Sad day today :(

On our happy quest to continuously bring you the best poker tracker with the new version 4.7, we’ve seen our release held several days by the App Store submission review team, to finally see it rejected for our Health Kit usage.

Today we’re using the iOS Health Kit framework to bring you reports that uses data from the Health app: sleep, calories and workouts.

After providing more information on the way we use the reports, we’ve finally seen our appeal on the decision also rejected.

From Apple’s 2.5.1 guidelines:

Apps should use APIs and frameworks for their intended purposes. […] HealthKit should be used for health and fitness purposes and integrate with the Health app

So apparently we’re not using the framework for its purposes, we’re not encouraging you to have a healthy & fitness-y lifestyle.

But hey, no worries Apple! We will only comply with your decision if we want our app on the store.

What does this means for you? If you’re using our Health reports in Poker Analytics, please understand that unfortunately those reports are going to be removed from the app with the release of 4.7 that will come soon. That means that you should check them out while you still can.

The good news is that we’re more motivated than ever, that 4.7 comes with great features, and that we’ve already started working on 5.0! We can’t wait to show you what’s next!

Poker Analytics 4.6

Today we released a new significant version of Poker Analytics! There are new features in the app so let’s detail them all.

New stats

Finally, some new stats! It’s been a while since we wanted to add a few, so here are the new additions:

  • Big Blinds Won per 100 Hands
  • Standard Deviation per Hour
  • Standard Deviation in BB per 100 Hands

In the Stats tab, we’ve removed the current Standard Deviation by Standard Deviation Per Hour, which is much more relevant for you. We’ve also added the BB/100 Hands ratio for cash game.

You probably already understood that the Standard Deviation and Standard Deviation in BB per 100 hands are not shown in the Stats screen, but where then?

You might not be aware but Poker Analytics has Custom Reports. In the Reports tab, you can create your own reports by hitting the Plus button. Custom reports allows you to create pretty much any kind of reports you’re already familiar with, using the stats and filters you really want to see!

Sharing

We’ve fixed a couple of issues with sharing:

  • The Instagram sharing didn’t work
  • Some of our reports couldn’t be exported

Also, we’ve changed the way some graphs are exported. We’ve made a format better suited to social sharing, with a size better suited to smaller screen, and way closer from what you see on the app!


Import

A few weeks ago, we’ve had a request for a Poker Trak import in the app. We know how important it is to have your data inside the app, so we’re always happy to get your current data inside the app. We did implement what’s necessary for this new format format, but understand that it’s still experimental at the moment. Contact us if you’re looking to import that kind of data.

That’s it for 4.6! You can update your apps now, and please have a lot of fun at the tables!


Poker Analytics 4.5

We’re happy to release this new version of Poker Analytics!

Let’s be honest with each other, no major feature for this release, but a lot of small features that should ease your life.

We won’t list them all but here are the most important ones:

  • Your filters are now automatically sorted by usage. The more you’ll use a filter the more he’ll figure at the top of the filters list.
  • Year filter: There is now a dynamic filter for years. You’ll be able to select any year you played a session.
  • Hands group export: we’ve added a button that lets you export groups of hands.
  • We’ve changed the way hands and hands groups are displayed. You should have way less trouble finding recorded hands!

Also, we’ve fixed some bugs, especially around iCloud, and we’ve added the app support for iOS 11, which might be the secret major feature of this release if you’re fond of graphical changes!

We wish you great sessions at the tables!

Poker Hand History Keyboard

Last year we launched a feature in Poker Analytics that might have been a little bit hidden: the hand history custom keyboard extension.

TLDR; we‘re extracting the feature from the Poker Analytics app to make it a standalone app.

The keyboard stays pretty much the same except for some graphical changes:

Does it look better?

What’s that keyboard again?

The hand history keyboard is a custom keyboard for iOS that you can display whenever you want, as long as your typing text. You can make it appear the same way your accessing your emoticon keyboard.

You just have to install it first as one of your keyboards.

Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add a New Keyboard and select the new Poker HH Keyboard. Easy!

What changes for you?

If you were using the keyboard in Poker Analytics, we recommend you to download the new one now right now as the keyboard in Poker Analytics 4 will be removed in the next release.

The app icon on the App Store

So that’s it for now, but we’ll soon have some Poker Analytics news for you!

Poker Analytics 4.4

The update is available! You can download the app now on the store, or go on the App Store to update it!

Let’s jump into it!

Reporting

In the app, there is a super powerful tool to look at anything you want, which is called custom reports, and gives you access to most of the computation engine of the app.

Unfortunately, maybe it’s difficult to find, maybe it’s difficult to use, but it appears you rarely use it.

So we chose to bring some of those capabilities more upfront to let you enjoy digging in your stats.

Concretely, we’ve added two gear buttons in two different screens:

  • Evolution chart: Choose a comparison key to see the breakdown of your stat by locations, game, day of week, anything…
  • Comparison chart: You’ll be able to change the statistic you’re looking out.

Pretty simple but we believe (and hope) you’ll love it!

Session sharing

We’ve seen that many users were sharing their results on social networks, so you’ll now be able to get a custom summary view to export to whatever medium you want!


Tips

We’ve implemented two changes:

  • Tips now behave like buy-ins, meaning you can add your latest tip to the sum of tips you’ve given.
  • Tips can now be added directly from your Apple Watch, no need to get your iPhone out of your pocket!

That’s sums it up for Poker Analytics 4.4! Better reporting, better sharing and better tips usability! Have some great games, please!