He Built Puntr So No One Runs the Comp Alone

The Origin: A Fix for One Friend

Every Sunday night, one person in the group carries the whole thing. The tips arrive by text message. The spreadsheet gets updated by hand. And two people still have not picked, so the chasing begins. Dave Levett watched a friend do exactly this for an entire season of a Last Man Standing competition. It worked, but only because one person refused to let it fall apart. That person never got thanked. So Levett built Puntr for them.

Puntr, the free sports tipping app, did not begin as a business plan. It began as a favour. Levett, the founder, spent a season watching a friend run a Survivor comp the hard way. The spreadsheet was tedious, but it was not the real problem.

"The spreadsheet was never the hard part," Levett said. "Chasing people was."

That single observation shaped everything that followed. Every office, every friend group and every club has one person who runs the comp. They set the rules, they collect the tips, and they spend their week nudging the stragglers. Puntr started as a way to give that person their week back, and it grew into a free app used by groups in more than twenty countries.

The Turn: Why Free Forever

The decision that defines Puntr is not a feature. It is a price. The core comp is free, and it always will be. Levett is firm about the reasoning, because he watched what happens when a comp asks people to pay to play.

"If you charge the organiser, half the group drops out," he said. "The comp has to be free or it is not a comp."

His view is that a tipping comp is a social thing first and a product second. It is a reason to talk to your friends every week. So the core stays free across the App Store, Google Play and the web. Puntr earns instead from Playr+, an optional subscription for players who want the deeper tools: Puntr Edge win chances on every fixture, the Puntr Plannr season planner, and full stats. Nobody has to pay to join, to run a comp, or to have fun.

"A tipping comp is a reason to talk to your friends every week," Levett said. "The app just has to get out of the way."

What Makes Puntr Different

Most tipping apps do one thing well and stop there. Puntr does the opposite. It runs every format a group might want, all inside a single app.

There is Survivor and Last Man Standing, where you pick one team a week and a single loss knocks you out. There is season-long Overall tipping, where you pick every game and climb a ladder. There is a Daily Tip on the hardest call of the day, head-to-head Duels over five games, Rivalries that pit you against the Experts, and a quick daily sports quiz.

All of it spans 19 competitions, from the NFL, the NHL and the NBA to the Premier League, the NRL, the AFL, La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga and College Football, with more to come. Results sync automatically from live fixture feeds, so nobody marks the sheet. The math that once ate a Sunday night now happens on its own.

What It Means for the Two People Who Matter

Puntr keeps two promises, and it keeps both for free.

For the organiser, the promise is a comp that fills itself. Set it up in under two minutes, share one link or join code, and people are tipping on their phone within the hour. Paste a whole roster in at once, or list the comp publicly so players beyond your own group can find it. Then the app does the chasing with deadline reminders, push notifications and a weekly digest of exactly who still owes a tip.

Andy L knows the difference this makes. "I used to run this exact comp on a spreadsheet and spend half my week chasing people for tips," he said. "Now I share a code and stir the pot in the chat. Puntr does the rest."

For the player, the promise is choice. Nineteen competitions are live in every format that matters, and there is always an official Puntr comp open in every sport, so nobody waits for an invite to start. One account plays in as many comps as you like. The habit is real: almost everyone who joins a comp does it the day they sign up, and one in five members already plays more than one. As Jim put it simply, "Puntr is the best sports tipping app out there."

The Honesty Line

Puntr never holds prize money, and it is not a betting product. That is a deliberate choice, not an oversight. Members tip for bragging rights and whatever their own group agrees between themselves. Keeping the app clean matters to Levett, because it keeps Puntr suitable for the App Store, for families, and for workplaces.

That decision also protects the thing he cares about most: the group. The comp lives in the chat, in the banter, in the sweat of a penalty shootout. It does not need a pot of money to matter. It needs everyone to show up.

"Every group has one person who runs the comp, and they never get thanked," Levett said. "I built Puntr for that person."

Where It Goes Next

Puntr is still early, and the roadmap is clear. More competitions are coming. So is a deeper focus on the Puntr Rating, a public leaderboard that ranks every tipster on real results rather than opinion. For anyone who has ever insisted they are the sharpest picker in the office, that record finally means something.

The bigger idea holds steady underneath all of it. A tipping comp should be the highlight of the week, not a chore that falls on one willing volunteer. Puntr exists to protect the fun and remove the friction. The organiser gets to enjoy the comp they started. The player gets any sport, any format, today. And the spreadsheet gets to retire for good.

If you are the person your group counts on to run the comp this season, Puntr fills it from one link and chases the tips for you. Explore every format, pick your sport, and start a comp free today.

Explore More About Puntr

Puntr is built by a small independent team and is available on iOS, Android and the web. People can explore the platform on the Website, the App Store, Google Play, and Instagram.