GrindStack vs Thinking Poker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GrindStack
This app helps serious poker players track live game hands, opponent tendencies, and bankroll. It features a specialized keyboard for fast note-taking and AI-powered strategy insights. Analyze your game and build a player database to gain a competitive edge.
- Fast live game note-taking
- Custom poker shorthand keyboard
- Bankroll and session tracking
- AI strategy insights
- Hand history review and search
- Player database building
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Stop guessing and start grinding. GrindStack is the ultimate live poker tracker, bankroll log, and AI-powered strategy coach built for serious cash game and tournament players. Never forget a hand again. Log live action in seconds with our custom poker shorthand keyboard, track opponent tells, and turn raw session data into actionable analytics. Wondering how to track poker hands effectively at the table? GrindStack transforms your notes into a structured study database. Find your leaks, analyze Texas Holdem hands, and elevate your live game strategy. KEY FEATURES: • Quick Hand History Logging: Built for fast-paced casino action. • Interactive Bankroll Manager: Track your hourly win rates and trends. • AI Poker Coach: Instantly analyze your decisions and find leaks. • Opponent Notes: Keep a secure database of player tells and styles. Download GrindStack today, find your leaks, and boost your win rate. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Thinking Poker
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Thinking Poker is your private journal for live poker. Record hands with one thumb, see where your results come from, then study and reset. TiltFree is now Thinking Poker: the same app on the same App Store page, now version 5.0. If you used TiltFree 4, your journal comes with you. PLAY A SESSION • Start a cash game or tournament with stakes, location and buy-in. • Your stack stays in view. Tap it to switch between money and big blinds. • Finish with a recap: profit, time, hourly rate, hands recorded, mood and one thing you would change. • Keep your rooms and their rake. Add a past session by hand. RECORD HANDS AT THE TABLE • Seats and action buttons sit under your left or right thumb. • Pick cards from a full-deck grid, or ranks and suits separately. • Antes, and a straddle from any seat. PLO, PLO5, double-board and bomb-pot hands go in the manual builder. • Add notes and tags, mark favourites, and finish unfinished hands later. • Select several hands, sessions or notes and delete them at once, with undo. REPLAY AND SHARE • Replay any hand street by street. • Save a hand as an image, or share it to thinking.poker with a link. It stays private until you share, and other players' names are hidden by default. AI REVIEW • Send a hand, or a finished session, for a street-by-street AI review: key moments, leaks, a read on the villain and a mental-game note. • It is a second opinion, not a verdict. A review uses 1 credit, and a failed review is refunded. KNOW YOUR TABLE • Player profiles with exploit notes, labels and an optional photo that stays on your phone. • Stats from the hands you record: VPIP, PFR, 3-bet, c-bet and more. Style reads appear from 30 hands. Merge duplicate players in one tap. INSIGHTS • Profit over time, bb/100, hourly rate with a confidence band, biggest upswing and downswing. • Goals, and a bankroll with deposits and withdrawals. STUDY BETWEEN SESSIONS • Chart trainer: ten hands against a chart, with feedback on where you differed. • 13x13 preflop charts with action frequencies. Build your own chart packs, mix actions by percentage or paste a range. • Play whole hands against bots (TAG, LAG, nit, maniac, calling station, weak-tight), with preflop graded against the charts. • Equity calculator for Hold'em, PLO and ESG with multiple boards. • Poker 101 library, short chapters. KEEP YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME • Tilt SOS: one tap, one minute of guided breathing, any time things turn. • Reset lines: a sentence to say to yourself when tilt starts. • Commitments: pick a few promises before you sit, mark each kept or not at the recap. • Guided audio for before you sit, after a hard stretch and to wind down, in English and Chinese. YOUR DATA • Works offline. Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your journal across phones, or stay a guest on this phone. • Export your whole journal as a ZIP with JSON and CSV. Delete your account from inside the app. COMING FROM TILTFREE 4 Your sessions, hands, players, notes, chart packs, saved equity spots and settings come over the first time you open 5.0. Nothing on your phone is deleted. If asked, sign in with the Apple or Google account you used in TiltFree 4. Pro carries over too. PRO Pro lifts the daily hand limit, the chart-pack limit and the saved-spot limit, and includes AI review credits every month. Credit packs are also available as a one-time purchase. A tracking and study tool. No real-money gambling. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID account settings. Terms: https://pokertools.ai/terms Privacy: https://pokertools.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Thinking Poker at every 6 days against GrindStack's every 5 weeks. GrindStack's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. GrindStack sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Thinking Poker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GrindStack ships an update every 5 weeks, Thinking Poker every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GrindStack | Thinking Poker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeremiah Moore | lei cao |
In-app purchases
GrindStack
- Weekly Pro Subscription$4.997 Days
- Monthly Pro Membership$10.991 Month
- Pro Annual Subscription$99.991 Year
Thinking Poker
- TiltFree Pro$9.991 Month
- TiltFree Pro7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- 20 AI reviews$9.99
- 100 AI reviews$34.99
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