Overshove vs PokerLog

PokerLog is an ambitious tracker-plus-bundle: unlimited free cash logging, GTO preflop charts, a US room directory, and an AI stats assistant called The Oracle on its paid Prime tier. Overshove deliberately leaves out GTO charts and AI assistants and concentrates on the live-cash review loop. If you want the extras bundled in, PokerLog fits; if you want focus, here is the honest comparison.

Overshove or PokerLog: bundle or focus?

PokerLog and Overshove make opposite bets about what a tracker should be. PokerLog, per pokerlog.app checked in July 2026, bundles a great deal into one app: unlimited free cash session logging, GTO preflop charts, a US room directory, and a Gemini-powered assistant called The Oracle on its paid Prime tier that answers natural-language questions about your stats. If you want those extras in one place, PokerLog fits, and this page will not talk you out of it. Overshove deliberately leaves out GTO charts and AI assistants and concentrates on the live-cash review loop: the true hourly after rake context, dealer tips and travel, a confidence band on your actual sample, leaks tagged to hands you marked at the table, a private notebook of reads on your regular pool, and CSV export from the free core. The real question is whether the extras you would genuinely use outweigh the cost fields and the variance read you would not get.

What PokerLog bundles, on the current listing

PokerLog's pitch is a hub, and the free tier is generous: unlimited cash session logging, session history with notes, hourly and win-rate stats, GTO preflop charts for 6-max and 9-max, and a directory of US poker rooms that stood at 398 venues across 40 states at our July 2026 check, with hours, stakes and waitlist guidance. Its tagline is Track the grind. Master the bankroll.

The paid tier, Prime, was $11.99 a month or $99.99 a year with a 3-day trial at the same check. Prime gates tournament tracking, a multi-table mode for up to 20 concurrent online sessions, cloud sync, priority support, and The Oracle, a Gemini-powered AI assistant that answers natural-language questions about your stats and filters them by venue, stake or time period. There is also a Monte Carlo bankroll simulator showing downswing ranges and risk of ruin.

That is a real feature list, honestly earned in the rows above. For a US player who wants charts, a game-finder and a tracker in one app, the bundle argument is coherent.

Where the bundle stops for live cash review

Look at what is missing rather than what is present. PokerLog's current listing shows no expense or tip fields anywhere, so the hourly it reports is gross: dealer tips, travel and session costs never enter the calculation. For a live player those costs are routinely 1 to 2 BB/hr. A tracker that cannot hold the cost fields cannot fix that, however good its charts are.

There is also no standard deviation or confidence read on your own sample, no leak tagging, and no study log tied to sessions; notes exist at session level only. The study tools PokerLog bundles, preflop charts and an AI you can question, point at general strategy rather than at your specific, logged mistakes. That is the deliberate difference: Overshove's whole product is the loop from your session to your numbers to your named leaks and back.

Simulator vs confidence band, worked through

PokerLog's Monte Carlo simulator and Overshove's confidence read are both variance tools, and it is worth being precise about the difference, because they answer different questions.

A Monte Carlo simulator projects forward: assume a win rate and a standard deviation, run thousands of simulated futures, and report the downswing ranges and risk of ruin that fall out. It is a planning tool, and a good one, for bankroll sizing and expectation-setting. Its weakness is the inputs: it treats your assumed win rate as true.

A confidence band reads backward from what actually happened. Take a 2/2 player, £2 big blind, with 350 logged hours at an observed 4 BB/hr. At a live standard deviation near 100 BB/100 and about 27 hands an hour, the per-hour deviation is roughly 52 BB, the standard error over 350 hours is about 2.8 BB/hr, and the 95% band runs from roughly -1.5 to 9.5 BB/hr. The uncomfortable, useful reading: this sample does not yet prove a winner, so feeding 4 BB/hr into any simulator as gospel is premature. That question needs your own sample, not a simulation.

Migration, or running both

PokerLog deserves credit for the exit path: CSV and JSON export are on the free tier per its site, with the CSV framed as IRS-ready for US tax filing. Note the export list is CSV and JSON; an XLSX option we recorded in June 2026 no longer appears on the current listing. Either format gets your history out; Overshove imports the CSV with a one-time column mapping and the full sample arrives.

Running both is straightforward if the extras earn their place: keep PokerLog for the charts, the directory and the Oracle, and log sessions in Overshove for the true hourly, the confidence band and the leak log. The overlap is only the session log itself, and duplicate entry takes seconds per session. Overshove's core is free while you decide, and everything you enter exports back to CSV.

One platform note for the both camp: PokerLog listed Android as coming soon at our check, while Overshove's web app runs on any phone today, Android included, with sync across phone and desktop included rather than gated.

Who should not switch

Stay with PokerLog if the bundle is genuinely what you use: the US room directory is unique among the tools on this page and alone justifies the app for a travelling US player; the preflop charts are a real study aid if you do not already own a trainer; and if you multi-table online, Prime's 20-session mode targets a job Overshove does not attempt. US players who want IRS-ready CSV out of the box have a specific reason to stay too.

The standing honesty about Overshove: private beta, web plus Windows with iOS and Android planned, no GTO charts, no AI assistant, no in-hand advice, no profit promise. It is a review tool for live cash. If you want strategy content and a game-finder living inside your tracker, PokerLog built exactly that, and this page should not talk you out of it.

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 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.