The review side, without the setup
No install, no configuration, no licence tier to pick. Upload a session and the numbers are there; the whole thing is a web page that works the same on any machine you sit down at.
A Hand2Note alternative for reviewing your own hands
Poker Unity is a free, browser-based alternative to Hand2Note for the review half of what Hand2Note does: reading your own hand histories as stats and studying the hands behind them. It does not do the other half — there is no dynamic HUD on your online tables and no popup profiling of opponents in real time.
Free under a $25 buy-in or $0.25 blinds — no licence key, no install, no card. Above that line, Premium is ฿499 or $15 a month for every stake.
Poker Unity next to a desktop tracker
| Poker Unity | A desktop tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A web page you open | An application you install, with a database behind it |
| Where it runs | Any browser — Mac, PC, Linux, tablet, phone | A desktop operating system, usually Windows |
| Getting hands in | Upload or paste a hand history export | A watched folder, imported as you play |
| While you play online | Nothing. No overlay on your poker client | A HUD on the table, updating as the hand goes |
| Stats on opponents | Notes you write yourself | A database built from every hand it has seen |
| Reading one number | Its definition, its sample size, and the hands behind it | A figure in a report |
| Sharing a hand | A link | A screenshot or an export |
| Cost | Free under $25 stakes | A paid licence |
The right-hand column describes desktop trackers as a category. Hand2Note's own pricing and features are for Hand2Note to state — check them before you decide.
Why people move across
Slice it and the URL remembers
Narrow to a position, a buy-in range, a date range or one session, and the address bar holds the whole filter. A view you want back tomorrow is a bookmark, and a view you want to argue about is a link.
It tells you when a number is too thin to trust
Each stat carries its own sample size and confidence interval, and says so plainly when the interval is wider than the difference the stat exists to reveal. A 40-hand river number is marked rather than presented as fact.
What Poker Unity does not do
- It does not sit on the table while you play online. There is no overlay on your poker client and nothing reads your screen.
- It does not import by itself. You upload or paste a hand history; no folder is watched.
- It is not a bulk opponent database. Stats are for your own play; notes on other players are ones you write.
- The Live HUD is for live poker: you tap what each seat does at a casino table. It is not an online overlay.
Stay on Hand2Note if the real-time HUD is the point — dynamic popups, opponent profiling while you play, and postflop stats over a large imported database are exactly what it is for.
Questions
- Is Poker Unity a free alternative to Hand2Note?
- Yes. Free under a $25 buy-in or $0.25 blinds — no licence key, no install, no card. Above that line, Premium is ฿499 or $15 a month for every stake. It reads the same hand history files — PokerStars, GG Poker, Open Hand History (OHH) — and turns them into 45 stats over your own play.
- Does it work on a Mac?
- Yes. It runs in the browser, so macOS, Windows, Linux, iPad and phone all work the same way. There is nothing to install and no virtual machine to keep.
- Does it replace the Hand2Note HUD?
- No. Nothing is overlaid on your poker client and nothing reads your screen while you play online. The Live HUD is for live poker: you tap what each seat does at a casino table. It is not an online overlay.
- How do my hands get in?
- You upload or paste a hand history export and save it to a collection. PokerStars, GG Poker, Open Hand History (OHH) are supported. No folder is watched and nothing imports by itself.
- Are the stats the same ones a tracker shows?
- They are built to be comparable: the engine was reconciled against PokerTracker 4 on a 17,753-hand audit. 15 of the 45 stats carry a note naming exactly where their definition differs and why.
Look before you sign up
Database Review opens on an example database — every stat, every filter, every leak it found — so you can judge it before you hand it a single hand history.
Open the example