Last updated on December 9th, 2025 at 04:37 am
GO FRIEND – Game Review
GO FRIEND is a game from takumi suzuki, first launched in 29th July 2020.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 973+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes GO FRIEND Stand Out
GO Friend is an application to find trainers who want participate in Invitation Raid Battle.
Let's participate Raids around the world using "Invitation Raid BBS" of GO Friend !
【How to use Invitation Raid BBS】
■Host Trainer (who invite Guest trainer to the raids)
1．Report Raids
Tap the “+” button at the top of Invitation Raid BBS
Enter the required contents such as Raid information and the number of recruitment, and post.
2．Approve the Friend Request from guests
3．Join the Raid and invite guests
■Guest Trainer (who invited to raids by the Host Trainer)
1．Search active Raids on BBS.
Search the active raids reported worldwide.
2．When you find the Raid you want to join, tap “ENTRY”.
3．Send a Friend Request
When you find the raid you want to join, copy the Host trainer's friend code and send a Friend Request to the trainer.
4．Wait for the invitation
Join the raid when you get an invitation from your Host trainer.
This game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, GO FRIEND is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Library update
Download & Availability
GO FRIEND is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
First off we do think this app is better than poke genie for raids. It allows you to just post a raid and if it fills, it fills, if it doesnt, it doesnt vs waiting for 500 other people in a queue. Ive hosted many raids on this app successfully. Including Gigantamax. However, we have a few suggestions. One theres a bug after hosting a raid when we come back to the app it refreshes and Im unable to rate our guests. Our rating was high and dropped rather low and we suspect its because of this bug and as people couldnt give us a thumbs up after the raid and instead had people giving thumbs down probably because they maxed invites. But we always double check everyone gets invited. Also, it would be nice if the app posted some information about rating their host and giving them a little leeway if they take a little bit of time to send them an invite because often the host are coordinating with people in person so the raid invites are not sent out instantly. Unfortunately, the system had us in a five star and now Im down to a three star which makes no sense because Ive only hosted 1520 raids? Also, we wish we had the option of sending a chat message to everyone in the raid group as well as individually because sometimes we need to coordinate with others Im raiding with off the app. Group chat makes more sense and less prone to abuse to. Having to send a message to each individual person in the raid group is a serious pain and it takes time and lets face it that raid clock doesnt stop. Overall, four out of five stars and thanks for a great app.
Started using this week and it is super fast and convenient to get people to group up.
Reallyyyyy good app you can add lots of friends and get into raids very quickly and for free.
You know when you host a raid in the app and you can get 9 people. But how do you get your capacity all the way up to 10? Can someone help us.
The app is good not guaranteed you will join the party you want but most the time you do they need to make it a little easier to catch the pokmon at the end of the raid we spend all this money to buy passes just to waste them we try hard and we can never get the pokmon bring the difficulty level down some please.
We buy plugs to get into raids. When people cancel we lose all of them . Huge waste of money.
We went to buy plugs and thats where everything messed up. Keeps telling us to put in our trainer code even though its in and now Ive wasted money and cant even join raids.
This app uses to be good but now a good way to be removed from the game. Only one of our Go accounts has attached to Go Friends and that account was terminated for violating the rules.
10/10 we got a good Ho-Oh and this app is very useful and its not really like any other Pokmon go raid app.
Downloaded this app because someone on Reddit said it made finding raids/inviting people to raids easier and its been a life saver! Ive joined about 5 successful 5 raids, and hosted about 7 successful 5 raids in the past couple weeks.
Not sure if its just our account or if the app is no longer available. Nothing loads in the app even after uninstalling and reinstalling. Shame as this was a good app and made friends across the miles.
Trust us It got us three really cool Pokmon Deoxys, Galarian Weezing and Alolan Raichu. They might not be the best but it sure helps with any Pokmon that requires a raid to evolve.
We hosted 3 raids and the app worked great, now we cant get a single person to join when we host a raid. Not sure why this app doesnt work anymore.
Why does it show that a Pokmon raid is a shiny if it isnt? We have done two that had the shiny symbol next to them but were not shiny. We feel like we wasted raid passes because we wanted shiny and that is the only reason we participated in the first place on those two raids and we spent our passes and they were not shiny at all. This needs to be fixed! Only mark shiny if they actually are.
The app works well but why is it that if you're in cue waiting for a raid to become available and you leave the app does the app not send you a notification that the cue is ready? It seems like a simple enough thing to add.
This is probably one of the better raiding options if you have loads of time to kill, have extra battery packs for your phone for the excessive waits, and like to do things for free. However, plugs are a huge waste. We tried getting them for the first time, to sneak into a limited raid, but there was an error in the raid. Other raiding apps will not take your currency if you do not successfully complete the raid. This one does it once you land in the raiding room, regardless of whether it is the correct Pokmon, the host kicks you, or the game crashes. In our instance, we were specifically trying to get into a Darkrai raid. We finally entered a room after waiting for FIFTEEN hours, only for the room to be a Dialga raid! We left the raid, took a screen shot, and emailed support. Never heard back. Now Ive simply moved onto other apps that actually respond to their customers.
This app is the best for online raiders who want to stay in bed! But discord servers with online raiding are trying to beat this amazing app! Keep up the good work.
All of a sudden, this app decided not to work. It just shows us a blank screen.
We had Poke Party before and getting into the raid was nearly impossible task. With Go Friend, you go to Auto Join, choose a mon you want to raid for, then wait!!! The steps are so easy! Copy the friend code, invite someone in game, and thats it- just wait for your raid to start!!!! So no more switching to the app to notify them you have added them to the game. (Poke party has this, so even after adding, sometimes people never add you to the raid!) This app is a BREEZE to use, and we have been able to raid for every desired mon that we wanted!!! LOVE.
This is basically the only app we use to raid and we have like 4 or 5 and a few on discord. Once you get the hang of it youll be raiding in no time. When a popular raid comes out and its not in your area itll take a little time and effort to get in it but its well worth it. Besides that we have no negative reviews.
Love this app helps us a lot with raiding all over the world n meeting ppl all over the world.
This has been really helpful for getting raids done.
Update: ( It was our flaw on not getting the raids. The raids are usually easy to get if not they have the auto option they search for you.) This would be a awesome app. If when you hosted you actually got a raid to host. You line people up, you start the the raid in go friends so no one else can join. Go to Pokmon go and there is no raid to invite your new friends to. Then you feel like a total jerk. So like we said would be a great app if it did what it said.
Easy to use makes raiding and making friends in Pokmon go very easy.
Good app to find raid parties and aid in getting regional specific Pokmon.
For Disabilty that can not go long distance without lack of energy cant breathe right due heart problems and lack of money resources.
We didnt know that theres an app that helps us find more friends in Pokmon go and helps us level up.
This is great if you dont want to fly or spoof. You search out a raid, you friend the player hosting the raid, they send you a raid invite, you remote raid. Simple.
Overall a Awesome!!! App to use.
Very convenient to get raids, but player rating system could improve.
Hands down our go to favorite raid app. They even just added a auto join function that slows to wait for boosted raids!!! We dont know of any other app or discord that does that!! Its a brand new function and works well. The only thing lacking here is a group chat for raid groups. If something goes wrong, you fail the raid and want to retry, or you just want to let the group know you have something mega evolved, its nice to have. Right now you have to message each individual separately and it takes forever. Thanks for this app!! Love it.
This is a very good app to use to raid in Pokmon Go. Its helped us a lot. Our biggest concern is we think there should be a time limit for certain raid bosses. So it might be more fair for people who cant get in raids fast enough or have 20$ to spend to auto join. Maybe there should be a limit on how Many you can do in a period of time for that reason. Other then that its been a great use for when we get in to it.
We love this app, its literally the only way that we can raid as we do not have many friends who play this game but sometimes the wait time are excruciating.
When it works, its terrific. Unfortunately, we have found ourselves waiting and waiting many times with no indication of why.
Can you guys fix the raids? Weve got mega slowbro in the US and it says we can only host 5 stars and doesnt even give the option for 3 stars, 2, 1, or mega.
This app is a joke. You send a request to join , copy and paste add their code in Pokmon and you wait online for an invite. Maybe you get one MOSTLY likely you do not! We are 0/3 for receiving invites. Spent 3 hours researching you tube for some clarification on how to join and could not find anything about this app. For such an awesome idea youd think everyone or anyone would make a how too. Not to our knowledge, we cant find squat! Anyway once accepted you sit and wait we waited 20 min each on our Pokmon account. Refreshed the GoFriend app and it says host is preparing. Then you get a green check by your name and your supposed to wait. Finally countdown starts and still no invite on Pokmon Go. Then it says Raids over! Really whats the rave about here. We agree with the last reviewer Find some where else that doesnt waist your time and aggravate the .. Out of you.
So we were gonna make a positive review about this app sense it was doing better than it was before but now it just went all the way down to the trash part of our list because we cant even join a raid without giving a screenshot of our username and level. We mean we already gave you guys the name and trainer level already why do you want more? And Im REALLY not too comfortable sending a picture of our trainer level and stuff like that its kind of crossing the personal level of things. So until you fix it where we dont have to do this and be able to join a raid Im not gonna use this at all now so cya.
Love this app. We love how fast you get into raids.
We dont see a downside to this app we love it.
Very helpful during the pandemic.
You will always enter a raid with a full team and you will not have to invite people on your friends list just hoping they will show up.
It is difficult to get into raids sometimes but it makes making raiding simple and straightforward. You dont have to buy plugs, we dont. Great app. Ive been extremely happy with it.
This app never lets us down. When the discord is full and we cant get in a raid on the first day of a new legendary we just go to GO FRIEND and we always get in as many raids as we can handle.
Go Friend has made it possible for us to really enjoy Pokemon Go to the max. Without being able to raid remotely we would never have reached level 45, soon to be 46.
Great app especially if you like to do raids and long distant rads. We have made a lot of long-distance friends that like to gift daily and still invite us to raids. Just wish there was a chat option with it.
We really like the fact that we can raid from home and this app makes it so easy to add friends and join a raid.
This app is great and it takes full advantage of Pokmon Gos remote raid pass system. It truly has never been easier, just be sure to have good raid counters and higher leveled trainers seem to fair better.
Now that Ive found this app, we cant be without it. So useful! It connects us with people from around the globe. Im a night shift worker so we sleep during the day and raid overnight on our off days with raids from Germany Japan etc. From countries that are awake at 3am US time. Thanks Go Friend! You made Pogo worth playing again.
Great way to level up and get any of the Pokmon in raids. Especially useful with free distance raid passes.
Pretty solid app, aside from not having raid group chats.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.70
- Size: 15.18 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES, TH, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Unrestricted Web Access, Loot Boxes
- Developer: takumi suzuki
Last updated: 12th November 2025 | Genre: | Developer: takumi suzuki