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AI Poker Coach Apps: Four Compared by What the Coach Does

Poker Skill, Poker Trainer AI, Pokr and PokerSnowie each put an AI poker coach in an app, and the coaches differ in when they speak and whose hands they review.

By Poker Skill
A lavender phone on a pale blue background shows the ace of spades on its dark screen. A white speech bubble with three grey lines rises from the phone's top corner, and a glowing cyan check badge sits on its edge beside the card.
The short answer

Yes. Poker Skill, Poker Trainer AI, Pokr and PokerSnowie are AI poker coach apps. We make Poker Skill. Poker Trainer AI grades full-table games. Pokr’s AI Coach answers questions about hands from your own games, and PokerSnowie’s Windows program analyzes online hand histories.

The four AI poker coach apps by the player each one suits

The list runs from a coach for your first lessons to software built around your online sessions.

  • Poker Skill. Short lessons from the rules up, and Coach Max talking you through full hands in Practice vs AI. Pick this if you want a coach explaining each decision while you practice, from your first hand.
  • Poker Trainer AI. Full 8-player games against AI opponents, with a grade on each meaningful decision. Pick this if you know the rules and want to be graded at a full table.
  • Pokr. GTO practice rounds, an AI coach you can question and reviews of hands from your own games. Pick this if you want AI feedback on hands you played live or online.
  • PokerSnowie. Desktop software that plays against you, flags mistakes as they happen and, on Windows, analyzes imported hand histories. Pick this if you play online and want your sessions analyzed.

Poker Sense and POKER Q’z, whose AI coaches take questions about a GTO answer, are compared on apps that explain why a poker play is right. Free poker coaching compares the options that cost nothing, from video classes to a solver’s free plan.

When each coach speaks and whose hands it reviews

Pokr and PokerSnowie are the two that review hands from outside the app, and PokerSnowie is the one built for a computer.

AppWhen the coach speaksWhose hands it reviewsPriceRuns on
Poker SkillOn each decision in Practice vs AIHands you play in the appFree forever.iPhone, iPad, Android
Poker Trainer AIOn meaningful decisions as you play, then, on request, in a review of the whole handHands you play at its tables$1.99 for one session after 3 free handsAndroid, web
PokrOn each practice decision as you play and whenever you ask; a move that strays from GTO pauses the handIts practice hands, plus hands you enter from live or online gamesFree to start; plans from $4.99 a month or $11.99 a quarteriPhone, iPad, Android, web
PokerSnowieDuring play, when it judges a move a mistakeHands you play against it, plus hand histories you import on Windows$29.90 a month; 10-day trialWindows, Mac; iPhone app for subscribers

Prices and features checked September 2026.

The four AI coach apps in detail

Poker Skill

Lessons and coached games against AI opponents

Free forever.

Best for Players who want a coach talking them through decisions while they learn and practice.

Skip if You want your own online hand histories reviewed.

Free version Every lesson, the Daily Puzzle and one Practice vs AI game a day. Poker Skill Plus is an optional subscription.

Where it runs iPhone, iPad and Android

This one is ours, built for Texas Hold'em. Practice vs AI deals full hands at heads-up and three-player tables, where Showdown AI plays the other seats and Coach Max weighs in on each of your decisions. Lessons start from the rules and take a few minutes each.

Poker Skill App Store screenshot of a puzzle hand at a six-seat table. The player on the button holds the jack of spades and the ace of hearts on an ace, nine, five flop. The cutoff has bet 8 and the pot shows 33. Above the Fold, Call 8 and Raise 33 buttons, the coach's line begins: Top pair is strong, but this is still multiway.
In this puzzle hand the coach speaks before you choose: top pair is strong, but three other players are still in the hand.

Poker Trainer AI

Graded games at a full table

$1.99 for one session

Best for Players who know the rules and want full 8-player games against AI opponents, with a grade and a reason on each meaningful fold, call and raise.

Skip if You want an iPhone app, since it runs on Android and in a browser.

Free version Three hands as a guest, with no account needed.

Where it runs Android and web

Poker Trainer AI seats you with seven AI opponents drawn from eight playing styles. Meaningful folds, calls, raises and all-ins get a grade and a plain-language reason as you play, and you can request an AI coach review that goes back over the whole hand from a professional player's point of view. A Poker IQ score from 0 to 100 tracks ten skills. The current entry offer is one training session for $1.99, and a session covers one complete table.

Poker Trainer AI Google Play screenshot headed AI Coach Review. An AI Hand Analysis panel gives an overall grade of D and says the player busted after moving all in with the two of hearts and seven of clubs from middle position, and that decision quality and result quality should be judged separately.
The review gives the shove with seven-deuce a D and keeps the bust out of the grade.

Compared with Poker Skill: Poker Trainer AI is the pick for graded play at a full eight-player table on Android or in a browser, while Poker Skill pairs short lessons with coached heads-up and three-player games against AI opponents on iPhone and Android.

Pokr

An AI coach you can ask, plus reviews of your own hands

Free to start

Best for Players who want to question an AI coach and get a GTO review of hands they played live or online.

Skip if You want to review many of your own hands without paying, since each Rewind review uses half of the free plan's daily energy.

Free version 100 energy a day, where a practice hand costs 10 and a Rewind review 50. Paid plans start at $4.99 a month or $11.99 a quarter.

Where it runs iPhone, iPad, Android and web

Pokr deals practice rounds of five full hands, grades each move against GTO on a scale from Optimal to Wild and then breaks the hand down street by street, with expected values to compare. Its Rewind tool reviews hands from your own games, including online poker. You type a hand in, describe it by voice or upload a screenshot, and the AI returns a GTO review. The AI Coach answers questions and can refer to any of those hands, and structured lessons sit alongside.

Pokr App Store screenshot headed Stuck in a Hand? Ask Your AI Coach. The player asks how blockers should influence bluff selection, and the coach answers that blockers are cards in your hand that make a strong hand less likely for your opponent, so a bluff should block the calling range and unblock the folding range.
The answer covers both halves of the idea: hold cards that block the hands that would call your bluff, and leave the hands that would fold unblocked.

Compared with Poker Skill: Pokr is the better pick for reviewing hands you played live or online, since Poker Skill coaches only the decisions you make inside its lessons, puzzles and games against AI opponents.

PokerSnowie

An AI opponent that flags mistakes as you play

$29.90 a month

Best for Online No-Limit Hold'em players who want an AI to play against and a review of the hand histories from their own sessions.

Skip if You want to train mainly on a phone, because PokerSnowie is desktop software for Windows and Mac.

Free version A 10-day free trial, then one plan at $29.90 a month or $199.90 for the first year.

Where it runs Windows and Mac, plus an iPhone app for subscribers

PokerSnowie is AI poker software for No-Limit Hold'em. You play hands against it, and its Live Advice stops you after a move it judges a mistake to show what it would have done and how often. On Windows, import hand histories from your online sessions and it analyzes those too, alongside scenario evaluations, range advice and statistics on your error rate.

PokerSnowie App Store screenshot headed Get real time feedback on your errors. Under the table, a Live Advice panel reads: your move was fold, best would have been call (49%) or raise 1 pot (51%), with bars for fold at 0 percent, call at 49 percent and raise at 51 percent.
After the fold, the advice names both better options and how often PokerSnowie picks each, a call 49 percent of the time and a pot-sized raise 51 percent.

Compared with Poker Skill: PokerSnowie plays against you on a Windows or Mac computer and analyzes the hand histories from your online sessions on Windows, while Poker Skill teaches through short lessons and coached games against AI opponents on iPhone and Android.

What a good AI poker coach tells you during a hand

A good coach gives you the price of a decision before you make it. Pot odds are that price, and Poker Skill’s Coach Max puts them in front of you on a call-or-fold spot, in lines such as “How often is he there? You’re getting 3-to-1. You need to be good about 1 in 4.” The 1 in 4 tells you how often the call has to win.

Why does 3-to-1 mean about 1 in 4?

At 3-to-1 you call 1 chip to win 3. Make that call four times, win once and lose three times, and you gain 3 chips and lose 3, which is break-even. Win more often than 1 time in 4, or 25 percent, and the call wins chips over time. That 25 percent is the call’s break-even equity.

After the hand, the grade should belong to the decision, whatever the cards did next, since a call can be right and still lose the pot. That is how the coach grades in Poker Skill’s Practice vs AI: against Showdown AI’s strategy for each spot. Poker Trainer AI says results do not override decision quality: its grades weigh position, stack depth and pot odds, and winning the pot does not make a decision correct by itself. PokerSnowie judges each move as you make it and shows how often it would take each option, so you see at once when you chose a move it never makes.

Who should not pick Poker Skill as an AI coach

Poker Skill is built to coach you through hands as you play them, from lesson spots to full Practice vs AI games, so it is the wrong pick for reviewing hands you already played online. Pokr’s Rewind reads a screenshot from an online table, takes a batch of hand history files or lets you describe a hand by voice, then returns a GTO review. PokerSnowie’s Windows program imports your hand histories and analyzes them next to its error-rate statistics.

How we compared

Each app was judged on when its coach speaks, whose hands it will review and what that costs. We read each maker’s store listing, website and help pages in September 2026 and kept only facts the maker states itself. For Poker Skill we also used the app and its Showdown AI page. A claim found only in a review or a forum post stayed out.

Frequently asked questions

Can an AI poker coach review my own hands?

Yes, if the app takes hands from outside it. Pokr's Rewind reviews hands you type, describe by voice or upload as a screenshot, including from online poker, and PokerSnowie's Windows program analyzes the hand histories you import from online sessions. Poker Skill grades the hands you play in Practice vs AI, where Showdown AI plays your opponents and Coach Max scores your decisions against its strategy. Poker Trainer AI reviews the hands you play at its own tables.

Is an AI poker coach the same as a solver?

No. A solver calculates a strategy for a spot you set up and hands back frequencies, while a coach puts a decision into words you can use at the table. Some coaches show solver-style numbers too: Pokr grades practice moves against GTO, and PokerSnowie's Live Advice shows how often it would take each action during a hand, such as call 49 percent and raise 51 percent. Poker Trainer AI's FAQ asks whether its AI is a GTO solver and answers no: it is an adaptive educational simulator and coach.

Can you learn poker with AI?

Yes. AI opponents will play a hand with you at any hour, with no table to wait for, and an AI coach can explain each decision while the hand is still in front of you. Poker Skill gives you one Practice vs AI game a day with Coach Max. Pokr's free plan covers about ten practice hands a day. Poker Trainer AI lets a guest play three hands with no account, and PokerSnowie has a 10-day free trial.

What should I look for in a poker app that uses AI?

Look for a grade tied to the decision rather than to who won the pot. Pokr grades every practice move and Poker Trainer AI every meaningful one, while PokerSnowie flags the moves it judges mistakes as you play. The reason behind a grade should be something you can check with a number. Poker Skill teaches outs and the rule of 2 and 4 in its draw lessons, so you can test a coach's claim about a draw yourself. The app should also say whose hands it will review, since some grade only the hands you play inside the app.