PokeRater Reviews

Overall, kudos to the developer for a well made app that looks pretty sleek too. It will even auto-import in the free ads version, unlike another popular IV checker currently in PokeRater Store.

The iOS keyboard integration is truly the best feature of PokeRater. I can now input special symbols, copy & paste text, and edit within the name. That said, I wish we could drag and drop our favorite symbols because I want them in a certain order. I’ve had to redo the whole list several times already (twice because I accidentally tapped on a symbol and it got removed). That was such a pain. Also, a few symbols don’t work and showed up as boxed question marks. There is also a minor, yet inconvenient, issue with the keyboard when there’s a “?” in the name.

I would definitely consider the paid subscription once the name generator is more customizable.

The IV checker is not that much faster than inputting the info yourself into a browser-based IV calculator, but can’t blame PokeRater since it doesn’t have direct access to Pokémon appraisal. There are also several minor bugs throughout PokeRater , but they are manageable and the dev is quick with updates. More importantly, I disagree with the calculation of the defensive rating half of the time. I think the algorithm needs improvement. Blissey’s best defensive set should be zen headbutt and dazzling gleam.

I downloaded PokeRater specifically for the alternate keyboard that allows me to add special characters to my Pokémon names in Pokémon Go. I am really glad to have found PokeRater, as that is so helpful.

The one problem that I have with PokeRater is that, while it allows me to add the symbols I use often to a favorites list for easy access, it randomly clears the list and I have to go and hunt down the symbols again. If you can make the favorites list persistent, this would be 5 stars. Being able to rearrange the order of the symbols on the favorites list after finding them to add to the list would also be helpful.

I have used PokeRater and even paid for the “pro” version since it came out. It is the easiest to use and has the best looking layout. Definitely developed for the end user.

Unfortunately, I can no longer recommend PokeRater as it has now been nearly a year since it was updated and a whole lot has changed in the game in that time.....like shadow Pokémon. PokeRater cannot read the shadow Pokémon and just gives an error message. When you try to send a support ticket after the game errors, it will no longer allow you to email your ticket—I am guessing that the email address is no longer valid.

I am honestly quite sad that this has happened to this great app. I have been trying other apps for iOS and I become even more sad and frustrated...nothing comes close to this app’s user interface. Really wish PokeRater was still being supported or updated.

Love PokeRater!! It's super simple and easy to use and yet packed with a ton of useful information that's organized really well. The interface is also very aesthetically pleasing making the experience of using PokeRater much more pleasant compared to Poke Genie--which has much of the same useful info, but the interface is nowhere near as polished as it is within PokeRater.

The only suggestion I have would be the inclusion of buddy candy distances added to the pokedex so we know how many kilometers we have to walk in order to earn candy. Other than that PokeRater is perfect you won't be disappointed!

As a player/trainer who's very interested in the number behind the game, I really enjoy using PokeRater. The graphics are helpful and the customization options are a nice touch as well. It could definitely benefit from some update quality-of-life features (namely importing photos from a folder rather than all images, refreshing info on movesets, and especially importing via screen recording like another amazing PoGO app). But even without these improvements, PokéRater is still really good, pick it up even if you have an IV checking app.

I’ve had PokeRater over a week, and I still am thoroughly confused by it. I usually use PokeGenie but saw that this had a connection with PokeBattler. But I’m thinking of deleting it because the PokeBattler portion isn’t worth the problems I’m having. If the following items were fixed, I’d use it along with PokeGenie (PG), but otherwise I’ll delete it:
-Why “scan history”?! Why can’t we just have a Pokémon listing that is easily searchable like PG instead of making five steps to see all of one Pokémon?!
-what is the point of me scanning when I have to type all the data in?! Useless, it’s only good for the pic of the Pokémon and that’s it.
-the weaknesses/strengths from attacking Pokémon is a great idea, but there’s no way to see what my pokes are strong AGAINST. use that tech to show me what my poke’s move set is weak/strong against and PokeRater might be worth it
-when I update a powered up poke, the scan ends up in my history and I get doubles which is so annoying
I do NOT recommend PokeRater! Save yourself some work and grief and get the PokeGenie app. It’s SO much better!

There are a lot of things I love about PokeRater: keyboard for naming, movesets, sorting by max possible iv. The stardust isn’t really fixed for me, so I doubt I’ll be using it until that corrects. It takes too long to go through the import when I have to manually touch 95% of my scans. Also wish the default when sorting by pokedex number could a secondary sort like by CP or recent. Things were working great until a few weeks ago.

This is a great full featured IV app with a terrific keyboard. The only problem with it are information density and the busyness of its UI. While you can easily see the main two numbers (CP, atk/def/sta and IV) in PokeGenie with clear color coded IVs (yellow for 100%, green for excellent etc. with huge IV numbers), its very hard to scan it in a glance in PokeRater. Less important information like duelability % etc pretty distracting on the main screen. Appraising is also very tedious and powering up check through the scrolling UI is very unintuitive. It’s actually quite easy to quickly improve the UI visual of PokeRater by applying full IV color coding background wrapping the pokemon boxes in the main listing.

I was excited, but in creating a custom keyboard, I found many symbols I use to be missing. Under the Unicode miscellaneous symbols category, I use the data rich three bars symbols to describe my best Pokémon ... rather than ⓯⓯⓮ I use ☴ ... solid bar means 15, broken bar means not 15. A couple others missing would include ☲ ☵ ☷ and so on. Given the inclusion of so many characters I doubt anyone would use, I don’t understand why these were dropped.

Sure, it’s for me, but we all have our naming conventions, so I don’t understand the pick and choose decision by PokéRater.

It didn’t identify the majority of my screenshots, including most of my main attackers. There’s an option to send an email, but no easy option to manually enter a mon. I wish Pokebattler would collab with PokéGenie instead, which is a superior app.

I was going to give it two stars because technically they recognized about 15 useful screenshots and some of the data was informative, but the fact that it started crashing to the point that it was unusable means I can’t, in good conscience, give it more than a 1/5. An app that doesn’t let you use it for more than five minutes can’t be properly reviewed.

As an iOS user it is very annoying you cannot maneuver inside the name of a Pokémon inside of Pokémon Go. You must delete the whole name and retype if you want to add a special character at the beginning for identification. With this keyboard you can finally pick where the cursor is and insert something or delete. I also love you can set your list of favorites on the keyboard.

It’s easy to select a screenshot and enter in appraisal information. There are options for marking Pokémon as hatched or from a raid.

You can even link other screenshots of the same Pokémon either powered up or evolved. This includes linking previously saved screenshots.

This doesn’t even mention how useful the keyboard is. Overall, this is a very solid app that I’m glad I found.

Rated 1 Pokémon successfully, after that, literally every single screenshot I send gets an error message.. I’ve updated all my info and tried multiple screenshots of the same Pokémon. Keep getting the same error message about sending the original screenshot size and I am not even editing it. Like I said first time it worked perfect, every single time after I get an error..

PokeRater certainly has a visual appeal over Pokegenie as well as the automatic scanning feature which is wonderful but when trying to appraise, it often has issues with voiding out certain aspects of the appraisal so I can’t get a proper IV. For instance, my bulbasuar got an appraisal of really strong, hp attack and really strong impressive but it would not allow me to select really strong or hp. I am guessing something still needs to be worked out here to get a good reading.

Just like reviews said, dev hasn’t updated PokeRater for over a year. If dev kept up to date, it would’ve been a very helpful app that’s why I gave it 5 stars. 5 for PokeRater & 5 for the potential. Move along people, check back from time to time

Update fixes this app keyboard crash from trying to open pasteboard that also deleted favorites so YAY. Haven’t had a chance to try new features yet.

There’s still a bug in the keyboard where if the name field is almost full or full, the name doesn’t appear in the keyboard until you delete a character.

It seems like it is a constant struggle to try to find it ratings of new pokemon. Takes forever to update compared to their competition (poke genie). Only reason I was keeping PokeRater was because of the keyboard functionality but apparently there is another app called poke keyboard.

Also other glitches such as showing ratings that could not be possible with lucky pokemon such as less than a 12 iv are quite annoying. Developers get your s*$t together.

Goodbye PokéRater forever. You won’t be missed.

Too many times PokeRater doesn’t properly read the level, how it was caught, and moves, causing me to have to manually type them in, when a certain other similar app doesn’t have those problems nearly as much. Plus when do you plan on adding blast burn to Cyndaquil from the last community day. I shouldn’t have to wait this long. It isn’t like you didn’t know this was coming. Now it’s failing to ready a shiny swablu for no reason.

I first started using it about 2 months ago and it was awesome. However, recently it has almost a 100% auto scan fail rate; I have to put in the CP manually. I hope an update is released to address this because it is very time consuming to take screen shots on all my Pokemon and then have to click through 3-4 screens in this app (per Pokemon) in order to get the IV.

Absolutely love PokeRater. There is a considerable amount of useful information present at a glance then most other IV Calculators available.

I have a couple feature suggestions I’d like to see added:

- The ability to save a quickly swap between multiple nickname templates. I tend to switch naming schemes dependent on certain mons and they’re usefulness to my playing experience. I’d like to be able to quickly swap between these different naming schemes

- A “lucky” marker so that power up forecasts can take into account Stardust cost for lucky mons

Scanning seems to be working better, so thanks for that, but the newest update with the blinking exclamation point when IVs have a range kinda sorta makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I honestly don’t think you need anything to draw attention to the fact that things need to be narrowed down, because PokeRater is fairly intuitive, but, if you do, maybe just a solid orange exclamation? The CONSTANT IN YOUR FACE BLINKING is way, way, way too much. It’s seriously annoying. Especially if you can’t narrow the range down any more than it already is.

My second issue: The radar screen seems not extremely useful, and putting it right up top where you have to scroll down to get to the stuff you have to use all the time on almost every entry (i.e. the narrow down IV selections) is not great and makes using PokeRater seems that much more tedious. The radar seems like something that could be put somewhere else if it has to stay in PokeRater at all.

Other than that, love PokeRater . Thanks for keeping it going!