Looking for Print Your Brackets, Bracket HQ or EasyBracket, or something like them? Here is what each free bracket maker actually does — what's free, what needs an account, whether you get a printable bracket, and how many teams fit. This is BracketMaker.org's own page, so we're one of the four; we've tried to say plainly where another tool is the better pick.
Checked against each site on October 9, 2026. Prices and limits change — confirm on the tool's own site before you rely on one.
| PrintYourBrackets.com | Bracket HQ | EasyBracket.gg | BracketMaker.org | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (the online manager offers ad-free upgrades; a store sells poster-size brackets) | Free plan (ad-supported); Pro $8/mo, or $48/yr billed annually | Free plan (watermark; up to 10 tournaments with a free account, 5 as a guest); Event Pass €1.99 per tournament; Pro €4.99/mo or €39/yr | Free, ad-supported; no paid tier |
| Account needed? | No — its online manager says no account creation required | Not to start building; its maker asks you to create an account when you save the bracket and start the tournament | Not to start; its pricing page says the public share link needs a free account | No, never |
| Formats | Printables: single, double, triple elimination, round robin, 3-game guarantee, and more. Online manager: single, double, round robin, mass start, switch-partner doubles, progressive euchre | Single, double, round robin, group stage feeding a bracket | Single, double, round robin, Swiss, group stage + finals | Single, double, round robin |
| Largest field | 128 on its printable brackets (the online manager's limit isn't stated) | 32 on the free plan, 64 on Pro | 64 as a guest, 128 with a free account, 256 on Pro | 64 |
| Seeding | Seeded (in order of entry) or randomized | Yes (seeded placement) | Yes | Enter names in seed order; top seeds get the byes. Shuffle your list first for a random draw |
| Printable | Yes — ready-made printable brackets, plus a creator that prints your names, logo and rules | Not stated on its public pages (its bracket maker runs in JavaScript, so we couldn't check the tool itself); its pricing lists logo-free exporting as a Pro feature | PDF, Excel and QR-code export on the free plan | Print button on every bracket (use your browser's “Save as PDF” for a file), plus blank brackets in 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64-team sizes |
| Live scores & sharing | Yes, in its online manager (QR sharing, embed code) | Yes (live bracket updates) | Yes (live scoring and standings; the public link needs a free account) | Yes — one link; everyone who has it sees results update live |
If the bracket is going on a wall or a clipboard, start here. Its free printable library covers single, double and triple elimination, round robin schedules, 3-game guarantee and consolation formats, in blind-draw and seeded versions, for up to 128 teams. Its bracket creator lets you type your names, choose seeded or shuffled order, add a logo and print rules at the bottom of the page. It also runs a free online tournament manager with live scoring and QR-code sharing, and it covers office pools and football pick'em — so if you searched “pick your brackets” because you want people to fill in picks for a pool, that's the closer fit than a bracket maker.
Bracket HQ puts its effort into presentation: several themes (light and dark variants), a double-sided layout that meets in the middle for the final, and single elimination, double elimination, round robin and a group stage that feeds a bracket. The free plan is ad-supported with unlimited brackets up to 32 participants. Pro ($8 a month, or $48 a year) raises that to 64 and adds all themes, logo-free exporting, ad-free embedding, private brackets and control over who can enter scores. Expect to make an account once you want to save and run the tournament.
EasyBracket covers five formats, and it's the only one here with a Swiss system (paired by record each round, nobody eliminated); it also runs group stages into a final bracket. It keeps automatic standings with tiebreakers and exports to PDF, Excel and a QR code. You can start as a guest with up to 64 teams; a free account raises that to 128 and is what unlocks the public share link, and Pro goes to 256. The free plan carries a watermark — removing it, and letting players submit their own results, are paid extras (€1.99 for one tournament, or Pro at €4.99 a month). It has sport and game guides, from cornhole and pickleball to esports titles.
This site does less, on purpose. Paste up to 64 names, pick single elimination, double elimination or round robin, and you're looking at a live bracket — no account at any step, and no paid tier. Like Bracket HQ's and EasyBracket's free plans, it's paid for by ads. List names strongest first and the bracket seeds them (1 vs 16, 8 vs 9, top seeds get any byes); double elimination cross-seeds the losers bracket for you. Share the link and everyone watching sees winners advance as you tap them in. Every bracket has a print button, and there are blank brackets (4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 teams) to print and fill in by hand.
What it doesn't do: no Swiss or group-stage format, no triple elimination, no themes or logos, and no fields over 64. And because there are no accounts, anyone who has a bracket's link can also enter results — great for a group running it together, wrong if you need locked-down scoring. If you need any of those, one of the tools above is the better choice.
These four aren't the whole field. Challonge is the best-known name we haven't covered: its site blocked our check on the day, and we only list what we could confirm on each tool's own pages. Spot something out of date? Email p@pwhite.org and we'll correct it.