Niantic Campfire App Reviews

VERSION
3.10.0
SCORE
3.1
TOTAL RATINGS
670
PRICE
Free

Niantic Campfire App Description & Overview

What is niantic campfire app? Campfire gives the Niantic community a new way to experience the joy of real-world gameplay.

Find and connect with nearby players to accomplish in-game activities and quests!
• Discover real-time activities and plan ahead using the Campfire Map
• Find game communities and meet new players in your area
• Connect with players through direct messages and group messages
• Schedule group gatherings with old and new groups
• Manage your Niantic ID and Niantic friends

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App Name Niantic Campfire
Category Social Networking
Published
Updated 11 March 2024, Monday
File Size 36.51 MB

Niantic Campfire Comments & Reviews 2024

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Reverse Terry!. Zooming out is not an option, you have to be looking so close for a raid to actually show up in the UI (User Interface). This is an issue for rural players like myself because our gyms are very separated, it takes a lot of energy and zooming in and out to find the raid I want to go to. I know it’s not hard to implement the dynamic view at a more zoomed out aspect ratio. Y’all entirely redesigned the app, but it doesn't matter because I can’t find a single Deino raid. Add a search function and a wider lens to view raids, then you have an app worth promoting.

Why?. There’s no need for this app to be separate from Pokémon go. All their other games keep dying. And they built the whole map into Pokémon go already just to school for people to install this. Then gated just the ability to communicate about where we want to go to force a second install that can’t be used without invasive location permissions. This whole app is built just to make corporate money bugs happy. There’s nothing useful to users here.

It’s par-functional. It’s a great idea for an app. It’s not executed as well as it should be. Finding people to raid with is cool but it’s only locally unless you find friends elsewhere and ask them to send you invites to raids. But that’s if they’re playing and if they get your message even. It’s a great idea but needs to be cleaned up. More organization in the app, better chat and group chat usage and would be nice to expand playability when raiding.

Meh. could be better. wish it was just limited to a certain range of players to join raids. also wish you could select which raids you want to pop up. i dont feel like wasting time sitting in que just to decline a 3 star raid other then that it’s a pretty basic app in finding raids.

Keep working on it. The use of this app may just be the turning point for the game. The ability to connect with nearby trainers, be a part of a club, and more needs invested into more. Plus remove all those other games and focus on making this for Pokémon Go (: Anyways I would like to see more unique features and in game features to connect these two games. Such as group badges on profile, additional items for raiding with campfire, & group levels. I think it’ll help grow communities

Hope it Improves. User interface is confusing to navigate and could use a more simplified method of switching between games and chats. From my observation established users are signing up but not engaging very much and sticking with whatever former method they have been using such as messenger and Telegram. This is leaving the newer users and players who are giving this app a shot with unremarkable results. The developers could benefit from considering user feedback and needs to implement features which make this app more useful for it’s players.

Horribly unreliable. Sometimes you will be looking for people to join and the number will freeze at whatever it’s on and PRETEND like it’s still searching. However, you would never know this unless you cancel the raid and it tells you there’s an error. I’ve lost so many raids *waiting* for the last 2-3 people to join. And then after the raids gone and I cancel, it tells me there was an issue all along. VERY FRUSTRATING 😃

Nice improvement. I love using Campfire! Saves me so much time and gas as most Pokémon Go gyms are not in easy walking distance from home. I can locate raids and plan trips to do multiple raids in a single trip. Can also communicate with other trainers about when to meet to do raids that require more participants. Nice job Niantic.

Right Direction, Needs Improvement. The latest we update with raid queues is a step in the right direction but the match making system needs improvements. The matchmaking process isn’t clear on what is happening. Over the past couple days I’ve only been able to host/join a raid on about 20% of my attempts

Good idea, hard to navigate, few people use it. Don’t get me wrong campfire is a great idea. Issue is it came out 7 years after launch so we all formed our own communities or use other raid hosting apps. Meaning that the community is still dispersed over multiple apps and you typically still need to have messenger, discord, poke genie and campfire to raid in your surrounding areas. My other critique is as an App campfire is clunky and isn’t very helpful. For example I get a ton of app notifications from my friends, I click on them, brings me to update the app, after updating I open the app then can’t find the messages lol. It’s just like if you want to make this a social app make the feed a bit easier, and if you want the raid community back give some incentive so we are using 4-5 mostly 3rd party apps to coordinate in game raids. 2 stars as I know they can and will do better but for now it’s just kind of annoying lol

DOESNT WORK ON THE MOST IMPORTANT DAYS!. Today was Mega Garchomp day and not once during the 3 hour event was i able to host a raid. You have a limited number of remote raids which worked just fine today, but when i try to use the limitless amount of in person raid invites it never worked. Not a single person was ever found to join my raid group. Towards the end of the day it didn't even give me the option to host period as it said i had to be on top of a gym which i was. I could’ve gotten so much more out of today but nope. And i wont even bother mentioning the semi regular connection failures when trying to join a remote raid on any other day. FIX YOUR APPS NIANTIC!

Needs revisions. Super clunky user experience for Pokémon go. When you want to join first you have to wait to even be shown a raid. Then when you are sometimes it shows what Pokémon the raid is for and sometimes not. If you decide to join, then you have to wait more time for others to join. Once there are enough players then you have to hope the host is still paying attention and accepting people. Once that happens then you have to hope you actually get sent an invite to join the raid. Then when you are invited you hope that everyone else joins and or sometimes even though I was invited I can’t join. It’s a great concept, but right now it is just a bad user experience.

Great idea, crap functionality. For the last month now the app’s “team up” function, which is the root function of the whole thing, has not been working. Not only for me but for other pogo players as well. I will give a 5 star rating once it’s fixed. Even the “customer service” is a joke because the only responses you get from niantic on this is from automated chat bots. Maybe only a 4 star rating when it’s fixed. Depends on if the players that make this app go round can get people to respond rather than the “cost effective” solution of chat bots.

Great app. Only current complaint I have is getting other locals to check the group info on the app. I’m always having to tell them I posted the raid and event info on campfire days ago I find the layout and functionality of campfire very useful.

What I would expect from Niantic. Niantic is so lucky they got to develop Pokémon go. Seeing how they treat their players is absolutely appalling. The shop offerings make it seem like they’re allergic to making profits. Not to mention the countless problems that never get fixed. But oh if there’s a bug that benefits the players they will have all hands on deck and get it fixed immediately. I tell my wife they make sure we can’t have too much fun. It’s insane. This company is a train wreck and owes all of their success to the Pokémon IP. This campfire app is another dumpster fire by niantic.

Needs Some Improvements. I think this is a good especially for me as there isn’t to many local raids i can join so remote raiding is my main use of this..with that being said i wish this app can somehow allow the person to pick which type of raid Pokémon they want to go after i.e. select which Pokémon the person wants to raid for instead of being randomly selected into one where i might now want that certain Pokémon

HELP. I don’t know how to submit this to the editor, but please help me. I have Pokemon Go and I have for a while, but Campfire says I dont. If i was able to use the app I would rate it 5 stars. Ive seen my friends use it, and its a nice app, but I need this bug to be fixed

Needs updated. If you want to be left by yourself to fight a raid, or finally get a group to fight only to get kicked out because of an “error” then this is great. But if you are actually trying to win raids and catch ‘em all, this app has so many glitches. You’re better off finding a park with other players to play in person than use this. During Pokémon go fest it glitched and I was left to fight raids completely alone 6 times. Twice after that, it glitched gave me an error message and would not allow me to enter the raid. I have wasted too many remote raid passes and max revives because of this.

This had promise at first, but the devs let this fall apart. Honestly, the idea worked and people used it. My main issue is this is something that SHOULD’VE been built into the game. Lastly, they have made this worse with making icons smaller, but an easy way to get users on this would be ACTUALLY give in game rewards for using Campfire. Otherwise, you could’ve easily convinced users the developers are literally trying to burn Campfire, to the ground. Because, lately it feels like they’ve given up on the game from my perspective.

Update looks great 👍. This app helped me get into raiding, it’s alright not great but they did update the ui so they are trying. They need to add something like pokegenie where you can host queue a specific raid and join any raid you want form anywhere you just have to choose an active raid pokemon in a list to join ! That would be 5 stars!!!

Niantic campfire app. The concept here is good but the program lacks the ability to actually get me other players to player with. To many times I tried to host and found myself waiting for long periods of time for nothing or it won’t let me host the raid at all after walking down to some place.

Its not bad just needs some fixes. So overall i like the app my only issue has been with hosting raids, I've hosted 4. 2 worked 2 did not work. My first try at the raid just when i got all the plays and was supposed to join the chat to invite everyone to the rsid I kept getting a error and couldn’t do it, second one went great got the players, got into the chat, it sent out a thing in chat for everyone one to click to get in the raid went great caught Moltres. Third raid did everything the second did but for some reason it told me to invite all the players to the raid manually, by the time i was able to i had to back out cause i didn’t get it done in time, fourth time worked. Overall i like the app but hopeful it will be like the second time around moving forward.

Bugged, Glitched ,and maybe Banned???. Literally cannot join any groups as soon I try just bugs out saying cannot join group at this time and then at that point it just glitches the screen to where I can’t do anything?? And I’ll be honest I do not think even without these mishaps anything would change. I remember talking to the group in my area saying if they wanted to do anything for a community day or global go fest or a shadow legendary raid and no one ever responded. I think discord and facebook groups work better. Failure of an app that could’ve had so many possibilities.

Could be better. App is glitchy and barely functional but I guess it does the job. There should be a feature added where you can filter through tier raids or search a specific raid boss by search bar instead of endlessly swiping through the map. That would be helpful for people who are hunting a specific boss. Also campfire requiring you to zoom in really close to see ongoing raids is ridiculous. At least make it where you can zoom out a bit more within a certain radius. Why can I only see raids 2-3 streets over? If I’m doing drive-by raids or raid hour I want a bigger radius.

Nav buttons??. Y’all forgot to add navigation buttons to get back to either the previous screen or the home screen when you’re looking at a group. I gotta close the app then reopen it to get back home. Glaring oversight if you ask me. Additionally, it’d be nice to have a button to check our notifications. I’ve had a notif badge on the app icon for ages and I have no idea what the notifs are from. Otherwise, I dig this app’s potential. I’ve been waiting since 2016 for something like this. 🙃

Needs Improvements. I like the idea of what the app is trying to be, but there are some major flaws. The most frustrating one is how difficult it is to find a specific type of raid on the map. It has to be a specific distance to see where and what the raids are, but it is way too zoomed in to even be optimal. An easy way to fix this would either be adding a filter. Being able to choose what difficulty of a raid you want and only see those selected ones would completely fix the issue right away. You could even go a step further and have a list pop up showing the raids from closest to furthest and being able to tap on it and it taking you to where it is on the map.

A half cocked idea with lazy follow through. The raid processes in Campfire are extremely frustrating. There is no way to communicate with raid groups if a Campfire name doesn’t match with the in game name, there is no guarantee or consequence if a person in the lobby does or does not accept the friend request or the raid invite, and the entire process feels very half baked. I’ve hosted three raids in Campfire, and of the three I’ve only had one where everyone in the group joined the lobby and everyone’s name matched their in game name. There are much better remote raid apps out there.

This app is bad. More times than not this app is glitched out. Right now it shows no active raid or gyms or anything it literally just looks like google maps. On top of that when you use the small amount of 5 remote raids passes it will randomly take away the ability to host a raid despite the fact that your not using remote raid passes anymore. These are just the issues I run into the most. This app needs massive improvement before it could even be considered decent.

Could be better. Living out in the middle of nowhere having one pokéstop and one gym make playing the game harder especially for raids but being able to join people near or far make this app so good if only they didn’t limit you to only 5 remote raids a day. I guess hosting a raid is the only way you could play with other people after you hit the limit.

Just copy the dungeon finder / raid finder from wow please.. Just make the raid finder like they do in world of Warcraft. Have an option to choose what raids you want to do or an option to say any open raid. Then use it like a group finder and have it do it automatically. Just give an option to add players to your friends list. Why make us do all the work. Just streamline the process

Cool app, but joining or hosting raids are not the best. So this app is really good to contact your friends from games like Pokémon go. The problem is that every time I try to team up with people using the app, it says that I have to download Pokémon go. I’ve downloaded Pokémon go since 2016 and this is really annoying for me. Niantic, please fix this.

I think it’s good enough. The app functions well enough to do as it says it can do. I don’t like the fact that you have to find people locally when you find a group???? The reason I can’t raid is because there is no one locally to raid. Also there are some bugs when typing for me, it will randomly disappear. Honestly I think this app is sorta underrated, but there could be improvement.

Can’t connect. I used this app for the first time on Sunday with no issues. Looks like it has been updated and now I’m not able to use it. It has my log in info but keeps telling me to install Pokémon Go (which I’ve had for a few years). I’m not sure why it’s not pairing the both apps. I’ve already uninstalled both and tried and nothing. This new update or change just messed everything up and I can’t use it.

Great use for Pokémon go players.. Being able to find which gyms have eggs or bosses to fight is so very useful. I've also used the chat feature to rendezvous with other players to take down a boss. it mostly works well. Sometimes I have to restart the app to see the menu.

They ruined app. They just keep updating it and ruin the fun to add people to be your friends on the game and Ban over stupid rules. If it’s me, it’s better off never use this app at all. That’s basically what I’m going to do if your ban here’s a tip make a new Pokémon GO basically only way to use this app again is making a new one and start over if you have a main account you can’t use it because you got banned from this app

Can’t invite friends/Can’t Host Raids you want. Why can’t our friends invite their friends, it make it so much harder to party or to find ppl, yet only host can invite. Sometime you can invite friends to a raid and sometimes it doesn’t give you the option. My friends and love ones want to join me while they are far away and I can’t invite half the time or selected raid only. It should always give me the option and MORE TIME. Please fix this

Loving Campfire. This app is really useful to find raids nearby and messaging other players. I use campfire mostly for Pokémon Go and Peridot. I’m excited for the new update with “Team Up” with other players and future updates! Keep up the awesome work Niantic 😄

Great for connecting with your community, still needs work. This app is a great way to connect with your local community, and is great for community days and big events aswell! I like the map that can show you raids, and it’s awesome that they updated it to show you routes too! One thing though, the raiding group section doesn’t work though, whenever I try to host a raid or join one it just never works and I have to go to pokeraid or something to raid and invite people. Overall helped me find a great community around me and my future community days will be great! 🌟4.5/5

It’s Niantic quality. The app is inferior to nearly every other raid group finding app out there. The map is nice to locate raids as I no longer have to drive around to find raids but it’s clogged up by people posting stuff on it so it’s hard to see the actual raids sometimes. Overall it’s the quality that most have come to expect from Niantic as its par for the course!

I’m loving it just one thing you have to add…. I love this app. It made Pokémon go raids so much easier for me. I just got monster hunter now and it’s a good game. Something to add to campfire to make it easier for people who don’t go places often in monster hunter now is to make it so you can invite people to a battle from campfire. If you do that I’ll surely make my rating a five.

Copying Discord. Since the launch of Campfire it’s been a buggy up and down experience. It’s main purpose is served when you need to track down raids. Other than that, the UI is undoubtedly similar to Discord. The community I’m involved with has used Discord for years, and sees no reason to move to campfire other than the ambassador promo codes. The codes are clearly a desperate attempt to get people on their app but it’s too much of a hassle. Even if we decided to move over to campfire we would keep our planning on Discord. It’s just better. Now while campfire is very similar to Discord they’ve made their own changes which do not make the “Groups” customizable. It’s just sad that they have very little originality.

It’s good for something’s. The raiding is a little tricky to navigate by that I should say bad . For 1 if you use the random join up feature it takes for ever to get in and there is 2 queues it’s just really awful but if he hears the groups with rays, people will tell you their codes and you can read that way so so great because you can see the entire maps and where what’s located Besides that though the app is really hard to navigate.

Set up to make you waste Premium Battle Passes. I’m getting so frustrated with how Niantic has chose to run their “party” systems in game. First it takes on average 5 minutes to find a mandatory group of 5 more people. Only for 3 of the people not to join, making you try and find a new group. The new group joins, and right before the timer hits 0 and starts the raid, the majority of the group leaves and the games horrible refresh system doesn’t tell you that people have left in time. Therefore it throws you into the raid, complete unprepared and not enough people to complete the raid. Which also results in you wasting a raid pass you spent your hard earned dollars on! So much fun!!!!

I can’t use it.. It’s telling me to link my account to it, But I can’t link my Apple to go. Every time I try it says something around the lines of ‘you cannot link Apple to Pokémon go’ or something like that. And if I can’t link it then I can’t use campfire even tho it’s in my news. So if you can tell me why it’s not working then hopefully I can download it but for now it’s just staying deleted.

It just gets worse and worse. UPDATE - It’s gotten worse. It now gets stuck at 4/6 players, then when it updates to 5/6 waiting for host 9/10 times it cancels. And when I host I don’t get notifications about it being full. And it doesn’t live update if I watch it either. I get notifications randomly, even when I have the app closed and not looking for a raid - got a few at 3 am. Just use Discord. At first it was great! Joined a few raids - linked with my PoGo account well. Then it was bug after bug - couldn’t access the map or list - couldn’t host - couldn’t search - stopped sending invites - constant crashes. Once bugs are fixed - it should be a 5 star though! Also need a reporting system for those who leave mid raid, or just setup raids to sit and do nothing. Only reporting options are for serious IRL issues.

Very useful app when hunting Mewtoo!!. The app provides chat room for any specific raid which could let people gather at a target time and also provide small groups so that we could share more info with each other. Furthermore, it migrates with the map great which allows me directly drive to that gym! Save a lot of time!

Horrible. Sick of the forced player pool only to have people back out the second before the raid start. I like the old version before you forced this “hosting or looking for raid” buttons. I liked when we could communicate with each other to see who was serious about joining and adding more than your 5 limit which did absolutely nothing but make raids more difficult. Way to drop the ball. I rather use another crappy side app then this mess

Campfire Nerf?. Although difficult to navigate this app fills a void that players have been waiting years for. An actual way to communicate with other players. Or at least it did until recently. The general chat was a way to connect for raids and removing it makes Campfire that much less useful. And don’t bother with the team up button. Supposedly it randomly connects players with an open raid. I don’t want a random raid and if it’s a Pokémon I don’t want, there goes a $2 raid pass just for looking at it. I don’t know personally however, because after multiple attempts I’m still waiting… The raid map and chat feature are useful, if years too late. With raids being a money maker and one of the huge draws of the game, the recent Campfire nerf is confusing and unpopular to say the least.

Why is this app so hard to use?. All I want to do on Christmas is find some Pikachu raids, but this app is impossible to use. It only displays the pokemon if the gym is visible on the map. And only then if you don’t zoom out too far. Why can’t I just search for a specific pokemon and have the app show me the locations within a certain radius? Why do I have to keep scrolling around the map hoping to MAYBE find what I’m looking for? This isn’t one of those seek and find puzzles. This is extremely not user friendly.

Ruined the game for me.. I do not know how you get an app so wrong that it makes people want to never touch the game again, but they found a way. Remote raids do not work, joining is completely broken, and there isn't even a functional chat system, just pre-made messages that don't communicate anything specific enough to get help from others. Came back to enjoy a community day with others after not playing for a long time, and it was such a mess that I uninstalled the game.

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Fiddly and flawed. Visited a rural city this Easter during in person only regi raids, so I downloaded this app to see who was around, surprise surprise, no one. But I decided to use the app to figure out where the raids were and just hang out and see if anyone joined, and at first three raids were showing up as starting soon, then all but one disappeared. I hung around for about 25 minutes when I got a notification saying someone had sent a flare, but when I opened the app there was nothing in notifications, and then another raid showed up with 4 minutes left on it, and I was a four minute drive away. Didn't make it.

Wast of time. I’ve been waiting to be granted aces to this ap for 7 months and have still not been granted it, east of time thinking that it would be a good app to use for pg, just use other non niantic aps instead because they should actually work

It’s broken. It says that I need Pokémon go to access the app but already have it

This app is not safe.. Beside this app being annoying and not working, it’s also very unsafe. Feel free to download if you enjoy being verbally abused by people across the planet. Don’t bother using it to find a raid to join, it doesn’t work.

Disappointing support to player network. Head to twitter to and search the #HearUs Niantic hashtag which tells you all you need to know about why Niantic has let its playing community down

Doesn't work. This app use to work great to take down legendary raids, light a flair and people show up, but after an update about 2 months ago I wanna say the app doesn't work at all, to use anything it says "you need Pokémon go downloaded" when it already is, I've tried uninstalling this and Go and still doesn't work. Please fix this

Why does everyone say it’s bad. I find it really good

L. absolutely dog poo

Can someone help. First of all, when I saw the pictures I was like oh my god this is better than the Interaction that you have on Pokémon go where you just send Gifts to each other it was so cool but every time I log in AND sign up with the same email it kept saying you need a invite thing or something I hate it

Mid. Skill diff mid app

Have to add this stupid app to play a different game. I don’t want to use this stupid campfire app but apparently I have to. To play a different app.

12 person to write a review.. The app is great, but I haven’t gotten any use from it yet

Let us in. I’ve downloaded the game within a week of release and I haven’t been able to get past the sigh in screen Ive connected my account plenty of times and fails

Needs more work - has potential. Finally started to open up. Still more work to be done for it. Has potential to be a great app for any niantic games. ingress has had a lot of difficulties to group up since Google Plus went off line.

Why launch ?. Niantic’s consumers (players) have been asking for some of these features for years but instead of incorporating into the current Pokemon Go platform they create another separate app, that is only “invite” only for all of Niantics buddy’s to gain more unfair advantages to the rest of the players. The most scary thing about this app from what I have heard (given I can’t even use it) is there is no messaging parental controls. If you are a parent with children DO NOT allow your children to use this app.

What is going on?. Why isn’t it working? This is so stupid

Age limit. I tried to use the app, but it wouldn’t let me. The App Store age is 12+ but guess I’m not even though I’m over the age. Most of Pokémon go players are kids and teenagers, fix age limit.

Seems to be broken at the moment. As above

Jak. I think its useful to find people for games like Pokemon go

Exclusive App to make Whales better. So you only have access to this app if you paid to go to a Go Fest months ago and these events were only in the northern hemisphere. The app allows to to communicate and coordinate meet ups and get help with raids etc. Shouldn’t this be for all the people who can’t travel, have accessibility issues, live in rural/remote locations as they struggle to engage in aspects of the game due to some form of limited access. But instead of helping those who need it it’s locked behind an exclusive “whale wall” which only increases the inequities in the game, thus enhancing the pay to win/engage aspect of the game. I love Pokemon Go but Niantic you are excluding the majority to please the minority who are whales. If you want longevity in the game, make it inclusive and bring people into the community not shut them out.

Needs work. Useful for seeing where raids are within driving distance. But that’s about it. The system for trying to host raids is really bad, with preset chat options that don’t cover all situations, and no way of dealing with things like someone pulling out with 10 seconds to go and killing the group’s chances. It’s really rather clumsy. There are existing options and this isn’t going to make people switch to the official product.

Fire. This app is good

Not safe…. I’ve been playing Pokémon since 2018. I’m not too fond of the campfire app allowing people to chat; there is no privacy anymore, it’s now too easy for predators to get to women and children and see their locations and it’s now too easy for people to cheat on one another. Too easy for people to be bullied and singled out. It’s no longer just about Pokémon anymore. It’s now more about people “connecting” in equally negative ways as positive. I personally feel this app is dangerous.

capitalistic company. niantic only views their users as data for capitalism. go on twitter and search #hearusniantic to see how they ignore their users

There’s no notification sound. That’s a pretty bad thing to leave out considering when you’re queuing for raids you need to respond within a minute.

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Pikmin Bloom. Pikmin Bloom is the only Niantic game that I play, this app serves no purpose to me until it supports Pikmin the same way it does other games. It acknowledges that I play Pikmin, but there’s no section in the app for it.

Broken. It keeps on saying I need to download Pokémon go to use the map feature and I downloaded it twice and it still says I need to download it

Problem. The app can’t see my pogo account since the update!

Keeps telling me to download Pokémon go to use the map etc but obviously I already have it.. So the app is useless

terrible. apple isnt allowing my review to be published. this app is garbage and a total waste of time. everything niantic touches turns into garbage. cant even log in properly

Garbage App After Worldwide Launch. When I was using this application before it was launched worldwide, it was fine. You would get flares sent to your notifications of people who were interested in the raid. Right when you enter the chat, you can immediately chat with other players and set up another flare to get more people to join. It was a 3/5 for me, and there were definitely some improvements they could develop in the application. Now the application is absolute garbage. Since the update, I have gotten ZERO notifications from the app that someone wants to do a raid. It does this cool aesthetic sonar to say that’s searching for players, but you just sit there and wait for people to join, which is a waste of time. Now I just have to be lucky enough to stumble upon a group that is willing to do these raids. All Niantic had done was remove the main functionality of this app to make it look more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Another developer that does whatever the hell they want, ignoring the wishes of their global community. Honestly, I’m disappointed this time. Would give it a -1/5 if I could. 😞😞😞

Junk Add-On app - another Niantic Flop. The app doesn’t function properly. But as an idea it’s essentially legitimizing spoofing. Why would I care about gym raids in another part of the world unless I was going to spoof to it?? There’s more going on here under the hood….Trojan horse?

Please. Let me delete my Niantic campfire account for real

Horrible after new update. Before the update to make the app available worldwide, local raids were fun and finding / organizing them were easy. Now I can’t even load into campfire, it keeps telling me I “need to download Pokémon go first” which I obviously already have. Very glitchy and broken app. Hope they fix this soon.

Terrible company. What kind of company wants to make it harder and less equitable for people to play their game? It just doesn’t make sense. Niantic, please try listening to your players for once - and really listen. Don’t just make vague promises that you’ll abandon after a few months this time.

Give up. I give up waiting for this app finally deleted it and glad it’s gone. Wasted months for this app only to be blocked by invite only wall. Hey you don’t know anyone who plays sucks to be you.

Buggy, useless. Complete waste of time, lighting flares does nothing, no one joins.

Trash App. You can’t find what you want, your friend post something and you will never find it, it will only show you ‘nearby posts’ , what a joke.

Worst app yet. Why do this to us #maybe pal world

Dirtbag niantic. This company doesn’t care about its users. Stop playing anything made by niantic

Subpar. Whoever made this probably didn’t get paid You’re telling me a game sponsored app can’t get 5 people on this entire earth to do a raid? Trash

Good but not great. It has a few flaws, but it is better than nothing. It would be great if when you are the admin of a group you can have an option to send to everyone, it is a pain when you have to choose one by one after creating an event. We need more people to use the app so we can have more people playing in the raids, until then it is a pain to find players or been a host and waiting for people to join. The option for messaging is great as you can find players around.

Sucks. You had one job smh. USELESS

Practically useless. Every time your lobby fills it automatically closes wastes time.

Constant updates are frustrating. The app itself works great and serves its intended purpose well. However every other time I open it it seems like there’s a new update, and when you’re already out and about it’s frustrating to have to use data to update it or take time to find wifi to save your data.

@Niantic. This app is not bad but has a lot of thing that could improve id love to see it advertised more in Pokémon go or built into it so that there more people using it because shadow raids are hard to do and this app is the other thing that makes that happen but still really hard to use sometimes and host raids

Terrible. Try listening to your players before releasing something like this. you might as well be on discord. This is also being used by criminals to rob people. Way to go niantic

Snoozer14. I’m frustrated I used this Campfire before and it was great. Since the update I can’t use it. I go to the App Store hit get ( which I already have ). And it takes me back to the news !!! I play alone and a senior don’t understand all this technology. This campfire is perfect for me . Please help me.. Sue (snoozer) HELP. Please call me 289 -404-1649

Garbage app. Niantic is garbage, can’t even create an account on the app, constant error of “something went wrong please try again “ then I get a notification saying I need to be invited to the app? Garbage app. Garbage company.

Would recommend. So awesome it really helps. New remote raiding and hosting is awesome really useful stuff!

Primal Raids need catergory. While making a group for a primal raid I noticed it only allows 5 members to join your lobby, this is not close to enough to beat the 90k cp bosses

Trash. Not worth your time. No one uses it in all of Toronto there were 2 flares. Worthless

Meh. I used this app first since it’s supported by Pokémon go more than any other app, but when I started using it there were many flaws. For instance, there was no incentive for players to stay in your raid lobby, most of the people I found just joined and left when there was 10> seconds left ruining my chance for beating it and wasting a raid pass. The messenger part of the app is useless, even if you do get a raid group going you can only say the predetermined things they want you to say. Lighting a flare for a gym doesn’t do anything either it probably just annoyed the people around getting the notification. The only reason I use it is to see if there are any raids that are out of sight. Use Poke Genie if you want to host raids, use this app to find where the raids are, and use battle simulator to see who to use in the raids

Another failed experiment by Niantic. The app keeps freezing, crashing, or making me sign-in again whenever I try to use it. If doubling the price of remote raid passes wasn’t enough, this app will be the final nail in the coffin.

Waiting and Waiting?. What’s going on here, this has been released for other countries for months but here we are still waiting to make an account. Let’s goooo you haven’t gotten enough money from me to fund this app yet?

Keeps getting worse and worse. Uninstalled. Used this app since beta, but now uninstalled (Dec 2023). So many forced updates for no reason and UI keeps getting worse. Really don’t understand what direction they wanna go with this app!

It worked now it doesn’t won’t load the hot or join screen. Now you wonder why people spoof because you app doesn’t work good incompetent!

New UI as of June 27, 2023 is awful. How do you take a perfectly fine, simple, functional app and create so much unnecessary clutter and add so many convoluted steps for simple functions? Niantic, do you guys WANT people so stop using your products? Because that’s how you get people to stop using your products.

Big. L’app est à jour, mais je ne vois plus de raid ni d’arène et plus rien ne s’affiche. C’est déroutant 🫤.

Far from user friendly. Took me a while to figure out what was going on. Once I figured it out it is still terrible. Simple solution would be a lobby type setting where people can see what hosts are hosting and allow people to click on the host they want to join instead of being random. My wife and I sitting side by side want to join a remote raid together and it is impossible to do. Might be great for other games but for this one it’s just bad!!

Hear Us Niantic. This company does not care about user experience. They’re not a gaming company. They are a data collection agency who continue to treat their rural trainers like trash. They need to reverse their terrible decision to limit remote raids to 5 per day. Doubling the cost of remote raids was just mean spirited. Niantic does not deserve this IP.

Useless. Honestly, there is no use for this app when FB/Discord exist.

Just put it in the games no need for a seperate app.. Title

Raids. Can’t even get people from different places adding me spent 2 hrs trying to get an invite and talked in chats. But no one seemed to even add people

Annoying. Whenever I’m playing it an alarm Pokémon go it says you need to download Pokémon GO but then when I go onto it and then go back to the app, it says download Pokémon go

New update ruined the app. Before the update it was great I would use it everyday. After this update it’s horrible so hard to coordinate yourself through the app and coordinate with others. horrible after update

Broke my Pokémon go. Downloaded this app and now I can’t stay in raids keeps booting me out each time

Useless app. Have had it several months and really haven’t seen any value. Haven’t been able to plan a raid with it. And people send out flares for areas that are too far away. Good idea bud terrible execution. And why did Niantic wait this long to develop it?

Niantic Fail As Usual. This really show the incompetence of Niantic development team. From Pokémon Go events riddled with bugs to Australia and New Zealand’s constant blunders to Fire Camp, I’m starting to think there’s only one developer at Niantic and he’s just overwhelmed. This app doesn’t even load at times.

Stop forcing me to update and log me out. Every time I open the app it tells me to update and I have been logged out again… it’s so annoying when I just want to see if there are raids near me. It literally takes 2 mins to open this app and get it running everytime.

Very helpful too 2 mins and done. I live was sick and going through TikTok discord twitter and yt trying to get people to raid with but know one would do it but when I got this app all I had to do is find raid wait 1

Waiting patiently.. Can’t wait for the access limitations to be lifted. This has a lot of potential to bolster the social aspects of Pokémon go that up until now have been forced onto Discord and Facebook.

Good. I’ve only just started using this app but I can see where it has potential and where it’s lacking. This app is lacking in the remote raid area for sure. If you’re getting this app to coordinate remote raids your wasting your time. Many better apps out there (PokeRaid, pokegenie, etc). A better use for this app is to connect people in certain communities. Many people just don’t do local raids anymore because they can never get 4 people together to do them. This app allows you to connect with people in an area and set up a local raid plus set up in person trading, set up meetups etc

Only allow 5 people to join?. Not enough for the big raids

Trash. Just decides randomly that ive met my “daily raid limit” and doesn’t allow me to host in person raids. Try it if you have no community around you but I certainly wouldn’t recommend it otherwise

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Completely dysfunctional and an absolute waste. Hosting raids has never been more difficult or impossible. Download a second app to get features they could have implemented into the base game that actually functions. Just download Reddit and post your host info there. Don’t waste time downloading this garbage.

Useless. This app is so behind the time. They waited 7 years to make an app to connect communities when discords and group chats have been there for years. Utterly useless app as lighting flares does nothing, no one responds to them. I’ve lit 30+ flares and only 1 has ever resulted in anything. Don’t waste your time with this app it’s awful.

6 years too late, poorly designed, largely ignored. For the 0.08% of the player base that uses it, you’ll find that if there’s a meaningless update then the app becomes inoperable until you do. Concept is poorly executed and no one uses it. Maybe if they had integrated communication near launch, we could all have a better experience with the game

Half works. The app only works half the time. Sometimes the team up button doesn’t work. The whole point of it is to find and join raids so the main functionality of it needs serious help.

Why can’t you integrate into PoGo?. Literally why make another app, just integrate this into Pokémon go. It feels clunky having to switch back and forth between the two. The idea is good and is honestly years overdue but please just integrate into the actual game.

Update. When it works, it’s great! yet , like right now; updating… update…

Problems. This app is good to an extent, but as of late a message will pop up the second I open it. Taking up my whole screen and the only thing I can click is a link. This is very upsetting and deleting the app and redownloading it does not work. FIX THIS PLEASE!

Campfire bot has ruined the experience. My group is heavily focused on providing information. Once they introduced the bot, it takes multiple attempts to upload an infographic. That’s if the bot gives you permission. Frustrating.

It WAS really good. I can’t figure out how to do anything after this new update and you basically took away remote raiding for most because I can’t even figure out how to join a group or anything I’m really sad about it bc I really wanted a heatran

Thank you for making app unplayable. Cant look at the map because I “need to install pokémon go” when I have had it, deleted and reinstalled both (just in case) all just for niantic to waste more of my time and it still not work. Please fix this app

The least social, social app. Find raid groups can be difficult but finding a raid leader to actually send invites is getting ridiculous. Can’t really communicate cause niantic wouldn’t want that, I’m finding my self playing GO or any Pokémon game less and less.

Just alright. If this was in app it would be fine but this app is just ok it barely gets the job done and if they had taken the time to integrate it in the respective apps it would be fine but instead the ui is terrible and most of the app is useless

Doesn’t work well. Always has issues with missed notifications trying to join raids. Why say you can leave the app if the notifications are so spotty?

Getting raid pokemon is so easy. All you have to do is host or join a rain and it'll match you with great trainers I love this app

Add raid notifications. It would be awesome if we can have the option to turn on notifications for what star raids we want so we don’t have to keep opening up the app every other min to see if any raids gonna spawn

Niantic is terrible.. This is an extension of Pokémon go, which is already plagued by functional issues and micro-transaction greediness. This app was intended to help streamline processes in Pokémon go, but has only made it more frustrating and complicated. Niantic’s efforts would be better spent trying to fix their terrible apps and customer response issues.

this app used to be great but the new update messed it up. after downloading the newest update i opens campfire and could not get the map opened. when i try to use the team up feature it tells me to download pokémon go but i already have it on the same device and when i hit the button to download pokémon go it opens pogo but change’s nothing in campfire. this is a major issue that needs fixed.

Issues. Right now it just refuses to work, it’s super laggy when it works it kinda alright? But I’m experiencing a lot of issues during events in games such as Pokémon, but it just doesn’t work

Updates created more bugs. The newest update makes the app completely not usable. All features says” download Pokémon go to use” while I already have it installed. Now I can’t even use the map. I’m a programmer myself and I would really lay off the guy who developed this button mapping crap

Not so great but…. The app isn’t that great. You can get a raid if you want one but it’s only within your region and s wit a very longtime to do a raid. As always kiantic has issues but we it. I use r app for raids and this one to see what’s in my area. Other than locations for raids the app is garbage.

Not Intuitive (thus not helpful). I’ve tried to use this app to connect with PokePeople in my area but time and again I get lost trying to respond to invites and inviting other to join me for a raid. It is simply a confusing and unfriendly app.

Not working. So basicallyi downloaded this for pokemon raids, but when i tried using the app it kept telling me to “download pokemon go” when i alr had it i thought it wasa bug and i deleted it and downloaded it but still nope so id be hapoy to give 5 stars if you fix this problem bc i cant use it

Complicated. In my opinion the app could be a lot more simpler. When looking for raids there should be list of available raids to attack and should be as simple as joining and using a remote raid pass. The current format is terrible just a timer telling you how many people are also looking for raids. Also need to update the map to include routes.

Customer support needs an upgrade.. The app is generally a good app and works. Until it doesn’t. Trying to contact support to get the issue fixed is a joke. Hopefully you don’t need help when there is a big event with raids involved.

Latest Update Ruined This App. The original threads to find raids and make no pokemon buddies all over the world was just fine. The update with this new system to find random raids near you is a mess and makes the app almost useless other than to light campfires and do raids in your local area rather than hunting pokemon all over the globe.

Well…. It needed a lot of work at first but with this new update, it is a blessing and you guys have made it a lot easier and faster and more convenient. Good job!

Message. Works great for raids but it says I have a message in my inbox when I don’t. Very annoying.

Terrible. Scrap it and start over. More often then not the app will not reliably show where raids are, or someone in the same location can show entirely different results for raids. It’s unreliable and worthless. RAID locations need to be within the Pokémon go app. This app is garbage.

Horrible UI. It should not still take me 15-20 minutes to figure out how to message a specific group or chat after several months of using the app. PLEASE, for the love of god, update the app with a competent messaging system!

Not so useful. During Go Tour, it’ll only show you Raids with 10min remaining or less Not to mention, there’s way too many people for one lobby and pokemon gym You would think that you could utilize the app to raid around the world but simply it’s to socialize rather than battling Kind of disappointed that’s how low they think of their players

Horrible app!. Idk what y’all did to the updates but you can’t even use the app for raids anymore. It’s impossible to find your way around the maps. It’s impossible to find chats. Use the chats. Leave the chat rooms. Everything about this app is so difficult now!

A must have for Pokémon Go. You’re at a severe disadvantage if you don’t have this. Amazing for hosting raids to get a big team for any raid.

Pikmin bloom. I live the app it tell me where every gym is in Pokémon go and I can chat with new people who play the game as well. But my other game I favor just as mush as Pokémon is called Pikmin bloom. Which campfire doesn’t haven’t

Every time you update something goes wrong. Do you even test this before sending it out?You just forced me to update, some thing that was supposed to fix bugs. Now, when I open it there’s a big old banner that covers the entire screen to announce something I can’t even participate in. So, it’s useless until the next update. Please fix asap

Most times can’t host. It’s really annoying to wait over 30min trying to host a raid and campfire can’t find a raid group for me. I can have other trainers sitting right next to me wanting to join my raid and it never even comes up for them, but instead tries to send them to raids 600km away.

A lot of annoying issues. The app is a good idea but has so many glitches. I can’t set a picture for my profile. Always with the error messages. Please fix your app Niantic

Complete trash. This app has been around a while, and one of the oldest bugs, being unable to clear the notifications count on the app icon, is still present. Shows how little this developer cares about maintaining their app.

Can’t login. There seems to be multiple ways of logging into this app and different ways are not linked. Extremely difficult to contact support to fix the login issues and emails associated with the account

Definitely a horrible app. Don’t waste your time.. App is horrible with bugs and crashes, horrible communication set up for players. Ownership clearly doesn’t care about the players. Would recommend not getting this waste of an app.

I don’t care. About the Pokémon other people catch! I don’t care to see stupid comments about how Joey bag of donuts got a shiny from a raid, especially when the moron posts it over the gym itself! Dumb feature needs to be removed!

The host option doesn’t have the same range as in game. When trying to host a raid I’ve noticed the radius to start the raid in the app is smaller than the actual radius in game. So you can be close enough to the gym to spin it but to far to host a raid from within the app.

Hosting a raid. I tried hosting a raid for a primal kyogre and you only get the option for 5 people to join you You can’t defeat a primal kyogre with a group of 5 so what is the point in being able to host if you only can loose seems ridiculous

I don’t know what’s happening. Every time I play it says I have to download Pokemon go when I already Have it downloaded btw I am on iPad but when I tried with my phone It worked perfectly fine… but overall great app

Not worth the hassle. I use it for Pokémon go and you never get enough people and it won’t let you take less than a full party. When you join a host they never send the raids invite and you just waste time for nothing. If you want people to join you look for communities but this app ain’t it right now

Wish it worked more often. Its an amazing idea and honestly super helpful to find raids or gyms to go to and play Pokemon Go. However days like raid days tend to cause the whole app to not work and really make it difficult to grind when its really needed.

Needs improvements. So many times when I host 5 people are ready but I can only copy the names of 3 of them to invite. Frustrating. I’m done using until it’s been improved.

Push notifications?. We made a group on here but there are no push notifications for when people are sending messages in the group.

This app is terrible. Campfire was an app that was built with good intentions but it doesn’t help at all. Wait times for hosting raids and joining raids are ridiculously long. i waited 20+ minutes to host a raid beofre i gave up. Niantic has completely lost the plot with PoGo and they don’t care about the community at all. Very sad to see.

Niantic deciding they don’t care about half the world. Suddenly the app stopped working for the whole middle east region after being the only thing letting the game stay playable. Contacted Niantic and their reply was “your region is currently not supported” what about the whole year where it was working perfectly??? Was it not supported back then? Joke of a developer.

Campfire review. So let me start this off with something special. So I tried twice to get campfire and when I got it I signed in all that bad blah blah and I pressed team up! I have an account I’m level 31 and it said I didn’t have an account, I HAVE ONE!!!! And it keeps on saying it that’s why I downloaded it TWICE. But guess what it said? IT SAID THAT I DID NOT HAVE A ACCOUNT! I have the email password and everything correct BUT GUESS WHAT IT SAID, YOU DONT HAVE AN ACCOUNT! Fix it Niantic

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Price Free
Adult Rating 12+ years and older
Current Version 3.10.0
Play Store com.nianticlabs.campfire
Compatibility iOS 15.5 or later

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The application Niantic Campfire was published in the category Social Networking on 30 June 2022, Thursday and was developed by Niantic, Inc. [Developer ID: 1037205060]. This program file size is 36.51 MB. This app has been rated by 670 users and has a rating of 3.1 out of 5. Niantic Campfire - Social Networking app posted on 11 March 2024, Monday current version is 3.10.0 and works well on iOS 15.5 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.nianticlabs.campfire. Languages supported by the app:

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