Bracket maker
A bracket maker for settling favourites: load the entries, pick the winner of every matchup, and watch one survivor come out the other end. It builds the knockout tree for you, keeps a large bracket readable, and exports the finished picture. It does not run live tournaments with scores or fixtures.
Also known as: favorites bracket maker, bracket maker with pictures, make your own bracket, knockout bracket generator, versus bracket maker.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
How to make a bracket
- Add the contenders. Type them in one at a time, or select a folder of images at once and the bracket grows to fit however many you picked. Anything from three entries to two hundred and fifty six works, and a count that is not a power of two gets byes in the first round automatically.
- Choose how the first round pairs up. Seeded puts the top entry against the bottom one so the favourites meet at the end, in order pairs them exactly as you typed them, and a random draw shuffles everything. Pick before you start deciding: reordering later moves the contents of the slots.
- Pick a winner in every matchup. Tap the one that wins and it moves into the next round. Change your mind and the pick clears, along with anything that entry went on to win, so the tree never shows a result that no longer follows from the round before it.
- Style it, then export. Rename the rounds, switch the font, recolour the slots and the connecting lines, then download a PNG of the whole bracket. Publishing gives you a link with a preview card so people can see the result without opening an editor.
What you can do
- Three to two hundred and fifty six entries, with byes filled in automatically.
- Seeded, in-order or random draw pairing for the first round.
- A picture, a name, or both together on every slot.
- Bulk image upload that sizes the bracket to the number of files.
- Tap to advance a winner, tap again to undo it and everything after it.
- Editable round names, optional seed numbers and an optional title.
- Colours for slots, borders, lines, winners and the champion, plus four fonts.
- Pinch, drag and fit to screen so a sixty four slot bracket stays legible.
- Export a PNG of the whole tree, or publish it as a page with a link.
Make your own bracket
One artist, every song
The format that fills the most brackets. Thirty two tracks, five rounds, and an argument in the replies about the second round. Cover art on every slot means the bracket is readable without anybody having to squint at the track names.
Snacks, drinks and petty finals
Crisps, cereals, takeaways, fizzy drinks. Low stakes subjects make the best brackets because everyone has an opinion and nobody has a strong one, so the whole thing stays funny right up to the final.
A franchise, film by film
Sequels, seasons, episodes or entries in a series. A bracket makes people choose between two things at a time, which produces a much sharper answer than asking them to rank the lot in one go.
Group chat champion
Everyone in the chat, one photo each, and a fight to the finish. Twelve people is fine: the missing four slots become byes and the tree still comes out even, so you never have to pad the entry list with jokes.
A decision you keep putting off
Holiday destinations, names for something, which of nine identical options to actually pick. Forcing yourself through the matchups usually settles it faster than another week of thinking about it.
Common questions
Is this a tournament manager?
No, and it is better to say so before you start. There are no fixtures, no scores, no dates, no double elimination and no round robin. It draws a single elimination tree, you decide every matchup yourself, and the output is a picture of the result. For a real competition with scoring, use tournament software.
How many entries can a bracket have?
Anything from three to two hundred and fifty six. The tree is built to the next power of two above your count and the empty slots become byes, so an entry facing nobody simply advances. That means a list of twelve or twenty three works without you having to invent extra entries.
Can I use images instead of names?
Yes, and most brackets do. Every slot takes a picture, a text label, or both at once with the name shown as a strip over the image. You can select many image files in one go and the bracket resizes itself to hold them, which is the fastest way to start.
Can other people vote on the matchups?
Not on this site. Voting is not a feature here: you pick the winners yourself and share the finished bracket. If you want other people involved, publish the bracket and let them argue in the place you posted it.
Can I undo a winner I picked by mistake?
Yes. Clearing a pick also clears every later round that entry had advanced through, because a result further up the tree can only exist if the one below it still stands. Nothing else in the bracket is disturbed.
Do I need an account to make a bracket?
No. The editor opens straight away and the bracket lives in this browser while you build it. An account is only useful for gathering your published brackets on one profile page or for editing them from another device.
What does the export look like?
A PNG of the whole bracket at full size, with a thin strip beneath it reading thechartmaker.com. The bracket itself is untouched: no watermark across the middle, no crop and no cap on how many you can export. A published page shows the preview image without that strip.