GO FRIEND 17+

Better than poke genie but could use some improvements

First off I do think this app is better than poke genie for raids. It allows you to just post a raid and if it fills it fills if it doesn’t, it doesn’t vs waiting for 500 other people in a queue. I’ve hosted many raids on this app successfully. Including Gigantamax.

However, I have two suggestions. One there’s a bug after hosting a raid when I come back to the app it refreshes and I’m unable to rate my guests. Also, it would be nice if the app posted some information about rating their host and giving them a little leeway if they take a little bit of time to send them an invite because often the host are coordinating with people in person so the rate invites are not sent out instantly. Unfortunately, the system had me in a five star and now I’m down to a three star which makes no sense because I’ve only hosted 15–20 raids?

Also, I wish I had the option of sending a chat message to everyone in the raid group as well as individually because sometimes I need to coordinate with others I’m raiding with off the app. And having to send a message to each person in the apps group is a serious pain and it takes time and let’s face it that raid clock doesn’t stop.

Overall, four out of five stars and thanks for a great app!

Great app gone bad

While this has been a useful app in the past, doing a great job at gathering together trainers to take on raids together, the app has been ruined by greed. The addition of paying to gain priority in raids was a fair idea, until free auto join was taken along with the fact that there's no guarantee the host will actually send you an invite!! The app can literally charge you for something that waste your money and get you nothing, especially with the recent inclusion of 15 player rooms (with only the highest leveled players getting chosen in most cases). You're better getting a group together with a subreddit or discord!

Edit: It got worse!
It's been about 2 weeks since I've posted the original review, it's gotten much worse. You have to refresh several times after opening the app as you get a "forbidden" error until it decides to work. It's logged me out several times and I had to verify my account for a 3rd time, as it deleted all of my info. Unable to join raids and the app will stop working at times. Tried to join a raid after using an egg and spent more than 20 mins with all of this BS, wasting the egg. I'm done with this app, go use another app or reddit/ discord. You couldn't make a worse app if you tried!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback.We apologize for any inconvenience.
We have adjusted it so that login is not asked again and again. Please confirm.We will continue to update GO FRIEND based on feedback.
Thank you for your continued use.

Love this app, but has a few issues.

I've been using this app for about a month now and i love it. The area i live in has very few pokestops and no gyms. I've been able to go from level 31 to 34 in that month i've used it. My only issue has been with the plugs priority system. I love it, but sometimes when i use them i get a raid host that won't do the raid and effectively has stolen 50 plugs from me. If there were a system to detect this sort of thing or any kind of refund system then the app would be perfect.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
If you use the plug and there is no invitation from the other party, we will return it, so please contact us from within the app.
We will continue to update GO FRIEND based on feedback.
Thank you for your continued support.