The Best TFT Overlays and Companion Apps in 2026, Honestly Compared

Full disclosure before anything else: I am the developer of TFTSense, one of the tools in this comparison. I am not going to pretend to be a neutral reviewer who stumbled onto his own product. What I can do is tell you honestly what each tool is good at, because I studied all of them obsessively before building mine, and I still do.

If you play ranked Teamfight Tactics, you have probably felt the gap between knowing about the game and applying it in the ninety seconds a round actually gives you. Companion tools exist to close that gap. Here is how the main options differ, and who each one is actually for.

Mobalytics TFT

Mobalytics is the biggest name in the space, and it earns the reputation. The team comps library is polished, the meta tier lists update fast, and the post-match analysis is genuinely useful for reviewing what went wrong. Their overlay surfaces comp suggestions and item info in game.

Strengths: breadth. Mobalytics covers multiple games, the TFT section is mature, and the free tier is generous. If you want one account that follows you from TFT to League to other titles, this is it.

Trade-offs: the in-game guidance is closer to a reference card than a coach. It tells you what is strong in the meta. It is less focused on what you, specifically, should do with the board and gold you have right now.

MetaTFT

MetaTFT is the stats purist's pick. Enormous sample sizes, clean win-rate data on comps, augments, and items, and an overlay that brings those numbers in game. If you are the kind of player who wants to see the augment pick rates before you lock one, MetaTFT does that extremely well.

Strengths: data depth and speed. New patch, new numbers, fast.

Trade-offs: numbers are not advice. MetaTFT shows you that an augment wins 52 percent of the time; it does not know that your board, your econ, and your health bar make it wrong for you this game. You still do the synthesis yourself.

TFT Academy

TFT Academy comes from high-level players and it shows. The tier lists carry actual expert judgment rather than raw aggregation, the team planner is clean, and the site is a great study resource between games.

Strengths: curation. When the meta is ambiguous, expert judgment beats raw stats.

Trade-offs: it is primarily a website you study, not a tool that plays alongside you.

TFTSense (mine)

TFTSense takes a different technical approach from all of the above, and it shapes everything about how it works. Most overlays receive game data through the game's event systems. TFTSense reads your screen with computer vision instead: it looks at the same pixels you do, and only your own screen, never opponent data you could not see yourself, never game memory.

On top of that screen reading sits a live coach. It suggests a comp for the board you actually have and re-evaluates as your game evolves. It marks every shop unit as buy, skip, or consider, with the reason. It watches your gold and tells you when rolling breaks your interest or your streak. It tells you which item to slam and on whom. We also run our coaching engine through simulated games against thousands of real high-elo lobbies to measure whether the advice actually places higher, and we tune the coach with those results.

Strengths: it is a coach, not a reference. The guidance is about your specific game state, round by round, and the advice priorities are validated by simulation rather than vibes.

Trade-offs: it is Windows-only, TFT-only, and newer than the others. The polish of a multi-year, multi-game platform takes time to match, and I will not claim otherwise.

So which one?

If you want a broad gaming platform with solid TFT coverage: Mobalytics. If you want maximum raw stats: MetaTFT. If you want expert study material: TFT Academy. If you want something that behaves like a coach sitting next to you while you play, telling you what to do with the game in front of you: that is the exact reason TFTSense exists, and you can try it at tftsense.gg.

Whichever you pick, the honest secret of all these tools is the same: they only help if you let them change your habits. The players who climb are the ones who stop rolling on tilt, level on a plan, and commit to a line. A good tool makes those habits easier. It cannot want them for you.