First, the disclosure this page owes you: we build PlusEV Poker, a preflop trainer that competes with GTO Wizard’s training features. You should read everything below knowing that. In exchange, every factual claim here is verifiable, the prices carry dates, and the section on who should not use our product is real.

Why do people look for a GTO Wizard alternative?

Almost never because the product is bad. GTO Wizard (often typed as GTOWizard) is the most complete GTO study suite on the market, and serious players know it. The three reasons that actually send people searching:

  • Price. As of October 2026, GTO Wizard’s NLH cash plans run from $49 a month (Starter) through $99 (Premium) to $169 (Elite), or $39, $79 and $139 a month billed yearly. Studied over a year, that is real money at low and mid stakes, where the improvement has to outrun the subscription.
  • Depth you may not use. Full postflop trees, node-locking, aggregated reports, all built for professionals studying complete strategies. If your leaks are preflop, most of what you are paying for is a library you never open.
  • Studying is not retaining. A solver shows you the answer; it does not make the answer automatic when you are seated with money in front of you. Players who know the charts and still misplay them are not short of information. They are short of reps.

What are the actual alternatives?

Prices checked October 2026 on each vendor’s own site unless the row says otherwise; all of them change, so treat the table as a snapshot and the vendors’ sites as the source of truth.

ToolFocusFormatPriceFree tier
GTO WizardFull GTO study: preflop + postflop solutions, analysis, drillsWeb app$49-$169/mo, or $39-$139/mo billed yearlyLimited free tier
PlusEV PokerPreflop only, spaced-repetition drillingiOS / Android app$12.99/mo or $69.99/yrEvery preflop chart free forever; free drill hands for new players
DTO PokerSolver-graded drills; separate tournament and cash productsWeb + iOS / AndroidCash $9.99-$39.99/mo; tournament $9.99-$99.99/moAll preflop cash solutions, simplified
GTO GeckoPreflop + postflop solution library, three trainers, plain-English explanationsWeb, iOS, Android, macOS$24.99/mo or $149.99/yr per format; $39.99/mo or $239.99/yr for everythingPreflop library and a few trainer hands a day
Preflop WizardPreflop only; cash 6-, 8- and 9-max plus tournamentsiOS / Android / MacFrom $6.99/wk or $89.99/yr (US App Store)Free download, paid for full features
Preflop+ (ThinkGTO)Preflop push/fold (Nash) charts for short stacks, with drillsiOS / Android$9.99/mo, $79.99/yr or $129.99 onceNash chart lookup
DEEPFOLDAI hand review and coach chat; PRO adds drills and a Windows solverWeb; solver on WindowsPRO $19/mo billed yearly ($228)3 hand uploads and 10 drill hands a month
pokertrainer.seFree practice exercises and quizzesWebFreeEverything

On price alone, a year of PlusEV ($69.99) costs less than two months of GTO Wizard’s cheapest plan billed monthly. The head-to-head is in PlusEV vs GTO Wizard. If you only want to look charts up, you do not need to pay either company: every preflop chart in PlusEV is free forever in the app’s Ranges tab, with or without a subscription. What Pro adds is unlimited spaced-repetition drilling.

Two honest observations about that table. Nothing on it replaces GTO Wizard one-for-one; its breadth is the product. And every alternative wins on a single axis instead: pokertrainer.se on price, DTO on tournament formats, GTO Gecko on one subscription across every device, ThinkGTO on a lifetime price, PlusEV on making preflop decisions stick. If you are weighing training tools more broadly, courses and drill apps rather than just solver replacements, our poker training app guide covers the whole field.

PioSolver is not on the table because it is a different kind of tool. It is a Windows desktop solver where you build every tree yourself, which suits a player who can already say exactly which spot they want solved and why. GTO Wizard sells solutions that are already computed and served in a browser. Neither is better in general; they answer different questions.

Is there a free alternative to GTO Wizard?

Yes, several, as long as you know which part of GTO Wizard you want for free. GTO Wizard’s own free tier is limited. pokertrainer.se is free in full, with basic preflop quizzes. DTO’s free cash plan includes all of its preflop cash solutions, in simplified form, and GTO Gecko lets you browse its preflop library free. Postflop+ is not one of them: the download is free, but its postflop drills cost $14.99 a month. And every preflop chart in PlusEV is free forever in the app’s Ranges tab, with free drill hands for new players on top. What none of them gives away free is a full postflop solver library, which is the part of GTO Wizard people actually pay for.

Who is each tool actually for?

Stay with GTO Wizard if you study postflop seriously, play MTTs at a level where ICM spots decide your year, or want one tool for everything. Nothing below matches its tree depth, and if you use that depth weekly, the price is justified.

DTO Poker fits tournament players. Its DNA is MTT: ICM spots and varying stack depths. It now sells a separate cash app (6-max, 100bb) too, but below its top tournament plan ($99.99 a month) answers get basic grading, with no EV loss shown.

GTO Gecko is the closest thing here to a cheaper GTO Wizard: preflop and postflop solutions, trainers, and an explanation of why each play is correct, on web, phone and Mac under one subscription. What it lacks, by its reviewers’ account, is node-locking.

Preflop Wizard is the app most like ours: preflop only, built for the phone, with a daily quiz drawn from your weak spots. It covers more formats than PlusEV (8- and 9-max, tournaments, short stacks), and it is rated 4.8 from about 3,400 US App Store ratings. It does not say which solver its charts come from.

Preflop+ by ThinkGTO is for short stacks: Nash push/fold charts with exact EV, from 1bb up. You can pay once ($129.99) instead of subscribing. ThinkGTO’s own guide tells players to move on to full opening ranges after it.

DEEPFOLD is a different idea: upload hands from your poker site and an AI coach reviews them. PRO adds drills and its own solver, which runs on Windows only. The free plan is three hand uploads a month, enough to see whether you like it.

pokertrainer.se is where “free” beats everything else. The exercises are basic and nothing adapts to you, but as a zero-cost way to drill fundamentals it is legitimate, and we have no problem saying a free site is the right answer for a beginner deciding whether they care yet.

PlusEV is for one specific player: you know your preflop is leaking, and you want it fixed, not only explained. Every answer still shows what each option was worth in big blinds and a one-line reason why. PlusEV is not a GTO Wizard replacement: it is a preflop drill app that works alongside a solver, GTO Wizard to study a spot and PlusEV to stop misplaying it. It does not do postflop or tournaments. If you want either, buy something else. Genuinely. Unlike most apps on this page, we publish where our ranges come from: MonkerSolver, 6-max cash, 100bb, 5% rake. What its users say, complaints included, is on our PlusEV reviews page, every written store review word for word.

What does “drilling” get you that solutions don’t?

Measured, in our case: retention. PlusEV deals you real spots, scores your answer against the solution, and puts every miss into a spaced-repetition queue that resurfaces it until you stop missing it. The mechanism is the same one language apps use, applied to the ~500 preflop decisions that repeat forever.

Whether that works is not a matter of opinion. We measured it across 1M+ recorded training hands: intermediate players improved by +0.061 BB per training decision on average after 30 days of training, measured on the same spots before and after. The full methodology, including what we counted and what we excluded, is in the study.

The best argument for the split approach is what the button’s opening range actually looks like, and every one of these is a decision you will face tonight:

Button opening range, 6-max 100bb, one of the ranges PlusEV drills.
AAAKsAQsAJsATsA9sA8sA7sA6sA5sA4sA3sA2s
AKoKKKQsKJsKTsK9sK8sK7sK6sK5sK4sK3sK2s
AQoKQoQQQJsQTsQ9sQ8sQ7sQ6sQ5sQ4sQ3sQ2s
AJoKJoQJoJJJTsJ9sJ8sJ7sJ6sJ5sJ4sJ3sJ2s
AToKToQToJToTTT9sT8sT7sT6sT5sT4sT3sT2s
A9oK9oQ9oJ9oT9o9998s97s96s95s94s93s92s
A8oK8oQ8oJ8oT8o98o8887s86s85s84s83s82s
A7oK7oQ7oJ7oT7o97o87o7776s75s74s73s72s
A6oK6oQ6oJ6oT6o96o86o76o6665s64s63s62s
A5oK5oQ5oJ5oT5o95o85o75o65o5554s53s52s
A4oK4oQ4oJ4oT4o94o84o74o64o54o4443s42s
A3oK3oQ3oJ3oT3o93o83o73o63o53o43o3332s
A2oK2oQ2oJ2oT2o92o82o72o62o52o42o32o22
FoldRaise 3

A solver will show you this chart. Drilling is how, three weeks from now, you raise T7s from the button without thinking about it. Where the seats change what you open is covered in our positions guide, and the trainer itself lets new players try a generous number of hands free, no card required.

The bottom line

If you need a solver, GTO Wizard remains the one to beat, and this page will not pretend otherwise. If what you need is for your preflop game to stop leaking, and for most cash players below high stakes that is the honest diagnosis, then a trainer built only for that, at a fraction of the price, is the better spend. That is the product we build, and the case study is where we prove it rather than claim it: across 1M+ recorded training hands, intermediate players improved by +0.061 BB per training decision after 30 days of PlusEV training.