Bracketware $19 · Buy once
Offline tournament manager macOS · Apple Silicon

Run every tournament bracket. Own the room.

Twenty tournament formats, live scoring, white-label displays and local autosave. Direct download: $19 once.

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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.

Bracketware branding settings with controls for program name, tagline, accent color and custom logo
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
Elimination5 formats
Round-robin formats: single round robin, double round robin and group pools
Round robin3 formats
Swiss formats: standard, Dutch, accelerated and McMahon Swiss
Swiss4 formats
Points and league formats: FFA leaderboard, grand prix, ladder and race
Points & league4 formats
Timed formats: time trial and timed rounds
Timed2 formats
Multi-stage formats: groups to knockout and custom pipeline
Multi-stage2 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
Desktop · offline · $19 once
0—0
The bracket website
Account · online · monthly
Runs with the wifi down
01
Needs a connection
No account, ever
02
Sign up, verify, log in
All 20 formats in the box
03
Formats behind a paid tier
Data is a file you own
04
Data is on their server
Pay once, keep it
05
Pay again next season
No public link to share
06
Live public bracket URL
No server dependency
07
Works while they're funded
The final
The Final·One price

$19 direct. Once. That's the whole pricing page.

Bracketware — full app, direct download◆ Champion
$19USD · one-time direct price

Not $19/month · not $5 per event · not $49 for double elim

  • 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
Buy Bracketware — $19
macOS (Apple Silicon) · direct $19 · Mac App Store $21.99 · no Bracketware account

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

Twenty formats. No account. No connection. One direct payment of nineteen dollars.

Get Bracketware
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 $19 really the whole cost?+
Yes. No subscription, no per-event fee, no participant tiers, no formats held back for a pro plan. If a future major version is ever a paid upgrade it will be a separate, optional purchase — your copy keeps working either way.
08What about mobile?+
Bracketware launches first on macOS for Apple Silicon. Windows and mobile builds exist in development but are not part of this release.