There's an entire digital cottage industry sprouting up around Pokémon Go, the explosively popular augmented reality game that has people hitting the streets scouring for imaginary pocket monsters. Naturally, the most common of these third-party products revolve around maps that help you locate which pokémon are nearby and when they tend to disappear. We've already heard about the web-based PokéVision, and developer Ahmed Almutawa's Google Maps visualization tool. But now we have something even better: a fully-featured Android app called Poké Live.

The app comes courtesy of app maker Joaquim Vergès, and it's hands-down the most clean and responsive Pokémon Go map I've used. It instantaneously hones in on your location and populates your surroundings with nearby pokémon. It also doesn't require any login whatsoever. The software is an improvement over something like PokéVision, which can sometimes be unresponsive and requires you to input your location before it searches the area. This comes as no surprise, considering Vergès is the maker of the popular Android Twitter client Falcon Pro. He now works full-time at the social network on its Android user interface team.

Granted, Poké Live does not yet have a tool to search beyond your current location, so you can't use it to, say, check in about a locale you know you'll be traveling to some time in the future. It also uses some pretty standard banner ads displayed at the top of the screen that could annoy fans of a competing map's ad-free interface. But for the eager player planning a roaming session to catch new creatures, Poké Live does the job better than any web tool out there.

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