Bracket maker
A bracket maker for settling favorites: 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, bracket maker with images, make your own bracket, knockout bracket generator, versus bracket maker, 64 team bracket maker, 128 team bracket maker.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
Choose a bracket size
Opens the editor on an 8, 16 or 32 entry knockout. Any other count is set after you start.
Bracket categories
See allMusic, games, movies, sports, food, favourites and other subjects.
Filter templates by size
See allPopular bracket templates
See allNo bracket templates have been published in this category yet.
Popular completed brackets
See allNo completed brackets have been published yet.
Community participation
Brackets on this site are filled in by one person. Remix a published template, browse completed knockout trees, or start an 8, 16 or 32 entry bracket of your own. Live ranking series are not offered for this format: a matchup asks who wins, not where an item belongs, and that vote model is not built yet. Popular completed work on this page is published brackets only, never a stand-in for an open poll.
How to make a bracket
- Add the contenders. Set the size first with the Slots button, which offers the common sizes or any number you type, then fill the slots with names. Or select a folder of images at once: each image becomes an entry, the empty slots fill first, and the bracket grows to hold the rest. Anything from three entries to five hundred and twelve works, and a count that is not a power of two is drawn at the size it really is: whoever is left over in a round sits that round out and goes through.
- Choose how the first round pairs up. Seeded puts the top entry against the bottom one so the favorites 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 straight 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, recolor 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 five hundred and twelve entries, with no padding: a round carries one leftover at most.
- Seeded, in-order or random draw pairing for the first round.
- A picture, a name, or both together on every slot, with the picture drawn at its own shape instead of cropped to a square.
- Bulk image upload that fills the empty slots first, then grows the bracket to hold the rest.
- Tap to advance a winner, tap again to undo it and everything after it.
- Editable round names, optional seed numbers and an optional title.
- Colors 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.
- Size pages that open straight at eight, sixteen or thirty two entries, and a Slots control that resets the count to anything from three to five hundred and twelve.
- Export a PNG, a JPEG or a PDF 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, and so is thirteen: an odd number just means one person goes through the first round unopposed, so you never have to pad the list with jokes to reach a round number.
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 five hundred and twelve, and the tree is drawn at the size you actually asked for. Each round pairs off whoever arrives in it, and if that leaves one entry over, they sit the round out and go through. So a hundred and sixty one entries open as eighty matchups and a single entry waiting, not as a two hundred and fifty six slot tree with ninety five empty pairings. A list of twelve or twenty three works without you inventing extra entries.
Can I make a bracket with more than 32 entries?
Yes, up to 512. Thirty two is only where the largest of the three size pages opens; it is not a ceiling. Press Slots in the editor and pick a bigger size, or type any count up to 512, and the tree redraws at that size. Selecting a folder of images grows the bracket to hold the files as well, which is how most large brackets get built. Sixty four entries is six rounds, a hundred and twenty eight is seven, two hundred and fifty six is eight, and five hundred and twelve is nine.
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. A picture keeps its own shape: a wide thumbnail draws as a wide tile rather than losing its sides to a square crop, and the rounds still line up because every tile is the same height. You can select many image files in one go: each one becomes an entry, the empty slots fill first, and then the bracket grows to hold the rest, which is the fastest way to start.
Can other people vote on the matchups?
Not on this site, and not as a live ranking. Other chart types can open a vote about where an item belongs. A bracket matchup is a different question (who wins this round), so that ranking model is not offered here yet. You pick every winner yourself, then export or publish the finished tree. If you want other people involved, share the result 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?
Not to make one. The editor opens straight away, the bracket lives in this browser while you build it, and the export never asks you to sign in. Publishing is the one action that needs an account, because a published bracket is a public page with a name on it. Signing in at that point also gathers your published brackets on one profile page and lets you edit them from another device.
What does the export look like?
A PNG of the whole bracket at full size, with the site address in small type in the bottom corner. The bracket itself is untouched: nothing across the middle, no crop and no cap on how many you can export. A published page shows the preview image with no mark at all.