Best MTT Poker Training Apps in 2026: Eight Tournament Tools, Priced and Compared

The best MTT poker training app in 2026 is GTO Gecko: a tournament library of 1,167 solved preflop scenarios plus an ICM preflop trainer, on iOS, Android and the web, from $149.99 a year. If you only ever study push/fold on a laptop, ICMIZER PRO is cheaper at $179.99 a year for the whole product. Below are eight tournament tools with prices read off each vendor's own page on August 23, 2026, and an honest read on which one fits how you actually study.

Disclosure: we build GTO Gecko. Every number here links to the page it came from. Where a rival beats us, it says so in the table.

The eight tools, priced

One column matters more than the rest for tournament players: the cheapest plan that actually gives you ICM. Almost every platform in this category sells chip-EV ranges cheaply and puts ICM a tier or two up, so the sticker price and the price you'll actually pay are rarely the same number.

Tool	Entry price (annual)	Cheapest plan with ICM	Platforms	Best for
GTO Gecko (MTT)	$149.99/yr (~$12.50/mo)	Elite MTT, $349.99/yr	iOS, Android, web	Studying tournaments on the phone you already carry
ICMIZER 3	$99.99/yr (BASIC)	$99.99/yr — ICM is the product	Windows, Mac, browser	Push/fold and bubble maths at a desk
HRC (HoldemResources)	$119.90/yr (Classic)	$119.90/yr, capped at 30bb	Windows, Mac	Building your own tournament sims
RangeConverter MTT	$239/yr (Range Reg)	$239/yr	Browser	PKO players who need bounty ranges
GTO Wizard (Tournament)	$468/yr (Starter)	Not published outside the login	Browser-first	Pros who want the biggest library and have the budget
PeakGTO	Free tier, no ICM	Premium, $600/yr ($50/mo annual)	Browser, iOS	Players who want coaching content alongside drills
GTO LAB	Free tier, 10–200bb preflop	Tools, $74.16/mo annual (~$890/yr)	Browser	Free preflop library up to 200bb; ICM sits two tiers up
DTO Poker	$89.99/yr (Grinder)	Super High Roller, $899.99/yr	iOS, Android, browser	Spot-by-spot drilling with a fixed curriculum

Read that honestly and ICMIZER and HRC win on price. Both are preflop calculators built by people who take ICM seriously, and both cost less than our Elite MTT plan. What they aren't is something you can open on a phone between levels — and for HRC Classic, anything above 30 big blinds is out of scope.

Who should pick what

• You study on your phone, between levels or on the train. GTO Gecko, $149.99 a year for the MTT format, $349.99 if you want the ICM trainer too.
• You want push/fold and bubble numbers and nothing else. ICMIZER BASIC at $99.99 a year, or HRC Classic at $119.90 if your spots stay under 30 big blinds.
• You want to build sims rather than query a calculator. HRC Pro, $359.90 a year.
• You grind PKOs. RangeConverter Range Reg MTT at $239 a year has the deepest published bounty coverage on this page.
• You want video coaching bundled in. PeakGTO Premium at $600 a year, or GTO LAB Pro, which adds 130+ hours of video and a private Discord.
• Budget is genuinely not a constraint. GTO Wizard's tournament library is the biggest in the category. Note that Cash and Tournament are separate subscriptions.

1. GTO Gecko — the tournament library that fits in a pocket

GTO Gecko is a mobile-first GTO solver and trainer for Texas Hold'em, covering cash, MTT and Spin & Go. The MTT library holds 1,167 solved preflop scenarios spanning every table size from heads-up to 9-handed, with heads-up trees from 2 to 200 big blinds and 82 trees that are all-in-or-fold by construction, because at those depths that is the equilibrium. Antes are modeled the modern way: a big blind ante posted as dead money at 12.5% of the big blind per player, with a 100bb tree still exactly 100bb deep behind the ante. Postflop trees sit at 15, 20, 30, 50, 70 and 100bb.

The ICM side is a preflop solver and trainer built on one explicit model: a 1,000-runner tournament paying 150 places, solved at stages from 75% of the field remaining down through the stone bubble at 151 players left, three tables, two tables, and final tables from 9-handed to 3-handed. Every spot shows the payout ladder, per-seat tournament equity going in, and the bubble factor, and EVs are quoted in tournament equity rather than chips. We wrote up the whole method in how our solutions are made.

Price: free to download; MTT $24.99/month or $149.99/year; all three formats $39.99/month or $239.99/year. ICM is an Elite extension of the MTT plan at $59.99/month or $349.99/year. The honest limitation: that ICM price is nearly twice ICMIZER PRO's, and if push/fold charts are the only thing you want, we're not the cheapest way to get them. Store standing as of August 2026: 4.9 across 1,060 Google Play reviews on 10,000+ downloads, 4.7 across 57 US App Store ratings, last updated August 11, 2026 on both stores.

Drill a bubble spot on the phone in your hand: GTO Gecko on iOS or Android.

2. ICMIZER 3 — the push/fold calculator everyone names first

ICMIZER is the tool most tournament players think of when someone says ICM, and it has earned that. It runs ICM and FGS Nash calculations for SNG, MTT and Spin & Go spots, imports your hand histories, and flags push/fold mistakes automatically. MTT Coach, which comes with the PRO plan, turns those spots into drills.

Pricing verified August 23, 2026: BASIC is $17.99/month, or $8.33/month billed annually at $99.99. PRO is $32.99/month, or $14.99/month billed annually at $179.99. NITRO, which moves calculations into their cloud, is another $179.88 a year, and SNG Coach Mobile is $40 a year on top of an annual PRO plan.

The catch is the phone. PRO includes 120 daily desktop training questions and five daily mobile questions. Five. To train properly on mobile you buy the $40 add-on, and the app that add-on turns on — ICMIZER SNG Coach on iOS — is still on version 1.0.9, last updated on July 5, 2021. Five years. ICMIZER is also preflop only: it'll price the jam, and it won't tell you what to do on the turn.

3. HoldemResources Calculator — for players who build their own sims

HRC is the other serious name in tournament solving, and the closest thing to a direct ICMIZER replacement. Classic is $16.66/month or $9.99/month billed annually at $119.90, and it is explicitly scoped: best for stacks up to 30 big blinds, trees up to 50,000 nodes, postflop realization fixed at 256 buckets. Pro is $49.99/month or $29.99/month billed annually at $359.90, and lifts all three ceilings — any stack depth, tree size limited only by RAM, up to 16,384 buckets, dedicated postflop solves and scripted tree building.

Both are desktop downloads with a 14-day money-back guarantee and a free trial that needs no payment details. HRC also runs a genuinely free web ICM calculator that handles chop maths without a subscription, which is worth bookmarking whatever else you buy.

Pick HRC if you want to construct a tournament sim rather than look one up. Skip it if the words "scripted tree building" made you tired — that's the whole personality of this product, and it's a compliment.

4. RangeConverter — the PKO specialist

RangeConverter sells MTT solutions as a browser library rather than a trainer-first product. The MTT package covers 8-max from 10 to 200bb including no-limp variants, heads-up from 10 to 100bb, PKO configurations from 1 to 99bb, and ICM solutions for 3, 4 and 6-player spots mostly in the 9 to 20bb effective range.

Range Reg MTT is $29/month, or $19/month billed annually at $239. Range Pro MTT is $99/month, or $66/month billed annually at $799, and the split matters: postflop, all 22,100 flops, is Pro only.

The bounty coverage is the reason to look here. PKO ranges are hard to find at any price, and RangeConverter publishes more of them than anyone else on this page. There's no mobile app, so this is desk study.

5. GTO Wizard — the biggest library, at desk prices

GTO Wizard is the browser platform most players in the category have heard of, and its tournament library is the largest presolved set here. It's also the most expensive way to study a tournament in this comparison, and the pricing is oddly hard to see: the pricing page redirects into the app, so you need an account to read the numbers.

As we verified for our GTO Wizard pricing breakdown in August 2026, tiers run $49, $99, $169 and $279 per month on monthly billing, dropping to $39, $79, $139 and $229 per month on annual billing — $468 to $2,748 a year. Starter buys Single Size Solutions, which show one solver-chosen bet size per node instead of the full mixed tree; the complete presolved library opens at Premium. Cash and Tournament are separate subscriptions, so a player who grinds both at Elite pays $278 a month annually, not $139.

If you play tournaments for a living and the subscription is under 10% of your monthly profit, the depth is real and the cost is noise. If you're grinding $22s, it isn't. Our head-to-head is at GTO Gecko vs GTO Wizard.

6. PeakGTO — drills with a coaching library attached

PeakGTO is PokerCoaching.com's GTO platform, built around Jonathan Little's tournament content. The free tier is unusually generous: the full preflop library and trainer, five postflop hands a day, and weekly drills, with no card required. ICM and exploitative ranges are not in it.

Premium is $79/month billed monthly, or $50/month billed annually, which is $600 a year. That adds the full postflop library, ICM hands and ranges, unlimited drills, a leak finder and the monthly challenge. The PokerCoaching bundle is $169/month or $83/month annually. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Worth knowing where the numbers come from: PeakGTO's own FAQ says preflop data comes from HRC or MonkerSolver solves and postflop is solved in PioSOLVER. There's an iOS app, currently on version 1.2.1 from February 7, 2026, with four ratings. The coaching library is the differentiator, not the solver.

7. GTO LAB — the best free preflop library on this page

GTO LAB gives away more than anyone else here. The Starter plan is $0 and includes unlimited access to a preflop library and preflop trainer from 10 to 200 big blinds. If your study budget this month is zero, that's where to start.

Paid tiers are $25/month for Basic (postflop library and trainer), $89/month for Tools, and $149/month for Pro, each 16% cheaper on annual billing — $20.83, $74.16 and $124.16 per month respectively. The ICM Trainer and Chip EV inequal-stack tools live in Tools, so the real ICM entry price is about $890 a year. Pro adds 130+ hours of coaching video and a private Discord.

It's browser only. We could find no GTO LAB app in the App Store or in a Google Play search, so this is study at a desk, and the $89-a-month step from Basic to Tools is a steep one for a single feature.

8. DTO Poker — a fixed curriculum, thinly updated

DTO built its reputation on spot-by-spot MTT drilling, and the structure is still good: you work a defined list of scenarios, and the app grades each decision against the solution. Subscriptions are tiered by how many spots you get. DTO Postflop runs $9.99/month or $89.99/year for Grinder (31 spots), $29.99/month or $269.99/year for High Roller (85 spots), and $99.99/month or $899.99/year for Super High Roller (108 spots). ICM is only in the top tier, and DTO's own page describes it as "currently ten ICM Spots, more Spots coming soon!"

DTO Preflop is sold separately as one-time purchases: Basic $349.99, Advanced $899.99, and an ICM pack at $699.99 covering 51 stack distributions across four, five and six-player final tables.

The problem is maintenance. DTO MTT is on version 8.1.11 on both stores, last updated November 20, 2025 — nine months ago as of this writing. It still holds 4.7 across 282 App Store ratings and 4.3 across 1,190 Play reviews on 100,000+ downloads, so the install base is real. Our full write-up is at DTO Poker review.

What actually decides this for a tournament player

Four things, roughly in order.

Where ICM sits in the price list. Chip-EV ranges are cheap everywhere. ICM is what tournament money turns on, and every platform here except ICMIZER, HRC and RangeConverter puts it behind an upgrade. Price the tier you will actually end up on, not the one on the homepage.

Whether the tool covers the depths you play. HRC Classic stops being appropriate above 30bb. RangeConverter's ICM solutions cluster at 9 to 20bb effective. If you are trying to work out a 45bb squeeze on the bubble, check the coverage list before you check the price.

Whether it runs where you study. Most players in 2026 do their reps on a phone, and three of these eight have no phone product at all. That's not a small detail: a subscription you can only open at a desk gets used on the days you sit at the desk. Our own read on that is in what 673,118 solver-graded decisions say about training.

Whether it is still being built. A tournament trainer that hasn't shipped since 2021 isn't going to grow new PKO content or fix the spot list. Check the last-updated date on the store listing before you subscribe. It takes ten seconds and it's the most honest signal a vendor gives you.

Frequently asked questions

What is the cheapest way to study ICM in 2026?

HRC Classic at $119.90 a year, if your spots stay at 30 big blinds or shallower. Above that, ICMIZER BASIC at $99.99 a year gets you the calculator at any depth, and PRO at $179.99 adds the trainer and the replayer. Both are desktop tools. The cheapest ICM you can drill on a phone is GTO Gecko's Elite MTT plan at $349.99 a year.

Do I need an ICM tool if I only play low-stakes MTTs?

Not on day one. Get your preflop opening and defending ranges solid first, then add ICM when you start reaching final tables regularly, because that is where pay jumps distort correct play the most. Our ICM explainer and final-table ICM guide cover the concepts before you spend anything.

Is GTO Wizard worth it for tournaments?

If tournaments are your income and the subscription is a small share of monthly profit, the tournament library is the deepest available and the cost stops mattering. At $468 to $2,748 a year with Cash and Tournament billed separately, it's a hard sell for recreational players, and a mobile-first trainer at $149.99 covers most of the same study for a fraction of it.

Can I use these tools while I am playing?

No. Every major site treats solver use during a hand as real-time assistance and bans it, and several ban open charts as well. These are study tools between sessions. We went through the actual site rules in are poker solvers allowed?

Which of these has the best free tier?

GTO LAB, comfortably. Its Starter plan gives unlimited access to a preflop library and trainer from 10 to 200 big blinds for nothing. PeakGTO's free tier is also real, though it excludes ICM. Free tiers stop at preflop chip EV everywhere on this list.

Start with the spot that cost you money last week

Pick the tool that runs where you study, not the one with the longest feature list. If that's a desk and push/fold, buy ICMIZER or HRC and stop reading. If it is the phone in your pocket, GTO Gecko is $149.99 a year for the MTT library and $349.99 with the ICM trainer, free to download either way. Get it on iOS or Android, load the bubble spot that busted you last week, and see what the solve actually says.

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All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners and are used for identification only. GTO Gecko is not affiliated with or endorsed by ICMIZER Limited, HoldemResources, DTO POKER LTD, GTO Wizard, PokerCoaching.com, GTO LAB LTD or RangeConverter. Pricing verified August 23, 2026 — check each vendor's site for current rates.