Cloud sync & accounts

Poker Club HQ keeps your tournaments on your device. Signing in is optional, and it adds cloud backup plus live sync across every device you’re signed into.

Creating an account

Open the navigation drawer and tap Sign in. You can sign in with:

• Email and password — enter both and tap Sign in, or tap Register to create a new account. Forgotten password? emails you a reset link.
• Continue with Google
• Continue with Apple

Google and Apple sign-in are both available on iOS, Android, and the web. On Android, Continue with Apple opens your browser to sign in, then returns to the app.

After signing in, your tournaments start syncing automatically.

How sync works

Sync is offline-first:

1. You make a change — add a player, start the timer, enter a knockout
2. It’s saved on your device immediately
3. About half a second after you stop making changes, it uploads
4. Every other device signed into the same account picks it up in real time
5. Offline, changes queue up and go out when you’re back on the network

So the app keeps working with no connection at all. That’s what makes a two-screen setup practical: run the tournament from your phone while a tablet or laptop shows the timer, switch devices mid-tournament without losing anything, and get a cloud backup for free.

Signing in also unlocks QR code sharing, which puts a live read-only timer on any screen, and roles, which let someone else help you run the tournament.

If you’ve bought a plan, it follows your account the same way — see Purchases & plans.

Device clock

Timestamps are anchored to the server, so a device clock that’s off no longer breaks anything. The app corrects outgoing timestamps for you and keeps syncing.

If your clock is off by more than a couple of minutes, the navigation drawer shows a note — “Device time appears to be off by about 5 minutes. Please correct it in Settings.” — and the bottom of the drawer reports the measured Device time drift.

To fix it, open your device’s date and time settings and turn on Set automatically. The note clears itself once the clock is right; there’s nothing to dismiss.

Tip

If Set automatically is already on and the drift sticks around, toggle it off and back on, or restart the device to force a time update.

Profile management

Tap Profile in the navigation drawer to:

• Edit your name — tap the pencil beside it
• Copy your email address — tap it to copy to the clipboard, handy when someone needs to give you a role in their club
• Verify your email, if you registered with a password — see Roles & shared control
• Add or remove sign-in methods: see below
• Sign out or Delete account

Sign-in methods

One account can have more than one way to sign in. Tap Profile in the navigation drawer and look under Sign-in methods to see what your account uses, and to add or remove one.

This matters most when your devices are not all the same kind. If you created your account with Apple on an iPhone, adding Google gives you a one-tap sign-in on an Android tablet, instead of typing your Apple ID into a browser every time.

Adding a method

Tap Add next to Apple, Google, or Password.

• Apple and Google open the usual sign-in sheet. Pick the account you want to attach.
• Password asks you to create one. It pairs with the email address already on your account, shown just above.

Removing a method

Tap Remove, then confirm. It stops working right away, and you can add it back at any time.

Your last remaining method shows a checkmark instead of a Remove button. Taking that one away would leave you no way back into your own account.

Caution

“That account is already in use” means the Google or Apple account you picked already has a Poker Club HQ account of its own. Two accounts cannot be merged into one. Sign in with that account directly, or pick a different one to add.

Note

An Apple Account protected by hardware security keys cannot sign in with Apple outside Apple devices, because Apple’s own sign-in page turns those browsers away. If that is your setup, add a second sign-in method while you still have an Apple device to hand.

Signing out

Caution

Signing out removes your tournaments from that device. They’re still in the cloud and come back the next time you sign in — but a signed-out device has no local copy to fall back on, so sign out only when you’re sure the account has synced.

Account deletion

Delete account sits at the bottom of the Profile screen.

1. Tap Delete account and confirm in the dialog.
2. If you haven’t signed in recently, you’ll be asked to confirm your password — or to sign in with Google or Apple again.
3. Your account and all of its cloud data are deleted.

Note

Deletion is permanent — cloud data can’t be recovered. Unlike signing out, the tournaments on the device you deleted from stay put as local-only copies, along with your Player Directory.

Caution

Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription. Subscriptions are held by the App Store, Google Play, or the web billing portal, and have to be cancelled there — see Purchases & plans.