A Poker Analytics alternative

Poker Analytics is a serious stats tool, arguably the strongest in this category: standard deviation, a new Monte Carlo variance simulator, custom fields, player notes, multiple bankrolls and tournament staking, with 4.8 stars from around 1,300 App Store ratings. It is excellent at numbers and it keeps shipping. The honest reason to want an alternative is not quality. It is the review layer, the pricing model and the platform mix, and this page takes each in turn.

Why look for a Poker Analytics alternative?

Poker Analytics is arguably the strongest pure stats tracker in this category, so the honest reason to look for an alternative is fit rather than quality. Per poker-analytics.net and its public App Store listing checked in July 2026, it offers standard deviation, a Monte Carlo variance simulator, custom fields, player notes, multiple bankrolls and tournament staking, and it keeps shipping. Three things send players looking anyway. The first is the review layer, because a stats engine tells you what the numbers are, not which leak keeps costing you or which hand to study before the next session. The second is the platform mix, since a tool tied to one hardware ecosystem is awkward when your phone, laptop and desktop do not match. The third is what a year of real use costs and how the pricing model is structured. Overshove is the narrower answer to the first of those: a review-first live-cash tracker in private beta, free at the core, with CSV export.

The strongest stats tracker we compare against

Say it plainly: Poker Analytics is very good, and it is improving. At our July 2026 check it held 4.8 stars from roughly 1,300 App Store ratings, the deepest rating pool of any tracker on these pages. Its changelog shows a product that ships: tournament staking with markup and bullet tracking arrived in February 2026, session groups for trips and series the same month, live net-result tracking with an optimal-duration read before that, and on 16 June 2026 a Monte Carlo variance simulator with risk-of-ruin output and bankroll recommendations, built on its existing BB/100 standard deviation stat.

The fundamentals were already strong: cash and tournaments, hourly rate, expenses, bonuses and tips tracked, custom fields (its own example is logging mental state per session), player notes with photos and colours, multiple bankrolls in multiple currencies, iCloud backup, on iPhone, iPad, Apple Silicon Macs and Vision, with an Android app linked from its site. If raw stat depth and configurability are your priority, this is the incumbent to beat, and several rows above say Overshove does not beat it there.

So why look for an alternative at all

Three honest reasons, none of them quality.

Structure versus configuration. Poker Analytics gives you an engine and custom fields to build your own workflow; what it does not surface, anywhere on its public listing at our check, is a study log or leak tagging. You can log mental state in a custom field, but there is no documented loop that ties a named leak to the hands it came from and tracks whether it keeps costing you. Overshove ships that loop assembled: marked hands, leak tags with history, a reads notebook, and the Coach Pack PDF for your coach. Builders may prefer the engine; reviewers may prefer the loop.

Pricing transparency. Poker Analytics does not publish prices on its site, directing you into the app instead, and its free tier is described differently in different places: its site talks about unlimited tracking while its App Store purchase list shows a free allowance of 1 tracked record per month. We could not reconcile the two from public sources, and that opacity is itself a data point.

The platform mix, covered below with the pricing maths.

Records versus sessions, and what a year costs

Poker Analytics meters by tracked records. Per its App Store purchase list at our July 2026 check: 1 record per month free, 52 records a year at $14.99, and unlimited at $29.99 (a further $43.95 tier appeared inconsistently between fetches of the same page, so treat that one as unconfirmed). A record is a session or tournament entry, so run the arithmetic on your own volume: three live sessions a week is roughly 150 records a year, which lands you on the unlimited tier. That is not expensive, but it is a meter, and meters shape behaviour; the free tier's single monthly record cannot hold a real live habit.

Overshove's model is flat: the core stays free with session logging unmetered, the true hourly, the bankroll graph and CSV export. After useful value, one limited Founder offer covers the deeper review tools. The philosophical difference is worth noticing: one product meters the record, the other gives the record away and charges for deeper analysis.

The variance tools are closer than you might think

Since June 2026 this row is nearly a tie, and honesty requires saying so. Poker Analytics' new simulator runs Monte Carlo projections from your BB/100 standard deviation, showing downswing ranges, risk of ruin and bankroll recommendations by risk appetite. That is real variance tooling, not a checkbox.

The remaining difference is emphasis. A simulator projects forward from your assumed win rate; Overshove's confidence read starts one question earlier: what does your sample actually prove your rate to be. A 2/5 player with 300 logged hours at an observed 7 BB/hr has a 95% band of roughly 1 to 13 BB/hr (standard deviation 100 BB/100, about 27 hands an hour, standard error near 3 BB/hr). Feeding the point estimate into any simulator before the band has tightened produces confident-looking outputs built on an unproven input. Ideally you want both steps; Overshove leads with the band because review starts from what happened, and the free variance calculator on this site runs the same maths without an account.

Migration, honestly

This is the least tidy part of the switch, so plan it first. Poker Analytics' site references data export, and its reviews mention full-history moves with developer help, but no public source we checked confirms a self-serve CSV export or its field layout, and several of its site pages were unreachable at our check. Before committing either way, open the app, run its export, and look at the file. If it is CSV or spreadsheet-readable, Overshove imports it with a one-time column mapping and your full history crosses over. If export needs developer assistance, budget the email round-trip before you cancel anything.

In the other direction there is no ambiguity: Overshove exports CSV at every tier including free, so trying the beta risks none of your data. The four-week parallel run applies here as everywhere: log in both, compare what each surfaces, decide on your own sample.

Who should stay with Poker Analytics

Plenty of players should. If custom fields are how you think, if you want the deepest configurable stats engine in the category, if tournament staking with markup matters today, or if your life runs on Apple hardware with iCloud backup, Poker Analytics is a mature, actively developed answer with the track record to prove it. Its new variance simulator also removes what used to be a clear Overshove advantage, and this page scores that honestly.

The alternative case is for a specific player: the one who wants the review loop assembled rather than assembled-by-hand, logging unmetered and free, a true hourly net of tips and travel as the default headline, and a record that runs on Android, Windows and any browser without waiting for a port. The standing honesty about Overshove: private beta, web plus Windows with mobile planned, no HUD, no solver, no in-hand advice, no profit promise. Pick the tool whose defaults match the work you will actually do.

Poker Analytics features and prices here are summarised from poker-analytics.net (including its blog changelog) and its public App Store listing, checked July 2026. Its site does not publish pricing (it says to check inside the app) and several of its site pages were unreachable at our check, so confirm the current feature set and prices in the app before deciding. Overshove is in private beta: a web app 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.