# Pokémon TCG Pocket — user reviews > 6,759 indexed App Store user reviews of Pokémon TCG Pocket by The Pokemon Company, rated 4.80/5 from 670,206 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pokemon-tcg-pocket/id6479970832/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pokemon-tcg-pocket/id6479970832.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 597,330 · 4★ 41,650 · 3★ 11,786 · 2★ 4,257 · 1★ 15,183 ## What do users think of Pokémon TCG Pocket? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and addictive pack opening - 👍 Nostalgic and enjoyable card collecting - 🎨 Beautiful card art and animations - 🤝 Friendly community features (e.g. thanking players) **Cons** - 🕰️ Slow progression and limited daily pack openings - 🔁 Repetitive and unbalanced PvP battles - 💰 Potential pay-to-win concerns - 🐛 Crashes and performance issues on some devices **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on launch for some users - Issues with claiming gifts and rewards **Most requested features** - Add trading feature - Introduce ranked/competitive PvP mode - Increase daily pack openings and rewards - Implement dark mode and battery-saving options - Allow scanning of physical cards to add to digital collection ## Newest reviews (11 of 6,759) ### 2/5 — Ughhhh *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* This game used to be so much fun but the recent big update SUCKS. It claimed that it added a “🔸🔸🔸🔸 or higher guaranteed” but I have yet to experience that. I’ve opened 98 packs of the most recent pack and haven’t pulled an EX for over 2 weeks. What is going on?!? Also I’m extremely disappointed that the app has moved to using AI for the solo battles. It’s become very hard to beat the expert levels! And how am I supposed to beat them if I can’t pull any of the recent EX cards?? It’s extremely frustrating and has totally ruined all the fun. ### 4/5 — Great Pokemon game but *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* Pokémon TCG Pocket should not require Shinedust for trading because trading should be about exchanging cards, not spending an extra currency just to make the exchange. Players already have limits on trading, so requiring Shinedust makes it harder to trade cards they already own for cards they actually need. Shinedust also has other uses, meaning players have to choose between trading and saving it for other features. Removing the Shinedust requirement would make trading simpler, fairer, and more rewarding while encouraging players to trade with friends more often. ### 4/5 — Game *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* I love how u get so many different cards ### 2/5 — The most scripted battles in the world *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* You can tell when something’s been shuffled terribly and then you can tell when something has been shuffled decently. This game straight up layers all of your trainer cards and makes sure you don’t get an EX Pokémon till end battle so you’re sitting there discarding energy on Pokémon that you can’t even use it then after an hour the game’s most hard ai that was impossible to kill. Keels over and dies two moves in after they’ve gotten their playtime out of you. Make it less obvious you’re farming attention for your poorly design app. Don’t get me started on the fact they gate keep VIRTUAL CARDS are we serious!? You outdid the word pathetic somehow. The greed of these sickos is nauseating. The only thing more sick than that is that these devs get to sleep good at night. That’s what disgust me most. I wish nothing but the worst for all you devs. :) ### 2/5 — This is a meh *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* The reason why I said it was meh is bc I don’t know why I have to wait so long to open a pack and it’s expensive too. 10 Dollars for premium.10. Even though the battle mode is pretty fun, I don’t recommended this to impatient people like me. ### 5/5 — Wow *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* This feels exactly like opening real Pokémon cards🤩!!! ### 3/5 — It’s awesome *2026-08-23, version 1.7.1* This game is awesome and I started today but I will be addicted ### 5/5 — Pokemon TCG pocket *2026-08-23, version 1.7.1* This was a huge w best game of the year and my favorite game ### 5/5 — I love Pokémon cards!!!!! *2026-08-23, version 1.7.1* I got a bunch of rainbow theme cards!! Even a Mew EX card! Well two. ### 5/5 — Hi *2026-08-23, version 1.7.1* This is so fun! ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2026-08-23, version 1.7.1* But cmon do battles vs. AI have to be this difficult? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 100% clear broken by team rocket release *2026-08-27, version 1.7.1* I completed every mission and event that came along since the game was first released and paid some of the monthly subs, purchased some packs as the art was fun; however they made the latest release require an impossible to complete quest so that breaks my 100% clear streak; guess I will wait till end of the month for a patch to the clear quests or I will be uninstalling the game; shame they killed the game for someone who enjoyed the game ### 1/5 — Coin toss system is horrible *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* The chance in this game is absolutely horrible and is not 50/50 as it should be. The AI almost always rolls a heads and is against the actual player when playing solo. It is not fun when you flip 6 tails in a row. It also puts all of the cards you want to use in the worst spots of the deck. Not a good solo experience at ALL. ### 1/5 — Terrible game *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* Gives you horrible 0-100 matchups on purpose in ranked ### 1/5 — Just the worst ai *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* Battles on expert against computer don’t use skill they just cheat on the coin flips so you lose ### 1/5 — Not fun *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* Not good at all ### 1/5 — Rigged *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* All the reviews are lies the game is rigged ### 1/5 — Can’t load game! *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* This game is a scam! I used to play it all the time! Now I tried to redownload the game and can’t! Stuck on a loading screen saying downloading content for an hour just for it to say error and restart! Scam! How much download time does a card game need! Scam! Won’t be playing again! Scam! ### 1/5 — Bb no *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* Vgj ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-08-23, version 1.7.1* I downloaded the app because I thought it would be cool and maybe a little hobby but as soon as I try to login it says there’s an authentication error so I looked up on the official help site and tried there advice and still nothing happened and wouldn’t let me log in. There’s a chance that maybe it’s user error but I do not recommend ### 1/5 — Money grab *2026-08-23, version 1.7.1* This game is designed to make you lose. You can build whatever deck you want but in ranked battles 8 out of 10 battles it will place you against a deck designed to beat yours and quickly. It’s designed to make you keep building and buying. It’s annoying that you have to battle 200 battles just to rank up. That’s why each win gives you 10 points and a loss takes you down only a little so it seems like you can still rank up ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Annoyed but love *2026-08-27, version 1.7.1* I had this app before and it didn’t give me a second choice to put in my recent account and I needed it to let me change it because I need it and it’s just started from the beginning whereas I got to like level 15 in my last one, so if you could help me, could you please give me some info on how to delete the app and redo it or put in my recent account other than that, it’s a really good app ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* Perfect game for me because I can still play Pokémon card battles without spending money! ### 5/5 — Game is great! *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* The game is really good, but can you guys give us the ability to LOCK Cards so we do not accidentally trade them if we don’t want to in our inventory?? ### 5/5 — Fun time *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* I love Pokémon TCG pocket it’s so fun that I can’t stop playing it ### 5/5 — About *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* Amazing ### 5/5 — Pokemon *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* So fun but it doesn’t slap ### 5/5 — My Pokémon review *2026-08-25, version 1.7.1* It’s really fun just seeing cards you didn’t even know existed and as soon as you get your collection started you feel amazing and so proud of yourself also when your opening packs your praying for luck so I think that you should get this game. ### 5/5 — The best card game ever *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* It’s really fun, also it’s free of scalpers, 100% recommended for beginners ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* Really good game ### 5/5 — The *2026-08-24, version 1.7.1* I keep losing battles --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*