DustwiseAn Advisor that knows your box
It sees the Pokémon you scanned, so every answer names yours, and says so when you don’t have one yet.
- Who should I power up for Darkrai raids?
- Best Great League team from my box?
- Which of my Machamp is worth keeping?
For Pokémon GO players
Ask anything. It knows your Pokémon.
Scan your box in minutes, then ask what to power up, which copy to keep or which team to bring. Every answer names Pokémon you actually own, not a generic tier list.
- Free beta
- iPhone
- Optional account creation
As fast as you swipe
Start a screen scan and swipe through your appraisals. Dustwise reads species, CP, HP and IVs as they go by, so grading a whole box takes minutes, not an evening.
Stays on your phone
Screens are read on the device and never uploaded. Ask the Advisor and it gets your question and a summary of your box, never a screenshot or your email. Dustwise never logs in to or changes the game, and works without an account.
Inside Dustwise
Five tabs, all about your box
Everything in Dustwise starts from the Pokémon you scan. Here’s what each part of the app does with them.
Home
What’s worth your time today
Home puts what you own next to what’s on in the game right now.
- Your raid collection. All 18 types, five slots each: one for every top raid attacker of that type. Owning any stage of its family fills the slot, so your gaps show at a glance.
- What to look for. Every missing pick, sorted by how to get it: already yours, one evolution away, in raids now, or catch and trade.
- What’s on. Community Days, Spotlight Hours and raids, each with a verdict for you: you don’t have one, a better one is worth the trip, you’re covered, or skip it.
- Power up next. Your top three picks, the stardust to take them to level 30, and whether you have it.
My Pokémon
Your whole box, graded
Every Pokémon you scan gets a letter grade, with its CP, level and IVs beside it.
- Raids, Max Battles or League. Switch between them and every grade changes with you. League shows Great, Ultra and Master, and says when a Pokémon should evolve first.
- Search like you do in the game. Names,
+family, types, CP and IV ranges, shadow, lucky,&,,and!. Grades too:a+finds everything A or better. - Sort by recently scanned, date caught, CP, level or grade.
- Lucky, shadow, purified, best buddy and Dynamax are marked on every row, and anything the scan wasn’t sure of is flagged for a second look.
Pokémon page
Every grade explains itself
Open any Pokémon to see why it got its grade, in plain words, worked out on your phone.
- For raids: where it ranks among attackers of its type, and how close it comes to the very best.
- For leagues: how its IVs rank under the CP cap, why low attack can help, and the exact level to power it to and stop.
- What it becomes: each evolution stage’s top CP with your IVs, so you know what you’re building before you spend candy.
- Fix a misread CP, HP, IV or species, or mark it shadow or lucky, and the box re-grades.
Chat
Ask anything about your box
The Advisor is an AI (Claude, by Anthropic) that answers from the Pokémon you own, not from a tier list.
- It looks things up as it answers: your best attackers of a type, a team against a raid boss, your best Great, Ultra or Master League picks, and what each costs in stardust.
- It tells you what you’re missing, and what to catch instead.
- Every answer links sources you can check for yourself.
- Conversations are saved. Pick one up later, or star the ones worth keeping.
It can be wrong, so check before you spend dust. It sees your question and a summary of your box, never your screenshots or your email.
Battles
A raid plan built from your box
Battles turns this week’s raids and Max Battles into a plan.
- Worth raiding now, and coming up. Each boss is graded as the Pokémon it grows into, and marked new for you when you don’t have one.
- How many trainers you’ll need, judged by how good your own counters are.
- Tap a boss for your best team of six, and what you’re missing.
- Max Battles get the same plan, using only the Pokémon you have that can Dynamax.
The grades
Eight grades, one question: is it worth your stardust?
- SSS The best there is
- SS Top of the field
- S Excellent
- A Strong
- B Good backup
- C Fine for now
- D Filler
- F Not worth stardust
A grade judges a Pokémon as what it becomes, against the best of its type, for raids, Max Battles or a league. CP and level don’t count: that’s dust already spent. IVs matter less than you’d think, and only nudge a grade at the very top and the very bottom.
Getting started
Three ways to bring your box in
Live scan
Start a screen broadcast and swipe through your appraisals in Pokémon GO. Dustwise reads each one as it goes by, then tells you which it missed and gives you a search to find them.
Screen recording
Record yourself swiping through appraisals. About three seconds a Pokémon, so 50 take under three minutes. Anything already in your box isn’t added twice.
Screenshots
Appraise, take a screenshot, then add a whole batch at once. Back Tap makes each screenshot a single tap.
Dustwise reads CP, HP, IVs, catch date and power-up cost, and works out the level from them. It doesn’t read moves or candy. The game needs to be set to English, and Dustwise needs an iPhone without a Home button.
Good to know
FAQ
Can this get my game account banned?
Dustwise never logs in to, connects to or changes Pokémon GO. It only reads your own screen, the same way you’d look at a screenshot. It doesn’t need your game account at all.
Is it on Android?
Not yet. Dustwise is iPhone only for now. If you’d like an Android version, email support@dustwise.app: knowing how many people want it helps decide what comes next.
Is it free?
The beta is free on TestFlight, Apple’s app for testing new apps.
When can I try it?
Invites go out by email from Apple when the TestFlight beta opens, in the order people joined the list.
What happens to my screenshots and recordings?
They’re read on your iPhone and never uploaded. Only the Pokémon it finds are kept. With live scanning, the screen is read only while you’re broadcasting, and nothing is recorded.
What does the AI Advisor see?
Your question and a summary of your box: how many you have, your best of each type, your trainer level and stardust. Then details of particular Pokémon when it needs them. Never your screenshots or your email. The Advisor is Claude, by Anthropic, and its answers can be wrong, so check before you spend dust.
Where does the advice come from?
Dustwise works out its grades and rankings itself, from the game’s own data, and builds on work the Pokémon GO community shares freely:
- Game data (every Pokémon’s stats and moves): the game master file shared by PokeMiners.
- Raid bosses and events: LeekDuck.com, via ScrapedDuck.
- Great, Ultra and Master League rankings: PvPoke, used under its open-source MIT licence.
- To check an answer for yourself, the Advisor links to Dittobase, Pokémon GO Hub and Pokebattler. Dustwise links to them; it doesn’t copy their lists.
Thank you to everyone behind them. Dustwise isn’t affiliated with any of these sites, and each one is credited in the app too.
Do I need an account?
No. Everything works without one. An account is optional and only backs up your box and your conversations.
What does it need?
An iPhone without a Home button, and Pokémon GO set to English. It reads CP, HP, IVs, catch date and power-up cost. It doesn’t read moves or candy, so grades assume the best moveset.
Is Dustwise made by Niantic or The Pokémon Company?
No. It’s an unofficial, fan-made app by an independent developer, and isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Scopely, Niantic, Nintendo, The Pokémon Company or GAME FREAK.
Get in early
The beta runs on TestFlight for iPhone. Join the list and you’ll get an invite as places open, plus a say in what gets built next.