Excellent Throw vs GO Raids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Excellent Throw
Practice and master excellent and curve throws in a fun, addictive gameplay experience. Explore multiple game types, target distances, and unlockable content to enhance your throwing skills.
- Master excellent throws
- Master curve throws
- Addictive gameplay
- Multiple game types
- Multiple target distances
- Unlockables
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Master your skills to ace Excellent and Curve throws when it counts! With addictive gameplay, multiple game types, multiple target distances, unlockables, and surprises — throwing has never been so much fun! -- This game has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by any entity that created or produced Pokémon GO, including Niantic, Inc., The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, Creatures Inc., and GAME FREAK Inc.
GO Raids
This app facilitates remote participation in worldwide raids and provides a sharing map for in-game locations and information. It also offers tools to check Pokemon IV ranks, raid counters, and PvP matchups.
- Remote raid participation with auto-join
- Location sharing for Pokestops, gyms, and nests
- IV rank and breakpoint checker
- Raid counter list up to Rank 50
- PvP matchup matrix for battle analysis
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*Remote Raids (Auto Join) You can join or invite remote raids around the world anytime, anywhere. Select the raid boss you want to join and it will match automatically. *Sharing Map You can share the location of Pokestops, gyms, and Pokemon nests in Pokemon GO on the map. In addition, you can register task and raid information to those spots. *IV Rank Checker You can check the rank and breakpoint of each Pokemon from their IV. *Raid Counters It shows the Counters List for Raid Bosses up to Rank 50. We simulate many actual battles and calculate average results, so it is useful for Solo Raid and Time Attack. *Matchup Matrix This is a tool of quick checking that victory / defeat against opponent's Pokémon, charged moves with good damage efficiency, amount of received damage, etc. in PvP.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GO Raids at 4.6 against Excellent Throw's 3.1. GO Raids also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Excellent Throw's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (57% vs 44%). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Excellent Throw sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. GO Raids asks for nothing beyond the download.
GO Raids holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 134 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Excellent Throw's written reviews are positive against 44% of GO Raids's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Excellent Throw ships an update every 3 weeks, GO Raids every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Excellent Throw | GO Raids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (46 ratings) | 4.6 (134 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 44.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 46 | 134 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | AK Arts LLC | 08 LLC |
Customer experience
Excellent Throw
GO Raids
In-app purchases
Excellent Throw
- Unlimited Balls$0.99
- Excellent Bundle$0.99
- Majestic Beach Bundle$1.99
GO Raids
No in-app purchases
