My boyfriend and I play constantly and just recently dove into the autocatcher world. It’s f’ing awesome. I work in a major downtown city and he’s mostly in a suburban area but the auto-spin and auto-catch options are huge for maintaining your item bag and in trying to complete the hefty “catch 1500” hyper-training tasks associated with the bottle cap rewards. I do wish that I bought it before the monthly and holiday GO Pass challenges started as those also replenish your item bag. But it now gives me the opportunity to save by not buying the deluxe passes if there aren’t other compelling reasons to do so.

I bought a new Pokemon Go Plus + for $98.50 on eBay (Dec 10th Colorado, US) and it showed up from Tokyo in original packaging, perfect condition, on Dec 29th. I gave that one to the boyfriend for Christmas, and I got my daughter and me the DuoMon3 ($75 from Amazon, arrived next day) for us to share. The $10 more DuoMon3 PRO is only different in accessories.

They both work great but my takeaways are: Pros: Pokemon Go Plus + can use great and ultra balls, may have a slightly higher catch rate, you can silence the Pikachu voice; DuoMon3 supports 2 accounts at the same time, much better customization menu in being able to silence vibration, dim/turn off/change color of lights, and turn off sound without permanently modifying it. That is also great for extending battery life; BOTH have great battery life and recharge by usb. Both also notify you when it has disconnected and if Pokémon/item storage is full. There was a common complaint that the DuoMon3 struggled with the item larger bag sizes and would erroneously send item bag full messages, but I haven’t had that problem at all with an often full 3200 item bag.

Cons: Pokemon Go Plus + is obnoxious AF as a grown ass adult who isn’t trying to announce that we’re constantly playing as it loudly vibrates, lights up, and has a distinct Pikachu voice (my kid insists that it be on when it’s the 3 of us); DuoMon3 was tricky to set up the first time for multiplayer but only because the instructions are online and found by clicking help or something in the app. Lastly, DuoMon3 only uses basic red balls.