Free Android app

Your draft helper,
on top of the game

Brawl Stars gives you seconds to pick. Leaving the game to check a tier list costs more of them than you have, so the answer comes to you instead: the meta at your rank, the best picks for your map and what beats the enemy, one tap away over the game.

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The whole app in 51 seconds. Sound on.

A website cannot do this

Not this one, not any of them. A browser tab cannot draw on top of another app — the sandbox forbids it, on every phone. Checking a tier list in a browser means leaving the draft, and leaving the draft is what costs you the pick.

An app can. The bubble sits on the edge of the screen, opens on a tap over the game, and folds away again.

The BrawlZone panel open on top of the Brawl Stars lobby on a phone, showing the Ranked meta for Masters+ on Undermine
On a real phone, open over the game

Everything in one bubble

The same data as the site, cut down to what a draft needs.

The panel's Ranked meta at Mythic: rank and mode chips across the top, then the tier list from S down, with the brawlers you do not own greyed out
Pick your rank and mode
Pinball Dreams at Mythic: the best picks on that map, your best owned pick named above the list, and the battles behind each number
Then the map you are on
The build card for Shade: the most-owned star power, gadget and two gears, with the share of sampled owners holding each
Tap a brawler for its build

The tier list at your rank

Diamond, Mythic, Legendary and Masters play different metas, so the list is split by rank and opens on yours. Every Ranked mode, refreshed every two hours from real competitive battles.

The best picks for your map

Ranked hands you one map, and the answer moves with it. Pick the map and get the brawlers that win there, with your own best pick named at the top.

Team comps

The three that win together on your map, with the ones you own ticked.

Draft counters

Enter the bans and both teams' picks and it ranks what is left. Tap an enemy to see who beats them.

Builds on tap

Tap any brawler for the star power, gadget and gears its owners actually run, with the sample size behind every number.

Your brawlers marked

Add your player tag once: brawlers you own are marked, the rest greyed out or hidden, and you can narrow it to power 11 or hypercharged.

Or draft with it

A second tab, for when you want more than the meta: the bans, your team, and theirs.

The draft board on Hard Rock Mine with one ban, one team-mate and two enemies entered, and the remaining brawlers ranked by how well they answer that draft

Enter the bans, what your team has taken and what theirs has, and the list reorders around all three. A brawler that is merely strong on the map is a different call from one that is strong on the map and answers what they just picked.

Every row shows its working: form on this map, edge against the enemies you named, edge alongside your team-mates. A suggestion you cannot check is a guess dressed up in a percentage — and mid-draft the reason is usually what decides it.

Tap an enemy pick to see the five brawlers that beat it most often at your rank, with a link to the full counters page on the site.

Thin evidence is flagged rather than hidden. A brawler backed by eleven battles on this map says so in red, because 52% off eleven battles and 52% off two hundred are not the same claim.

Made for your account

Your tag is the only setup there is, and it changes every list in the panel.

The app's account card: the player name, tag and trophies, the choice between all owned brawlers, power 11 only or hypercharged, and a saved second account to switch to
  • Your tag, once

    The app finds your account and puts your player icon on the bubble. Every pick the panel suggests is one you can actually make.

  • Two accounts? One tap

    Every tag you use is saved. Switch between them from the account card; a long press removes one.

  • What to upgrade next

    A short plan for your coins: the few brawlers that would give you a top pick in the most modes.

  • Your language, your bubble

    22 languages, with brawler, mode and map names exactly as the game writes them. Choose the bubble's size, how faint it gets when idle, and whether it tucks half off the edge.

What it cannot do

Worth knowing before you install it, not after.

The bubble does not read your screen, your match, or which map you are on. It asks to draw over other apps and to show a notification, the one that says it is running. No screen capture, no storage access, nothing else.

It shows the stats; you make the picks. It does not touch the game or log in to your account: your player tag only looks up your public profile, the same one anyone can see on the site. No ads, no sign-up, no in-app purchases.

Installing it

Five steps, and the fourth is where Android gets in your way.

  1. 1

    Download and open the file

    Your browser asks whether to keep a file of this type. It is an app installer, so Chrome and Android both check with you first — that prompt is normal.

  2. 2

    Allow installing from your browser

    Android asks once per app that installs other apps. "Allow from this source" appears the first time; after that it remembers.

  3. 3

    Open BrawlZone and tap Start bubble

    The first tap sends you to Android's "Display over other apps" screen, because no app is allowed to grant itself that permission.

  4. 4

    If the toggle is greyed out

    Android blocks this permission for apps installed outside a store. Go to Settings › Apps › BrawlZone, tap the ⋮ menu at the top right, choose "Allow restricted settings", then try again. This catches almost everyone, and Android never explains it.

  5. 5

    Switch it on and go back

    The bubble appears straight away and stays on top of whatever you open next, including the game.

Coming to Google PlayJoin the test and install it from the Play Store instead: three taps.

About Play Protect

Google Play Protect warns about any app installed outside the Play Store. That warning is about where a file came from, not about what is in it.

Verify the download

Confirm the file you got is the file published here. On a desktop: sha256sum brawlzone-bubble.apk

SHA-256

7eb010d03b2c78bbdc68c1839f7c69a685a3f46adc4e9fc383b6dc98727334c3

Using it

Three gestures and a tile. There is nothing else to learn.

  • Tap to open

    The panel folds out of the bubble. Tap the bubble again and it folds back in.

  • Drag to move

    Put it wherever it is not in the way. It rests against the nearest edge when you let go, and stays there.

  • Drag down to close

    A target appears at the bottom of the screen while you drag. Drop the bubble on it, or use Stop in the notification.

  • Start it from inside the game

    Add the BrawlZone tile to Quick Settings: swipe down mid-match and tap it to show or hide the bubble, without opening the app.

The BrawlZone Bubble app's main screen: the Start bubble, Stop and Quick Settings buttons, and a list of what the panel does

What's new

The app updates by downloading again — it installs over the top and keeps your permission.

Version 1.30

Latest
  • Ready for Android 16: the app screen now fits around the status bar, the navigation bar and the keyboard on newer phones.
  • A link to the privacy policy at the bottom of the app screen.
  • The same app is now being tested on Google Play. Installing it from there later keeps your tag and settings.
Earlier versions (37)
  1. Version 1.29

    • Two accounts? Every tag you use is saved, and the app shows the others under “Switch account”: one tap swaps, a long press forgets one.
  2. Version 1.28

    • Make the bubble yours: choose its size, how faint it gets when you leave it alone, and whether it tucks half off the edge. A touch always brings it straight back.
    • The app now speaks your language: all 22 languages of the game, with a flag picker at the top. The app and this panel share one language setting.
    • “What to upgrade next” comes in your language too, with brawler and mode names as the game writes them.
  3. Version 1.27

    • A new look: chunky 3D buttons, bold display type and game-style panels throughout the app.
    • The bubble wears your own player icon once your tag is set (open the app once after updating).
  4. Version 1.26

    • Set-up is easier: until your player tag is added, the app says what it unlocks and takes you straight to the field.
    • The panel filter is a clear choice now: All my brawlers, Power 11 only, or Power 11 + hypercharge, each with what it does and how many brawlers it leaves.
  5. Version 1.25

    • The panel opens instantly. It used to load the page again on every tap, so it opened on a spinner mid-draft; it now keeps the page between opens and starts loading as soon as the bubble appears.
    • No signal? The panel shows the last saved list, marked “Offline”, instead of an error.
    • Each mode chip carries the mode’s own icon, the badge the game shows in the corner of the draft.
  6. Version 1.24

    • The three counts are the filter now. Tap owned, power 11 or hypercharge and the tile lights up — so the number the panel is using is the one you can see, instead of something to work out from two switches.
    • Those two switches are gone with it. They encoded three settings in four combinations, and the spare one was impossible: a hypercharge cannot be unlocked below power 11, so “hypercharge without power 11” had to be quietly rewritten every time it was set.
    • The tag box has a label, and the filter says in words what it is doing underneath the tiles.
  7. Version 1.19

    • The account tiles use the game’s own art: the brawler mark on what you own, the power 11 badge, the hypercharge symbol, and a trophy beside your count. A number under an icon you already recognise reads faster than a number under a word.
  8. Version 1.18

    • The app screen is rebuilt. State and action share one card instead of four stacked full-width blocks, Stop and Quick Settings sit side by side, and the screen ends on a footer rather than stopping mid-list.
    • Your tag now resolves to a name and your player icon, with the counts each filter produces — owned, power 11, hypercharged. A tag is a string nobody can check by reading it, and one wrong character is a valid tag belonging to a stranger whose only symptom is that every filter looks broken.
  9. Version 1.17

    • Pick and Ban tabs on every map. Pick is the list you already had, narrowed to what you can field. Ban is every brawler, whoever owns them, with how often it is actually taken here — because banning something nobody picks spends the ban for nothing.
    • A third switch on the app screen: hide the brawlers you cannot use instead of greying them out. Off by default — greying keeps the tier counts honest and keeps a brawler you are one upgrade away from in view.
  10. Version 1.16

    • Add your player tag on the app screen and the panel marks what you can actually field. The tier list stops being a list of brawlers you might not own: anything you cannot take is dimmed, and each map names your best available pick.
    • Two filters beside it — power 11 only, and power 11 with a hypercharge — for when a pick is only worth making at full strength.
    • Your roster is read once a day and kept on the phone, so none of this costs anything mid-draft. Leave the tag blank and the panel behaves exactly as it did before.
  11. Version 1.15

    • A BrawlZone tile for Quick Settings: swipe down from inside the game and tap it to put the bubble up or take it down, without opening the app. Android 13 and up can add it with one tap from the app screen; older versions find it by editing Quick Settings.
    • The notification has a Panel button, so the panel can be opened or closed from the shade when the bubble is under your thumb or behind the game’s own UI.
  12. Version 1.14

    • The draft scan is gone. It never worked reliably enough across phones to keep, and an app that asks to record your screen for a feature that does not work is worse than one that does not ask. The app no longer requests screen capture at all.
    • The draft board stays: pick the map and enter the bans and picks by hand, and it ranks the remaining brawlers as before.
    • Smaller and simpler for it — the text-recognition library is gone too.
  13. Version 1.13

    • The draft scan is back, rebuilt: each scan owns its result, so a slow scan can no longer overwrite the next one, and a result that arrives while the panel is closed is shown when it reopens.
    • Every slot now says why it is what it is — read, empty, unknown, or covered by the panel — and a later scan corrects a misread in place without touching anything you typed in.
    • The screen is found from the picture itself, including the map name plate, so black bars, insets and other screen shapes no longer read the wrong pixels.
    • Diagnostics can export the exact frame a scan used, so a misread on your phone can be fixed without guessing.
  14. Version 1.12

    • The scan now finds the draft screen in the picture instead of assuming where it is, so it works the same on any screen size or shape rather than only the one it was measured on.
  15. Version 1.11.3

    • The scan now matches the screen it is capturing. A session started while the phone was a different shape kept producing frames of that shape, so everything was read from the wrong place — the timer instead of the map name, and picks in the wrong slots.
  16. Version 1.11.2

    • Ban artwork that a phone refuses to decode the preferred way now falls back instead of failing — which left the ban list empty with nothing to say why.
    • Tapping Scan while the app is still loading shows the progress instead of asking to share your screen for a scan that could not run yet.
  17. Version 1.11.1

    • Bans are matched against their own artwork, which is decoded correctly now — transparent edges were being darkened twice, which affected the ban icons and nothing else.
    • The app no longer reports itself ready to scan until the ban artwork has loaded too, instead of only the portraits.
  18. Version 1.11

    • Scanning no longer asks to share your screen over and over. Permission is a button you press, never something a scan asks for on its own, and it stops asking if Android keeps refusing.
    • Loading the portraits is about eight times faster, and shows how far along it is.
    • A scan can no longer run against a half-loaded set of portraits, which made recognition look unreliable when it was simply not ready.
  19. Version 1.10

    • Scanning is back, and the bans work for the first time — the game draws them from a different artwork set, which is why they never matched before.
    • One tap reads the mode, the map, both teams’ picks and all six bans, then scores the picks for that map.
    • The recognition is now tested against real captures of a real draft on every build, instead of only on your phone.
  20. Version 1.9.3

    • Starting the bubble no longer asks to share your screen. That prompt fired on every start once it had been allowed.
    • The update download now opens the installer itself when it finishes, instead of relying on a notification that may be switched off.
  21. Version 1.9.2

    • The app finally asks for notification permission. Without it the update download finished invisibly and the bubble’s Stop control was hidden — both looked like features that did nothing.
    • The download now says which folder the file landed in, so it is findable even with notifications turned off.
  22. Version 1.9.1

    • Allowing screen sharing could ask again, and again, forever. Android was destroying the permission screen before it could receive your answer.
    • A second scan sometimes did nothing at all. One scan that never finished left the button jammed for the rest of the session.
    • The Download button in this notice finally downloads. Every version until now was blocked by Android from opening it, silently.
  23. Version 1.9

    • The screen-capture prompt no longer interrupts a match. Once you have allowed it, it is asked as the bubble starts instead of on your first scan.
    • The prompt can no longer be answered with "Share one app", which captured the wrong thing.
    • The Download button in the update notice works. It was a dead button inside the app.
  24. Version 1.8.5

    • The map is read from the screen on the first scan, instead of only after you had confirmed it once.
    • A map it still cannot place falls back to the old behaviour — pick it once and it is remembered.
  25. Version 1.8.4

    • Scanning recognised about one brawler in six. It now matches each brawler on the framing that suits it, and reads the picks on both teams.
    • Bans are still left blank rather than guessed at — the game draws them with artwork nothing public matches. Tap one in and it is remembered.
    • The update notice now says which version you have, so you can tell a real update from a stuck banner.
  26. Version 1.8.3

    • Scanning read only half the draft. The frame was often captured before the panel had got out of the way, so the panel itself covered the enemy picks — it now waits for a frame taken after the overlay is hidden.
    • What the scan found now shows immediately, instead of staying hidden until you had picked the map by hand.
    • The panel says how many brawlers it read, so a scan that worked no longer looks like one that did nothing.
  27. Version 1.8.2

    • Scan works again. It could get stuck on “Loading portraits…” with the button disabled for the rest of the session, and never recover.
    • Tapping Scan before the portraits have finished downloading now waits and then scans, instead of doing nothing.
  28. Version 1.8.1

    • Fixes 1.8, which crashed on launch and could not start the bubble at all. If you installed it, download again — this installs over the top.
  29. Version 1.8

    • Scan the draft instead of typing it: one tap reads the bans and picks off your screen and fills the board.
    • The map is remembered. Confirm it once and every later scan on that map fills it in for you.
    • Anything it is not sure about is left blank rather than guessed at — and correcting it teaches it that brawler for next time.
  30. Version 1.7

    • The keyboard no longer buries the draft picker: the panel moves above it, and searching is opt-in so the shortlist of likely picks is visible first.
    • In landscape the keyboard no longer takes over the whole screen.
  31. Version 1.6

    • The panel says when it cannot reach the site, with a tap to retry, instead of spinning forever on a dropped connection.
  32. Version 1.5

    • The update notice downloads the new version directly, instead of sending you to the site to find the button.
    • Links in the panel now open in your browser rather than inside the overlay.
  33. Version 1.4

    • The panel now tells you when a newer version of the app is out, and what changed in it.
  34. Version 1.3

    • Fixed the panel in landscape, which is how the game is actually played — it was arriving a third of its intended height.
    • The bubble and panel now follow the screen when you rotate, instead of keeping coordinates from the previous orientation.
    • The panel no longer lands on top of the bubble in landscape, which had been swallowing every tap meant for it.
    • Filter the tier list by game mode, and the choice is remembered next time you open it.
    • Tap any brawler for the star power, gadget and gears its owners run.
  35. Version 1.2

    • The panel opens on the Ranked tier list, built for the overlay, instead of loading the full site into a small window.
  36. Version 1.1

    • Rebuilt the app screen: real spacing, the site’s palette, and system bars that match.
  37. Version 1.0

    • First release. Tapping the bubble opens and closes the panel, dragging moves it, and dropping it on the target at the bottom closes it.

Get it on your phone

Free, 2.9 MB, no account. Everything it shows is on the site too — the app only saves you the app switch, which is the part that costs you the draft.