A PokerLog alternative

PokerLog packs a lot in: unlimited free cash logging, GTO preflop charts, a US room directory, and a Gemini-powered AI assistant on its Prime tier. If that bundle is what you use, stay with it. The honest reasons players go looking for an alternative are focus, the missing cost fields, Android, and life outside the US. This page covers all four, plus the clean way out with your data.

Why players go looking

PokerLog's bundle is genuinely generous at the free tier: unlimited cash logging, 6-max and 9-max preflop charts, and a US room directory that stood at 398 venues across 40 states at our July 2026 check. The paid Prime tier ($11.99 a month or $99.99 a year at the same check) adds tournaments, a 20-table online mode, cloud sync and The Oracle, its Gemini-powered stats assistant. For the player it was built for, a US grinder who wants strategy content and a game-finder living inside the tracker, there is no strong reason to leave.

The players who do go looking tend to share one of four itches. Focus: charts and an AI assistant in the logging app are clutter if your study happens elsewhere. Costs: the cited PokerLog listing does not establish additional-expense treatment; a known sample is needed before comparing after-cost hourlies. Android: the platform was listed as coming soon at our check, which is a polite way of saying not today. And geography: the directory, the IRS-ready CSV framing and the venue coverage are US-shaped, which does nothing for a player whose local is in Manchester or Melbourne.

What you keep, what you give up

Moving to a review-first tool is a trade, so price both sides. You give up the preflop charts (though a chart you study away from the table does not need to live inside your tracker), The Oracle's natural-language queries, the room directory, and Prime's 20-table online mode if you multi-table.

Overshove exposes session cost inputs. Use them for additional expenses not already reflected in buy-ins and cash-outs; do not deduct stack-paid tips or fees again. Test the same sample in both tools rather than assuming an undocumented competitor calculation is gross. Overshove's backward-looking variance read and deeper study layer are in development: marked hands, leak tags, player reads and Coach Pack are not available yet. The current difference is the cost-aware session record; Overshove's running-bad-versus-playing-bad tools are in development.

The gap in money, worked through

Use a synthetic £1/£2 player with 250 table hours over 50 sessions. Dealer tips of £2 per hour total £500. If paid from the stack, they are already included in cash-outs minus buy-ins and need no further deduction. Additional travel of £6 per session, paid separately and not in the ledger, totals £300: £1.20 per table hour, or 0.6 BB/hr. Deducting both items again would overstate the additional cost by £500. Travel time would change a separately defined overall-hourly denominator, not the £300 cash expense.

The variance gap is quieter but real. PokerLog's simulator projects downswing ranges from an assumed win rate; it cannot tell you whether your observed rate is proven. The same 250-hour sample at an observed 5 BB/hr carries a 95% band of roughly -1.5 to 11.5 BB/hr (SD 100 BB/100, about 27 hands an hour). Knowing the band is wide is not discouraging, it is orienting: it says keep logging, and it says a losing month proves nothing yet, which is the sentence most players need mid-downswing.

The exit path is clean

Credit to PokerLog here: CSV and JSON export sit on the free tier per its site, so your history is yours without paying to leave. Export the CSV and test a small file through Overshove's visible session spreadsheet import control; reconcile it before planning a full move. Keep unknown historical cost breakdowns blank rather than inventing amounts. A missing tip breakdown does not remove stack-paid tips from the recorded result; deduct an imported additional expense only if it was not already included.

The low-risk route is the four-week parallel: keep logging in PokerLog, mirror the sessions in Overshove (seconds each), and compare what each surfaces at the end of the month. The Overshove core is free, and session CSV export keeps your data portable. If the cost-aware ledger does not earn its place in four weeks, delete nothing, keep PokerLog, and this page cost you an hour of duplicate entry.

Who should stay with PokerLog

US players who travel and use the directory: nothing else on this page finds you a game at 398 venues. Players who want their preflop charts inside the tracker rather than in a separate trainer. Online multi-tablers on Prime, whose 20-session mode targets a job Overshove does not attempt. And anyone whose US tax filing leans on the IRS-ready CSV export.

The standing honesty about the alternative: Overshove is a live web app in phone and desktop browsers, no GTO charts, no AI assistant, no in-hand advice, no profit promise. It is a narrower tool on purpose. If the bundle is what you actually use, the bundle is the right buy, and PokerLog remains a well-built one.

PokerLog features and prices here are summarised from pokerlog.app, checked July 2026. Apps change often, so confirm the current feature set and pricing before deciding. Overshove is live on Google Play for Android and at app.overshove.com in phone and desktop browsers; no iOS or Windows app is available. It is a session tracker and does not bundle GTO charts or an AI assistant.