Tells Poker opened to the public in April with a simple idea: the most useful poker lesson often begins after the pot is pushed. The current iOS app turns that idea into one connected workflow for completed hands and post-session study.
Capture one tough hand while the details are clear. Replay it without letting the outcome choose the answer. Review a structured second opinion. Then bring a better question to friends who can see the same spot.
Capture: choose speed or structure
Quick Capture is the fastest path. Type or say what happened in your own poker language, then review the extracted hand. Guided Entry asks one question at a time when you prefer a deliberate path through game details, positions, stacks, cards, and action.
The goal is not merely to save the result. A reviewable hand needs the inputs that shaped each decision, including who acted, how much they wagered, and what information was available on that street.
Hands: build a useful study history
Saved hands appear in a dedicated feed, six at a time, with filters for exact cards and position. That makes the archive useful for more than chronological browsing. You can return to a specific holding or compare the kinds of spots that recur from the same seat.
A personal hand history becomes more valuable when it helps you spot repeated questions. The hand you review today can become a reference point when a similar decision appears later.
Replay: reconstruct the decision
Replay places the action on an interactive poker table with seats, player stacks, cards, pot, bet chips, and an action breakdown. Move through the sequence or scrub by street to reach the exact moment you want to study.
This is the foundation for result-blind review. Stop before the outcome, state the range and objective you assigned at the time, and only then compare the available actions.
Analysis: examine the hand street by street
The verified debrief gives each reviewed street an A–D grade and quick take. Deterministic spot math, range reasoning, an alternative line, one key insight, and a what-if branch add the details needed to understand why a recommendation changes.
No review can reproduce every live read or guarantee a perfect answer. Tells provides a structured second opinion that becomes more useful when you challenge its assumptions and connect the lesson to the game you actually played.
Table Talk: make feedback part of the hand
Replay, Table Talk, and Analysis are three views of the same hand. Comments and replies live beside the spot, and the hand owner can create a poll about a specific decision. Friends can vote, explain their reasoning, and jump back to the relevant action.
For direct study partners, Tells includes friend codes, a friends list, chat, and hand sharing. For a group outside the app, create a share image or copy the public link so everyone still opens the same hand.
Games and ledger: keep the session context
The ledger records personal cash-game and tournament sessions. The organizer handles poker nights you host, including players, repeat buy-ins, cash-outs or payouts, totals, and a guarded settlement step.
For tournaments, add blind levels and breaks, run the clock, and share a read-only live view. The operational record and the strategic hand review remain distinct, but both belong to the same night of poker.
What Tells is built to do
Tells is a study companion for completed hands. It helps preserve context, reconstruct action, organize a debrief, and make conversations with friends more specific. It is not a real-money poker platform and is not intended to provide assistance during a live hand.
The hand is over. The lesson is not. That remains the product promise as the app grows.
Frequently asked questions
What are the three tabs on a Tells hand?
Replay reconstructs the action, Table Talk holds community comments and polls, and Analysis presents the verified street-by-street debrief.
Can Tells capture a live poker hand by voice?
After the hand is complete, Quick Capture lets you say what happened in natural poker language. Guided Entry is available when you want to enter the details one question at a time.
Can Tells help run a home poker game?
Yes. The organizer supports hosted cash games and tournaments, player buy-ins, cash-outs or payouts, settlement, and a tournament clock with a shareable live view.
Does Tells guarantee a perfect poker decision?
No. The verified debrief is a structured second opinion. Its value comes from clear inputs, visible reasoning, and comparison with the reads and conditions you actually faced.