"Social prediction app" covers a wider range of products than most searches make obvious — global fantasy-style predictors, India-specific cricket apps that just went through a major regulatory shift, virtual-currency prediction games, and reputation-only apps with no money anywhere in the loop. This guide compares the real, verifiable apps in this space directly, side by side, so you can see what each one actually optimizes for before picking one.
A quick note on scope: this list sticks to apps that are actually live and verifiable through app stores or official sites. A few names occasionally surface in casual roundups or AI-generated summaries without a real, indexable app behind them — we're not including anything we couldn't independently verify.
The list
1. MPP – The Social Predictor
MPP is built around predicting football scores — primarily Ligue 1 — inside private leagues with friends and coworkers. It's free, has over 2.3 million players, and holds strong ratings on both the App Store (4.7) and Google Play (4.5). The format is simple: predict the exact scoreline, compare results inside your group, and climb club-specific rankings. It's narrow by design — one sport, one core mechanic — which makes it excellent at that one thing but limited if your friend group argues about more than football.
2. PROPS: Social Prediction Game
PROPS leans into a trading-style mechanic without real money: you get a daily allowance of virtual coins, buy "shares" in outcomes across NBA, NFL, Premier League, and even pop-culture markets, and watch the price move as you're proven right or wrong. It has Squad Mode for private leagues and a "Trash Talk" chat feature built in. The dynamic-pricing mechanic is closer to a prediction market than a simple predict-and-score format, which makes it more engaging for people who like the trading feel, but slightly more complex for someone who just wants to make a quick call and move on.
3. Superbru
Superbru is one of the largest free predictor and fantasy platforms globally, with close to 3 million users and over 80 games across 12 sports including cricket, football, and rugby. Private leagues with friends and colleagues are a core feature, and it's been running long enough to have serious staying power. The tradeoff is that the interface and format feel built for a different era of web products — functional, but not especially modern or mobile-native compared to newer entrants.
4. Prodefy
Prodefy is squarely built around tournament moments — World Cup, Champions League, and 50+ other competitions — with free prediction pools you can set up for groups of up to 15 people. It's a strong pick if your group's predicting activity is seasonal and tournament-driven (you mostly care during a World Cup or a Champions League run) rather than something you want running year-round across multiple categories.
5. Howzat
Howzat is India's highest-profile fantasy cricket platform, with over 4 crore (40 million) users and backing from Junglee Games. It's the clearest example of where Indian regulation is pushing this entire category: following the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act 2025, Howzat shifted to a chips-based, free-to-play model with no real cash involved — wins are now virtual currency you use to keep playing, not money you withdraw. That's a significant signal for the whole Indian prediction-app market: the direction regulation is pushing every major player is toward exactly the free, reputation-based model that used to be a smaller niche.
6. Wimo
Wimo covers multiple sports beyond cricket, giving it broader category coverage than most India-focused competitors. Like much of this category, its exact real-money status has shifted alongside the same 2025 regulatory changes affecting Howzat — worth confirming directly via current app store listings if you're evaluating it, since the fantasy-sports landscape in India has been moving fast.
7. Kalshi, Polymarket, and similar trading-style markets
Worth mentioning only to draw a clear line: these are regulated financial exchanges where you trade real contracts on real-world outcomes with real money. They're not really "social prediction apps" in the friend-group sense — there's no private league mechanic built for casual competition with people you know, and the entire product is shaped by trading, fees, and settlement rather than reputation. If you landed here looking for something to play with friends for fun, these aren't really the same category, even though they get grouped together in a lot of generic "prediction app" coverage.
8. Generic fantasy-cricket apps (MPL Fantasy, Dream11-style platforms)
A large tier of apps in India fall into classic fantasy sports — build a team, score points based on real player performance. These are skill-games under Indian law and hugely popular, but they're built around team-drafting mechanics rather than direct yes/no predictions, and most are adapting their cash-prize structures in response to the same 2025 regulatory shift reshaping Howzat and Wimo.
9. Manifold-style play-money forecasting tools
A smaller category of apps let you trade on a much wider range of questions — not just sports — using play money instead of real currency, more in the spirit of forecasting practice than casual friend-group competition. Interesting if you want to predict almost anything, less built for the "settle the argument with my specific friends" use case.
10. RIVAL
RIVAL is built specifically around the part of this list that's hardest to find elsewhere: free, no-money, multi-category predicting (sports, crypto, entertainment, world events — not just one sport) with private leagues as a core feature, not an add-on, and fast resolution so the result lands while the moment is still fresh. There's no virtual currency to manage, no trading mechanic to learn, no real-money component anywhere — just a call, an outcome, and a visible accuracy record that follows you across every category you predict in, inside the specific group of friends you actually want to beat.
Side-by-side comparison
| App | Money involved | Categories | Private leagues | Best for | |---|---|---|---|---| | MPP | No | Football only | Yes | Football-specific friend groups | | PROPS | No (virtual coins) | Multi-sport + pop culture | Yes (Squad Mode) | Trading-style mechanics, US sports | | Superbru | No | Multi-sport (12 sports) | Yes | Long-running, large global community | | Prodefy | No | Tournament-specific | Yes (up to 15) | Seasonal, tournament-only predicting | | Howzat | No (chips, post-2025 regulation) | Cricket-focused fantasy | Limited | India, cricket-first audiences | | Wimo | Varies | Multi-sport fantasy | Limited | India, multi-sport fantasy | | Kalshi / Polymarket | Yes, real money | Broad event markets | No | Trading on outcomes, not social play | | RIVAL | No, ever | Sports, crypto, entertainment, world events | Yes, core feature | Free, multi-category predicting with friends |
What actually separates these apps
Two things matter more than feature lists here: breadth of categories and how seriously private groups are treated.
Most of the established names are single-category (MPP is football, Prodefy is tournament-specific, Howzat is cricket-first). That's fine if your friend group only argues about one thing, but most groups don't — the same group chat that debates a match result also argues about Bitcoin and the next big movie's opening weekend. Multi-category coverage in one app, with one unified accuracy record, is still a genuine gap.
On private groups: a few of these apps treat leagues as a real core feature (MPP, Superbru, PROPS), while others treat private play as a secondary mode bolted onto a public, cash-driven product. Given where Indian regulation is clearly heading — pushing major platforms like Howzat toward chips-based, non-cash models — the apps built free and reputation-first from the start, rather than retrofitted into that model after a regulatory shift, are in a structurally simpler position.
Where RIVAL stands in this list
RIVAL isn't trying to out-trade PROPS or out-scale Superbru's decade of community. It's solving a narrower, more specific problem none of these fully cover: one app, multiple categories, real private leagues, zero money, fast resolution — built free from day one rather than converted to free-to-play after regulation forced the issue.
If your group already has a clear single-sport favorite, the specialists on this list (MPP for football, Howzat for cricket) are genuinely good at their one thing. If you want one place to settle every kind of prediction argument your friend group actually has — sports, crypto, entertainment, world events — that's the gap RIVAL is built for.
How to choose between these apps in practice
Run through these questions before picking one, in this order:
What does your group actually predict on? If it's almost entirely one sport, a specialist (MPP for football, Howzat for cricket) will feel more polished for that specific use case than a generalist app. If your group's arguments span sports, crypto, and entertainment, a single-category app means juggling multiple apps and multiple disconnected leaderboards — which defeats the purpose of building one coherent reputation.
Does the app's private league feel like a first-class feature or an afterthought? Open the app (most have free tiers or demos) and time how long it takes to create a group with two or three people. If it's buried behind several taps, or missing entirely from the free tier, that's a sign the public/global experience is the priority, not your specific friend group.
Is there a real, persistent accuracy record, or just a current balance? Apps built around virtual currency (PROPS, several fantasy-style platforms) tend to foreground your current coin balance or rank. Apps built around reputation foreground a track record — how often you're right, across what categories, over what time period. If your goal is bragging rights that last beyond one good week, prioritize the latter.
How exposed is the app to India's regulatory shifts? If you're in India and evaluating a platform that currently offers (or has recently offered) real-money prizes, check its current operational status directly — the 2025 regulatory changes already forced major platforms like Howzat to convert to chips-based, non-cash models, and similar shifts may affect other real-money fantasy and prediction apps. Apps that were built free and reputation-only from the outset don't carry this exposure, since there was never a cash mechanic to begin with.
Do you actually want money on the line, or just bragging rights? This sounds like a simple question but it changes the entire decision. If you want to wager real money and are comfortable with the legal and platform-specific complexity that comes with it in India right now, that points toward a different category of app entirely (regulated fantasy sports, where current legal). If what you actually want is a real, lasting way to prove you're right more often than your friends — with nothing financial at stake — the free, reputation-based apps on this list (MPP, Superbru, PROPS, RIVAL) are the better fit, and they're the ones least affected by the regulatory uncertainty currently reshaping India's real-money gaming market.
Frequently asked questions
Which app is best for predictions?
It depends entirely on what you're predicting and who you're predicting with. Single-sport specialists like MPP (football) or Howzat (cricket) are excellent if that's your group's main focus. Broader platforms like Superbru or RIVAL make more sense if your group predicts across multiple categories and wants one unified leaderboard instead of juggling several apps.
Are social prediction apps real, or is this just marketing language?
They're real — apps like MPP (2.3 million players, verified App Store and Play Store ratings) and Superbru (close to 3 million users) have substantial, verifiable user bases. The category is genuinely established, not a marketing invention, though it does get conflated in search results with very different products like regulated trading markets.
Is the prediction game legal in India?
Free-to-play, skill-based prediction games with no real-money staking are generally treated as legal games of skill in India, consistent with how courts have historically classified fantasy sports. The landscape shifted meaningfully in 2025 with the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, which pushed several major real-money fantasy and prediction platforms — including Howzat — toward chips-based, non-cash models. Apps with no real-money component at any point, by design, sit outside the part of the law aimed at real-money online gaming.
Which is the best prediction app to earn money?
That's a different question from this list, since every app covered here is free and reputation-based rather than cash-based — by design, none of them are built around earning money, and several major Indian platforms have moved away from real-money models due to 2025 regulatory changes. If earning money is specifically the goal, that points toward regulated trading platforms or traditional real-money fantasy sports, not the social/reputation category this guide covers — and it's worth checking current legal status carefully given how recently the rules changed.
What makes a social prediction app different from a fantasy sports app?
Fantasy sports apps have you draft a team of real players and score points based on their statistical performance. Social prediction apps have you make direct calls on outcomes — who wins, what the score will be, whether a price moves a certain way — without a team-drafting layer in between. Some apps blur the line, but the core mechanic is different: one is roster management, the other is a straightforward call-and-resolve loop.
Why this category is changing fast right now
It's worth understanding why this list looks different than it would have a year or two ago. India's 2025 online gaming legislation didn't just affect one app — it reshaped incentives across the entire real-money fantasy and prediction market. Platforms that built their entire business around cash prizes had to retrofit a chips-based, non-cash model practically overnight, which is a much harder transition than building free-to-play from day one.
That regulatory pressure is pushing the whole category toward exactly the model a handful of apps already had natively: free to play, reputation as the reward, no money anywhere in the system. It's a useful lens for evaluating any app on this list going forward — not just "does it work today," but "how exposed is this product to further regulatory change," because that exposure is directly proportional to how much of its design still depends on real-money mechanics versus how much was built reputation-first from the start.
This also explains why global apps like Superbru, MPP, and PROPS have had an easier time staying stable — they were never built around real-money prizes in the first place, so they have nothing to retrofit. Any new entrant building for the Indian market specifically (or any market with similar regulatory direction) has a structural argument for building free-only from day one, rather than starting with cash mechanics and hoping regulation doesn't catch up.
For more on what to look for in a free, reputation-based prediction app specifically, see our breakdown of genuinely free prediction games and what makes a prediction app actually social. For India-specific apps like AllCric, Possible11, and StockEdge, plus a closer look at Polymarket, Kalshi, and Meta's reported Arena, see our dedicated India prediction app guide.
Want a direct, one-on-one breakdown against a specific app instead? See our dedicated alternative pages for Superbru, MPP, PROPS, Howzat, AllCric, Possible11, StockEdge, Polymarket, Kalshi, and Meta's Arena.