Overshove vs PokerBase

PokerBase is a mature, all-in-one tracker: cash and tournaments, multiple bankrolls, staking packages with live backer updates, and a social layer with public profiles and messaging, shipping on both app stores today. Overshove is narrower and younger: a review-first tool for live cash, in private beta. If you stake or get staked, or want a polished native app now, PokerBase likely wins. If you want the review loop, here is the honest split.

Overshove or PokerBase: which fits your game?

PokerBase and Overshove are aimed at different jobs. PokerBase, per its public App Store and Google Play listings checked in July 2026, is a mature all-in-one tracker: cash and tournaments, multiple bankrolls, staking packages with live backer updates, and a social layer with public profiles and messaging, shipping as a native app on both stores today. If you sell or buy action, or you want a polished native app you can install right now, PokerBase is the better answer and this page will not argue otherwise. Overshove is narrower and younger, a review-first tracker for live cash in private beta, running in the browser on any phone plus a Windows desktop. Its centre of gravity is the loop after the session: the true hourly after rake context, tips and travel, a confidence band on your actual sample, leaks tagged to hands you marked at the table, and a private notebook of reads. Staking is not in the Overshove beta.

Two different centres of gravity

PokerBase calls itself a poker life manager, and the label is earned. The bankroll is treated as a financial object: multiple bankrolls and casino balances, staking packages that push automatic real-time updates to your backers, receipt scanning, and PDF report exports built for tax time. Around that sits a social layer that most trackers do not attempt: public profiles, friend feeds with reactions and comments, hand sharing, and direct messaging (added November 2025). There is a worldwide tournament calendar that syncs to your phone. Its site claims 30,000 plus users, its own figure, and the US App Store listing showed 4.9 out of 5 from 161 ratings at our July 2026 check.

Overshove is built around a different object entirely: the review loop. Log a live session in seconds, then study what the log says. The true hourly after rake, tips and travel. The variance read as a confidence band on your actual sample. The leaks you tagged, tracked over time, next to a reads notebook on your weekly pool, exportable as one Coach Pack for a coach.

Both track results competently. The split is what each one does with the session after you rack up: PokerBase turns it into accounts and updates for other people, Overshove turns it into study material for you.

Where PokerBase is the better pick

If you sell or buy action, stop reading and use PokerBase. Staking packages with automatic backer updates are its core competence, and nothing in the Overshove beta touches that job. Staking, swaps and combined money are planned for Overshove's Elite tier at launch, which means today the honest answer is a red cell.

The same goes for the social layer. If posting live updates mid-session, following friends and sharing hands is part of why you play, PokerBase built for you and Overshove deliberately did not: the Overshove default is private by design, on the view that your results are study material first.

Two more genuine PokerBase wins: finished native apps on both stores today, against a web app plus Windows desktop in beta. And the accounting: receipt scanning plus PDF reports for taxes is a real workflow for full-time players that Overshove does not replicate, though Elite's tax records and exports are aimed at the same job at launch.

What each one costs

Prices move, so treat this table as a snapshot: UK App Store, July 2026. PokerBase runs a free tier plus two paid subscriptions, Pro and Elite. What exactly each PokerBase tier gates is not itemised on its public pages, so trial the free tier before paying for either.

Overshove's core tracker is free with no card. After useful value, the only paid offer is Founder: one GBP 79 payment for 730 days, with no automatic renewal, 20 places and a 14-day full refund.

The review loop, in money

Here is what the loop is for, with numbers. Take a 1/2 player, £2 big blind, playing 80 sessions a year at five hours each: 400 hours. Dealer tips at £2 an hour come to £800. Travel at £10 a session comes to £800 more. That is £1,600 a year that never touches your stack, so a buy-in and cash-out ledger cannot see it even in principle. At 400 hours, £1,600 is 2 BB/hr of difference between the hourly a ledger reports and the one you actually earn.

The study side compounds it. A tagged leak worth 1 BB/hr, say flatting river raises without the price, costs the same player £800 a year until it is found and drilled. The loop is: mark the hands that felt wrong at the table, tag the leak in review, drill it, and watch whether the tag keeps costing you. And when the graph turns down, the variance read answers the hard question: is this stretch running bad or playing bad. None of that requires abandoning PokerBase's strengths. It is simply a different job, and it is the whole of Overshove's job.

Migration, or running both

Getting your history out of PokerBase is the thing to check first. Its documented exports are PDF reports built for taxes; Excel and Google Sheets appear on its site as import sources, not export targets, and no public page mentioned CSV export at our July 2026 check. If the version you run can produce a spreadsheet-readable file, Overshove imports CSV with one column mapping and the whole sample arrives. If it genuinely only exports PDF, price in either manual re-entry of the history you care about or a clean start with the sample beginning today.

Running both is legitimate. Keep PokerBase for staking packages, backer updates and the social feed; log the same sessions in Overshove for the true hourly, the confidence band and the leak log. Overshove exports CSV at every tier, so nothing you enter is locked in, and the beta costs nothing while you decide.

Who should not switch

Stay with PokerBase if any of these is true: you run staking action in either direction, your backers expect the live updates, the social layer is part of the fun, you need a native app from the store today, or the receipts-to-tax-report pipeline is doing real work for you. Those are its genuine strengths and Overshove does not pretend to match them in beta.

Be equally honest about Overshove's side. It is a private beta: a web app on any phone plus a Windows desktop build, with iOS and Android planned but not shipped. It is not a HUD, not a solver, gives no in-hand advice, and no tracker moves your win rate by itself. The review loop pays only if you do the reviewing. If what you want is bankroll admin plus a poker social network, PokerBase already is that, and switching would buy you nothing.

PokerBase features and prices here are summarised from its public App Store and Google Play listings and pokerbase.app, checked July 2026 (subscription prices from the UK App Store). Apps change often and PokerBase does not itemise its paid-tier gating publicly, so confirm the current feature set and pricing before deciding. Overshove is in private beta: a web app that runs on any phone plus a Windows desktop build, with iOS and Android planned. It is a review tool, not a HUD, solver or GTO trainer, and makes no profit promise.