaped against spreadsheet-formula injection.

07Is this a subscription?+

No. The Mac App Store and Microsoft Store each show the one-time price for your region. Neither option has a subscription, per-event fee, participant tier or paid format unlock.

08What about mobile?+

The Mac desktop version is in the Mac App Store and the Windows desktop version is in Microsoft Store. Android through Google Play is planned for later; it is not available for purchase here today.