The Tracker

GrindLab Tracker, the free desktop app for Windows and macOS: installing, signing in, importing your hands, and a tour of the pages, from the dashboard to goals.

GrindLab Tracker is GrindLab's desktop app. It watches the folders where your rooms save your hands, imports them while you play and sends them to your account. From them it builds your results, your sessions, your statistics and your opponents' statistics.

It is how your hands get into GrindLab: My Hands and Games are filled by the Tracker, and the Lab opens those hands in one click.

Installing

You download the Tracker from the Tracker page, once you are signed in to your account. The buttons offer your system first.

• Windows 10 and 11: a signed installer, installed for your user only (no administrator permission prompt). You can choose where it installs.
• macOS 12 and later, Intel and Apple Silicon processors: a .dmg signed and notarized by Apple.

The Tracker updates itself: it checks at launch, downloads in the background, then offers “Install & restart”. Otherwise, the update installs when you close it.

On a phone, the Tracker page reminds you that it installs on a computer. Your Lab, on the other hand, already works on your phone.

Signing in

On first launch, the “Sign in to GrindLab” screen offers “Continue with Google” or “Continue with Discord”. You sign in in your browser, then the Tracker takes over again. If you do not have an account yet, it is created at this first sign-in.

Use the same account as on the website: that is what links your hands to the Lab.

Importing your hands

The first time you open it, the dashboard shows only an “Import Your Hands” block: pick your room, then the folder where it saves your hands. The Tracker reads the history already there, then follows new hands continuously. A “Your hands are arriving” banner shows the progress.

Everything to do with import is then set in Settings › Import & Sync, described in Import & Sync.

The menu

At the top of the menu, the hero chip picks the screen names whose data you see, and the format: cash, tournament or spin. The same screen name on two rooms counts as two heroes. The star marks your favorite hero, selected by default. This choice applies to every page and is kept from one launch to the next.

During a session, a “Live” box shows under the chip, with the duration and the number of hands. It opens the “Current session” page.

Then the pages, by section:

• Dashboard: your results, your curve, your records and your shortcuts. See Results.
• Analysis: Statistics, Results, Players and Goals.
• Database: My hands, Games and Sessions.
• Community: your Circles, which open in the browser.
• In game: the HUD, marked “Soon” (see below).

At the bottom of the menu, the sync line tells you where the import stands (“Up to date”, “Importing”, “Action required”…) and opens Import & Sync. Next to it: the notification bell, settings, this guide, Discord and the version number. Your account menu holds “Guided tour”, which replays the tour of the pages.

From the Tracker to the Lab

In My hands, a hand's menu offers Mark “to review”: the hand joins the “To analyze” view and the card of the same name on the dashboard. “Start an analysis” opens it in the Lab, in your browser, prefilled.

Analysis is closed during a live session: “Analysis is unavailable during a session”. Most rooms forbid decision-support tools while you play. A session ends 20 minutes after your last hand, or when you end it yourself.

Hands also open in a replayer window, with arrows to move from one hand to the next, each opponent's stats as of the date of the hand, your tags and your notes by street, and sharing by link or in a circle.

The HUD

The HUD (your opponents' statistics shown right on the table) is in the works. It appears in the menu under “In game”, marked “Soon”, and cannot be turned on yet.

What is free

The Tracker is free up to 10,000 hands, every page included. The counter is cumulative: deleting hands does not free up room. From 90%, an “Almost at the limit” message warns you; at the limit, the Tracker shows “Collection paused” and stops recording new hands. The hands already collected stay available. The Grinder plan lifts the limit.

Quitting the Tracker

On Windows, closing the window quits the app. On macOS, it keeps running until you quit it. If you quit during an import, the Tracker asks you to confirm: nothing is lost, the import resumes at the next launch, catching up on the hands played in the meantime.