Pokémon HOME App Reviews

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Notice for anyone who needs to see this.. The app itself is fine. The storage and transfer systems are useful and easy to use. The extra trading options on the mobile version are cool also. Would of given 5 stars if the plan for premium was cheaper, though. Although, the main reason I type this is because of all the reviews that are complaining about there being no Scarlet and Violet connectivity and not being able to transfer Pokémon to Pokémon Go. First of all, I do agree with the fact that Scarlet and Violet connectivity should of been added earlier. But what some others need to know is that The Pokémon Company have said that Scarlet and Violet connectivity are coming in Spring 2023. Another thing some people reading this may need to know is that you CAN’T transfer Pokémon TO Pokémon Go from other games. When Pokémon home was announced, it was confirmed to only let you transfer from Go to Home. Pokémon Go also says that once you transfer a Pokémon to Home, you can’t bring it back. I type this because of all the reviews I see complaining on why their not able to bring a Pokémon from, as an example, Pokémon Shield into Pokémon Go and use it there.

Love it but a big suggestion. I love this app sooooo much but there is some things I would like to see in future updates. 1. Battling: It would be really cool if you could battle with your Pokémon on here. Let’s just say you took a deoxys from Pokémon ultra sun, and you couldn’t transfer it to any games. So all you could do is listen to it cry and look at its stats. So it would be cool to battle some people with my deoxys before they make a game where you can transfer deoxys to it. 2. No special Pokémon: It would be amazing if there were no special Pokémon. Let’s just say you wanted a zarude. Your friend had one and wanted to trade it to you. But he lost Pokémon sword. So he try’s to trade it to you on here but he can’t because it is special. So you never got a zarude. It would be epic if there were no special Pokémon. 3. Item transfers: What if you could transfer a zamazenta that had a rusted shield to Pokémon sword. Well you can’t. It would be epic if you could transfer Pokémon with items. Other than that this app is amazing.

HUGE improvement over bank!. I love using this service. It safely transferred my favorite Pokémon from Bank. I also love how it gave me more things to do like quests. But I think that it needs a bit more work. For example, I think there should be a way to transfer Pokémon to Home from GO. So far you can only transfer Pokémon through GO to Let’s go to home and I don’t like it. Another thing I would add is some sort of GTS watchdog. For example, the Pokémon company can update the app, so that the game recognizes impossible Pokémon to request. For example, I’ve seen a lot of trolls asking for Level 1-10 Poiple, which is an impossible Pokémon to get. So if this feature was added, the game would instantly remove that trade offer from the server. I think this app should also have moderators to also watch trades on the GTS and report impossible trades. Even if moderators don't become a thing, there still should be an option to report GTS trades. Otherwise, the app is SUPER helpful! Depositing Pokémon almost takes no time, and it’s fun attempting to complete the National Pokédex.

So close, yet so far to greatness!. Hi. I’ve been a Pokémon fan for about 3 years now and am I big big user of everything pokemon. This app is a huge breakthrough in Pokémon and I love the idea. There are however, many flaws but has much potential. The GTS is one of the best ideas ever that I have seen Pokémon come up with. While being a great idea it is also a broken and lawless system. There NEEDS NEEDS NEEDS to be a rarity system. I suggest when someone puts a Pokémon up for trade, they can only request Pokémon of the same rarity(common for common, rare for rare, legendary for legendary eg.) this would fix the absolute trash that is flooding the trading system and keep people from trolling and asking for unfair trades. Also there should not be an option to request a Pokémon that you have deemed not able to trade such as Mythical Pokémon. Another great idea would be to add a feature to specify if you want the Pokémon to be shiny. Thank you to all who read this and thank you to pokémon for everything you do. We just want the best for the franchise and it’s products.

Sync Pokédex. As all the other issues mentioned in other reviews. I wish this app would allow you to sync all Pokédex data from your games to the national dex in the application. In order for you to have Pokémon register it requires you to add the Pokémon from whatever game to the app to complete the Pokédex. Which I understand but it’s frustrating as you have to take your Pokémon from your game to add to this to compete the dex. Transferring Pokémon can be risky at times and can’t really be done without 0 risk so the fact that you have to physically take your Pokémon from the game to add to this app is just annoying. My other gripe is that I wish I could access my games and what I have Pokémon wise from the app on phone instead of needing my switch to do it. Other then that this is an ok app wish I didn’t need to empty my transferred Pokémon every time I wanna add from Pokémon GO but it is what it is. This is one of the only apps I genuinely recommend getting premium for I use this app constantly for Pokémon GO Pokémon. Just wish it was a bit more smooth and connected to the rest of the Pokémon world.

Needs better GTA features. The GTS has been around for such a long time in pokemon games and there are still filters that should have been added a long time ago. First, for sword and shield there is no legitimate reason for the GTS to not display a gmax symbol. You just have to guess and hope for any gmax trades. I also still don’t understand why they don’t have a shiny filter to either search for a shiny specifically or ask for a shiny specifically in trade. It makes it impossible to trade shiny pokemon over GTS because let’s be real, most people are not going to trade you a shiny back. It would be nice if the GTS at least had an offer system that you could accept or decline a trade so that way it wouldn’t auto trade your shiny for a normal pokemon. This could also work with trading any kind of valuable pokemon if you aren’t looking for something specific and would like to get offers. Shiny pokemon are extremely well known and hunted for so I see no reason not to have it as an option. It would also be nice to check pokemon stats/IVs before a trade as well but this one I can at least understand why it may not be there.

Good, but could be better.. Honestly, the app does its job kind of half assed. They took out a lot of core functions from the trade options and gts. In the original gts, there was an option to show only Pokémon that you have available for trade. That could make things so much easier in Pokémon home. And the room trade is a mess. I’ve joined random trade rooms 13 times over and it just kicks me out saying “you left the room.” A better option for trading would be to allow an ACTUAL link trade. I think the main problem here is that app wasn’t ready to be released. It clearly wasn’t a passion project on gamefreaks part. It feels more like a rushed product to get people’s attention back on Pokémon. Sort of like a “hey! I know you wanted a storage service, so we decided to give you the beta! We’ll update it later, but here’s this for now!” All in all, half assed but gets the job done. Even though it’s half assed. And glitchy. And crashy. And rushed. Did I mention unfinished?

Great app, awful GTS. The transferring of Pokemon and the non-GTS trading mechanics are all perfectly fine and do exactly what’s expected. Pokémon Home is a great utility for finishes Pokédex’s and bringing Pokémon from previous games into the newer ones. The glaring flaw of the app is the GTS. Even before Home existed the GTS of old gen games was always rough but Home’s GTS is almost nonfunctional. The requests for Pokémon are physically impossible to do barring hacking in Pokémon. Gendered Legendaries, regional variants that can’t go into the specific game that the requester set, the tidal wave of Furfrou requests, etc. I’d mention nonsense requests like Zacian for a Pikachu but those types of requests were always a thing, just like how half the Pokemon in the GTS are fake. If you want to deposit a Pokémon it’s alright, odds are it’ll go through in a few hours, but if your looking for a specific Pokémon your better off going into a game, catching a level three Pokémon , naming it the Pokemon you want with a ? on the end and doing link trades. If the GTS got fixed the app would be a trillion times better.

If it can be fixed than it needs to be. This product is very useful I enjoy using it but there is one thing that I believe will make Pokemon moving the most useful you can transfer Pokemon back and fourth easily the but you can’t transfer over times that are on the Pokemon let’s say I have a zacian it needs its rusted sword to change form but unfortunately the time gets put back into your bag in sword and when you transfer zacian over to shield it does not have its rusted sword this makes moving Pokemon with items impossible and I can understand if there was a software road block it just think it would be nice to see the problem addressed by the people that made the app but besides that I think the app is great in both mobile device and switch but please if you could talk about it that would be most informative also the most of the community seems to be really toxic there are a lot of troll trades that are asking for Pokemon at a lower level than are given for example a troll wants a level 60 zacian this is impossible to get zacian at level 60 because he comes at level 70 they make it so trades with actually good people are impossible all I ever see when searching for trades are trolls and take up the entire page and should not be allowed to do so so making a cap of leveling depending on the actual Pokémon so we don’t have trolls would be nice

needs 4 little GTS changes. In the GTS trade, you can search for Pokémon just fine, but seriously, you can get ANYTHING with Poipole. Make an option to exclude asks for Ultra Beasts and mythical Pokémon, PLEASE. Also, I would much enjoy the ability to search for Pokémon that others want to receive; this way, it's a win-win, because I would be trading a Pokémon that I want to trade out for a Pokémon that others want to trade out, and it goes much quicker! Lastly, the forms. Seriously, separate the forms. People are posting Oricorio and asking for Oricorio in return, and traders have no clue which form is being requested. Same for regional forms. They have different sprites, but not different names. There is a problem that users are taking advantage of: Traders can request Pokémon that cannot be legally obtained, except maybe with a Ditto. For example: low-level fully evolved starters of the rarer gender, Poipole at levels below 40, etc. Update: This still holds true for the most part, but everybody wants Kubfu now. It's really aggravating that there is no way to reverse search for GTS trades, i.e. finding Pokémon whose trainers want a certain Pokémon that you have by inputting your Pokémon's data and returning the most relevant requests.

Not impressed. First off, it’s a great concept but needs some fine tuning to raise the star count for me. I’ve been using the home system to transfer Pokémon from Pokémon let’s go and sword, which has helped me to finish my Pokédex in both games. But it has become abundantly clear that people are now using the GTS system as more a trophy system instead of what it’s intended. When I try to search for rare Pokémon to add to my collection, I’m met with people who want to show off what they have instead of actually wanting to trade. For example, there is no way I can trade someone a 1-10 Bolthound for a Zacian... I believe if you can’t acquire the Pokémon until like level 60 then you shouldn’t be able to ask for said Pokémon under that level. Also, what’s the point in adding mythical Pokémon that cannot trade through the home system? If that were the case, it shouldn’t be transferrable in the first place. Seems more like a waste of Pokémon storage.... and finally, I think that it should be monitored periodically for offensive names on Pokémon. I have an 8yr old that also uses this system and she shouldn’t have to come to me asking me what an offensive word means....

Kind of pointless as of now. Why would you need a transfer service for Pokémon that are already found in Galar? Don’t get me wrong, the app is very user friendly and brought back some much- needed features that weren’t included in the actual game this time around(GTS). But it has little use, at least until they expand the Galar-dex with more Pokémon not already found in-game, or until another Pokémon game for the switch comes out. For now, it does it’s job- if you want to transfer some of your Pokémon from LGPE to SW&SH it works fine and it’s free. If you want to send a few mon’ from Pokébank that you have from the old Pokémon games on the 3ds, that works too... but it’s gonna cost you. *WARNING*: Just know that as of now, you can only bring over the ones that are already in the Galar- dex(with some exception, like the kanto and alolan starters) also, if you bring them to home and they cannot be moved to SW&SH, they will be stuck there for the foreseeable future. *please be aware* ... anyways, decent enough -looking app, glad this new infrastructure is being rolled out early so they can get rid of any bugs sooner rather than later, just doesn't have much use as of now.

Great, just a few issues. I’ve loved Pokémon ever since I could remember, but I’ve never had a chance to play a game until I got Sword. I loved it so much, and when I found out there was an app that could allow me to essentially trade for free, I was amazed. I got this app, and it’s been going great. However, there are just a few issues. First of all, it would be best if in the GTS you could only allow possible trades. I’ve been searching for a Zamazenta for a little over five months now, and all everyone wants are impossible to get, such as a level 51-60 Zacian, or a level 1-10 Poipole. That last one really ticks me off, because for every single Pokémon out there, someone wants a level 1-10 Poipole. Second, the whole can-store-from-Let’s-Go-but-not-go-back thing doesn’t make sense. I’m not a computer coding wizard, so I’m maybe just ignorant, but it’s still confusing. Last, and probably the most unimportant problem, is the premium plan. Don’t get me wrong, $16 a year is absolutely fantastic, but it’s the differences from the basic plan that really irk me. Only three Pokémon in the Wonder Box at a time? At least 6 would make it a lot better in my opinion, but now I’m just rambling. Overall, this is an amazing app I would recommend to every trainer out there, but fixing these few issues would make it a lot better. Thank you!

Needs work. I really want to like this app more than I do. I’m trying to make a universal shiny dex through casual play so I bought a premium pass but the app needs a lot of work. It’s laggy and slow in essentially every way. It takes a solid 30-45 seconds to deposit a full 10 Pokémon into the wonder box. Searching for Pokémon in the trade system doesn’t work most of the time so I just don’t use it. Random room trades take forever to fill and there’s nothing to do while you’re in them. You wait a full minute for the room to fill and even if it does fill completely, you still usually have to wait 20 seconds or so. Then it’s another 60 seconds to pick Pokémon to put in the pool and even if everyone is ready, there is still no skipping the remaining time. Then it finally does the trade animation and bam you’re done. During all that waiting time too, you run the risk of being disconnected from the room for zero reason. It’s really annoying when you know this could be a way smoother and faster activity.

Thank you, game freak.. I am leaving this 5 star review for Game freak because of how grateful I am for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. These installments are made to not only catch them all, but to discover a new region in the Pokémon world, new never before seen Pokémon, and unlocking the mystery of the Dynamax phenomenon. It’s shameful to see people only caring about themselves, constantly insulting you and the people who are sticking up for you all because they think you’re lazy and didn’t add in all of the Pokémon, and they yet to give you more backlash for over pricing Pokémon HOME’s beneficial features and the Expansion passes that are yet to arrive this summer and fall. I wish the community you have created were to learn to stop demanding for me. I’m already content with my Pokémon Sword copy and I am hyped to see what Pokémon HOME and the Expansion passes have to offer. Thank you for bringing these games into our world, and I’m sorry that some of your customers have to be so greedy.

Very good, but has one major flaw. I’ve been using Pokémon Home since it came out, and so far I’ve been loving it! It’s really useful for anyone that wants to transfer older pokémon to the newest games or complete their dex. I’d recommend it to anyone who needs to do that, but there’s one major problem I think should be addressed: In the app, GTS is supposed a way to receive a pokémon of your choice by offering a pokémon you can choose, correct? The only type of pokes that can’t be traded this way is mythical pokémon: they cannot be traded through GTS but it for some reason mythical pokes can still be offered. I don’t know if these pokémon can actually be revived if offered but I think it’s a problem how it’s still an option despite it being impossible to give. I’ve seen plenty of pokémon locked behind impossible trades because of this. I think that mythical pokémon shouldn’t be an option at all in GTS or allow all mythicals to be traded. (which I think would be a preferred option) Regardless of how it’s addressed, I hope it gets fixed in the near future. Thanks in advance

It’s a start but needs to improve soon. So the updates have come out and bugs have been mixed. Great! Now let’s look where features need to be improved. GTS. It’s a mess. Trainers can put up pokemon and request pokemon with conditions that don’t exist. Level 60 Zacian? Level 1 - 10 Dragapult? Even worst is when players could request Meltan or other mythicals that can’t be traded. This may not seem like a big deal but these impossible trade requests clog up the list and make GTS tiresome. Storage Boxes in the app. They should reflect how the trainer organizes their pokemon on the Switch version. Challenges and Research Task. The app has challenges, the Switch has research task but you can’t see them if you aren’t on the right system. This especially makes it more difficult to complete them. Especially the Switch’s where GTS would be useful to complete. instead you have to do a trade, close out the phone app, open the Switch version, check task, if the trade didn’t give you the right pokemon, close the Switch version, open phone app and repeat. The rewards aren’t that exciting for the App challenges since no one, including yourself, can see the stickers. And that’s all you get in game stickers. The Switch Research Tasks gets you nothing. This app and Pokemon Home is good but it will never be great or anything I would recommend someone paying for if improvements aren’t made sooner. 6 months sooner, not 12 months later

Honestly, pretty great.. I was a little hesitant when Pokemon decided $16 a year when they originally did only $5 for Bank, but I'm pretty blown away from this app. Especially for free, being able to easily access trade, with friends or over internet, is absolutely great. Even with the limits of one GTS, one Wonder trade, and one box of 30, that's not even that bad for the occasional use. Also, you can only have one GTS going out, but you can trade as many Pokemon immediately via GTS if you have them. The only gripes I have with it are that you can't do trades on the Switch version, but that's more an issue with that version. Also, the GTS in general is (and kinda has always been filled with people begging for legends, UBs, and impossible Mons. Sure you can turn off legends and mythics, but Pokemon like Poipole, Naganadel, and Stakataka are littering the GTS, as well as things like Level 1-10 Cinderaces and Dragapults. Don't make it seem that it's impossible to get trades, but it takes a lot of looking. Finally, trades take a pretty long time. Wonder box trades usually take a day at most, but GTS trades vary on the trade. I had (what I thought was) a pretty reasonable trade out, and it took 10 days to go through. Overall, it may seem a bit flawed, but the entire program is great, simple, intuitive, and decently efficient. Good job for a free (with add-ons) service.

Good job, Game Freak!. Great job. I’ve wanted to trade between accounts ever since Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield came out. Such a good game. Now that we have Pokémon Home, I can just do that. But not only that, if you have a phone, you can trade wherever you are! It’s amazing! I can just trade with my friends with the push of a few buttons. I have a limited time on my Switch but with this app, I can trade any time, any where. I also love how I can pull my phone out of my pocket and just look at the national dex. Except for the occasional crashes, it is awesome. As a recommendation, I think it would be cool to have some sort of Pokémon Camp or a place where you can play with your Pokémon. I think it would be fun a just add that much of an experience for Pokémon Home. Also you should somehow be able to evolve your Pokémon. I have a Pokémon that was surprise traded to me but it isn’t compatible with Sword and I wish I could somehow use EXP candies. Thanks Game Freak for making amazing content!

It’s good, but not amazing.. I’ve had some very successful trades on this app, and overall think it’s very nice. HOWEVER! I’m sick and tired of seeing people put impossible trades on the GTS, something they CLAIMED TO HAVE FIXED IN A PREVIOUS UPDATE, (they didn’t by the way,) like impossibly leveled final evolutions for starters, or even for legendaries and mythicals, as well. Also, thanks to today’s update, I can’t search for any Pokémon at all, because apparently, they. Do. Not. Exist. Umm, excuse me? Yes they DO exist, so why are you telling me otherwise?? I’ve seen some other reviews on here hoping for a way to filter trades for just legendaries for legendaries, mythical and rares for mythical and rares, etc. and even a way to filter specific Pokémon, like their regional forms. And I love that idea! Especially the option to choose specific Pokémon. I’m trying to look for a female, unnamed, shiny kanto Vulpix, but can’t find one, because Alola shows up as well. It’s a little frustrating, too. Honestly, I’m trying to complete my Pokédex before the second wave of DLC comes out, and now I’m wondering if I’ll even be able too. Please fix!! Rant over, and even despite all that, like I said at the start, it’s a pretty nice app overall.

Not worth it. The app was good at first, but as someone that doesn’t play Sword & Shield it’s now essentially useless, and what’s the point of the basic plan when you only have 30 storage space? 30? That number is pitiful. The premium plan is however a generous price of $15 a year, but still. I’m not going to spend money on something I really don’t have a use for. It would’ve been fun to put some duplicate Pokémon from Pokémon Go into the app and do trading to finish the Pokédex, but then again, I have to pay to get that storage space. And to free up the storage space I would need to transfer Pokémon from the app to Sword & Shield, which I don’t play. If you don’t play Sword & Shield I suggest you don’t get the app, because then it’s useless. I wish the app was more inclusive by not being made for just one specific game. What’s the point of it being linked to Pokémon Go when it was made for Sword & Shield? And why is the storage space so low? A storage of 1000 would be a good number so there’s enough for one of every Pokémon plus a little room for duplicates.

EDIT: Not so Horrible. Absolutely horrible app. Poor instructions, bugs, unable to connect to different devices and a rushed execution led to me losing over 1700 Pokemon, including some very rare ones. But most importantly, I have submitted 3 help tickets and sent numerous emails requesting assistance with this and I have not received a SINGLE response back. So poor customer service on top of a buggy app and rushed execution and you get this monstrosity they aren’t even worried about, bc it is a necessary evil that they know pokemon fans will pay for. Well, this is one customer that will NOT pay for it again. After my 1-month membership is over, my money will no longer go towards Bank or Home. Be better Nintendo. EDIT: after months of back and forth emails, where I responded immediately and Nintendo support took weeks to respond to a single email, they restored my lost Pokemon today. Only took 2 months, but they did it, so I can’t complain too much. Thank you for working on this Nintendo and at least doing the right thing in the end. It doesn’t really matter how long it took, just that it got done in the end.

My opinion. I love Pokémon home a lot it’s very very useful to me. An I like it’s compatible with poke bank. my only issue currently is Pokémon forms. For example, for me many people in will only trade for poke I need in Pokémon sword for furfrou with there trim/forms not for normal one/form an putting them in the bank an transferring them to home is for me my only way to get it in home but they always revert to there normal form tho. I know u can get its forms on poke go, but I’ve never yet have gotten one to spawn around my house an I can’t go anywhere due to Covid an being a high health risk person if I were to go out an possibly get it, so my parents won’t let me go outside. an I live out in A country area, So not many poke spawn around my house to start with nor raid areas pop up. So for those of us like me with this frustrated issue can u like add something to home that let’s say change the forms of poke but with in poke home it’s self in a future update please mayb like use the point system an add a option to spend points on changing a Pokémons form or something mayb pretty please. I’d much rather use my home points I save up for that then BP. thank you for your time in reading this

Obviously essential, but could be much better.. I’d like to see an option to sort Pokémon by quantity, that way when I’m trying to wonder box breedjects and the like I can sort them to the top easily. Also being able to filter by “Pokémon I can trade for” or “shiny Pokémon only” when browsing gts would be cool. I’d also like to be able to trade meltans because they are NOT special, and frankly I have too many of them (imagine requiring 400 candies to evolve and not letting people trade the excess trash). Thanks. Also, why are people still able to request impossible trades, thought that was supposed to die in gen 7? I don’t want to see a shiny posted for a lvl 10 avalugg or whatever tf else. If you don’t want actually want to trade it, don’t post it just to show off. You’re not impressive, you’re a jerk. Why do we only get 3 room trades per day? If there’s a genuine reason I’d love to know, if not, can it please be uncapped? Why does wonder trade take over 12 hours sometimes? Doesn’t that seem like a bit much? Takes less than 2 minutes in SwSh. Admittedly it is pretty nice being able to transfer Pokémon between users on the same switch without having to trade, but that’s one of few features that isn’t plagued by unnecessary head (and heart) aches.

Does it’s job, but has too many problems. The app definitely does its job, but the plethora of bugs and glitches here and there really put a damper on the experience. For example, after trading several Pokémon over from Pokémon bank and completing the National dex in Home, the app (switch version was fine) claimed none of the Pokémon transferred were in the dex, even though they are in the home. GTS is also the worst it’s ever been, where trading feels almost impossible at times because people keep requesting event Pokémon that cannot be traded. A simple fix would be to either allow these Pokémon to be traded, or better yet, do not allow anyone to request Pokémon that cannot be traded. I could never get friend trades to work either, as my phone was stuck on the “your GPS is being initialized” screen. Other than these glaring problems, the app seems to work fine, and the switch version has been working perfectly. Overall, as long as you aren’t trying to complete the National pokedex, the app does it’s job and is worth using

Good, but a few suggestions.. Firstly, this is a great app! Iv’e found it useful for many things. But I do have 2 ideas that I think would help a lot, and make the app better. First, I think you should add a specification that you want whatever you are searching for to be shiny. This would make it a lot better than having to scroll through the entire list to find a shiny. Secondly, and this isn’t technically a suggestion, but I think the trades every time you reset the app. For example, I found a great deal for something I actually had, that wasn’t IMPOSSIBLE… (hint hint)… so I traded it over from my switch, and then I restarted the app to receive Pokémon I got from my switch, and when I got back to the list, it was gone! So, maybe try to update the app so you don’t have to restart it when you have to get a Pokémon from your account. That’s all!

Just another sign of Pokémon’s Fate. I downloaded this app like anyone else, expecting something that was actually useful. But I found out otherwise. It only lets you hold up to 30 Pokémon for free, which is almost nothing compared to many trainers’ collections, and you must pay for both Pokémon Bank and Pokémon Home to do anything else. $20 just to put a Pokémon in a game that can’t even transfer it into Sword and Shield? Yeah, no! And then I found out it age-locks you out of most everything. Cant access Mystery Gifts, Friends, or various other features unless you’re over 16. So then, apparently the Pokémon Company thinks that only 16-year-olds have friends or go out. And then, when I tried to contact support, they blew me off and told me to essentially try again when it’s more convenient for them. Unacceptable. This is just a sign as to what’s happening to Pokémon. Rather than care about players, games continue to become pay-to-win, even console games, and the expectation is that you pay for it. You know what? I honestly hope pokemon dies within the next few years. They’re burning out after one failed attempt after another (Pokémon duel, Pokémon Sun and Moon, pokken tournament DX, Pokemon sword and shield, Pokémon masters, and Pokémon home). They deserved a better death than this, and I think that the Galar era just sealed their fate.

GTS Needs More Options. I got this app because I’m planning to complete my SwSh pokédex and start shiny hunting, and I was hoping to find people who wanted to trade some version exclusives, along with a foreign Ditto for masuda method breeding. Joining the app, I was really disappointed. The process of transferring the pokes I wanted to offer was fairly simple (if a little clunky due to switching systems), but when it came time to find a trading partner... well. Even with “exclude people searching for legendaries/mythicals” turned on, the pages were flooded with people looking for one-available-per-game unbreedable pokemon like Poipole and the Tapu line. And almost the rest of the time, the pokemon requested was actually impossible like a level 1 Cinderace... or at the very least, it only looks like that, because the app only shows you a small handful of different trade offers with no way to view more offers. (This is also why I have low faith in putting up my own offer, because there’s no way for me to know if anyone is seeing it.) I would greatly appreciate more search filters you could apply when looking at the GTS, like a “only show offers I can fulfill” or an “exclude (x) pokemon”, or even just letting people view ALL offers if they fit the search criteria. If changes that improve the trading process are made I’ll change my review.

Please read, good app, has some flaws. Ok so I left a review a while back but I’m changing it as I got the main problem fixed. This is a a great idea but I think it needs tinkering. I definitely think it’s awesome that I can store Pokémon from all my save files and whatnot, plus the trading is awesome... however I think the trading needs to be fixed a little bit. #1 people shouldn’t be allowed to ask for low level full evo starters. That’s just impossible as far as I’ve figured out. Also there should be more specifics about the Pokémon your getting and the Pokémon your giving. You should be able to check the stats and moveset if a Pokémon, that just makes sense, and if your trading away your Pokémon, you should be able to be more specific with what you get back. All the searching mechanics should be more specific. If I’m trading away I shiny I probably want a shiny back, but all I can put is pretty much the name and level and stuff. And when your searching, you can almost only search for level and gender, plus games it can go to. There needs to be more filters. Finally, and this isn’t important what so ever, but is it just me or do the sprites look kind of weird. I don’t really like them.

A Disappointed Day 1 Premium Subscriber. I’ve been a huge supporter of Gamefreak and have stood by them in all their questionable decisions surrounding the Sword & Shield release. This app was supposed to be the saving grace that would finally shut up all the doubters. Unfortunately, the app is riddled with problems and bugs such as not allowing users to log in, missing Pokémon, poorly implemented GTS system allowing impossible requests, and bugs making it impossible to contact customer support in the app (Access Denied?). It’s incredible they had the gall to charge a premium option at all, and I am deeply disappointed I bought a single months worth of it. Maybe in the future when they work the bugs out the premium price will be worth it, but right now, it is not worth your money, and to be honest, the limitations with the free option isn’t even worth the data on your mobile device. The GTS was removed from Sword & Shield to be put in Home, where it could be more easily accessible and convenient on phones, yet previously mentioned bugs make that impossible. In the end, Sword & Shield were gutted for a figurative dish that was given the best ingredients but stored pre-frozen, and served microwaved with half of it still cold.

Necessary, but irritating. Of course I enjoy the service and its functionality, but I really wish they would make it so that you could do more on the switch version (or make it so that you can have both open at the same time). I hate the fact that I can only do trades via the mobile version, and that I can’t move Pokémon around on mobile. But I do understand to an extent that transferring Pokémon from SWSH to home wouldn’t be feasible from your phone but still. In using the free version, I feel like I’m having to go back and forth between versions to try to accomplish anything, and if I’m trying to send something over quick to take advantage of a GTS trade, by the time I’d get the Pokémon over and get it loaded back up on mobile, that Pokémon would be gone. Trading should be available via the switch. There’s no reason it should be exclusive to mobile other than to attempt to give some necessity to having it (now once we can transfer from GO, I could see needing it but right now it’s silly)

Why?. I got this app since it was launched awaiting the Pokémon Go support to roll out. This feature just came out a day or so ago and I have to say, I an very disappointed. I waited around 5 months for this to happen and what we got was really cash greedy. You can transfer a bunch of normal Pokemon such as Larvitar and Dratinis but their CP has to be under 2000 or else the energy it will cost you will add another 300 to it making it 400 energy for an average Pokemon. After you use up all of your transfer energy, you have to wait A FULL WEEK OR YOU WILL HAVE TO SPEND $10 FOR IT TO RECHARGE. This is super cash greedy as I have been playing your Pokemon Go game for 4 whole years. I have spent lots of time, trying to get these Pokemon in my collection to be treated like this. I wouldn’t argue if you had to wait a day or two, really. I know that you’re a company and you need to make money, but this is simply too far. ONE SHINY LEGENDARY/MYTHICAL COSTS ALL OF THE TRANSFER ENERGY. So you have to wait a FULL WEEK or SPEND $10. You can transfer around 5 shiny Pokemon per month if you don’t want to spend money. This is simply disappointing but I will still use it cuz I have some pokemon to transfer, but please make the wait time/coins lower, please, I don’t want to wait a whole week just to transfer a shiny Heatran to Pokemon Shield just so its IVs can get randomized.

Does what it needs to do… ish. If you solely want to move Pokémon back and forth, this app is great. The issues are in the GTS feature. It’s clogged with trolls asking for Pokémon that legally cannot be acquired which makes it useless. With no GTS in SwSh, it’s the only option available to you but is next to not usable at all. My other gripe is that your Pokémon automatically deposit the items they’re holding in your in game bag when transferred. I really don’t see the point of this, either the software just isn’t able to deal with items for some reason or they don’t want you sending items across games. If the latter is the case, with how prominent hacking is in mainline Pokémon games, the only players this hinders are those who don’t hack because those who do will just hack in the items they want anyway. When your Pokémon builds rely on certain held items that you have to grind the Battle Tower for it can be really annoying. Ideally I would give it a 3.5 star. -1 star for the GTS systems trollability and -0.5 for the items.

Really Awesome, but if I might make a suggestion. I’ve always loved Pokémon Bank and GTS features, and it is really cool to have all of my Pokémon from every adventure I’ve ever played in the same place. However, I think the GTS features are really lacking. I haven’t used the GTS too much since Diamond and Pearl, but I find it odd that we can’t trade mythical and special event Pokémon. For example, if I want to trade my shiny Arceus for an Ash-Greninja, this is impossible. Another thing is the search feature. It’s cool that we can just type in the name, but where do we select that we only want a SHINY version of the Pokémon we asked for? Just making everything a bit more advanced is something to think about in the future, but the app is still definitely pretty useful. Also, if I could open my Wonder Box like a gacha drawing, that would be great. Now I can bother and show my friends all of my Pokémon even without my Switch on me! Bless their souls

I lost everything. I downloaded the app with a lot of excitement after seeing the features they offer plus the ability to transfer my shiny collection into my pokemon sword game from ultra moon. I was able to successfully transfer about 80 Shiny Pokémon into my Pokémon sword game and the others were left behind as the game does not yet have the ability to hold the others. The day after paying for a year of premium I started experiencing issues with the app that started as my subscription having to be refreshed every time I open the app but was soon met with communication errors. I was not able to renew my subscription and lost about 74 Shiny Pokémon at first and only 30 were left behind. A few days of hoping for an update to fix this, an update came and I was locked out of the app by a constant communication error. I lost shiny Pokémon from the black and white games when I first learned of shiny hunting. I expanded my collection over a 10 year period and now because of their screw up I have now lost over 100 shiny Pokémon and have no way of even opening the app to find a way to fix it. Do not download this app until this problem is fixed I beg of you. If you value your Pokémon collection as much as I did, wait until these problems are fixed or else risk losing everything.

LOVE IT but a couple ideas. Hi! I love the game! I connected it to my Switch easily! Which I was really happy about. But after a while using it, I realized a few issues. First issue: people asking for Pokémon levels that you can’t get. I had this issue a lot before getting annoyed about it. (This was my most recent problem with this) I was trying to trade for a shiny Yvatul (don’t know if I spelled that right) for my Glastier. The people who had the shiny were asking for a level 61-70. And I’ve played the DLC enough to know that YOU CANNOT GET LEVEL 70 Glastier. I would love if when you were putting a Pokémon up for trade, the Pokémon you ask for it, the level you select, will actually be available. Second issue: we’ll, this is more of a suggestion than an issue. When you are asking for a Pokémon, I think it would be cool if you could select ‘shiny’. Than you could be a little more specific. That’s pretty much my Review. And yes, I really think you should add these, I’d love that, and thank you for making it so easy to trade Pokémon! Bye!

Great for Pokemon Enthusiasts. I honestly think this is one of the greatest things that’s been invented for Pokemon. I live how there is a mobile version as well as a Switch version so that I don’t necessarily need my switch all the time to do the things I want to do with the app. There are also tons of people willing to trade, so it’s very easy for me to use my spare pokémon to get other pokémon I want. Trades can also happen vert quickly! I was shocked at how fast I completed a trade with the GTS. I think some other suggestions for the app that would make it even more beneficial are to add some other filter like nature, moves, and abilities for a specific pokemon because I find myself looking for these kinds of things as well, and if they had those additional features, I think that would take away the hassle of having to transfer or develop these pokemon ourselves. All in all, though, I highly recommend this app for anyone who is an avid fan of Pokemon and plays Sword and Shield, Let’s Go, or Pokemon Go frequently!

Great app bad specs. Pokémon home is awesome but Pokémon Co. I hope you’re reading this and take this I to consideration. 1. The world of Pokémon trading is amazing and very vast but your program has a major flaw and that is communication. If I trade with a random person across the world I should be able to speak to them also. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found someone to trade with and then it ended up being a waste of both our time just because we can’t communicate. If I could talk to the other person I’m trading with things would be much better think about that for your next game please. Secondly there’s over a 1000 Pokémon in the Pokémon universe currently for you to limit that in the year 2020 and only allow us to explore one region is ridiculous the games would be more fun and more exciting if every single Pokémon from Kanto to Galar region were available on every game from now on including being able to travel to different regions the game itself would be extremely popular and more challenging to someone who’s been playing Pokémon since they were 10. Finally Pokémon home has not allowed me to friend trade at all not sure what’s going on with that buts there’s been several updates and bug fixes still not working. Your favorite Pokémon Master SaVageOpress .

Beautiful App - Trolls clog the trades. The layout and presentation of Pokémon Home is superb and eye catching. It has most features you desire. It lacks some as well. When trading Pokémon, you are presented with a list of Pokémon that the person wants and you have. The issue is that you don’t know at first glance which Pokémon are from which box. You may accidentally trade a Pokémon you want to keep instead of the duplicates you don’t want because you can’t lock Pokémon from being traded either. This is also assuming you can trade with others to begin with. The biggest issue with Pokémon Home is one that has been plaguing the Pokémon trading scene for years. Impossible trade requests. Anyone can put their Pokémon up for trade and request something impossible. They can request Pokémon that can never be in a certain level range or even ask for Pokémon with a gender that is also unavailable to that Pokémon! And if you’re feeling bold, why not do both at once? Every single lookup of a Pokémon you might want is filled with impossible requests, pushing the legitimate ones to the wayside and out of sight. My recommendation at this time is to only use Home for organization of your Pokémon and forget using the trading feature... which is sad because that is in direct opposition of the whole idea behind the Pokémon games to begin with!

“A place where all your Pokémon can gather” is misleading and inaccurate…. When I first found out about this, it was because I had picked up Pokémon GO and was able to get a Mystery Box that lets me catch Meltan to my heart’s content. That’s really nice but what it’s for is storing your Pokémon… unfortunately it doesn’t hook up to anything from the earlier generations anymore. So that’s… 20 years… 2 DECADES… worth of progress that I can’t get off my cartridges now because the service, Pokémon Bank, no longer can be acquired unless you already had it. So for a returning player, like myself, Pokémon Home is unfortunately not very useful unless Nintendo decides to allow us to link it up to our older game titles like Black & White and earlier where I have 2 decades worth of progress and Pokémon that I can’t bring with me now to Violet or future titles. TL;DR I’ll update my rating when Home allows me to link up with the majority of the games because as of now (May 13, 2023), Home only connects with a minority of titles and isn’t truly a “place where all your Pokémon can gather.”

Terrible Design choices and pointless intentional delays. Once again the devs of Pokémon home have arbitrarily decided not to allow transfers to and from their new games until a minimum of FOUR MONTHS after the games come out. Or in other words, once everyone is done with the games and there’s absolutely no point in bringing any Pokémon over because all the content is finished already. This was (barely) excusable last time when the reason was that Pokémon BDSP was so buggy it took four months to get it patched enough that it would work without breaking Home, but there’s no excuse this time. The app is literally worthless right now since the whole point of the app is to be able to send Pokémon from old games to new ones and they wait until after you’ve already 100%d the new games before allowing you to transfer. If you’re so worried about players “playing with the new Pokémon instead of relying on the old ones”, do what you always did and lock the transfer feature until the player beats the Champion. Don’t put it behind an idiot four month time gate and remove the entire point of the apps existence.

Overall a great service, could do without the trolling. I really think that this is a great service for people trying to get all of their old Pokémon into the current generation games, however, there is the issue of the trolling trades completely saturating the GTS and that makes it impossible for people to actually see the trades that can legitimately be made. For instance look at the page for Giratina and you are bound to find at least 15-40 people asking for a level 1 to 15, which is impossible unless you saved the giratina from the arceus events in heart gold and soul silver, and my guess is that there are not a whole lot of those people who own those games anymore; in other words people who actually want a fair trade are guaranteed not to find them, so if the leveling selection being adjusted for the obtainable level of legends should be adjusted to at a minimum of 70, since that’s the majority of levels you see legendaries obtained at. Other than that this is a great service overall.

It's good but needs to fix a few things. Overall it is a great app but I dislike the fact that you can't add pokemon back into Pokemon Go because if somebody were to accidentally tap one of their favorite pokemon without noticing into the app then they can't get it back which can cause frustration and make that person dislike the app and cause them to uninstall it because they could've put a lot of time and effort into trying to evolve that pokemon and build a bond with it and to end up losing because of a mistake. Now you could just let Pokemon that came from Pokemon Go back into Pokemon Go and that would fix the problem but seeing as that might not happen I guess you'll just lose another person who could've helped with the support of the app. Now honestly speaking I may have done that exact thing without realizing that my pokemon would permanently stay in there because I didn't know I couldn't get my pokemon back. This has affected me because I spent a long time trying to evolve and level up the pokemon I had accidentally put in there and now I can't get it back. Not gonna lie Niantic is probably not going to read this but I just want them to know that implementing a system that allows you to transfer your pokemon from Pokemon Go back into it would be nice for a lot of people and one more thing is that this app was a great idea but that little detail to transfer back would've made me and maybe a few other people happy.

A disappointing start. Overall, the first reason that I go to this app works fine. Storage is great and the ability to transfer Pokémon from the other game makes me feel like doing a nuzlock challenge without deleting my current group of Pokémon. That said other features are buggy or aren’t the best described in how they work. Room trading is just broken. It forces you out every single time. Sometimes when the initial countdown, other times during the Pokémon selection. At this point, I have been unable to complete any room trade. The other thing that kind of bothers me but isn’t necessarily broken is the wonder box. It’s nice to have and I don’t necessarily expect it to work instantaneously but it takes literal hours for it to do anything. That’s too long of a time frame, imo. At first I though it wasn’t even a functional feature. The fact that there are premium features in the app that are linked to things that aren’t working properly, ie setting up a room trade, is not acceptable. I won’t be asking for a refund, as the 6000 slots is quite nice but please get on this quickly.

Amazing overall but some little ideas?. So I’ve had this for a bit and it has been amazing but there are a few hiccups that would make the game so much better, I was wondering if there was a way if possible to have held items carry over? I know that is difficult but it would make something like trade evolutions possible for those who can’t afford or won’t buy the online pass for switch. And for the GTS, something I haven’t seen anyone ask for yet is a setting for if you want a shiny Pokémon, it’s very hard to find shiny Pokémon and trying to trade is risky as there isn’t really a way to specifically ask for a shiny, I’ve been hunting for a shiny ralts for a while without luck and have been turning to trades for it but i can’t just put a Pokémon in the GTS and request a shiny… it is still an amazing game and adding these features would make it so much better! Thank you for this game that helped me complete so many Pokédex’s lol

It has one serious flaw. pokemon home is great, it’s helped me fill out the majority of my pokédex and sure, not being able to chat with those your trading with is a bit annoying, but bearable. The one major flaw is that people can ask for a specific level for the pokemon they want. This feature has been abused by many users in asking for pokemon in the level 1-10 category when its impossible to get that pokemon at that level, if it’s either through the level at which the pokemon evolves or that it’s simply a legendary pokemon that cant be caught at any level lower then the one you get it at in the game. This flaw causes a chain reaction of events where the system is flooded with requests for the impossible to get pokemon, all this leads to is trades that will never be completed and disappointment. It’s a truly disappointing flaw too because it wouldn’t even be that hard to fix for an industry as big as pokemon, all it would take is a few adjustments so that Pokemon that are unavailable in lower levels can’t be requested in those lower levels.

Great, but confusing.. The app is awesome for transferring Pokémon to the switch games, but it can get very odd and inconvenient at times. My greatest concern is the GTS. I’ve been trying to GTS trade to get the gift Rotom, and have been depositing many different pokémon into the GTS and waiting for about a month now. None of the pokémon I’ve put in have ever been traded with someone else and I find those odds to be very strange, since all I ever ask for is a pikachu. And on top of that, whenever I got to search for pokémon I can never find the ones I’m offering, it’s always just the same few people. I figured it was just me not being able to see my own trades but a friend of mine also hasn’t been able to trade, and when she searches for pokémon of my species she gets the same few people that I do. I worry that I won’t be able to trade since no one can see my offers and therefor trade with me if they wanted to. If you guys could make a way for people to be able to see all of the offers that match their specifications on the GTS, it would be much appreciated.

Great! But needs one or two features. This game is great it has many features that I have always wanted for Pokémon sword and shield but it is lacking some, such as the feature on the GTS where there is a setting where it filters the Pokémon you are searching for four people asking for Pokémon that you have. This is an excellent feature and I am surprised it is not added in Pokémon HOME. Also it would be great if we had some sort of way to battle, maybe on the switch version it would be better than the mobile version but still nonetheless we need a way to battle, especially since on the news category it says battle as a category. Overall this is a great game but there is one more thing I would like to see in it. There should be more boxes in the basic plan of the version one box really isn’t going to help people who want to save money but like to play Pokémon, especially if they might be shiny hunters or they just need extra space in their boxes. Also, people should not be able to make a possible trades such as dittos with genders or legendary Pokémon with genders which there is no way that anybody can trade unless it is hacked. These trades generally annoy me because this is people just taunting others. I’d like to see your future that removes the capability of making any sort of impossible trade. I love this app how it can transfer Pokémon to and from games and I think once it gets updated more it will just keep getting better. :3

My Honest Review. This app is amazing, it makes transferring Pokémon from game to game very easy. I was able to get the Shiny Charm in my Shield game because of this. The Wonder Box is my favorite part of this app because someone in Japan gave me a Ditto and now I’m able to masuda any Pokémon I want. However there are some changes I recommend. One, make it so that you can also transfer items if a Pokémon holds it. Two, I don’t understand why trade evolutions don’t work on this app. I was traded about 2 to 3 Haunters and I was gradually disappointed that they didn’t evolve into Gengars, even though someone TRADED me the Haunters. One last thing, I am sad to inform that no matter what the Pokémon Company or GameFreak do to their games, the GTS will always be flooded with requests for Pokémon that are impossible to get without hacking. For example, I see lots of trainers that want to trade their Pokémon for a Level 1-10 Poipole. There are more examples than just Poipole but that’s just the one I see the most.

GTS search issue. Hello, I’m writing this review because of an issue I’ve been having in the GTS. I can still deposit Pokémon just fine but the “search for Pokémon” button doesn’t seem to work anymore, I was trying to trade some of my other legendaries for the Tao Trio but mainly just Reshiram. I deposited my Pokémon just fine but when I decided to search for each individual Tao Trio member it seemed to glitch or just straight up become unusable. I searched for the Kyurem and two of them popped up which didn’t seem to be broken at all, but upon me accidentally leaving that page I tried to search for Kyurem again but it gave me an error message of “The Pokémon does not exist”. I at first thought the two Kyurem got traded away quickly or the trainers took them back but when I tried searching for Reshiram or Zekrom it didn’t work? I tried every search filter I could think of and also searched for other Pokémon like Urshifu and also some of the starters because I remember starters being very common on the GTS, but none of them worked, is this an internet issue? Should I delete the app and redownload it? Please fix this issue as the GTS is slowly becoming unusable.

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Add multiple logins on different devices. I have two devices, and I have Pokémon home on both of them, But for some reason I can’t login into two different devices at the same time which is really annoying. When I want to use Pokémon home on one I have to delete and reinstall the app to login on the other device. And even when I do that the one I was previously logged into says finished moving to new device. I know this might be a big ask but I should be able to login to my Pokémon home account on two different devices. It gets quite annoying when I have to reinstall the app on the go because I previously logged in to my other device. Tldr If you can in the future add the feature to login to multiple devices on the same account that would be awesome Thank you for taking the time to read this. Hope you have a good day!

Switch + mobile versions. I downloaded the switch version yesterday when it released and bought the premium plan and was working fine however when I transferred my Pokémon from Pokémon bank to home it said it will take awhile in the meantime it said I cannot use home on my switch and as of today I still can’t login back into it, I’m very annoyed as I spent premium for the year and not even being able to log in to use the features.

Awesome but full of bad trades in GTS. The user interface is quite good, though it can be free, the paid subscription is way better and it is not too upsetting since pokemon bank was also a paid subscription. The biggest downside is all the people in the GTS asking for a legendaries and mythical pokemon that can’t be traded.

Good but…. I like how you have so many Pokémon i wish there was more ways to get Pokémon even better if you can do some mini games in it and more ways to get Pokémon if you don’t have the switch

A great idea at first. Pokémon home was really promising some great things for Pokémon fans and those who have been following the game for a long time. But the sudden errors with Pokémon suddenly being wiped from existence in the transferring process is an issue. Just trying to transfer Pokémon from ‘let’s go’ had lead to some Pokémon being completely deleted. This was really disheartening as the ‘question mark explanation’ was not clear that the Pokémon would be deleted in an attempt to transfer them to sword and shield. I would have expected them to just bounce back into the Pokémon home system, so I was quite disheartened to see that.

Can’t log on. Have linked accounts on both switch and phone, but trying to go any further than that just doesn’t work. It is always telling me I can’t log on because the app is already being used by another device and no, it is not, I have checked. I never used the app much but it has previously worked. But at the moment it’s basically a digital paperweight

Not bad. Updates with nothing but bug fixes are way too frequent. I get you need to patch the software but I don’t want to have to update the app every time I want to get in. Also the paid subscription is complete BS. It should be basic functionality to trade Pokémon between games in 2020, and while having limited functionality is fine, it’s still wrong to charge people for a glorified PC box

Trade System. The trade system though rarely is amazing the majority of the time it’s completely bull with some people wanting Legendary pokemon for something like a Milotic or Gigalith. If they could somehow monitor this and make a fair trade system this app would be much more useful and fair but as it is it’s not fair.

Love it but one problem. I love this it is so useful but there is one problem I found and I still can’t fix it, I accidentally sent more Pokémon to Pokémon home from Pokémon go then I had storage for and I can’t collect them because there is more Pokémon to collect than storage space I have and I can’t only select a few to keep and I can’t refuse the transfer thing so I can no longer transfer Pokémon to Pokémon home so. please give me a solution to this

Really good but some things need fixing. It’s a great app I use it nearly every day but I think you should make it so that all of it is free I really don’t have enough room for my boxes so I don’t often store Pokémon in it and I can’t get the paid version and I want to move my account to my new phone so maybe make it so that we can pair the two devises and move the account instead of having to put your Nintendo account in there

Good but has room for improvement. I’ll just start this off by saying that I thinks it’s stupid to pay for this service (there is a free version yes but it’s not very good) as we already have these games and bought a console and nso but I would be happy to look past that if I didn’t keep getting disconnected from random trade rooms which is a pain as it takes away a lot of the fun, also I would assume that this is why I can’t trade or get traded with. Aside from these issues I see a massive amount of potential for this service as an improvement from bank I’m writing this part months after just for added context, a bunch of the issues have been fixed but some still remain. The mobile Pokédex has an issue of not showing Pokémon that you have in your Pokédex on the console version which is dumb, people are able to ask for Pokémon that literally do not exist on the gts eg lvl 1-10 dragapult and those that ask for Pokémon that exist always ask for a solgaleo for their worthless magikarp. I’m not to fused with the GTS problems tbh, just plz fix the Pokédex on mobile a bunch of the legendaries that I’ve added aren’t showing up on the mobile version and it really pisses me off because now there is no way that I’ll be able to get a full Pokédex(already have the poke ball magearna, just want to be able to see which Pokémon I have added and which ones I still need to add)

Pokemon home. The app is overall good until you get to the GTS because if you want to trade all the people ask for impossible Pokémon so in my opinion they should add a feature where you ask for an evolved Pokemon it has to be the level it evolves at or over. Other than that there is not much wrong with app it is a bit lagging and freezes up sometimes. I think the app is a better variation of Pokemon bank since you don’t to pay to use the actual app.

Great but. It’s a great app I can now physically see what Pokémon I need to catch and evolve, but I would like to sync my Pokémon go to the app , also there is a problem if haveing caught Pokémon added them to home but the Pokédex physically saids it’s not there when it is. Also Pokémon not registered in the missions menu, when they are physically in my home. And can we have a special unown Pokédex and trade option for the different letters please. As well as syncing Pokémon go to home.

Down for maintenance. I’ve been getting a blue screen saying the app is down for maintenance for about 2 weeks. I have only been able to stay logged in for 2 days out of 14. A joke. I have paid for community day ticket and now I won’t be able to use it. I’ve deleted and reinstalled about 6 times on different days. I’ve logged in by email, Apple ID and google account. Nothing works. I’ve checked for updates for the phone and app. I’m honestly so exhausted and have no idea what else to do. I can’t report a bug without logging in.. but I can’t log in.

Super convienient but one thing.... Shiny gimmighoul is a very major issuse on the gts, since gimmighoul is shiny locked snd can only get the shiny from the raid, people are scamming. Please add a feature to look at the summary of the pokemon so we can see the OT, whether its shiny etc.

Works well. Is a great idea and has lots of potential. The GTS trading is back but is a bit broken. The trades are slow and when you search for a Pokémon you are bombarded by trades asking for Pokémon that are impossible to trade like a shaymin. please fix this as it is a complete waist of space and our time

Communication Error?. Whenever I try to open up the app, it always comes up with a communication error. It worked perfectly fine for one day, but I had to resort to deleting it because apparently there was an error. Even after deleting it, the app would come up with communication error and I can’t use the app without having to delete it every time I want to use it. Please fix this.

Broken app so far. Brought premium subscription, Wonder trade takes hours before try get traded and everytime you join random trade rooms and finally getting in it says you have left room. At least can move Pokémon between games and gts works as long as you don’t have any event Pokémon. But other features are broken which is poor for the one who are paying for

Needs Work. Whilst it is a good working app. It needs to tell you from the start which Pokemon CAN and CANNOT be transferred over into Sword and Shield. I spent $10 to transfer all my Pokémon from the Bank to Home only to find out my favourite Pokémon of all generations can’t be apart of my Sword team. The lack of information around the transfers needs to be improved and more needs to be done so all Pokemon from all generations can be enjoyed on the Switch.

Great idea. Poor implementation. Serves the purpose of storing but GTS and trade room are horrible. After the update the "impossible" trade conditions in GTS still happening, the GTS filter to avoid legends won't work. Trade room: ppl change the mon in the last second. GTS feature also mess with the music playing in the phone, so the music stops when i am in the GTS. An idea: "Sorting by boxes" in the sorting options when ALL mons are displayed would be useful.

Average ‘help’, parental issues. I keep getting trades from the same person and both their player name and Pokémon are all named/contain swear words. I was told to release them - loosing both my Pokémon in the trade, the one I received and lost faith that they’re going to do anything about it. I don’t expect new mons, just for them to sort out the inappropriate stuff, to at least block from me or ban them altogether. Multiple emails later they don’t seem to care at all. Apparently you can name them whatever horrid names as long as they have an ‘*’ in between.

Battle forms in boxes please.. Love having a large space to store Pokémon and easily trade them across generations and games as well as access them on mobile. The only thing that would make this better for me would be if we could also display battle-only Pokémon forms in the boxes, not just view them in the pokedex. I’m sure many other people who like collecting would also appreciate this.

2.0 changed a few things. So I’ve loved Pokémon for a long time and have begun collecting all Pokémon I could to create my own living dex. Then this update came along a new option I hadn’t seen before came up on the mobile app saying you can catch all Pokémon per game on that Pokédex helping keep track of one’s I may have missed from those games. Now it seems to have wiped that information which sucked as I had completed most of them and had 400+ on Pokémon go

Remove asking for Mythical Pokémon. Pokémon home is great on both console and on IOS version. I love that the GTS feature was brought back, but everyone online will ask for mythicals which aren’t tradable wether you have one or not. It would be nice if in a future update they removed the option for this or allow mythical Pokémon to be tradable, making GTS trades easier, more fair and we don’t have to see a whole list of people asking for Pokémon they can’t have. Other than that the game is great and I have no other problems with it✨(long rant)

Premium plan garbage. I went into all the trouble of evolving five special rockruffs, moving them to Pokémon bank (which took at least 10 minutes) only to find that I needed to PAY to get them into HOME. I’ve wasted literally half an hour of my spare time trying to get them into HOME. What’s the point of this whole event if Pokémon HOME doesn’t have a trial as well. I’m honestly so disappointed that I might not be able to use my favourite Pokémon in future games. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

A really great app. It’s an awesome way to transfer and store your Pokémon, however the GTS needs rethinking. When I want to find a Pokémon I can find it, but I don’t want to trade legendaries, mythicals, or ultra beasts for a ponyta-g. Also, if you shouldn’t be allowed to request a Pokémon that can’t be traded, like a level 1-10 orbeetle.

Filtering Needed. It’s honestly an awesome app, but I’d really love it if the app filtered impossible trades, for example when people post a Zamazenta, Zacian or any other legendaries and ask for a lvl 1-10 Dragapult. It’ll honestly help take away the unnecessary posts on gts. Because Dragapult isn’t available at all at that level, nor is a level 50-60 Zacian or Zamazenta. It should be filtered when it asks for a specific Pokémon, to only give the level it is available on. Another example. They’re not given the option to ask for a level 50-60 Zacian since it’s only available at level 70.

Great App!. I think that Pokémon home is great and would recommend to any Pokémon fan the only problem I have is that some people on the GTS are asking for “level 1-10” zacian or zamazenta or any Pokémon which you can’t get at lower levels like level 51 to 60 zacian maybe they are just showing off but I think that you shouldn’t be able to but apart from that absolutely great!!!

Handy, but buggy. The app is generally quite good however I have registered a lot of Pokémon on the Nintendo Switch version for my Dex, and despite them registering correctly on there, a lot of them aren’t registering on Pokémon Home properly. Today I checked my Switch, where I had registered Blastoise, Charizard and Venosaur without issue, but on the mobile version of Pokémon Home they do not appear in the Pokédex when they should.

Voice Recognition. All my app settings are English and my default for voice rec is English but the mic in the app thinks I'm searching Japanese because I have that keyboard installed. Besides this, app is good but the sorting of Pokemon is confusing. Just give us the boxes like in the games and on the Switch version. Also need better friend connectivity. Why can't I see how many Pokemon my Nintendo Switch friends have?

Pretty good app but I just kinda want one feature.... I always use this app to trade and get shinies cause i can't always get the pokemon i need. I just rlly wish there was one teensy feature, to help make looking for shiny pokemon easier. Make it an option that u can ask for a SHINY pokemon when depositing a pokemon in the GTS. It'll make getting shinies easier and less annoying to get. So Game Freak, please see this. I rlly like this service, I just need to be able to trade a bit easier. Game Freak, if you see this, please consider adding this. Thank you for your time.

Please add. The features of Pokémon home are great but it would be even better if you could search what other people are offering for your Pokémon on the gts, for example say I had a mewtwo I could look up what other people are offering for one and choose the best one instead of searching through Pokémon to see who wants mine. Thanks in advance. 😁👍

Where do I start?. First, we were sold an ~$80 game that was not only unfinished, but didn’t include all the the Pokémon or features like GTS and WonderTrade. Want to catch all the Pokémon? $30 for a DLC (still doesn’t include them all). Want to trade or battle online? $30/year for Nintendo Switch Online. Want to transfer Pokémon from gen 3 games? $5/year for Pokémon Bank. Want to transfer old Pokémon from Pokémon bank or Let’s Go? $25/year for Pokémon Home. Sure these aren’t expensive subscriptions, but considering previous FINISHED games were $70 included these features at no extra cost, are now $190 all up! $190 for Sword OR Shield, that’s not even for both (it’s $300 for both games with all features and “most” of the Pokémon, by the way!). Ever since Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum could transfer Pokémon between 2 different generations on 2 different consoles simply for the prices of the games ($70each). I feel ripped off and I’ve only purchased the base games. You’ve lost a Pokémon fan of 20 years.

Great so far!. Keep in mind I will only briefly talk about the switch version, as this IS a review for the app itself. So far, the app is great, but could use some improvements. Firstly, you are able to store up to 6000 Pokémon which is more than enough. The ability to have multiple Pokémon in the GTS and Wonder trade (or Wonder Box as it’s called in the app) is INCREDIBLE! Although, it is inconvenient how most people just ask for mythicals, despite the fact that you can’t trade them. However, the switch version is MUCH more organised than the mobile version. If these issues were fixed, this app would get a 5 star review.

Team Rocket. If your plan expires, any Pokémon not in the basic box are kidnapped from you and become unavailable to you until you pay to renew your plan. This is straight up Pokémon theft. Also the fact you have to pay money to bring along your partners you may have had since who knows how long was already sickening with Pokémon bank, but now if you put Pokémon in home you can’t transfer and your premium runs out, they’re basically held for Ransom. On top of this, the wonder trade system is slow and kind of annoying to navigate as you have to tap each box individually to add each Pokémon to each box rather than just opening a menu and dragging Pokémon into a box without having to open and close the boxes repeatedly. I don’t have any Pokémon held hostage, but the fact that Nintendo can do this and has chosen to do this is pretty malicious. On top of this, certain event Pokémon are only available through Pokémon home’s mobile version, so switch players who don’t know how to connect to the mobile version will be left out of these exclusive Pokémon, such as the special ability scorbunny, grookey and sobble or the alternate colour zeraora. Nintendo doesn’t make these events available in the console version of Pokémon home and I cannot think of any reason why they would do this.

Needs about of fixing. Pokémon home is a great app I love using it and being able to store Pokémon and trade but people put a Pokémon that they want and the levels are to low so that Pokémon can’t be obtained at that level so could you please fix this problem by making it so that you can’t request for a legendary Pokémon that can’t be caught at the low level of 61 to 70 because glastier and spectrier can only be caught at level 75 please fix this problem soon

Issues. It has been nearly 5 months since Pokémon Legends Arceus and I can honestly say that there is not much point in paying for home premium until it is confirmed that the BDSP and Aceus compatibility update has been 100% confirmed coupled with the fact that Pokebank premium won’t be available after the end of this year it is quickly becoming apparent that the Pokémon company is letting us down when it comes to keeping their word.

Money Grab. There shouldn’t be a premium service for this app, we have already had to pay for several consoles, games and now Nintendo online. Although it is way overpriced the concept it great but poorly executed. For example it would be a good feature to be able to search for shinys, in gts being able to want a shiny on your trade or being able to search for a Pokémon that you have and other people want so you don’t have to scroll through thousands of trades.

Improve your legit check!!!. I traded my legendary Pokémon in GST and got a Urshifu… And guess what? This Urshifu own an Alpha Mark!!! From what I knew, Alpha Mark only appear when this pokemon are “the Former Alpha” from Pokémon legend Arceus, Did Urshifu even in the Pokémon legends Arceus? I don’t think so. So, where did this Urshifu come from? Must be a magic I think😉

First Impressions. Needs some bug fixes and for sign in methods to be easier, but it works and does what it needs to. (Although 30 box spaces is not enough)

Nice idea. I like the app it’s very clear and easy to use, and I like the wonder box idea but I can’t keep buying these things like poke bank itself already costs and then you have to pay for Pokémon home and Nintendo online and the normal internet and an expansion pass all to play one game. It’s really adding up and if u add anything more I’m going to go be homeless pls stop :((((( Like are we supposed to spend $200+ for Pokémon idk it’s kind of getting insane. I’ll just have to play another game.

Great service, needs a little work. I LOVE this app. It has allowed me to complete my Pokedex and get shinies. One thing I suggest patching is all the trade requests asking for illegal/impossible Pokémon. It really clutters up the space and makes trading very clunky. Apart from that, I highly recommend this app.

Good but needs improvements 😃. This app is awesome works great on the switch and it’s cool to have it on my phone to. But I ran into issues trying to link my Nintendo account to the app and I know that I’m not the only person with this issue. I hope the developers can fix this issue in the future. 👍

Good app but…. It is a good app at first but you have to keep paying if you don’t want to risk losing your Pokémon if you go back to the basic plan only 30 of your Pokémon can stay meaning after some time all the rest will be deleted and unrecoverable I don’t recommend this if you either don’t have enough money to keep paying or don’t have any of the games to transfer them to

Why can’t we have Mythicals and why do our trades fail. Why can’t we have mythical Pokémon why can’t we have mew, shaymen and all the other mythical Pokémon that’s why I rate you a one star. Why do trades fail it is so annoying because when trades fail you can’t trade again I was trying to trade a Omoster for a Tapu KOKO but it did not work why can’t we trade three stars as well this game is so annoying

How is this acceptable?. I literally can’t do anything outside of accepting the Pikachu and starter Pokémon because I decided to start my switch version first! Isn’t the whole point of this to have access to your boxes on your phone? Even after downloading the new update I am still unable to do anything! Connecting your phone version to the switch version is one of the main advertised functions, and now I’m stuck in Poké-limbo because I checked everything out on my switch first!

Great app, Bad community. The app is amazing and a useful way for me to navigate my Pokémon boxes rather then having to go to my switch, the only bad thing I can think of is the GTS, If you could add a feature that doesn’t allow people to request unobtainable Pokémon such as level 1-10 poipole or even 51-60 zacian I think a feature that stopped that would really help this app

Friend trades?? Where? But still really good. Really good and useful app although in one of the photos for the app it show a thing called friend trade, which I don’t believe exists yet and would be a very cool feature, so I week like that’s kind of click bait, idk the positives our way the negatives but yeah, also private room trades just don’t want to work at all

Please add this. I wish you could view boxes with the spaces left on the console. It would help keep the better order and easier to find specific Pokémon. Also be able to lock viewing in a specific way, I’d much rather see in Pokédex order consistory rather the newest when looking at boxes.

Needs improvement.. The interface is lovely and once the bug fixes are out I can imagine it will work smoothly. But it is frustrating that I can’t trade with someone that isn’t near by with a friend trade. I understand that the developers are trying to combat hacked Pokémon. But it should not be up to the user to suffer for a problem they are not contributing to. Other measures should be put in place to battle hacked Pokémon. I currently am regretting bringing my Pokémon into Pokémon home.

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Why. What if you Did not want to see people who want mythicals But Pokémon Hone said POIPOLE OR PHIONE

Buggy and full of glitches. Dont buy subscription.. Bugs everywhere and app breaking glitches. If you make a free account on another ios device while you have a paid account on another, You cant use your subscription anymore for your main account. So you just waste money with tiny things like that. One of the worst pokemon apps.

You still can’t look at it on more than one device.. That’s pretty ridiculous.

Same old GTS problems. Okay, GameFreak, please hear our plea. This app has all the same issues that GTS has in previous games. Here’s the breakdown on what needs to change. 1. Don’t allow requests for Pokémon that can’t be traded. Seriously. Everyone is asking for Phione, Zeraora (which can be brought into SwSh!!), and other mythical Pokémon when you can’t even trade them if you have them. When you put a Pokémon up for trade in the GTS, a pop up should state “this mythical Pokémon currently cannot be obtained through trade” to prevent people from posting Pokémon that we can’t trade for. 2. Reverse GTS search. I should be able to look up who’s looking for my Pokémon and what trade options come up. This way, I could see “who’s looking for Pikachu” and see all the trades looking for a Pikachu of its current level and gender. 3. Fix room trade. It has yet to work once for me. Everyone drops out or I get booted from the room. 4. Disable limit of friend trades. I understand a few reasons why this is implemented, but it really should be unlimited for premium users. 5. Wonder trade speed. Why does it take half a day for my wonder trade Pokémon to be exchanged? As a long time Pokémon fan, Pokémon Home has come a long way to streamline a lot of the features on mobile devices. However, I currently am a premium paid user and am requesting a little more of the service. Please make these changes so the GTS and Pokémon Home as a whole can truly be the one place for all Pokémon users without needing a 3rd party app/social media.

What's the point of this app?. I'm sure a lot of people like me downloaded it for the mystery box in pokemon go. The app doesn't really explain things. I'm trying to clear space but I can't find a way to, so I can't transfer pokemon. You can't take pokemon out which to me is the most ridiculous thing, once a pokemon is in there it's gone. And to get more boxes you gotta pay? The first box can only hold like 20 pokemon. So what's the point of this app? Just seems too .uch of just a cash grab with almost nothing to do with it.

Friend Trades are a Joke. Full disclosure, the idea of Pokémon Home, combined with Max Raids in Sword and Shield has gotten me back into Pokémon, and now I’m trying to “catch em all” as they say. But this app doesn’t allow trading the same way the game does... and since the game doesn’t include all the Pokémon, I literally have no way to get them all. Why in the world can I not trade with a friend online? You can trade with any friend or stranger in sword online, so why would this app, which is a PAID SERVICE, be any different? And since Mythicals can’t be traded in the GTS, or Trade Rooms, there is literally NO work around for this. This isn’t very hard, just fix it.

People need to stop with the low lvls and Poipoles FIX IT plz. Ok this gonna get a annoying people for crying out low lvls and poipoles players need to STOP asking for that kind of thing it’s impossible like come on like people ask for something else no Low lvls and no poipoles so pls Nintendo fix this

I love it, but it isn’t the best.. Pokémon home is an AMAZING app! I love it! But I don’t love everything about it. Here’s some pros and cons: Pros: - a free way to trade -great way to transfer a Pokémon (e.g. Lunala) to sword or shield Cons: - costs money to access Pokémon bank (yes I read that dude’s review but still!), making it a lot harder to get cool Pokémon like Lunala - allows people to offer legendary and rare Pokémon for Pokémon at UNOBTAINABLE levels ( I saw a guy with a lunala asking for a boy meowstic at level 12, which is not the level meowstic evolves at. NOT EVEN CLOSE) which is just plain unfair. Last thing is WHY DO THEY GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO SEARCH FOR MYTHICAL POKÉMON WHEN YOU CANT?!? I saw that dude’s review about asking for mythical Pokémon but how about you only have the option of asking for a mythical when you’re trading a mythical? It’s that easy. Seriously. PLEASE FIX THIS, GAME FREAK!! Thanks for reading this far!

:(. I thought it would’ve supported other Pokémon games not just the Nintendo console games. App is currently undeveloped and never thought I had to pay. I was disappointed because I was hyped for this.

Single device. Rated one star for not being useable on multiple devices under the same account. I’d rather use my iPad when playing at home and my phone everywhere else.

So silly. You have to pay for Nintendo online AND this stupid thing. Can’t even have all the pokemon in the game yet. Plus, what kinda function is “you can only change your subscription on the store you purchased it on”? A stupid one, that’s what. Now i’m scrambling all over the place to cancel this stupid thing, not knowing if i purchased it on my switch or my phone, because OF COURSE it doesn’t tell me. Smh. Do better.

Lost my Pokémon. When I stored my Pokémon some of my shiny mew and some of my zeraoras disappeared from home I hope I can get them back I’m so mad I’m going to write a report to game freak

Glitch. I unfortunately can't view friends so I have to miss out on so many shinies my friends were going to give me

Can’t even link account. A terrible app with a gouging premium that costs more than it should. They should be ashamed.

Untradable GTS posting. Please fix this

Buggy and slow. Try to do anything and the app takes either takes forever, dosent do it, or just crashes.

How are you lost a legendary in a mythical Pokémon. I transferred a legendary to Pokémon HOME, and I didn’t realize that you couldn’t transfer into Pokémon violet so I was gonna put them back into Pokémon go, and I couldn’t I’m so mad, and I want that to be a thing legendary mythical. Pokémon into Pokémon go again.

Broken. Recent updates have completely broken this app. Most times it won’t load passed the start screen, and when it does you’ll just get “a communication error has occurred” any time you try and do anything, but especially when trying to use GTS. The app used to work great, and I used it frequently. Now it’s a broken mess that basically doesn’t function

No Pokémon go?. Why have a phone app if it isn’t compatible with the Pokémon phone game?

App regularly freezes making app unusable. It’s not my connection because I’ve tried this app on three different internet connections and data, and it’s still freezing up. I’ll try to tap on something and suddenly the whole interface is frozen. It may unfreeze after 10 seconds, the loading icon appears, but then it just stays frozen for the next 2 mins.

Need add more. I hope Pokémon home app can add trade evolution to evolve Pokémon

Crash home. cannot login nintendo account with faceid Too much crash

Practically useless. Can’t do anything fun without paying for it

Youve got to be kidding. I sure am glad that i paid money to take one of my pokemon to home to trade it for a shiny dracovish. just to learn i cant trade my pokemon because its “special”. wow nice move guys! I'm so happy to know my event pokemon are stuck in pokemon home for no reason, as they cant enter any of the new games. 0/10, I would rate negative stars if it was possible!

Meh. Hey Pokémon company, why not remove the option of trading mythical Pokémon, if we can’t do it, then don’t make it an option. That’s honestly dumb but just remove it, too many people ask for a mythical Pokémon making it extremely difficult to actually find something worth trading.

Hi. Pretty good but you need to pay for the real benifit

Can’t Trade Mythical. I honestly think Home is great but the thing that really sucks is that we can’t trade mythical Pokémon it really sucks how am I supposed to complete my national Dex if I can’t get mythical Pokémon by trading it really sucks. Nintendo you need to fix this problem please.

Super Big Turds. Extremely lame. If you transfer Pokémon from ago to Home, you can’t get them back. Make it so you can port back to Go & the service would be 100x better.

Gts. It’s good but why can’t I trade mythic Pokemon ie melmetal mew etc It would make it much better if I trade mythic Pokemon

It’s painfully slow!. Everything takes ages to load and whenever I try to open the gift box my game freezes! Please fix!

Bad. -lots of login error -can’t use on more than 1 device at a time -filter out request mythical Pokémon doesn’t work, still see mythicals. -people can upload mythical Pokémon even though can’t be traded -people can request impossible Pokémon ie: charizard lvl 1-10. -autosort filter doesn’t save, so have to reclick it every time you move a Pokémon on switch -wondertrade is slow -can’t move Pokémon around boxes on the phone -can’t use gts on switch -hundreds of Pokémon are stuck in it because can’t move them to any game. Why on earth does this cost 20$ CAD with all these problems?

Can’t use friend trade. Pokémon Company, change the age restriction from 16 to 13! It makes no sense that you restrict this feature! Only near adults can use friend trade, and they most likely will lose interest in Pokémon soon, anyways, which makes NO SENSE!

So Happy it’s out!!. I lost my 3ds like 2 years ago and haven’t seen it since. Once I unlocked premium I was able to transfer all my Pokémon from Pokebank that I haven’t see in years!! I didn’t even have a subscription anymore but they were transferred through my Nintendo ID. ALL MY SHINIES ARE SAVED!! To all the kid complaining about Nintendo trying to wallet drain us, it’s literally 20$ after tax, like chill. I think this is a great addition to keep all my Pokémon in one area and it’s super user friendly! Thanks Nintendo!!

Doesn’t allow me to connect with my Nintendo account. The password is correct. If I type a wrong one, I get a proper error.

Can’t sign in. I was excited to download the app but I can’t sign into my account. I tried removing and redownloaded the app and everything is up to date.

GTS IS BROKEN. I have had 3 shiny Pokémon sitting in GTS for well over a week which have not been traded. When searching GTS for the same Pokémon on another switch account (ie. grookey), mine is not available in the search and it is COMPLETELY FLOODED with ridiculous stupid requests of legendaries for LV.1 pokemon!!! This needs to be stopped and filtered properly!!! No one is finding what I have offered to trade because there’s such a huge flood of people make absurd and stupid trade requests that will never be accepted. This is unfair to people who pay and are trying to participate in GTS!!

Pokémon. The app should have away to transfer to Pokémon GO

Won’t work. Every time I try linking my account it says it’s not able to

Such a stupid idea. 1. GTS should’ve been in the game from the start. Same with mass releasing Pokémon 2. Why can’t I trade with friends, people who I have optionally added, over wifi? That defeats the entire purpose 3. Why can’t we trade mythicals? And fine, even if you’re extremely adamant on that, WHY CAN WE STILL REQUEST THEM?! The gts is constantly flooded with trash requests that, even if we wanted to complete, we couldn’t possibly. 4. The app is extremely buggy and that combined with the above reasons this is no where near worth 16$ a year. You guys are turning into one of the most anti consumer companies out there and yea. We get it. You make bank from it. But so many people dislike this and the new games that eventually this will run out. Just like paper Mario.

Pokémon bank2.0. I have it on my switch and it is useful 🎮🕹

Can’t Link Nintendo Account. No matter how many times I try, even after deleting and reinstalling the app, it keeps giving me the error that I can’t sign into my Nintendo Account even though it signed in.

Useless. This is like the Pokemon Bank but four times the price, much harder and more confusing to use and full of people asking for mythical Pokémon for ordinary ones. But the worst thing is the crow barring in of the good features from Sun and Moon which have been made almost useless. Specifically, the inability to evolve pokemon via trading, with or without items. All of my pokemon playing friends live in other cities, so to trade with them through Sword and Shield, I would have to purchase the high priced online functionality that I would never use again. To use all the functions of Sword, it would cost me approximately $165 Canadian. It makes me wonder if they care about all of us poor idiots who have bought their games for 20 years, or whether they just want as much money out of us as they can get.

Needs to be added. There needs to be a option to look for shiny Pokémon

Did not get free shiny zeraora. When I did the steps I still did not get the free shiny zeraora

GTS flooded with impossible trades. Why are you allowing people to post impossible trades? There’s no legit way to get a level 1-10 Fully evolved or legendary Pokémon! Fix this problem and I will change my rating.

Divinest#3612. 1st “OG”

Slow and cashing often. Something bad must have happened in a recent update. The app is performing terribly and crashing repeatedly.

Fix it!!!. Can’t even get into the app because it claims I’m already logged in on a different system... but I’m not??? Thank god i didn’t blow the $20 on it yet because nintendo would be catchin a case

Premium plan. You need to pay to see your Pokémon and to transfer Pokémon for the 3ds I’m ok with taking away the extra slots but please I put my Pokémon in now I can never see them again unless I pay for a free app made by a company making millions across the globe. sincerely : a diehard fan

It took my pokemon. It just took all my pokemon said i have never deposited or taken out anything wiped my pokedex clean and now all my legendarys, shinies and old really good pokemon are all gone except for 3 pokemon i got from the app a pikachu, a pichu and a bulbasaur.

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Much to be desired yet optimistic. I have 3 suggestions, one for each missing star on this review. Crashing! Every day I use this app I’m certain to encounter a blank white screen or the app shutting off entirely. To be fair, this is new and we have plenty of room for updates and optimizations to look forward to I hope. Wonder box takes hours, Why?? Pls fix And finally now that we are on this new mobile platform, it’s a perfect time to fix the GTS. Let me filter “Pokemon they want.” If I have a pokemon that I want to trade but don’t have anything in mind, I want to be able to find someone that wants it. In this case I wouldn’t need to wonder trade all my breedject-pokemon and I can give them to people who actually want them. On another note, please expand the list of pokemon you classify as mythical and legendary. Under the filter I’ll still see the likes of regigigas, entei, landorus, and probably many more. This app has such huge potential and I want to love it, but I can’t force myself to pay the subscription for something so unpolished. If you can make the user experience more intuitive and reliable, your customers will be happy to pay for premium. For the customers out there that read this far, if you love pokemon, of course download the app. But I can’t recommend that you pay for premium in its current state, wait until these quality of life features are implemented. It will be worth it.

This isn’t ok. In all honesty, everything in this world is overpriced, and the same thing goes to Pokémon trading, and it breaks my heart. Pokemon needed in stories to finish the game are being able to be traded, like kubfu, that’s not ok because without kubfu, you can’t finish every task in the isle of armor without it, so in my opinion, Pokémon that are needed in tasks in ANY Pokémon game should not be allowed to be traded. Wanting a Pokémon that can be easily found, but then wanting a legendary Pokémon, like this for an example: the Pokémon your trading away, sobble, want u pokemon that u want, lunala I don’t think that giving away a Pokémon that can easily be found, but then wanting a legendary for it is not ok, I think you need to add something where if the Pokémon is mythical, or legendary, u cannot say “I want that, and I’ll give you my sobble!” Now if it’s “you have a solgaleo? I’ll trade it for my lunala!” Trading a legendary for a mythical, or trading a mythical for a legendary is much more better. It honestly breaks my heart that thinking trading away Pokémon that are needed for tasks in a game can get traded away, it means you can’t fully beat the game, and you realize u have BIG regrets Having overpriced Pokémon is not really ok, cause it makes it difficult for people to find the Pokémon they need. These are my issues, and I hope they are turned around.

Why has The Pokémon Company become so lazy. How hard is it for a multi-billion dollar company to make a half-decent app without so many bugs and problems. This entire app was something that could’ve been added in the half-finished games that are Sword and Shield, and they had the audacity to put a paywall for more than half of the features. I can’t even link the mobile version to the Switch because I thought I would be able to do so after messing around in my phone for a while. But The Pokémon Company was apparently too lazy to add an option that lets you link an account, WHEN LITERALLY EVERY OTHER NINTENDO-RELATED MOBILE APP HAS THE OPTION TO LINK AN ACCOUNT AFTER CREATING A GUEST ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO PREVENT THESE THINGS FROM HAPPENING, AND I CAN’T LINK THE TWO VERSIONS TOGETHER NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I DELETE AND REINSTALL THE APP!!!!! And now I’m gonna miss probably the only chance I have to receive a shiny Zeraora thanks to The Pokémon Company’s laziness and negligence to fix their own problems. I urge you, don’t pay for the premium plan until they fix this dumpster fire of an app.

Strong start, but has room to improve. To start positive, the sync between the switch and the mobile app is excellent. Real time updates. The wonder trade system and GTS being on mobile is a perk long needed for the system. Also enjoy how you can move pokes in mass. The app also has its own Pokédex, challenges, and the ability to use mystery gift. The issues I’ve come across is that the app crashes frequently. However, the app is still fresh so bugs are expected. There is some housekeeping that needs to be done. One issue is that it does not filter impossible trades, such as mythicals or gender exclusive Pokémon like a male salazzle or meltan. My last issue is that it does not send notifications to my phone, even though the notification settings are on. Besides that, I recommend this app for all the hardcore Pokémon players. Game on and catch them all

Pokémon Home Is Lacking Pokémon. Nice app, I have been playing pokemon games, collecting cards, and even bought a brand new Nintendo Switch just to play the newest Pokémon game. I have been interested in Pokémon for over two years now, but there is a couple of problems in Pokémon home that I want to tell you about. I loved the old forgotten Pokémon, Kohnya (since Meowth is my forever favorite Pokémon), Rinring, and Bellboyant, but I don’t know much about them. I know that they have been banned, but I think that other people might want to trade their old HeartGold SoulSilver friends (if they hadn’t been banned too.) They will get a strong Pokémon, and I will get a study example. If you cannot do that, then at least please return these nice Pokémon to their rightful games, because I'm going to get a 3ds soon, and i am really willing to catch these beautiful Pokémon. I don’t know if anybody's gonna answer, but i have a question. Why did you ban them in the first place? Okay, now i know the pokemon never existed, but why?

Why Nintendo?. This app is really half assed, and the full experience is split between devices and locked behind a paywall, which has been increased this time around. You can’t access boxes in other games in this app, you have to switch to the Switch app. You only get access to one box for 30 Pokémon without a premium subscription, which makes trying to trade for Pokémon a hassle. If you have a Pokémon someone is asking for but it’s not in one of the 30 free spaces, you have to load up the Switch app, move around Pokémon, come back here, then hope the trade is still available. Performance is horrible. You can’t search trades of people asking for a Pokémon you have, so you can only search for the Pokémon you want, and then hope somebody is asking for one you have. A lot of Pokémon are also not able to be used in Sword/Shield yet, so you can end up with free spots being taken up by Pokémon that can’t be moved out yet. I don’t know if this is how the previous service worked, but this is unacceptable.

Global Trade System is broken. To piggyback on the above review the app itself is amazing and even if it doesn’t get battling it still needs some updates. One of the biggest is GTS trading people are filling the GTS with impossible Pokémon to get be it legendary Pokémon lvl 1-10 to gendered dittos and mews. This makes the GTS feature unusable because of how filled it’s is with these trades and legitimate trades get traded then turned into these impossible trades just as often. This is the biggest problem with the app otherwise I would give it a 5 star rating even tho paying for room trades is a little money graby. Finally please please please add support for Pokémon go to trade to home I’ve got lots of Pokémon go I would love to be in my shield game that are not Kanto Pokémon so I cannot trade them to let’s go eevee. Please update the app as soon as your able many people would love a working GTS.

Great app for completing your dex!. I honestly love this app! The app allows me to place the pokemon I caught to fill the dex, I honestly like it very much! But, i do wish just one thing (and i hope the Pokemon Company International reads this). I would absolutely love that the app automatically updates the dex every time you catch a pokemon. Lets say your playing Pokemon Sword and you caught a Magikarp, and you go to the app, select the Pokemon and place it into the app’s box for updating the dex. It can be tiring since its a lot of process. So it would be cool if the games and the app can be paired so that every time you catch or evolve a Pokemon, it updates itself the dex! But still, great app, i would highly recommend it for all PokeFans out there!

How could a billion dollar company make this?. One would think The Pokemon Company could afford to design an app that works one of these days. The GTS trade system is absolutely FLOODED with impossible requests for thinks like Level 1-10 Cinderace or Legendaries which only show much, much higher in level. The points system is terrible, 30 points takes wayyyy too long to earn for just 1 (ONE!) BP, WHY are they not jus 1:1? Wonderbox keeps kicking out impossible level 1 pokémon that some hackers must be injecting into the system. The challenge center keeps showing the update notification but does not show the actual update. WORST of all? When you transfer over a pokemon you lose the item on it forever with ZERO warning. I lost my Zamazenta's Dauntless Shield which is absolutely a requirement, that is what I got for helping my friend fill out his Pokedex. TERRIBLE design! Do better Pokemon Company.

Doesn’t Meet Expectations. Home, so far, fulfills its purpose of storage very well. I got the app after it updated several bugs, and have had no grievances in migrating and storing my Pokémon. However, after storage, completing some minor tasks, reading a few dex entries, and maybe decorating your sticker board, there is nothing else to come back to on Mobile or Switch — save for the occasional wonder box or GTS trade. Paying for such an empty service seems a bit of a misstep, but you may find it a necessary evil if you’re a competitive or meta player. There are still several QoL issues within the app that haven’t been properly addressed, and I personally have had trouble contacting support for glitches I’ve experienced. My biggest grievance is that the “friends” option is inaccessible on my mobile version — even though I’m a premium user with a birthdate from the 1990s. A canned email I received simply directs me to an FAQ which doesn’t address the glitch. There is further no direct trading available for friends or with using QR. The existing methods requires in-person interaction or changing it on the GTS — which is STILL cluttered with impossible requests. The app between switch and mobile feels a bit like a vacuum — there’s not much of anything to explore. I wish there were mini games to maybe interact with other players, receive rare items, or even to virtually play with Pokémon that cannot be transferred in-game. Something extra would just be nice.

Fantastic and Well Worth The Premium Plan. Many people are complaining about many bugs that are present within the software at the moment and while this is the case the Pokemon Company has been hard at work squashing all of those bugs and as a Pokemon storage service this app is amazing! You can trade, use the GTS, Wonder Trade 10 Pokemon at once and register all of your Pokemon from across every generation to create one massive National PokeDex. Plus on top of these already amazing feature you can store 6000 which is more than any trainer will even need! Keep up the good work GameFreak and to all of those complaining about the Free Plan well all I can say is that the Free Plan is free for a reason so do not expect to get any top quality features out of it. 5 Stars overall!

Great app, just a couple issues. I’ve been playing Pokémon for years and I was super excited when this app first came out. Overall, I love the whole thing except for just a few little mistakes. I wish that you could know when you’ll be receiving trades from your wonder boxes instead of just waiting for a whole day checking your phone to see if anything happens. I feel like there could at least be a countdown feature to where it shows you when the transaction will be complete. Also, I think that the exact same thing should be applied to room trades as well. The final issue is the GTS. It’s super frustrating when you’re looking for a Pokémon and when you find it everyone is asking for a level 1-10 poipole. There should be a filter on that. Great game overall, keep up the good work

Good app, but with a few flaws. I have been playing the Pokémon games for many years, and Pokémon Home is a nice free storage space that you can also use for trading. However, there is a glitch so that, even when the app is updated to the latest version, the friends feature never appears. Also, if there is an event Pokémon, like the mew in the poke ball plus or shiny Zeraora, then the gts won’t let you search for that Pokémon at all. These aren’t actually really big problems, but it would improve the game greatly. Also, I have one more suggestion. For the gts, when you search for the Pokémon you want, there could also be a feature that allows you to see what other people are offering for that Pokémon? That’s about it on my thoughts about this app. For any Pokémon fan who needs someplace for their Pokémon, I recommend this.

Mythical Pokémon. The fact that you can request a mythical pokemon but can’t trade them is absurd. I never understood why they did that; allow mythicals to be requested but not liable to trade. Also, with “special” pokemon, they should really just let us trade them. If they’re our pokemon now, we should be able to do what we please with them. Its a decent and fun app, but the fact that they aren’t giving us our own control with our pokemon is what ruins it. Hacked pokemon should just be removed but don’t punish the real pokemon. Alongside the crazy requests such as a litten for a necrozma. I understand that that’s how the GTS has been in the past, but it’s time for a change for the better. That’s the main reason some people don’t like using the GTS; way too many restrictions and an abundance of impossible to achieve trades. If this was changed to allow trainers to make their own decisions with their “special” pokemon, a lot more people would enjoy it.

Could be way better. Pokemon home could be way better. People should not be able to trade a Pokemon for that same Pokemon. Example: walking wake for walking wake is a big no no. What if someone is trying to get a certain Pokémon and can’t because someone is trading that Pokémon for the same Pokémon. Pokemon home could be better because the owners of Pokemon home could make it to where you can get Pokémon like Arceus. either make it to where you could get Arceus by mystery gift or by trading. I want a Arceus but can’t because I can’t fill my Pokédex. Pokemon home won’t let people trade pokemon like Arceus. They say you can’t trade “special” pokemon. I honestly think the thing where you can’t trade special pokemon is stupid. I want to be able to get Arceus from Pokemon home. And if this does not get fixed I will delete Pokemon home. I will never look at it again if this doesn’t get fixed.

Hides important info. I downloaded this app and happily paid for a year (it’s not too expensive to be honest) and transferred my collection of Pokémon from omega ruby. I knew many of the Pokémon could not be transferred to any game currently on the switch but I was content with my collecting and trading. Then I try to trade with a friend. Apparently you can’t trade with friends if they aren’t in your gps location. They don’t tell you that. We spent 20 minutes getting error messages until I stumbled on the tiny entry in the help page that mentions it. The help page doesn’t even have any room for feedback, it’s basically just a page with a small amount of text. The one purpose of the app is to collect and trade, and even with a premium membership, they don’t allow you to trade. You also can’t manage your collection from the app, just the switch app. Why?? With the GTS in the shape it is, not being able to find more than a few trades whenever you search, this app is useless. And now all my Pokémon are trapped here until game freak comes out with a game they can transfer to.

Awesome!. If your a shiny hunter like me, it is extremely useful for getting the shiny charm quickly on another user, by simply transferring them over for a bit. The reason I say it’s 4 star worthy instead of 5 star, is for the sole issues with GTS. The box legendary can only be obtained at level 70, and Poiple (for example) can be obtained in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon at the minimum level of 40; even with this people essentially go bragging by asking for the box legends and Poiple at a level lower than what is even possible, since they can and people nowadays are all just greedy jerks showboating. If they GTS is updated to only ask for a Pokémon at a level that is possible (legendaries and evolutions have special conditions, since I have a legitimate level 19 Charizard in Pokémon Let’s Go, and a level 9 Salamanca thanks to SOS encounters in Pokémon Moon); once that issue is resolved, then it will be nearly perfect.

This long and this bug hasn’t been fixed?. Been doing a long play-through of each game to get each dex finished on Home. The challenges just STOPPED registering the pokemon I deposit but Home’s game dexes register them fine, I earned a completion crown for each dex I finish(I have the screenshots and everything), but note the challenges for literally everything else, register perfectly fine. The Pokemon Company then says “Clear the App’s in-game cache in the opening menu, that fixes the issue.”, so I do this. Now ALL of my dexes are screwed up and missing hundreds of Pokemon I already registered. Meaning I have to put in HOURS of gameplay all over again just to get back where I was(Including Home’s Pokemon GO dex) Why the dexes don’t just register fine or just register off the game I connect to(Whose in-game dexes are done already) is just baffling, the fact I have to Deposit-withdraw-deposit-withdraw is the most tedious chore just to fill in Home’s Game dexes..

Decent app, questionable decisions. First of all I love having an app version of Pokémon home. I love being able to use it any time to look up Pokédex information even when I’m currently playing on my Switch and I love being able to trade without booting up the core game. However, I don’t like having to use the app to trade. I also don’t like that trade evolution has been disabled since this is the closest thing we have to a GTS for the Switch Pokémon games. I also think it’s terrible that we even need the Switch version of Pokémon Home to transfer from Sun and Moon to Sword and Shield because this should be doable over local wireless, although it would be slower. But it seems like GameFreak demanding we pay money for essential functionality that used to be free. On the plus side though if your Premium subscription runs out you only lose access to the Pokémon in your Premium boxes rather than having them deleted.

Really great, but... I do love this a lot, but there’s just a few things that really annoy me Zeraora, Mew, Meltan and Melmetal At least just make Mew and Meltan tradeable, so many people are offering amazing Pokémon or them just to show off because they know that specifically those Pokémon can’t be traded for. Or, at least get rid of being able to offer for Pokémon like Poipole, Naganadel, Jirachi, Celebi, Hoopa, Phione, Mew, Zeraora, Meltan and Melmetal. It’s just really annoying because I have multiple Meltans and a few mews I can trade for, say Lunala, because that’s my favorite Pokémon. Any time you search any Pokémon, turn on wanted legendaries, it’s basically a guaranteed Mew, Zeraora, Meltan or Melmetal. I just hate how people show off their Pokémon or taunt people with them with Pokémon that specifically can’t be traded. I either ask that Meltan and Mew are tradable, or just take off being able to ask for untradable Pokémon. Thank you for reading :)

Amazing... yet disappointing.. I love this app so much but I really dislike the fact that I cannot change my date of birth at least once. I set my date of birth to a 15 year old as a joke because who actually gives someone there date of birth (besides family) and now I can’t use the friend trade tab. I also bought a premium subscription but by the time that runs out the account will turn 16 and I will barely not be able to use the friend trade. I also dislike the impossible searches. Yes they did fix it from allowing you to put impossible wanted Pokémon in GTS however they did not remove the already impossible ones from there server. Can’t you just undo all this? Also I very much dislike the room trades... everything takes too long. Can we just get a button to skip the timer? Also I kinda want to only be able to trade with one person who’s far away. Trading with like 50 people is very annoying... please if any developers are reading this... just try and fix it.

Needs a little bit of improvements. I love this app the fact that you get to ask for the Pokémon you want to trade for is great but there are a few problems such as, on my switch I have been trading on sword/shield and have gotten some rare Pokémon such as marshadow and zarude but every time I want to offer it the game says it’s a “special character” and I can’t trade with it. The second problem is the trades them selves, they work fine but please remove the possibility to ask for impossible Pokémon such as a level 1-10 Zacian when he only comes as level 70. The last problem is transferring, it would’ve been so easy if I can transfer Pokémon from sword/shield and not have to pick up my switch. Overall this is a great utility and I wish I found out about it sooner.

Disappointed. I usually don’t review apps but hoping this app gets fix or modify. It was fun to trade Pokémon, but now it’s almost impossible to do any trades. Most of it due to everyone just wanting to do trades that are almost impossible, who is gonna trade a poipole for a cinderace lvl 1-10? Cinderace are higher level, the system should detect this and make it impossible to set a trade like that. Also, it’s almost impossible to get other Pokémon when everyone just wants a legendary for it. Come on people be reasonable!!! I am not trading a zamazenta for a freaken ponyta. This should also be limited. What not should be limited is how many times you can trade. Paying 15 bucks just so it can limit the trades to 3 a day, and not even guarantee since I can spend a couple of days with a 0 for available trades, is ridiculous!!! I mean if this was for accessing without pay then it would be fine, but the free access does not allow you to do anything, not even trade in between games

Messy and inexcusable. Since the latest update which included connectivity to BDSP and LA, I have been unable to view a single Pokémon in my Home account from the mobile app. There's no excuse for why this rollout was so messy and delayed. ILCA is the same company behind both Home and the BDSP games; it's all in the same house and yet the BDSP connectivity took 7 months to launch. Pokémon needs to reassess ILCA's capacity to handle their IP. Even with the latest patch that dropped today, I still can't access any of my Pokémon from the mobile app. BDSP was sloppy, Home has always been sloppy, it's clear that ILCA can't be trusted to handle Pokémon IP correctly. But unfortunately this is the only cloud storage option for Pokémon so we're stuck with their sheer force incompetence and lack of vision for this service. A Slakoth could fix these issues and improve the service in half the time. (Sad to think no one at ILCA even cares enough about Pokémon to get the reference tho)

Great App But Please Bring Pokémon Go Features to This. Honestly this app is really good for sorting out your Pokémon and trading for Pokémon that you are looking for, but there is just ONE singular thing that makes me so mad. Let’s say I were to get a Pokémon from GTS that originates in Pokémon Go. I really hope it isn’t just me, but I would really want to transfer it to the game I’ve been putting a lot of time and effort into. If you please add Pokémon Transferring back and fourth from home to Pokémon Go and and back at least a couple of times, then I would define you rate this app 5 stars. (P.S. If you are worried about level, then just make it so whenever someone transfers a Pokémon from Sword/Shield to home, when they try to transfer it into Pokémon Go make it go down to the base stat that specific Pokémon would usually be unless if originated from Pokémon go). Love you guys!

Great app. This app has made it possible bring my childhood from older games to the cloud and I’m amazed on how much it’s grown. I just transferred all my mons to the app and saw how much I’ve collected over the years. The options to see your collection and filter it with shinies is good and all, but one problem I notice at the moment is the friend trade option. My friend and I have been trying to trade our mythical and shiny legendaries only to see that it doesn’t connect. I’m not sure if there’s a distance limit for trade which will make it impossible to work, I hope there’s an update improving this soon so we can finish our dex. Also perhaps you could add a mythical trading only option which will make it cool with no other requirements just if it’s legit or not but in all it’s a fantastic app.

This review is to offset the malicious one stars out there.. Wonderful tool for multiple playthroughs on Pokémon games!! This is a utility rather than a game think of it as a companion or link between titles!! 5 out of 5 This person is using the platform of customer reviews to launch a personal assault against a franchise because the games haven’t aged with them. Sad to see but Pokémon bank has always been a subscription based program. Beats paying for two systems and trading one Pokémon at a time. If you cannot transfer to shield and sword it is because those Pokémon do not exist in the game or is a prompt letting you know that once transferred they cannot be transferred back. Just like with sun and moon. It prevents cheaters from duplicating data. That is probably what the one star comments are whining about.

Fantastic step in the right direction.. I’m glad that it was noticed that the smartphone app industry is going strong, and I feel this was a good step in continuing Pokémon transfer services. Of course it’s not perfect, that would be absurd, but it’s still a great service to use. Some criticisms I have include the decision to make trading seemingly app-only, unless on Switch either Sword or Shield is used. The mobile app seemingly has a lot more standalone functionality than the switch app does, which isn’t a bad thing, making the console version mainly for transferring between games. However, I think a good idea would be to open up connections between Pokémon GO and Pokémon Home, without the restriction of Gen 1 Pokémon and Meltan/Melmetal through Pokémon Let’s Go. Otherwise, it’s a great app, and good for keeping track of plenty of things, including Pokédex progress.

Glitch between Phone App and Switch App. I have transferred several Pokemon from several games to home in an attempt to complete the dex. There seems to be a glitch in the Phone version of the app where it says in the pokedex that I do not have certain Pokémon despite the fact that I do. In the Switch version it says I do but not on the phone. This is a significant problem considering the only way to get the gift Magearna for completing the national dex is through the phone. This needs to get fixed in a manner that will count the Pokémon I already have and add them to the dex because I won’t be able to take them out and put them back in due to no reverse compatibility and not being able to put Pokémon in Sword and Shield that aren’t already part of their dex. So patching it and making me take them out and put them back in to fix it simply won’t cut it. Especially with Event-only & Mythical Pokemon.

Pretty good App. Overall a good app but I think with a few tweaks it could be great! First the app is really nice if your like me and have no friends to trade with, or just no friends.... The interface can be a bit clunky at times because you have to keep switching from the phone to the switch but it’s not too bad. I love that they allowed for a free version. Some things they need to work on is having a system that not only searches for what you want but also for what you want to give away. I also think it would benefit from having set values that you can choose for evolutions because there have been many of times where I have tried to trade but my Pokemon was too good for their cap and their cap is not physically possible because the Pokémon levels up at 25 and they want a level 20. It would be helpful to know that before you post for a trade. But overall the apps ok I just think they’re working out some kinks.

Good app, needs improvements. Love this app, can get version exclusives, alola starters (currently shiny hunting rowlet) and transfer Pokémon between games! 4 stars because I think you should be able to 1, trade for légendaires and mythicals, because people like to waste space flexing shinies in gts asking for meltan, it gets really annoying. And 2, because I think you should be able to filter if you want shiny or not in GTS. 3, if it’s the same account on mobile and switch like I have, then can you please make it so I can transfer pokemon on my mobile, it’s kinda annoying to switch between the two just to do that. And finally because I really think the GTS needs another filter so you can filter what pokemon your offering, say I have a litten, and I wanna see what people would give for one, so I just filter that in, no problem! Anyway, great app, I like the feature of mass release,it’s awesome store hi you hunters like me. Thanks for reading this lol hope it helped :D

New technology that everyone is loving. I am a nostalgic player who has played every Pokémon game and has accumulated a collection of Pokémon from many games into a Pokémon bank but I though, what’s the point of having them in there and there’s a new switch game.. but then they combine the 2 and I’m able to transfer all my Pokémon in Pokémon bank and get them to a new updated storage place for even safer safe keeping and I love the graphics and the way you can see the Pokémon stats and ribbons and everything. Just wish sword and shield would allow even more of my favorite Pokémon like legendarys and even other region dragon Pokémon like Salamance and dragonite. I love it and I hope the update allows more Pokémon in sword and shield in the future or is there going to be a new game out by then that holds more Pokémon in the Pokédex???!!!

GTS issue. I love the app, I love Pokémon. I grew up with the franchise and will always love it regardless of what happens. This app is very convenient and neat to have on the mobile device! My only issue however is the fact that people can use the GTS to request certain Pokémon like Mew or Marshadow but these Pokémon can’t be traded because they are ‘special Pokémon’. If this is the case why can these Pokémon be requested for trade? Is this something that will eventually be able to be done? I mean there are actually about 22 Pokémon that can be requested for trade but not given. If this is resolved then I would have no complaints about the app at all, and yes I’ve heard that you can trade these special Pokémon among friends but my friends don’t always have the Pokémon I’m looking for and that’s where the GTS comes in. Please Pokémon company, please fix this!

Love Pokémon. App needs work. We’ve seen this same issue back in the GTS days of Gen 6. People are putting up ridiculous trades that are either impossible to fulfill or you would need to cheat to get the Pokémon they’re asking for. All people are asking for are mythical Pokémon which you can’t even trade. I’m assuming just to troll or show off their shiny Pokémon without the actual intention of trading. I think it would be great if the app had limitations as to what you can and can’t ask for (Pokémon with levels that are way under what’s legitimate, mythical Pokémon, etc.) Right now it doesn’t seem like a fleshed out trade system which is fair since the app just came out. But if it doesn’t get fixed then we’re just gonna be stuck with the same broken GTS that we had back on the DS. My point is if you can’t trade mythical Pokémon don’t give the option to ask for them in the first place.

good for the most part. this is a pretty good app, it works and allows a decent amount of pokemon storage for small-scale cross-game transferring without paying money. however there’s some problems, such as being more firm about not allowing you to transfer pokemon when the app says it won’t work. A while ago I tried transferring my shiny vulpix compatible with the keys go games into sword/shield, and got a massage ‘this transfer will be irreversible’ and shrugged it off, assuming it would work by and just not be able to be transferred to other games one it’s in my shield game. It let me transfer, so I checked my boxes in shield and the vulpix is gone, not in my let’s go eevee, shield or pokemon home- my vulpix got deleted. another complaint is when i want to use the gts function to trade, it would be very useful to allow searching for other trainers who want pokemon you have, giving more options

Dear Pokémon,. I started playing Pokémon some time in late 2017 and ever since I have loved the game. I started playing on a 3DS where I completed, white2, Y, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Ultra Moon, and when I got a switch, Let’s Go Pikachu, and Shield. When Pokémon home came out I immediately got it, both on switch and mobile and, yes it’s a big improvement from Pokémon bank, and yes at first I was very satisfied with my premium purchase, but as time passed... I’ve uncovered a few flaws, mainly in the GTS both equally annoying. First, I’ve noticed that some people tend to ask for “impossible Pokémon”, like let’s say, level 1-10 Poipole!!! Sorry guys, I have no clue how to hack!!! Second, the mythical problem, I couldn’t put my Meltan on the GTS so of course I looked it up and found that mythical Pokémon can’t be put on the GTS. Just my opinion, but, If your willing to trade it you should be able to!!! Over all I DO NOT think that premium is worth $16 a year!!!

If you wanna move from go you need a lets go game first.. Definitely frustrated as a Pokémon player who fell off but found my love for the game again with Pokémon go. I fell off around the diamond and pearl era so when I heard the new that i would be able to transfer some of the shiny Pokémon i had caught in go i was excited because they could become a part of my real team. Little did i know that you needed a version of the Let’s Go games (either Eevee or Pikachu) to move Pokémon from go there first then into bank where at that point you could access them in Home. Listen if you looking to move Pokémon from go in to sw/sh let me tell you now without the let’s go version it ain’t happening so don’t purchase this unless you plan to use the free version for something or have been consistently playing thru the years. Such a bummer. Nintendo should be a little more clear when they hype things up. Waited months just to be let down.

Decent app. This was useful for transferring my Pokemon Go shinys to Pokemon let's go Eevee and then to Pokemon Sword. Although if they made a direct route it would have been nice, all the extra steps make it tedious but I appreciate that it's at least possible. My main issue with the app is that there's no way to search based on what I have to offer. For example, I have several Mewtwo I would love to trade but there's no option to sort that way and see what I could get. My current option is to think of a Pokemon I want and search, then see if anybody offering theirs actually wants a mewtwo for it (which everyone wants poipole so it's pointless). I've actually gotten lucky with a couple decent Pokemon on wonder trade so I've been mostly doing those. The issue with that is that it takes about 5-7 hours to complete a trade so if you get trash Pokemon you need to wait another 7 hours before finding out what you get that time.

Please fix the GTS. The gts is cluttered with people asking for Pokémon that is impossible to get a level 1-10 groudon for this one shiny pikachu that shouldn’t even be possible to put that as a option and same with Pokémon that is currently unreleased like a furfou heart shape And the gts should also have a filter if you want a shiny Pokémon you can filter for say a charaizard and then set it to find one that’s shiny and also you can make it so when we put a Pokémon up to trade we can make sure that the Pokémon we want to get in exchange for the one we are trading is shiny just to make sure we don’t get trades like a shiny pikachu for a shiny garchomp but instead of getting a shiny we get a normal it’s quite annoying but that’s the only issues I have with the gts every thing else is fine

Still Needs Work. GTS is a cesspool of people asking for Pokémon that can not be obtained. People will ask for Mythical/Legendary Pokémon at levels that can not be obtained without the use of hacks so some parameters for that would be nice. I’m not going to waste my time trying to hack a level 1 Arceus or Poipole into the game to get a fairly common version exclusive in my dex. Then comes the problem of people asking for Furfrou to be traded to them. Sounds simple, right? The problem with trading Furfrou is people ask for specific styles ot Furfrou so you think “I’ll just catch it in a game and style it to trade it in GTS” well don’t waste your time because if you style it and transfer it to Home it will reset the style. The only way the form doesn’t change is if you catch one in Pokémon Go which is ridiculous because there’s no guaranteed location win which you will find Furfrou so either A let them keep their styles when transferred or B let us style them with in the app for a corresponding trade. I’m not jumping through hoops to get a Pokémon for my Dex

Some potential, but mostly “meh”. I’m going to give a generous 2 stars to the app itself, though I am pretty mad about the whole dex thing and the numerous costs being added to fully enjoy SWSH. Cons: -First off, WHY are the Switch and mobile apps different??!! Each device is capable of anything the other can do, save for communicating with games like SWSH/LGPE. It’s just like that filthy NSO app that makes things more awkward and user-unfriendly just to say “You can do this on your PHONE!” -No reorganizing boxes on mobile. Such an easy feature to implement, too. -No complete Pokedex on mobile, even though you can still see dex data for individual mons. -No trading on Switch. -Confusing menus and UI -When I try to GTS trade and check the “No people who want legendaries/mythicals” box, this only partially works. I don’t see people who want Zacian/Zamazenta, but I see people who want Entei or older legendaries. This is SUCH a great idea for preventing dumb trades, but it needs to be fixed. -Can we address how if you import >30 mons who can’t go to Galar, I must keep paying until a new game comes out where they are supported? The DLC patch will help, but not for all mons. This is such a shady practice Pros: -Challenges are cute -Multiple mons in the GTS/Wonderbox -Points you can turn into BP -Transfer from Bank was easy -The storage system (main function) does what it should -Pokemon data/stats is pretty helpful

To the creators of Pokémon home. Hi I would like to complain that you should be able to transfer Pokémon from home to Pokémon go the reason for this is because I’m ten and I just transferred a shiny celebi from Pokémon go to home and I didn’t know that you need a save file for Pokémon shield with celebi so you can transfer celebi but I don’t have a save file with celebi and I am angry because celebi is the time travel Pokémon so I don’t get that celebi can’t travel to Pokémon shield if you don’t have a save file with celebi and to the developer: you need to fix this right now because it took me a lot of hard work to get that celebi so you need to get rid of that dumb gimmick that you need a save file with celebi to transfer celebi and I am very angry because I had to hatch three eggs in Pokémon go, do you have any idea how time consuming that is?! You need to fix this right now!!

Sending Friend Requests. Not to long ago, my siblings and I got Pokémon Sword, as well as both DLCs. One of my siblings along with myself wanted to get Syther to evolve it into a Scizor. However, Syther needed to be traded while holding a Metal Coat in order to evolve. So, I try sending my brother a friend request so we both can trade. But the friends icon wasn’t there, and I later find out that you need to be 18+ in order to send friend requests. Personally, that seems pretty unnecessary given a good majority of people playing Pokémon are young kids. The system even calls you out if you planned on nicknaming your Pokémon something inappropriate. And it’s not like you can send comments to anyone either. So all I’m asking is that you would allow everyone to send each other friend requests. Please keep in mind that this is more so a suggestion, rather than me trying to tell Nintendo & Game Freak what to do.

Works fine, but some glaring problems. The app works just fine with storing and trading pokemon with no crashes or glitches so far. It is a little inconvenient to have home’s trading locked behind the mobile app and the transfers be locked behind the switch version. If it were not for that factor I would have only gotten the eshop switch version. The main issue with this program is the overpricing. Don’t get me wrong, the premium features sound very good, but I’d advise against purchasing the premium plan as the price is far too high. It is priced almost as much as the entirety of Nintendo switch’s online service. A more minor issue is that in the GTS searching, the way the scrolling is shown really hurts my eyes. I have no history of any medical conditions regarding my eyes, but the scrolling is very hard to look at, which is counterintuitive when looking for a specific pokemon on GTS. If they could sell premium at a more reasonable price and fix the scrolling graphics, then that would help the app immensely.

Disappointing. Really sad how I managed to get a level one dubloo but when I try and trade it it just says communication error and you can’t trade the Pokémon. I tried leveling it up and even playing with it thinking that using the Pokémon a little that I’d let me trade but I just got the same results as before. Sad how considering it fit all the requirements the other person wanted but it doesn’t let you trade. I feel like there should be some way you can contact other trainers to negotiate or talk about trades, I know this isn’t in other Pokémon games but I feel like if it worked it could be nice. Another problem I noticed was that you are limited on free trade rooms I really wish there was a way you can earn those back because personally after buying other Pokémon games I don’t want to pay to get extra features on this. Im just really disappointed that my Pokémon meet all the requirements the other trainers wanted but it just wouldn’t let be trade. Please fix this!

It's works but it doesn't. I absolutely love the idea of this app with the challenges and the unlockables. The trading and the challenge to fill the pokedex. However a couple of things really need to be fixed. Wonder trade is fantastic but it seems like I can only trade once a day. I'm not really sure if that's how it actually works but it's obnoxious. It would be a lot more engaging if I could trade more often. Room trade seems like a much faster way to trade than wonder trade however at the moment room trade is broken. Everytime I connect I get disconnected and I can clearly see people's names popping in and out so I know I'm not the only one. It's absolutely unacceptable that I've spent $16 and room trades don't even work. GTS trading seems to be a great way to get specific pokemon without having to speak to people however my issue with GTS is that there isn't an option to search for trades looking for the pokemon I currently have in my boxes. That would be amazing; a way to shop within my own budget. The option to search for trades that don't want mythical or legendaries seems to be a little too iffy since when I uncheck it I still see trades asking for mythicals. All in all it's a great concept and a great idea as an app however it's got a lot of work to be done.

Great app but needs some features. Pokémon home is great for the fact that you can trade quickly and easily, and get news for upcoming events in the Pokémon series, but there are some issues. First, there should be a way to search for what people want instead of just what they are giving in GTS. I don’t know if many people would agree, but if you need a Pokémon for your dex, but no specific one, then this would be helpful. Second, when you search up a Pokémon to trade for, there should Pokémon you have pull up first. It’s a simple but helpful feature and it should be added. Last but definitely not least, there HAS to be a way to stop troll trades. Say I search up a zamazenta to trade for my zacian. Millions of them will want a zacian that is lvl 51-60, which is impossible to get in Sword, as it naturally is level 70. So there should be a way to limit the level to what is possible to get. Please at least consider my opinion. Thank you.

Decent for its intended use, but still functionally clunky. So this whole app is supposed to be the end all storage solution for your collection of Pokémon you’ve collected over the years, right? Well, it mostly pulls this off, but falls short with its customization options and general stuttery-ness of the UI. Organizing your deposited Pokémon is a pain, as the boxes aren’t readily visible, and the storage layout changes when you move between the mobile client and the Nintendo Switch client. I’m running the iOS version on a gen 2 iPhone SE and changing menus and using the trade functions is clunky and makes the app hang for up to several seconds at a time. There’s also the persistent “!” badge on my Mystery Gift menu that points me to an item I claimed many months ago. Promised Pokémon Go connectivity is also still absent without any kind of timeline or reason for the delay being offered.

Fun and helpful, but there are a few problems with the GTS. I love most features of Pokemon Home, but just like other games, there are a few problems regarding pokemon that you can't trade. So many people are looking for mew, meltan, celebi, keldeo, and zeraora, but the problem is "This is a special pokemon and cannot be offered for trade". This is really annoying because EVERYWHERE I go, if I look up any pokemon, people are only looking for pokemon that are impossible to trade. I would recommend either not allowing these pokemon to be selected as the pokemon someone is looking for or just plain allowing traders to give their mythicals to someone else. Thank you for taking your time to read this, and thank you for fixing many other bugs people have noticed and written reviews on, Have a nice day! -Some random person on the internet who plays pokemon moon way too much

About Trading.. Okay so, I am enjoying this game a lot. It’s fun and I think it’s a pretty good game too. But I have 1 problem with the trading. I signed in with a guest account because I didn’t have a Nintendo account. (I do have a Pokémon go account.) But once I got the app, I had my starter Pokémon and and a pikachu only so I went to trade my Pokémon. I saw that 10 was on the trading room and I thought that was the limit of how many times you can trade EVERY day, but I noticed that it’s the only limit of how many times you can trade! If I use all of the chances, will I never be able to trade again? And plus, I want to know why you need a Nintendo switch account to connect to another game. It’s confusing to me, can somebody please explain the game a little more to me? About the trading and the account connecting? And also, other than those 2, great game. I would have gave it a 5 star if this game was a little more understanding for me. (I am a kid.)