PMBattle vs Prokedex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PMBattle
This app provides comprehensive data and tools for Pokémon trainers. It offers popular battle teams, move look-ups, and an integrated database with real-time information from PGL and Smogon. Enhance your Pokémon battling skills with detailed strategies and team-building calculators.
- Popular Pokémon battle data
- Rentable teams with usage stats
- Move look-up functionality
- Integrated Pokémon database
- Real-time PGL and Smogon data
- Team building and analysis tools
- Community interaction
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PMBattle is a 20th Anniversary Gift for all Pokémon lovers. We support data of the Sword and Shield timely. The latest battle data can make you enjoy Pokémon battle. It can enable you to master entire databases and achieve your goal to be Pokémon master. Including: 1. Popular Pokémon to battle 2. Renting teams any time 3. Moves look-up 4. Integrated database 5. Real time data from PGL and Smogon Module descriptions: 1. Popular matches are divided into Singles, Doubles, WCS, etc. and can be configured in settings to suit your preferences. 2. The QR team contains the current hot team, with usage and winning rates as references. The team is divided into Singles, Doubles. In team details, you can choose to open the team in an external browser for 3DS scanning and click on the “copy team" to collect the team locally. It is noted that the team's information(Natutre,EVs,IVs,Item and Ability)needs to be configured by yourself due to the different battle formats. 3. The Information from Smogon contains the big data of the battle platform. There are many top players who recommend strategies to direct you,especially if you are layman, how to play excellently. 4. The Pokémon zone includes boxes and team’s space. Boxes are where players collect Pokémon and can save the matching moves of different PM. The team’s space is a collection of Pokémon in boxes. To build a better team, the team details have joint anti-blind spot calculation and strike surface calculator, which easily find team’s drawbacks. 5. The toolbox currently contains information such as character / egg set / skill acquisition and various calculators. Meanwhile, the damage calculator have two languages, and you choose English or Chinese. 6. There are also Treasure Hunts, Quest, maps and recipes. 7. Finally, you can interact with other Pokémon trainers by our community to talk and share your topic.
Prokedex
Access comprehensive data for all pocket monsters across multiple game generations. Features include an interactive encyclopedia, teambuilder, and detailed move and ability information. Explore regions with interactive maps and track your progress with checklists.
- Monster encyclopedia with detailed stats
- Interactive regional maps
- Teambuilder with cloud sharing
- Comprehensive moves and abilities dex
- Type weakness and resistance calculator
- Caught checklist and living dex tracker
- Shiny hunting tracker
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Contains detailed data for all Monsters to date, support for all games from Generation 1 to Generation 9 Multi-Language (available in English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portugues, Russian and Japanese). Can work without internet connection. Features: Encyclopedia A complete Encyclopedia that includes all the data of each pocket monster including biologies, abilities, breeding and training data, locations, moves, sprites, etc... Interactive maps for all regions and routes Explore routes and regions with interactive maps to discover the locations of all pocket monsters. Teambuilder A complete Teambuilder with which you will create the team of your dreams, plus you can share it on our cloud server with other trainers. Moves Dex See all the details of each move, by level, TM/HM/TR, egg moves, by breeding, event and more. Ability Dex See all the information about the abilities and which Pocket monsters learn them. Types dex Calcule the weaknesses and resistances for every combination of types. Caught checklist and Living Dex Manage your caught list for each game, including regional and national Dex. Comparator Quickly compare monsters to see their differences in stats, abilities and types Items Dex Discover the data and locations of all the objects categorized by each game. Shiny Hunting Track and hunt all the shinies and complete the Living Shiny Dex!
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Verdict
PMBattle and Prokedex both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of PMBattle's written reviews are positive against 82% of Prokedex's. Prokedex's advantage is ratings volume (996 vs 146). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. PMBattle sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Prokedex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for PMBattle against 4.8 for Prokedex. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prokedex has 996 ratings behind it against 146, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of PMBattle's written reviews are positive against 82% of Prokedex's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PMBattle | Prokedex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (146 ratings) | 4.8 (996 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.1% of reviews — better | 81.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 146 | 996 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 288 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 云良 姚 | Alexandru Raul Contor Nagy |
Customer experience
PMBattle
Prokedex
Bugs and requests
PMBattle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Prokedex
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to view Nincada's evolution
- Saved notes for shiny hunting disappearing
- Default game setting not saving
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to search by Pokédex number
- Option to reorder built teams list
- Pokémon Go integration
- Nuzlocke tracking features
- Ability to nickname Pokémon in team builder
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- Who's That Pokémon? feature
- Pokémon Gym maker
In-app purchases
PMBattle
- Chips$0.99
- AI Chat Weekly Pass (7 Days)$0.99
- Coffee$2.99
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- AI Chat Monthly Pass (30 Days)$2.99
- Remove ad$3.99
- AI Chat Yearly Pass (365 Days)$19.99
Prokedex
- PRO Upgrade2 variants$5.99
Questions
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