Comparison

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides vs GO Field Guide

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides

Access comprehensive game tips, news, and detailed guides for strategies, stats, locations, moves, and more. This app provides tutorials to enhance your gameplay experience.

Highlights
  • Game tips and news
  • Detailed strategies
  • Character stats
  • Location information
  • Move data
  • Tutorials
Features
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Team Builder and Guides is a game tips, news, and guides app, featuring strategies, stats, locations, moves, height, weight and tutorials.

About

GO Field Guide

Enhance your augmented reality monster-catching game experience with up-to-date event information, raid guides, and research task details. Track your progress with checklists and stay informed about Pokémon evolutions and egg hatches.

Highlights
  • Event countdown timers
  • Complete Pokedex with search
  • Raid Boss and Shadow Counter guides
  • Research task and reward lists
  • Egg hatch lists
  • Checklists for achievements
Features
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GO Field Guide is a perfect tool to enhance your Pokemon GO Experience! GO Field Guide tool is made to assist you in playing Pokemon GO, It has up-to-date information for all Events along with local time, Raid Guides, Research task and rewards, Egg Hatch list, Checklist and much more... ---------------------------- Features: - Event Countdown Timer with Local event - Complete Pokedex along with Search by Type and Evolution Family - Add Event to the calendar - Push Notification Reminders - Checklist - Raid Boss List and Counters - Shadow Counters and Grunts Lineup - Egg Hatch List - Research Encounters - Special Research Tasks and Rewards - Special Evolutions lists - Buddy Distance List - Trainers Code - Type Effectiveness - Regional List - Search String Builder All of these in a compact size app of just less 30MB! --------------------------- Countdown Timer: Go Events tend to end without much fanfare. Whether it’s Community Day, the GO Fest or the soon-to-be-over Legendary Events, it can be easy to forget when these special events come to a close. If you just want to see how many hours are left before the event ends and event end time in our local time, the GO Field Guide may suffice — as long as you don’t mind popping open an App. Don't worry even if you forget we send Push notifications for important events! Dex: Complete Dex with complete details about the Pokemon along with Gym, PvP Movesets and CP Range for all levels. This does not stop here, you can even search Pokemon by Type, Moves, Weather Boost and much more. Add Event to calendar: With this feature, you can easily add the event details along with event start and end time to your calendar with just one tap! Checklists: Mark all your little achievements, GO Field Guide provides you with different Checklists to mark and share it with friends (especially for trading) From Regional Checklist to Lucky Checklist. Raid Boss Guide: Up to date list of current Raid Bosses along with all the information for the best counters, perfect IV, weather boost, type effectiveness and Raid Advice Shadow and Rocket Leaders Guide: Up to date list of Shadow Pokemon and Rocket Leaders lineup along with best counters to stop them. Field Research Task Rewards: Complete list of all research encounters, along with CP range, shiny chance. It also has a search feature so you can directly search for the reward of the required task ;) Special Research Tasks and Rewards: Complete list of Special Research Tasks and Rewards. Egg Hatch: Check the up-to-date list of the Pokémon you can get by hatching an egg, you can also filter by 2 Km, 5 Km, 7 Km or 10 Km. Special Evolutions: Want to find out which Pokemon evolves by which stone or lure module? GO Field Guide lists all the different Special Evolutions Trainers Code: Trainer Code section lists all the active trainers with which you can become friend, send and receive gifts daily. if you're active you can even get your trainer code listed! Type Effectiveness: Get the type effect information such as Super Effective, Weak to, not effective against! Regional List: List of all the Regionals and where can they be obtained ---------------------------- If you find any error or have anything to say. Let us know: randomwreck2016@gmail.com DISCLAIMER: GO Field Guide is a third-party app made by fans and players of Pokemon GO and is not affiliated with the Pokemon brand, Niantic, Pokemon Go, or Nintendo. Privacy Policy - https://sites.google.com/view/poketimer/home Terms of Service - https://sites.google.com/view/go-field-guide-tos/home

Screenshots

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides4 screens
GO Field Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Oak Dex Team Builder Guides at every 3 weeks against GO Field Guide's every 3 months. Oak Dex Team Builder Guides also leads on ratings volume (4.6K vs 465) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). GO Field Guide's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Oak Dex Team Builder Guides sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and GO Field Guide sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GO Field Guide holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oak Dex Team Builder Guides has 4.6K ratings behind it against 465, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Oak Dex Team Builder Guides's written reviews are positive against 80% of GO Field Guide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides ships an update every 3 weeks, GO Field Guide every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Oak Dex Team Builder Guides versus GO Field Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOak Dex Team Builder GuidesGO Field Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (4.6K ratings)4.6 (465 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.5% of reviews80.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.6K — better465
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKent WangSagar Vaghela

Customer experience

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides

All ratings4,579 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral6.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews344 reviews
Positive78.5%
Neutral11.6%
Negative9.9%

GO Field Guide

All ratings464 ratings
Positive90.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews166 reviews
Positive80.1%
Neutral6.6%
Negative13.3%

User reviews

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides

From 4.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great for team building
  • 📚 Detailed Pokédex information
  • 🔗 Helpful links to external resources
  • 🎨 Customizable team parties
  • 🎮 Useful for planning playthroughs

Room to improve

  • ⏱️ Outdated - missing Gen 8 and 9 Pokémon
  • 🔍 Lack of search/filter options
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 💰 Ads can be intrusive
  • 🔒 Limited customization options behind paywall

GO Field Guide

From 465 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great guidance app
  • 👍 Comprehensive information
  • 👍 Helpful checklists
  • 👍 Useful event timers and notifications
  • 👍 Convenient all-in-one resource

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Outdated information and lack of updates
  • 🔍 Difficult to contact developer
  • 💰 Premium features not worth the cost
  • 🔍 Confusing or unintuitive interface
  • 🔋 App causes performance issues on devices

Bugs and requests

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Certain moves not showing up in movesets
  • Issues with Pokémon party management
  • Ads blocking UI elements

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add Pokémon Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet Pokédex data
  • Implement shiny and gender variant display
  • Include Pokémon location and trainer information
  • Add type effectiveness chart
  • Expand team building functionality

GO Field Guide

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Checklists not saving properly
  • Ads with unresponsive close buttons
  • App crashing or freezing frequently

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to link Pokémon GO account for automatic checklist sync
  • More detailed Pokédex with actual Pokémon images
  • Customizable event notifications and reminders
  • Improved friend code management and raid invites

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Oak Dex Team Builder Guides

One-time10
  • Grass ThemeFree
  • Dark Theme$0.99
  • Dragon Theme$0.99
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  • Fairy Theme$0.99
  • Fighting Theme$0.99
  • Fire Theme$0.99
  • Ghost Theme$0.99
  • Normal Theme$0.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Theme Bundle$4.99
2 purchases

GO Field Guide

Subscriptions2
  • GOFieldGuide Premium (1 Month)$1.491 Month
  • GOFieldGuide Premium (3 Month)$2.493 Months

Questions

Is Oak Dex Team Builder Guides free?
Oak Dex Team Builder Guides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GO Field Guide free?
GO Field Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Oak Dex Team Builder Guides or GO Field Guide?
GO Field Guide is rated higher. Oak Dex Team Builder Guides averages 4.4 out of 5 from 4.6K ratings, while GO Field Guide averages 4.6 from 465 ratings.
Do Oak Dex Team Builder Guides or GO Field Guide have ads?
Both Oak Dex Team Builder Guides and GO Field Guide show ads.
Which is updated more often, Oak Dex Team Builder Guides or GO Field Guide?
Oak Dex Team Builder Guides ships an update every 3 weeks, and GO Field Guide every 3 months. Most recently, Oak Dex Team Builder Guides was updated on November 6, 2026 and GO Field Guide on November 3, 2026.

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