Niantic Campfire

Niantic, Inc.

About this app

Campfire gives the Niantic community a new way to experience the joy of real-world gameplay.

Find and connect with nearby players to accomplish in-game activities and quests!
• Discover real-time activities and plan ahead using the Campfire Map
• Find game communities and meet new players in your area
• Connect with players through direct messages and group messages
• Schedule group gatherings with old and new groups
• Manage your Niantic ID and Niantic friends

Ratings and reviews

The app is a great addition to the game—especially for organizing meetups and sharing friend codes. However, the notification system needs improvement. Despite disabling alerts for several groups, I still receive unwanted notifications. I've tried a few fixes, but ultimately had to turn off notifications entirely. Hoping this gets resolved in a future update!

When it works, it's great. However, the inconsistent options & functionality are more frustrating than fun. Lighting flares/hosting raid, (which despite doing everything right, none can see/interact with me; so buggy and little to no instruction to do thess successfully!), sharing a catch card directly from Pokemon Go to Campfire (works about 3% of the time...🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️), and a misdirect of unreliable Power spots, and sometimes even raids on map. Dev's, please step up and fix these issues ASAP!

Notification settings don't do what they are supposed to. You get notifications for things you disable and the app fails to send notifications for the things you actually want. It is also fairly buggy in other ways and is one of the worst methods of communication possible. Edit: Many months later, it is still broken in the same ways. Still a terrible app by incompetent devs.

What’s new

Bug Fixes from previous version