Name disambiguation
If you are looking for one of these and found the other, that is understandable: the names differ by a single word. PokerChip.app and PokerChip.live are unrelated products built by different people, and both are browser-based digital chip trackers for in-person home poker. They are genuinely similar, which is the honest starting point for this page — this is not a comparison where one of them turns out to be a trick. What follows is what each one is, where they actually differ, and how to check which tab you have open.
Tells you which product you are on in one line
A factual feature comparison, not a takedown
The differences that would actually change your choice
The address bar is the reliable answer. Everything else about the two products is close enough that the interface will not settle it for you at a glance.
Address bar ends in
PokerChip.app
.app
PokerChip.live
.live
This site
PokerChip.app
No — a separate product
PokerChip.live
Yes, you are on it
Run by
PokerChip.app
An unaffiliated team
PokerChip.live
The team that publishes this page
Drawn from each product's own public description in September 2026. Both are browser-based and both leave the cards physical; check the other site directly before deciding, because this comparison ages.
How players join
PokerChip.app
Room link or room code in a browser
PokerChip.live
Room link or QR code in a browser
Install required
PokerChip.app
No
PokerChip.live
No
Players per room
PokerChip.app
Up to 9
PokerChip.live
8 on the free tier
Side pots and all-ins
PokerChip.app
Yes
PokerChip.live
Yes
Undo and activity log
PokerChip.app
Yes
PokerChip.live
Yes
Settlement after the game
PokerChip.app
Yes
PokerChip.live
Yes, with shareable final standings
Recurring clubs and cross-game stats
PokerChip.app
Not advertised
PokerChip.live
Yes
Languages
PokerChip.app
English
PokerChip.live
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, French, Thai
Price
PokerChip.app
Free basic features, premium upgrades
PokerChip.live
Free with ads; optional Pro
This needs saying first because the assumption runs the other way. PokerChip.app and PokerChip.live are separate sites, separately built, with separate rooms and separate accounts. A room code created on one will not open on the other, and a result recorded on one will not appear on the other. If half your table is on one and half on the other, nothing will sync and the evening will be confusing in a way nobody diagnoses quickly.
Send the full link rather than the name. Saying "it's pokerchip" in a group chat is how half a table ends up in the wrong place, because both names are plausible and both sites work. A link removes the ambiguity entirely and costs nothing. This is the single most useful thing on this page.
Both run in a browser with nothing to install. Both keep live stacks on each player's phone. Both handle blinds, betting rounds, all-ins and side pots. Both settle up at the end. If your requirement is "replace the physical chips for tonight's game", both products meet it, and anyone telling you one of them cannot do the basic job is selling you something. The differences below are real but they are second-order.
Three things. PokerChip.app supports up to nine players in a room, which is one more than the free tier here — if you regularly seat nine, that is a genuine reason to prefer it and this page is not going to argue otherwise. PokerChip.live carries recurring clubs and cross-game statistics, so a group that plays fortnightly accumulates a record across sessions rather than per-game results. And this site ships in eight languages, which matters if your table is not all reading English.
Both products track chips for a game played with a real deck at a real table. Neither deals cards, neither runs a shuffle, and neither moves money. The settlement is a calculation telling you who should pay whom; the paying happens between people afterwards, however they normally do it. This applies to both and is worth knowing before you assume either one is something it is not.
Open both, create a room on each, and get one other person to join from their phone. Five minutes. The question you are answering is not which has more features but which one your specific group gets into faster, because the tool that wins is the one that does not stall the first hand. If you seat nine, that decides it before you start.
Use it. A group that has replaced a pile of mismatched plastic with something that does the arithmetic has already got the benefit, and which of two similar sites delivered it is not worth an argument. The thing worth caring about is that the buy-ins get recorded as they happen, because that is where home game disputes actually come from, and both products do that.
Whichever you use, two habits are worth having. Confirm that a rebuy shows up in the record the moment it is made rather than at the end, and check once that the results sum to zero before anyone pays anyone. Those two catch nearly every settlement error, on any tool, including this one.
FAQ
01
No. They are separate products run by different people. The names differ by one word and the address bar is the reliable way to tell which you are on.
02
No. Rooms, codes and results do not transfer between the two sites. Everyone at your table needs to be on the same one.
03
Yes. Both are browser-based, so players open a link or enter a room code on their own phone with nothing to download.
04
PokerChip.app advertises up to nine players. PokerChip.live seats eight on the free tier, so a regular nine-handed game is a reason to prefer the other one.
05
Whichever your table gets into faster. If you seat nine, use PokerChip.app. If you want recurring clubs, cross-game stats or a language other than English, use this one.
06
Neither. Both calculate who owes whom after the game; the actual settling happens between the players however they normally do it.
Create a free room, invite players, track live stacks, and share the final result when the game ends.
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