Pick Pokerbase if you want staking, a social network, and cross-device cloud sync. Pick StackWise if you want to track with no account, no audience, a much lower price, and stats that are honest about variance.
Where Pokerbase is genuinely strong
Credit where it’s due: Pokerbase is a serious, well-built product. It runs on iOS, Android, and Mac, has a real staking marketplace with automatic backer updates, public profiles and messaging, a hand replayer, and broad import from other trackers. If your poker life involves selling action, following other players, or building a public results profile, that’s exactly what Pokerbase is for — and StackWise doesn’t try to do any of it.
Where StackWise is different
The flip side of Pokerbase’s social, cloud-first design is that it wants an account and stores your results in the cloud, and its paid tiers are the most expensive in the category — a Pro plan around $99.99/year and an Elite tier higher still. StackWise makes the opposite trade on every count.
| StackWise | Pokerbase | |
|---|---|---|
| Account required | No — none at all | Yes |
| Where your data lives | On your device | The cloud |
| Social / staking | No (by design) | Yes — a core focus |
| Honest variance stats | Confidence ranges + sample-size labels | Standard win-rate stats |
| Headline price | $4.99/mo · $39.99/yr · Lifetime $74.99 | ~$99.99/yr Pro and up |
| Platforms | iOS & Android | iOS, Android, Mac |
The honesty difference
Like most trackers, Pokerbase shows you a win rate and leans on improving it. StackWise won’t show a headline rate your sample can’t support — it pairs every figure with a 95% confidence range and a sample-size label, and withholds the number until the data earns it. You can see exactly how that works on the win-rate confidence calculator.
If you don’t sell action and don’t want a cloud account just to log your sessions, the social and staking machinery is weight you’re paying for and don’t use. That’s the player StackWise is built for.
Switching doesn’t mean starting over. Export your Pokerbase sessions as CSV and StackWise’s guided mapper brings them in. Import is free on every tier, you preview exactly what will be created before anything is saved, and your insight layer picks up with your full history behind it. The walkthrough takes about five minutes: how to switch to StackWise.
Skip the account and the $100 tier.
No account, no audience, sessions on your device — and a win rate that’s honest about your sample. Free to start on iOS and Android.
Sources
Pricing and features as listed on the Pokerbase App Store listing and pokerbase.app (store pricing can change; check current listings).