Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    1.7k

    Bracket: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Flexible tournament system to build a tournament setup, add teams, schedule matches, keep track of scores and present ranking live to the public.

    TL;DR • Bracket • as of August 2026

    Bracket is an open-source polls and events project, with 1.7k GitHub stars and a health score of 85/100. It committed 386 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    1.7k
    GitHub stars
    85/100
    Health score
    386
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-11
    Days since last commit 6
    Commits, last 3 months 74
    Commits, last 12 months 386
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2025-12-29
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Polls and Events

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    AGPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Bracket means for your idea

    Contested · 46/100
    Polls and Events category →

    Bracket is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Bracket: common questions

    Is Bracket still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Bracket recorded 386 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 74 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-11. Last release: 2025-12-29. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Bracket commercially?

    Bracket is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Polls and Events category?

    19 open-source implementations, 8 of them actively maintained, led by Formbricks at 13k stars. Saturation score 46/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

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