Best Poker Journal & Tracker Apps in 2026: An Honest Comparison

This comparison is written by the team behind PokerInk, so read it with that in mind. The claims about other apps come from their public store listings and sites as of August 2026, and where another app is the better pick for a job, this page says so. A comparison that declares its author the winner of every row is an ad, and the poker world has enough of those.

The apps, at a glance

Pokerbase: the staking specialist

Pokerbase describes itself as tracking and staking, and the staking half is the differentiator: real-time sharing built for player-backer relationships, which none of the other apps here is built around. If you sell action or back players, that feature alone can decide this list for you. Its tracking side is polished and its store ratings are excellent. What it is not built around is the hand itself: the review loop of logging decisions street by street and studying them.

Poker Analytics 6: the veteran tracker

Poker Analytics has been on iOS for many years and it shows, in the good sense: mature session tracking, deep filtering, and a large base of long-term users. For a pure money-and-sessions tracker on iPhone, it is the safe, proven pick. It includes a hand recorder, though the app's center of gravity remains stats about your sessions rather than coaching about your decisions.

Poker Bankroll Tracker: the community workhorse

Filavision's Poker Bankroll Tracker is the volume leader on Android, with a six-figure install base and a broad free feature set supported by ads. It bundles a bit of everything: bankroll graphs, session logging, a hand replayer, and community sharing. If you want maximum features for free and do not mind ads, it earns its popularity.

PokerInk: the journal with a coach inside

PokerInk starts from a different question. Not "what did I win?" but "what did I do, and what should I fix?"

• Journal at the table: a visual poker table built for one thumb, photo drafts you complete later, voice and shorthand entry, fully offline-first for card rooms with no signal.
• AI coaching on your hands: street-by-street analysis with scores out of 10, anchored to a poker engine that computes your exact hand strength and draws, so the facts of your hand are computed, never guessed.
• Leak detection and training: 16 automated leak rules benchmarked against winning-player ranges, feeding an Elo-rated drill system across 10 skills with a growing bank of thousands of reviewed hands.
• Honest money stats: $/hour and sessions won from full buy-ins and cash-outs, with sample sizes shown, and deliberately no bb/100 from a biased hand sample.

The honest caveats: PokerInk launched on the app stores in 2026, so it has the shortest track record and the smallest review count on this page. It is No-Limit Hold'em only. And it has no staking tools; if that is your need, see Pokerbase above.

What about GTO trainers?

GTO Wizard, Postflop+, and DTO are excellent at what they do, but they sit on a different shelf: they teach theoretically sound play in abstract spots. None of them knows what happened in your Tuesday night game. A journal and a trainer answer different questions, which is why the training inside PokerInk is driven by your own logged hands rather than a generic curriculum.

The bottom line

Get a tracker if your question is about money. Pick Pokerbase for staking, Poker Analytics 6 for iOS stats depth, Poker Bankroll Tracker for a free all-rounder on Android. If your question is "where am I losing, and how do I stop," that is a journal and coaching question, and it is the one PokerInk exists to answer.

Try the journal with a coach inside

PokerInk is free to start on iPhone, Android, and the web. See pricing.