Edit: the customer service is awesome, they reached out to me and refunded my coins just based on my review. Since then I have only used autojoin once, and it worked really well. I have also hosted MULTIPLE raids, and there is no easier way to get a full party. My husband and I can both create a room for the same raid, and be able to get a very large joint party. I still think trying to join a room is really frustrating to constantly refresh and have full rooms, but I have done so many raids I couldn’t have without this app. The issues are worth the frustrations. I joined, and the first raid was fine. It takes a lot of dedication to refresh constantly and hope to find an open room, it’s amazing how fast they fill up. The second time I used the app I had earned enough coins (not bought thankfully!) to try the auto join feature. I used the filter feature to pick Ho-oh raids, and waited. Quicker than I expected I was put into a raid room, only to see that it was Raichu. I have no desire at all for a Raichu raid, but I thought it might be a mistake and I waited around for a few minutes. The room never filled up, and while the host accepted my friend request the raid never happened. However, my coins had already been used. So, I lost coins to a raid that never happened, and A RAID I HADN’T FILTERED FOR ANYWAY. I’m giving two stars because I did get one legendary out of it, but it is frustrating, buggy, and above all if I had bought those coins I would be out real money. So play around with it if you want, but be very careful spending money on it. I personally don’t find the hassle worth it at all.

I’ve tried a couple pokémon go apps for raids and this is my most favorite, by far. It’s easy to use. For the part, other trainers are good about quickly adding you to their friend lists and starting raids quickly. Occasionally, you get a troll. Though, I’ve realized sometimes it’s new ppl using the app that do not understand how to successfully conduct a raid. Instead of explaining this is the issue, they’ll simply leave the raid room. It can be frustrating. Especially, if you recently joined and purchased coins. You will lose the 50 coins you used to Auto Join the raid if the trainer botches the raid. Now that i check in daily and have accumulated heaps of coins, it’s not as bad of a loss. Coins: if you check in everyday for a week, you get a 5-25 coins per day. On day 7 you get 50 coins. if you continue to check in daily, you get 50 coins every day. If you miss a day checking in, it starts over from day 1. it’s a fantastic perk~worth a daily check in. All in All? It’s an excellent app. If you want to make friends for long distance gifts, they have a room for that. I’m there for raiding usually from midnight to 5am when there are none going on in my country. I highly recommend PokeRaidApp!

Be aware that there are either bots who will never start the raid or inexperienced people who botch things up and not invite everyone in the raid, or do the raid with people who showed up and no one in your group gets invited. There are times where the host forgets to or is too lazy to close the raid group after it has started, and once it’s finished and people leave, you run the risk of getting placed into a completed raid by the auto join feature. Some tips: You can use the same raid pass if you lose as long as it’s the same raid. If you can’t move just restart and rejoin, sometimes it asks you to buy another raid pass but you will only use the one you already activated. Also if it prompts you to use a regular pass instead of a remote pass, just restart the game and try to join ASAP. Lastly, pay attention to the host ratings, I wouldn’t join anyone’s raid with less than 4 stars As far as I know, you will not be refunded coins even if it’s wasn’t your fault that you were not invited. We gotta be able to dispute this so we don’t just keep losing money without being able to do raids.

So you have to pay for coins in order to even join these raids first off, which is stupid and profitting off of the Niantic’s community’s hard work. Next let’s talk about the queue they make you wait in after you have already given them your money. Example, to join an Uxie raid I waited from 1am my time in a 8,000+ person queue, finally at 6am I am down to 35, and then the app bugs out, kicks me out, and when I rejoin I’m waiting after 3000+ more players again. Then we’ll talk about how you loose money. Well out of 5 raids THAT I HAVE PAID TO JOIN, I’ve gotten in 2. Meaning I’ve thrown away the other money it took to get through those nasty, long queues just to get ignored or have the raid end in 1 minute, or the whole group won’t join and there’s not enough to carry so we inevitably loose and loose our pass. Finally we’ll talk about the rating system. This system could save the entire app, not allowing people with bad ratings to participate as often. Instead, you rate someone who screwed you or insulted you poorly, and then they keep getting to ruin other people’s experience. These ratings should be what is determined as to whether people get charged or not, or make sure everyone gets to complete the raid. There are many improvements this app needs. It is a great concept, but with many greater flaws. DO NOT download this, do not waste your time in never ending queues, and DO NOT PAY THEM A DIME.