The short answer

SnapShove is the app that made jam-or-fold poker portable: enter your stack, position and table size, and it returns the Nash equilibrium answer to one question — shove or fold. It still answers that question correctly. It also holds 2.5 out of 5 stars on the US App Store, limits free users to one calculation per day, and has nothing to say about any spot where jamming isn’t the only option.

Four replacements cover what it did and the parts it never touched. Preflop+ ($129.99 lifetime) if you want Nash charts with drills bolted on. ICMIZER (from $17.99/mo) when bubbles and final tables make ICM matter. Free printable charts if you’re spending nothing. And GTO Preflop if you want the answer to the whole preflop game, where the jam is one line in a full strategy instead of the only line.

Note:

Full disclosure: GTO Preflop is our app. Every price and rating below was checked against the vendor’s own store page or website on August 19, 2026 (ICMIZER and HoldemResources on August 18). Where a rival beats us, we say so plainly.

SnapShove alternatives at a glance

Platforms Price (Aug 2026) What it answers
SnapShove iPhone, iPad, Android Free (1 calc/day); Core $3.99/mo or $34.99/yr; Unlimited $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr Is this exact stack a Nash shove, call or reshove?
Preflop+ iPhone, iPad, Android $9.99/mo, $79.99/yr or $129.99 lifetime Nash shove/fold charts plus equity drills and pot-odds tools
ICMIZER 3 Desktop, web Basic $17.99/mo or $99.99/yr; PRO $32.99/mo or $179.99/yr What does ICM do to this shove or call on the bubble?
Free printable charts Paper, PDF Free A memorizable skeleton of heads-up jam ranges
GTO Preflop iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Silicon Mac Free download; Pro $19.99/mo or $119.99/yr The full solved preflop strategy — jams, min-raises, calls and 3-bets, with training

Why players are replacing SnapShove

Start with the number that sent you searching. As of August 19, 2026, SnapShove’s current iOS release holds 2.5 out of 5 stars across 22 US App Store ratings. Upswing Poker still lists it among the tools tournament players should use daily, and its Nash engine isn’t wrong. The app around the engine is what people are leaving.

The free tier is thin now: SnapShove’s own site describes the Starter plan as one shove, call or reshove calculation per day (training simulations stay unlimited, to its credit). And the store listing is a maze: six overlapping in-app purchases from $3.49 to $44.99, including a separate monthly subscription for reshove mode, while the website sells two tiers with different prices. Figuring out what you’d actually pay takes longer than the trial calculation you get that day.

But there’s a deeper problem, and it applies to every jam-or-fold tool, not SnapShove specifically. Push/fold is a smaller slice of tournament poker than the apps built around it suggest.

Chart of GTO Preflop MTT solve raise sizes: all-in only at 3-8BB, 2bb min-raise at 10-12BB, 2.1-2.3bb from 15BB up

That chart comes from our own solve database. In GTO Preflop’s MTT ChipEV solutions, computed with a standard 12.5% ante, every opening raise at 3 to 8 big blinds is all-in — genuine push/fold poker. At 10 and 12 big blinds, the only opening size in the solved tree is a 2bb min-raise. From 15 big blinds up it’s 2.1–2.3bb. The pure jam-or-fold game ends around 8 big blinds. A tool that prices Nash jams at 15 or 20 big blinds is answering a question the solver stopped asking at that depth: it tells you whether a jam is profitable, not whether the min-raise was better.

We can also see the switch happening in our ad data. We run Apple Search Ads for GTO Preflop, and in the 30 days to August 11, 2026, the search term “snapshove” produced 5 taps and 3 attributed installs of our app, with “push fold” adding 3 more. Small numbers, and they’re floors, since a big share of App Store ad traffic carries no keyword attribution at all. The pattern matches what we found with Equilab: players type the name of the tool they know, then install the thing they were actually looking for.

1. GTO Preflop — the whole preflop game, jams included

GTO Preflop is a mobile preflop solver library and trainer for iPhone, iPad, Android and Apple Silicon Macs. The strategies are solved ahead of time and ship inside the app: 11,385 decision points and just under two million hand-specific strategies across 503 scenarios, covering cash games, MTT ChipEV and Spin & Go from 2-handed to 8-handed.

For a SnapShove user the relevant part is the short-stack coverage. MTT solves run at 14 depths from 3 to 100 big blinds with antes, and at 3–8 big blinds those files are true push/fold ranges — the all-in is the solved opening action, and facing-a-shove nodes give you the calling side too. The trainer deals MTT spots at 3 to 12 big blinds, grades every decision against the solution, and reports your EV loss per 100 hands with an ELO rating attached. That’s the piece a chart app can’t do: you don’t find out what you’ve memorized, you find out what you actually play.

Spin & Go players get more depth than anywhere else on this page: 13 even-stack depths from 2 to 34 big blinds plus 418 asymmetrical stack combinations, down to 1.5 big blinds. Short-stack tools usually assume everyone has the same stack; real spins almost never look like that. It matters, because solver estimates put 70–80% of Spin & Go winnings down to preflop play alone.

Honest limits. The depths are a fixed grid — with 7.3 big blinds you use the 8bb solve, where SnapShove’s calculator takes your exact number. ICM coverage is a single scenario, so bubble math belongs to ICMIZER below. And it’s preflop only, by design.

Free to download. Pro runs $19.99 a month or $119.99 a year on the standard plan, with a $7.99 weekly option. We run pricing experiments, so some users see different numbers. It holds 4.8 out of 5 across 240 US App Store ratings as of August 19, 2026.

Tip:

Test yourself where push/fold actually lives: get the app and run twenty trainer hands at 8 big blinds. If your EV loss comes back near zero, a chart app is genuinely all you need.

2. Preflop+ — Nash charts with a toolbox attached

Preflop+ (Crafty Wheel Studios) is the strongest chart-first replacement. Its store listing covers Nash shove/fold charts from 5 big blinds to 25 and above with exact EV numbers per hand, wrapped in a set of study modules: equity drills, pot-odds practice, combinatorics and custom ranges. Everything works offline. It carries 4.6 stars across roughly 1,000 US ratings.

The pricing is its best argument: $9.99 a month, $79.99 a year, or $129.99 once for lifetime access. If Nash charts plus drills are all you want, that lifetime license is the best value-per-dollar on this page, and we’d rather you buy it than keep paying SnapShove’s Unlimited tier for the same math.

What you give up is the strategy above the jam. Charts start at 5 big blinds and the focus stays on shove/fold; the min-raise game that takes over from 10 big blinds isn’t what it’s built for. Its listed store update is version 25.9, dated August 10, 2025, about a year old as we write this.

3. ICMIZER — when the money jumps change the answer

Everything above solves for chips. SnapShove says so itself: its ranges come from a ChipEV Nash equilibrium. Our MTT files are ChipEV too. That’s the right model for most of a tournament, and the wrong one near the bubble and at final tables, where busting costs you real-money equity that chip counts don’t capture.

ICMIZER 3 is the specialist for exactly that. It recalculates shove and call ranges under ICM with your actual payout structure, and its SNG Coach add-on ($40/yr on top) drills you on the results, with a mobile companion app. Basic costs $17.99 a month or $99.99 a year; PRO is $32.99 a month or $179.99 a year. Prices checked directly on icmizer.com on August 18, 2026. HoldemResources Calculator plays in the same league (Classic $16.66/mo or $119.90/yr, Pro $49.99/mo or $359.90/yr) if you prefer its workflow.

For ICM-adjusted push/fold work, ICMIZER beats every mobile app on this page, ours included. That’s a real vertical and it owns it. The trade is that it’s a desktop and web workflow at desktop prices, and for the ChipEV majority of a tournament you’re paying for machinery you won’t use. Pair it with our MTT stack-size guide if you want the strategic context around the math.

4. Free printable charts — fine until they aren’t

Free Nash push/fold charts are everywhere, and memorizing one is honestly a fine first step. The skeleton of short-stack poker fits on a page: jam tighter early position, wider on the button, call tighter than you shove.

Ask three questions before trusting one. What ante structure does it assume? Ante changes shove ranges a lot, and many printable charts don’t say — our solves all use a standard 12.5% ante. Does it assume even stacks? Real tournaments rarely oblige. And is it heads-up-only math? Most free charts are unopened-pot, single-opponent simplifications.

The bigger issue is that a chart can’t tell you what you’re getting wrong. Nothing grades you, so the gap between the range you memorized and the range you play stays invisible. SnapShove’s free tier plus a printed chart costs nothing and covers casual home-game needs. A study routine needs feedback.

What each option costs over three years

Three-year cost: SnapShove Core $105, Preflop+ $130, SnapShove Unlimited $300, GTO Preflop $360, ICMIZER PRO $540

Annual plans, August 2026 prices, Preflop+ counted at its one-time lifetime license. SnapShove Core is the cheapest way to keep a Nash calculator in your pocket, and if that’s the whole job, $34.99 a year is fair. Preflop+ undercuts everything else that does more than one calculation a day.

GTO Preflop costs more over three years than SnapShove Unlimited, and the difference buys the part of preflop that jam-or-fold tools skip: the min-raise game from 10 big blinds up, 3-bet and facing-a-raise spots, cash and spin formats, and a trainer that tells you your actual EV loss instead of assuming you execute what you read. Upswing Poker calls playing too many hands preflop the number one leak among losing players. You make a preflop decision every hand; whether that’s worth $10 a month depends on how many of yours are still guesses.

What SnapShove still does well

Credit where it’s due:

  • Arbitrary inputs, instantly. Enter any stack, any raise size, any opponent range and get the Nash answer on a phone. Nothing else here does custom-input jam math on mobile — ICMIZER does it on desktop.
  • Reshove math specifically. Jamming over a raise is a spot charts handle badly, and SnapShove prices it directly.
  • Free training simulations. Its site lists training as unlimited even on the free Starter plan.
  • Core is cheap. $34.99 a year for unlimited shove calculations undercuts every subscription on this page.

If it answered anything above 8 big blinds and its current release were rated like its reputation, this article wouldn’t exist.

Which one should you pick?

  • You grind turbos, hypers or live shootouts and want jam math only: SnapShove Core at $34.99/yr, or Preflop+ lifetime at $129.99 if you’d rather pay once and get drills.
  • Bubbles and final tables are where your money is: ICMIZER 3. Nothing mobile replaces real ICM work.
  • You’re spending nothing: a printable Nash chart plus SnapShove’s one free calculation a day.
  • You want your whole preflop game solved and tested, not just the all-in: GTO Preflop. That’s the gap we built it to fill — push/fold is in there, and so is everything the solver does once shoving stops being the answer.

SnapShove alternatives: FAQ

Is SnapShove still free?

Partly. The Starter plan is free and includes one shove, call or reshove calculation per day plus unlimited training simulations, per SnapShove’s own site in August 2026. Unlimited calculations require Core at $3.99/mo or $34.99/yr; calling and reshove modes need Unlimited at $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr.

At what stack depth does push/fold actually start?

Around 8 big blinds with antes, based on our solve database. In GTO Preflop’s MTT ChipEV solutions, every opening raise at 3–8 big blinds is all-in, but at 10–12 big blinds the solved opening is already a 2bb min-raise. Treating 15–20 big blinds as jam-or-fold territory gives up EV that a raise-capable strategy keeps.

Is there a push/fold chart app for iPhone?

Several. SnapShove computes Nash shoves for custom stacks, Preflop+ ships Nash charts from 5bb up with EV per hand, and GTO Preflop includes push/fold ranges inside its full preflop solution with a trainer that grades you. All three are free to download with paid tiers.

Does SnapShove use ICM?

Its ranges don’t. SnapShove states that its solutions are based on a ChipEV Nash equilibrium, which ignores payout structure. Its update notes mention an added ICM calculator for evaluating tournament equity, but the shove and call ranges themselves stay ChipEV. For ICM-adjusted ranges, use ICMIZER or HoldemResources Calculator.

Are free printable push/fold charts accurate?

The good ones are accurate for the exact scenario they solve, which is usually even stacks, one opponent and a stated (or unstated) ante. They drift from optimal in multiway pots, at asymmetric stacks and under different ante structures, and they can’t measure whether you actually apply them. Check the assumptions before memorizing one.

SnapShove vs GTO Preflop — which should I get?

If you want a calculator for arbitrary jam spots at the table, SnapShove’s custom inputs do something we don’t. If you want to study and train, GTO Preflop covers the push/fold depths (3–8bb solved as pure jam ranges), everything above them through 100bb, spins with asymmetric stacks, and a trainer that reports EV loss per 100 hands — for $119.99/yr standard.

Sources

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