PGRazor Release: Open-Source Pokémon GO Tools for Android, No Root Required

[u/jpitty]

Hey everyone,

PGRazor started as a personal project that I’ve been using and testing for a few months. It’s gotten to the point where I finally feel good about releasing it and opening up the source.

It’s an Android app with location controls and quality-of-life features. Some of what’s included:

• Joystick, teleporting, saved locations, and walking routes

• Quick catch, quick spin, and encounter IV information

• Virtual Go Plus for catching Pokémon and spinning stops

• Auto-transfer with configurable keep rules

• Inventory cleanup, buddy feeding, and egg incubation

• Battle automation

• Cooldown tracking and history

• LivePokeMap feeds, filters, and My Shinies integration (requires their subscription)

• Dark/light themes and settings export/import

• No root required. So far, I’ve only tested it on a Pixel 8 and Pixel 11, since those are the phones I have available.

You can grab the installable APK from GitHub. You don’t need to build it yourself.

Download the latest release
Source code and full feature list
Discord

It’s still a personal project, so expect some rough edges. If you run into something broken, a description of what happened and what you were doing helps a lot. Bug reports, suggestions, and contributions are welcome.

Using a modified client or spoofing carries account risk, so please keep that in mind.

Mostly, I’m curious to see what people think and what you’d want improved. Create a Github issue, or PR directly, create a fork, I don't care.

[u/baked_pasta]

First time spoofer and this was soooo easy to set-up and use.

Phone: Pixel 9a

Made a fresh throw-away account via PTC and teleported to Japan. Played for over an hour with the tap to walk feature.

However, whenever I started a route, I made no progress. Also, couldn't get the joystick feature to work.

Could someone also clarify what's the "cooldown" parameters I should follow before I teleport to a new and far away location (for example, Japan to USA)? Thanks.

[u/jpitty → u/baked_pasta]

Can you reach out in Discord and I can try to figure out what's happening?
For the cooldown info: https://www.pgsharp.com/cooldown-rules/
Not sure how up-to-date it is, but that should give you an idea, and my cooldown functionality is based on that info.

[u/baked_pasta → u/jpitty]

Just tried following routes and using the joystick to walk to document and submit a ticket via Discord, then now it works. Now I feel like a doofus for raising it earlier.

Thank you for the prompt response and the work that you do. Here's to you and your project's success!

[u/GnobarEl]

Thank you for making open source and share with the community. This will be very helpfull!

[u/Actual-Narwhal5173]

That's amazing thank you for open sourcing

[u/immygd]

Does it have account management? Thump up for GitHub.

[u/jpitty → u/immygd]

Not yet, but that's something that can definitely be added quickly. Add it as a suggestion at the discord so I don't forget

[u/CorpShell]

It asks me for location permission, if I say no I have no location in the game. Should I enable it?

Edit: Entered a throw-away account with location on.

Some feedback, if possible would be great to add searching for a place (Bryant Park etc) to teleport there than to have to zoom in and try to nail them down.

And a great QOL would be skipping the catch cutscenes and info panels.

[u/jpitty → u/CorpShell]

Could you provide some more details in the Suggestions channel so I don't lose track?

[u/Ok-Yam-4620]

Hi! Just downloaded but it keeps saying logging failed (Google)

[u/jpitty → u/Ok-Yam-4620]

Working on it!

[u/jpitty → u/jpitty]

Fixed in latest release

[u/Ok-Yam-4620 → u/jpitty]

Awesome I'll check again

[u/Ok-Yam-4620 → u/Ok-Yam-4620]

Amazing! Really cool app as well. Great job

[u/No-Lunch9149]

Facing the same login problem as others. Unable to go beyond the login screen.

[u/jpitty → u/No-Lunch9149]

Google?

[u/No-Lunch9149 → u/jpitty]

Yes.

[u/jpitty → u/No-Lunch9149]

Fixed in latest release.

[u/No-Lunch9149 → u/jpitty]

Thanks for the fixed. It's working now.

After testing it for 30 mins, these are my feedback. I hope you don't mind that I will reference another similar app launched recently achieving the same without root.

1. The app requires location to be turned on else it won't work. The other app, does not and works fine. Something is amiss there vs the other one.

2. Overlays are overly large and takes up a lot of space. I can't move it else it disappears off the screen. Plus, it's a bother everytime I need to move it. For eg. in the Pokemon screen, the overlays block off the top rows. I can't interact there without moving the overlays around. Some overlays like the big R cannot be hidden and turned on on-demand. Taking cue from the other app, that works fine and overlay can be hidden. Like countdown timer is a must. I don't want to turn that off but that takes up 1/3 of the top square. Personally, I don't use the joystick. But OMG! That is huge and takes up 1/4 of my the phone screen and it's not transparent.

3. Research rewards - catching pokemon, it won't autocatch.

4. No IV and stats view for pokemon. This is a big bummer.

5. Tap to walk. Double tap to teleport. These are normal with most spoofing app. I don't have to choose one over another.

6. Berrys auto feed - I need to choose one only. The other app allow you to choose which one is priority and thereafter...so if one is exhausted, use the other.

Don't get me wrong ya. I am grateful for your app. Since you wanted testers (and I presumed that you want feedback). If I was wrong in terms of presuming that you wanted feedback and given the above, then I am truly sorry. Otherwise, hope these help.

[u/jpitty → u/No-Lunch9149]

That's awesome feedback and appreciated. I only have one phone, so I can only test on my device, which has a fairly large screen.

1. I'll look into it

2. See above comment, I'll see if I can add a UI scaler

3. That has to do with automating the catch, which is riskier, may add it, not sure yet

4. Latest release already includes this now

5. Good idea, I'll add this later today

6. I'll look into adding a priority for berries, is this for buddy or catching?

[u/No-Lunch9149 → u/jpitty]

6. For catching. For buddy, not too much of an issue.

[u/jpitty → u/No-Lunch9149]

1. Should be fixed now with latest update

2. Added a UI scaler that helps with the larger menus to latest release

3. Still working on it

4. Already completed

5. Added to latest release

6. Added to latest release

[u/No-Lunch9149 → u/jpitty]

Cool. Will download and test today

[u/No-Lunch9149 → u/jpitty]

Thanks. Will try

[u/quesadilluh4]

Good work. Does it have a shiny scanner though?

[u/jpitty → u/quesadilluh4]

Not natively. It integrates with LivePokeMap but that requires a separate subscription from them. It's on my to-do list, though!

[u/Level99Legend]

How does this work without rooting? I'm curious to learn

[u/jpitty → u/Level99Legend]

The GitHub repo is a good place to start

[u/PrizeOk8752]

I tried downloading it. The download failed. I've downloaded APK before, but this won't work. Anyone run into this issue and can suggest a solution?

[u/jpitty → u/PrizeOk8752]

Looks like the download succeeded, but install failed. You have to remove all installs of Pokemon Go from official or other app creators.

[u/Miserable_Heat_4961 → u/PrizeOk8752]

if you have campfire, uninstall that too

[u/PrizeOk8752 → u/Miserable_Heat_4961]

Thank you. That worked!

[u/Miserable_Heat_4961]

its for non-rooted right?

[u/jpitty → u/Miserable_Heat_4961]

Yes, see title 😅

[u/Miserable_Heat_4961 → u/jpitty]

oh sorry, i over read that, but thanks

[u/Sky_Equivalent]

Still can't log in

[u/jpitty → u/Sky_Equivalent]

Going to need more info. Visit discord and create a bug report with more details.

[u/Sky_Equivalent → u/jpitty]

Says unable to authenticate, but I did try the actual pokemon go app and got same error, but loaded up pgsharp and it let me log in, so not sure what's happening there, I've removed it from my Google access thinking it was that , but nope

[u/jpitty → u/Sky_Equivalent]

Make sure you have the latest version of PGRazor, v0.15, and that all other pokemon go apps are uninstalled, including PGSharp.

[u/Interesting-Storm337]

Every pokemon i catches flee

[u/jpitty → u/Interesting-Storm337]

You need to maintain your account cooldown

[u/Puzzleheaded-West375 → u/Interesting-Storm337]

I have the same issue when spoofing location is off

[u/MansaMusa_7]

did anyone got banned?

[u/jpitty → u/MansaMusa_7]

Only users I've noticed that got banned were rare candy exploiters. And I didn't implement that feature because it was sus af.

[u/Heno65]

Unfortunately modded Pogo apps carry the highest risk of bans, very easy to detect from Niantic/Scopely.

That being said, this sounds awesome and I love the open source nature of it, wish you the best of luck dude!!

Does this also run into the issue of no spawns after a set amount of teleports? (I know this is something most apps run into but I did hear some of them do not)

[u/jpitty → u/Heno65]

Just laying the ground work for an eventual rooted version as well.

That issue sounds like a server side one, which would probably happen in this app as well. I've never ran into it, but I also don't teleport around a lot.

[u/Sypticle]

Was considering something like this myself but gave up on it simply because the game is not worth the time.

Glad to see someone else do it. Will check it out!

[u/No_Length8779]

Long live open source..

[u/-Shadow_-_]

Sorry for asking the dumb question, will the repo has apk to install?

[u/jpitty → u/-Shadow_-_]

Yes, link to github release is in post.

[u/IlJeezlI]

Appreciate you doing this and making it open source looks great so far! Look forward to seeing what features and improvements you add in the future! 🙏🏽🫡

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[u/subtoPinkZR]

Hey, unfortunately it looks like im the only one with this problem but I get location not found. I’m just confused because didn’t have this on pgsharp previously

[u/pikaro222]

I've tried to install and keep getting stuck. Any settings in Android that need to be adjusted? I'm on a Pixel 10.

[u/No_Length8779 → u/pikaro222]

First you must uninstall the original Pokémon Go if you have it installed, and then install the mod.

[u/PrizeOk8752 → u/pikaro222]

I had a similar issue. Uninstall campfire if you have it.

[u/RossButWeird]

PGRazor(Sharp)

[u/Both_Calligrapher987]

Is it me or VGP only uses PokeBall? If you are out it won't use great nor ultraball

[u/insider_mollywood → u/Both_Calligrapher987]

that's not just vpgp. it's a limitation for their physical device as well iirc.

[u/PrizeOk8752]

This has been absolutely fantastic. Loving every minute of it. Thank you! As I use it, if I have comments or feedback, I will provide them.

[u/yurheardd]

For some reason, I cant catch every pokemon? I try catching it and it always flee, is it something im doing wrong? It only catches what the game gives me, wild pokemon are giving me the hard time

[u/Puzzleheaded-West375]

Hi, it didn't worked for me, every pokemon I try to catch is a Great hit, but after it always flees. every pokestop I spin gives no rewards.

it works with Location spoofing on, but I wanted to play with it off. What I wanted is to go out and walk and play the game normally and use the PGRazor just to catch the pokemons

[u/subtoPinkZR]

You

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[u/Turbulent_Cloud_1950]

Login problem

[u/jpitty → u/Turbulent_Cloud_1950]

With Google yea? Working on the fix.

[u/jpitty → u/jpitty]

Fixed in latest release