Updated 22 September 2026 · Prices checked 22 September 2026
Best poker tracker software in 2026
Seven products, one honest weakness each. Ours is in the table too, and it has the worst weakness on the list.
Short answer. On Windows with a budget, Hand2Note 4. On a Mac, Poker Copilot for smoothness or PokerTracker 4 for depth. On Bovada, Ignition or America’s Cardroom, DriveHUD covers rooms the others miss. If your site bans displays, or you only want to review your own play, a web tool does that job for about a third of the price.
The comparison table
| Product | Price | Runs on | Type | One real weakness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PokerTracker 4 | $64.99 small stakes, $99.99 all stakes. One-off, plus a yearly fee to keep receiving updates | Windows and Mac | Desktop, live HUD | No native support for 5-card or 6-card PLO, which rules it out on the crypto sites running those games |
| Hold’em Manager 3 | $65 small stakes, $100 all stakes. One-off, plus a yearly fee for updates | Windows only | Desktop, live HUD | Stability. Users report stat popups taking seconds to appear and HUD positions resetting on every restart |
| Hand2Note 4 | $15.99 a month for Learner, $39 for Pro, both billed yearly. Subscription only | Windows and Mac, native on Apple Silicon | Desktop, live HUD | Version 4 databases need roughly three times the disk of version 3, and version 3 subscriptions do not carry over |
| DriveHUD 3 | $59.99 the first year then $19.99 a year for Core. $119.99 then $39.99 for Ultimate | Windows only | Desktop, live HUD | Still shipping as a public beta while being sold at full price |
| Poker Copilot 8 | $39 micro, $69 small, $99 all stakes. One-off, but you pay again at the next major version | Mac and Windows, one binary covering both Mac chips | Desktop, live HUD | A short list of supported sites. No partypoker, and GGPoker is review-only |
| HandHistory.com | Free for your last 100 hands. $29 a year for the rest | Web, any device | Upload and review | Every file is uploaded by hand, and the site publishes nothing about what it has changed or when |
| Zayrion Analytics (ours) | Not set. In development | Web, any device | Upload and review | It is not finished. Nothing here is a reason to wait for it rather than buy one of the others |
Two products people put on this list that do not belong
SharkScope gets called a tracker constantly and it is a different thing. Its database holds tournament and sit-and-go results only, scraped from results the networks publish. Cash game results are never published, so no such database can exist for them. Its desktop tool does read your own cash hands, like any tracker, but it tells you nothing about an opponent you have not played. Worth knowing before you pay for it expecting cash game coverage.
GTO Wizard has a hand history analyser and is not a tracker either. It compares your hands against solver solutions to find where you lost expected value. There is no opponent database, no HUD and no bankroll tracking, and the analyser sits on its two most expensive tiers. It answers “was that the right play” rather than “what am I doing wrong over ten thousand hands”.
Neither price appears in the table above. Both vendors put their pricing behind JavaScript that will not load without a browser session, and the third-party figures we found disagreed by roughly double. Check their own sites.
How to actually choose
Start with the sites you play. This decides more than anything else on the page. A tracker that does not read your room is worthless whatever else it does, and coverage of the US-facing rooms is where the products differ most.
Then ask whether you can use a HUD at all. Several rooms ban them. If yours does, most of a desktop tracker’s price is buying a feature you are not allowed to switch on.
Then your operating system. Two of the five desktop products are Windows only. Running one under Parallels works and adds a licence, a virtual machine and a support burden nobody enjoys.
Budget last. The spread runs from $29 a year to $468, and the expensive end is not four times better at the thing most players want, which is finding out what they are doing wrong.
Where ours sits
Zayrion Analytics is in development and has no price. It runs in a browser, reads hands you upload, and never puts a display on the table, which suits the rooms that ban them. It is in the table for completeness rather than as a recommendation. If you need a tracker today, buy one of the others.
The room guides cover getting your hands out of each site, and they work with any tracker on this page. The stats guides explain what the numbers mean once you have them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best poker tracker?
There is no single answer, and anyone giving you one is selling something. On Windows with money to spend, Hand2Note 4 is the most capable. On a Mac, Poker Copilot is the smoothest and PokerTracker 4 the most complete. On US-facing sites like Bovada and Ignition, DriveHUD covers rooms the others do not. If you only want to review your own hands and never run a display, a web tool costs a fraction of any of them.
Do I need a tracker if my poker site bans HUDs?
You can still review your own hands, and on those sites it is the only thing you can do. GGPoker and Ignition both prohibit a display on the table while allowing you to export your hands afterwards. A desktop tracker sold mainly on its HUD is poor value there, because you are buying the half you cannot use.
Which poker trackers work on a Mac?
PokerTracker 4, Poker Copilot and Hand2Note 4 all have Mac builds today. Hold’em Manager 3 and DriveHUD 3 are Windows only, so a Mac user needs Parallels or Boot Camp for either. Anything running in a browser sidesteps the question.
Is Hold’em Manager still being developed?
Yes, and the widely repeated claim that it has been abandoned is out of date. There were five stable releases between December 2025 and August 2026, the most recent on 24 August. The reputation comes from earlier quiet stretches rather than the current position.
Is a subscription or a one-off purchase better?
A one-off looks cheaper and usually is not quite. PokerTracker and Hold’em Manager both include a year of updates and then charge to keep receiving them, and Poker Copilot charges again at each major version. Over five years the gap narrows more than the headline prices suggest.
What is the cheapest way to track your poker results?
A web tool with a free tier, then paying only if you outgrow it. HandHistory.com gives you your last 100 hands for nothing and charges $29 a year beyond that, which is less than a third of any desktop licence here.
How did you choose these, and where do the prices come from?
They are not ranked. Each one gets one real weakness, ours included, and ours is the most serious on the list because the product is not finished. Prices were read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 22 September 2026. Where a vendor hides its pricing behind a login, we have said so rather than repeat a figure from elsewhere.
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