Poker Trainer - Learn poker

The First Screen: What You Actually See

Open the app and you land on a drill selection screen. Five options sit in front of you: Preflop, Postflop, Hand Ranking, Best Hand, and Odds. The interface is clean, almost bare. No splash screen. No welcome tour. Just drills. Tap Preflop and the app throws you into a scenario: you are dealt two cards, and you must decide whether to raise, call, or fold based on a GTO range chart. The chart appears on screen, color-coded by position. It looks like a heat map of poker decisions. The free version gives you ten hands. Ten. After that, the app asks for money. That is the first reality check. You get ten attempts to learn preflop GTO ranges before the paywall appears. For a beginner, ten hands is barely enough to understand what a GTO range even means. The app does not explain the chart. It just shows it. You are left to figure out why a suited connector in late position is a raise but the same hand in early position is a fold. The tutorial section exists, but it is buried under a menu. Most users will not find it until they have already failed a few drills. The onboarding experience is functional but unforgiving. It assumes you already know what GTO stands for. If you do not, you will spend the first five minutes guessing.

When Preflop Meets Postflop: The Real Training Loop

The Preflop drill and the Postflop drill are supposed to work together. In theory, you practice your preflop ranges until they become automatic. Then you move to postflop, where you calculate equity against opponent ranges. The problem is that the app does not connect them. You finish a preflop session, switch to postflop, and the app treats it as a completely separate exercise. There is no hand history that carries over. No feedback on whether your preflop decision was correct given what happened on the flop. This is a missed opportunity. A real training session would show you a full hand: preflop action, flop, turn, river. The app does not do that. It isolates each drill. The postflop drill gives you a board and asks you to estimate your equity against a range. But the range is generic. It does not reflect the ranges you just practiced preflop. So you are learning two things in isolation. A user who practices preflop for an hour and then switches to postflop will not see any connection between the two. This is the kind of friction that only becomes apparent after using the app for a few days. The Range Viewer tries to bridge the gap. You can create custom ranges and see how they perform against different boards. But the viewer is a separate tool, not integrated into the drills. You have to leave the drill, open the viewer, build a range, then go back to the drill. It feels like two different apps.

Performance, Bugs, and the Price of Progress

The app runs smoothly on most devices. No crashes during the testing period. The changelog mentions fixed occasional crashes in the Poker Simulator, so earlier versions had issues. The current version feels stable. But the real performance issue is not technical. It is financial. The free version gives you ten hands per drill. That is about three to five minutes of practice. After that, you either stop or pay. The subscription is $90 per year. Lifetime access is $250. That is a steep ask for a mobile training app. Users on the Play Store have called it "horrifically overpriced." One reviewer said the $90 price turned him away completely. The developer responds that the price is competitive compared to other poker training products, especially since this app covers both preflop and postflop. That is a fair point. GTO Wizard, a browser-based competitor, charges a monthly fee that adds up to more over time. But the comparison does not help a beginner who just wants to learn the basics. For a casual player, $90 feels like a gamble. The app also has a bug where hands sometimes disappear from the history. This has been reported by multiple users. The developer acknowledged it and said they are working on fixes. The postflop content is also limited to six-handed tables. Users have asked for full-ring and heads-up options. The app does not offer those yet.

Location Permission and Data Collection Details

The Play Store listing shows that the app collects location data and personal information. The data is encrypted in transit. You can request that the developer delete your data. The developer, SweDevIT AB, is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The app does not share data with third parties. The location permission is not explained in the app description. It is unclear why a poker training app needs location access. The app is purely educational. It does not offer online or real money gameplay. The permission feels unnecessary. This is a common pattern with free apps. They collect data to support advertising or analytics. But the app does not show ads. So the location data is likely used for analytics or to comply with regional regulations. The developer's privacy policy is not prominently displayed within the app. You have to dig through the Play Store page to find the data safety section. The app requires Android 7.0 or higher. It is available on iOS as well, with the same feature set. The iOS version has a similar subscription model.