Alternatives to Poker Trainer – Learn Poker by SweDevIT

Poker Trainer – Learn Poker drills spots and explains your mistakes. For beginners, Poker Skill is the better pick.

By Poker Skill Published October 9, 2026 We make Poker Skill.

A phone showing the ace of spades and the king of hearts above a cyan Call button and a dark Fold button, beside a cream card with two gray answer tiles, each marked with a green check and +1. A cyan speech bubble reading WHY rises from the right-hand tile, so only the second right answer comes with a reason.

The short answer

The best alternative to Poker Trainer – Learn Poker for a beginner is Poker Skill, which we make: you play full hands against AI, and Coach Max explains every decision, right or wrong. Poker Skill is free. Forever. Poker Trainer suits short drills, and like DTO Poker and PokerCoaching, it has a free version.

Which one to pick, in four lines

Poker Skill, for learning.
Free forever.
Poker Trainer, for short drills.
Free
DTO Poker, for free GTO drills.
Free plan
PokerCoaching, for pros on video.
Free tier

The comparison at a glance

App	Best for	Free version	Price
Poker Skill Ours	Learning from the rules up by playing full hands with a coach	Every lesson, the Daily Puzzle and one Practice vs AI game a day	Free forever.
Poker Trainer – Learn Poker	Quick drills on one spot type at a time	10 Simulator hands a day, plus math and hand-ranking drills	Free, Premium $14.99 a month
DTO Poker	Drilling GTO spots once you know the rules	Every preflop cash solution and one cash postflop spot	Free plan, Beginner $9.99 a month
PokerCoaching	Learning from a pro on video	Sample lessons, limited PeakGTO drills and community access	Free tier, Premium $147 a month

Prices and features checked October 2026. For a wider look at drill apps and solvers, see the best poker training apps.

The four in detail

Poker Skill

Ours

Lessons, a Daily Puzzle and full hands against AI, with a reason after every decision

Free forever.

Best for Beginners who want to learn by playing full hands, with Coach Max explaining every decision, right or wrong.

Skip if You want Omaha or stud, because Poker Skill teaches Texas Hold'em only. Or you want to drill one preflop spot after another against a range chart, which Poker Trainer does.

Free version Every lesson, the Daily Puzzle and one Practice vs AI game a day.

Where it runs iPhone, iPad and Android

Lessons start with the rules and hand rankings and take a few minutes each. In Practice vs AI you play full hands against AI opponents, and Coach Max grades each decision and says why, whether you were right or wrong. A new Daily Puzzle arrives every day.

Coach Max talks you through a hand while you play it: here he points out that you're being offered 3-to-2 to call.

Poker Trainer – Learn Poker

Short drills on preflop, postflop, odds and hand rankings, with a plan built on your weak spots

Free Premium $14.99 a month

Best for Players who know the rules and want quick daily reps on one spot type at a time, with the range chart in front of them.

Skip if You want every right answer explained as well as your mistakes, or lessons in order from the rules up. Its tutorials are short and sit beside the drills.

Free version 10 Simulator hands a day, plus its math and hand-ranking drills, tutorials, Range Viewer and Odds Calculator. Premium lifts the hand limit.

Where it runs iPhone, iPad, Android and the web

Poker Trainer, made by SweDevIT in Sweden, drills preflop and postflop decisions, hand rankings and poker math. Its simulator also plays full hands. It builds a training plan from your weakest areas and brings common mistakes back. After a mistake it shows the right answer and why. A right answer just scores a point. Untick "Show only on mistakes" in Practice mode and right preflop answers get the reason too.

Poker Trainer – Learn Poker's panel after folding the ace and four of hearts in the cutoff. Chips read Mistake: Fold and Correct: Raise above a preflop range chart that raises 26.7% of hands, then a reason saying that with three players behind, the raise often wins the blinds and all suited aces open here, a Why raise? row and a ticked Show only on mistakes box. — After a wrong fold the preflop drill shows the right play, the range chart and a short reason. Notice the "Show only on mistakes" box, ticked when you install the app.

Compared with Poker Skill: Poker Trainer is the pick for quick drills on one spot type at a time, while Poker Skill explains every answer, right or wrong, with nothing to switch on.

DTO Poker

A GTO trainer that points out each mistake against solved strategy

Free plan Beginner $9.99 a month on the web

Best for Players who know the rules and want to drill preflop ranges and common spots against a GTO bot, starting free.

Skip if You are starting from zero. DTO Poker drills solver strategy, and its explanations use terms like range and board texture.

Free version Every preflop cash solution, unlimited training in one cash postflop spot and 5 Virtual Coach explanations a day in the web trainer.

Where it runs Web, iPhone and Android, with cash games and tournaments as separate apps

DTO Poker deals you common cash game and tournament spots against its GTO bot and points out each mistake as you play. Its free plan opens every preflop cash solution, and its Virtual Coach explains moves in words.

DTO Cash App Store screenshot of the DTO Virtual Coach panel. Under Board Texture and Hand Strength it says that on a board of queen, ten, eight, three, ten, checking is optimal because the hand is strong but not the nuts, and a second section is headed Inducing Bluffs. — The Virtual Coach says why the solver's play works: here, checking a strong river hand that isn't the best possible one.

Compared with Poker Skill: DTO Poker is the pick for drilling solver strategy once you know the game, while Poker Skill starts from the rules and explains each answer in plain words.

PokerCoaching

Jonathan Little's training site: courses, video classes, hand quizzes and live coaching

Free tier Premium $147 a month or $999 a year

Best for Players who learn by watching a pro talk through hands, with quizzes to test themselves.

Skip if You want the full library free, because it is Premium.

Free version Sample lessons, limited PeakGTO drills and community access, with no credit card.

Where it runs Web, iPhone, iPad and Android

PokerCoaching is the training site Jonathan Little founded. Premium opens every course, among them a Master the Fundamentals path, along with video classes, interactive hand quizzes and weekly live coaching sessions. Every plan comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

PokerCoaching App Store screenshot headed Over 1,500 Video Quizzes, showing the app's quiz list with filters for Cash, MTT, in position, out of position and stack depth, above quizzes titled Late Position Lucky Lucky? with a king and a two and $2/$5 NLH Live Cash 13b IP with an ace and a four. — Each quiz is a hand a coach talks through on video, and the filters narrow them to the game and stack depth you play.

Compared with Poker Skill: PokerCoaching is the pick if you want pros on video and live classes, while Poker Skill gives you every lesson free on your phone.

What each one costs

Does Poker Trainer – Learn Poker explain its answers?

After a mistake, yes. A wrong answer in its preflop drill opens a panel with the right play, the range chart for the spot and a short reason, with a “Why raise?” or “Why fold?” section that lists the ideas behind it. The postflop drill names the play its gameplan prefers and says why. The odds drill, which quizzes pot odds and bluffs, shows the right percentage with the sum behind it: risk 108 to win 72, and a bluff has to work 60% of the time. The hand-ranking drills name the hand you missed.

A right answer gets a green button and a point, and the next hand deals. In Practice mode the preflop and full-hand drills have a “Show only on mistakes” box, ticked when you install the app. Untick it and right preflop answers open the same panel too. Right answers after the flop and in the math and hand-ranking drills still get only the point, and the scored Play mode has no such box.

Compared with Poker Skill: Poker Trainer explains your mistakes, while Poker Skill’s Coach Max explains every decision, right or wrong, in lessons and in full hands against AI opponents.

Try this on any trainer before you pay

Five minutes with a free version

Answer one spot wrong on purpose and read what it tells you.
Answer one right and see whether it says why.
Find where the free version stops: a daily hand limit or a paid plan.

The same three checks work on any poker trainer, whether it drills one spot, sets a daily puzzle or deals full hands.

Where Poker Skill falls short

Poker Skill teaches Texas Hold’em only, so an Omaha player needs another app. Free lessons run on energy: a question costs one the first time you answer it right, and a wrong answer costs nothing. When energy runs out, the lesson pauses until it refills. Free players get one Practice vs AI game a day, against AI opponents rather than people, and Plus gives unlimited Practice vs AI games. And there are no video classes.

How we compared

What follows an answer
What the free version gives
Who it suits

We compared what follows an answer in each app, what its free version gives, what more costs and whether it suits someone starting from zero. Who each one fits is our judgment.

The four in one line each

App	Best for	Price
Poker Skill Ours	Learning by playing full hands, with a reason after every decision	Free forever.
Poker Trainer – Learn Poker	Quick drills with the range chart in front of you	Free, or Premium at $14.99 a month
DTO Poker	Drilling GTO spots once you know the rules	Free plan, or Beginner at $9.99 a month
PokerCoaching	Learning from pros on video	Free tier, or Premium at $147 a month

Frequently asked questions

Is Poker Trainer – Learn Poker free?

Partly. It's free to download, with 10 Simulator hands a day plus its math and hand-ranking drills, tutorials, Range Viewer and Odds Calculator. Premium lifts the hand limit at $14.99 a month on the App Store. The app also sells weekly, yearly and lifetime plans.

Does Poker Trainer – Learn Poker explain why an answer is right?

Not by default. After a mistake it shows the right answer and why, with the range chart and a short reason in its preflop drill. A right answer gets a green button and a point. In Practice mode you can untick "Show only on mistakes" to get the reason after right preflop answers too.

Who makes Poker Trainer – Learn Poker?

SweDevIT AB, a company in Sweden, which also runs pokertrainer.se, where the same trainer works in a browser. Google Play lists the developer's name as Poker Trainer.

Is Poker Trainer – Learn Poker good for beginners?

It suits beginners who already know the rules, but Poker Skill is the better start for anyone still learning the game. Poker Skill teaches Texas Hold'em from the rules up, with Coach Max's reason after every answer. Poker Trainer's drills are short, its tutorials start with how a hand is played and its preflop drill shows the range chart after a mistake.

What is the best free alternative to Poker Trainer – Learn Poker?

For a beginner, Poker Skill: every lesson, the Daily Puzzle and one Practice vs AI game a day cost nothing, and every answer comes with a reason. DTO Poker's free plan suits players who already know the rules and want to drill preflop ranges, and PokerCoaching's free tier suits players who want to watch a pro.