Every Pokémon,
one quiet window.
PKMViewer is a native desktop app that pulls sprites, base stats, abilities, and move data straight from PokéAPI — no browser tab, no ads, no account. Just a window that opens fast and stays out of your way.
What's on the plate
Everything is read from PokéAPI at request time, then cached locally so the second look is instant.
Generation ⇄ Platform
Pick a generation or a specific game and the other dropdown narrows to match — synced in both directions.
Search & Dex number
Filter by name or National Pokédex number, browsing results 50 at a time.
Normal & shiny
Front and back sprites for both standard and shiny forms, pulled and cached alongside every entry.
Window scales, sprites stay sharp
Resize freely — sprites grow and shrink with the window using crisp pixel-art scaling, and the details panel reflows instead of clipping at narrow widths.
Game covers
Picking a game shows its box art and release year in the details panel, cached like any sprite.
Live stats
The sidebar shows the current list's total count while browsing, then switches to a selected Pokémon's weight, height, gender, catch rate, base happiness, and base experience.
Three languages
English, Italian, and French, switchable any time from the in-window Settings dialog.
System, dark, light
Plus optional game-specific color tinting and a start-in-full-screen toggle, both persisted across runs.
On-disk, self-limiting
A 30-day freshness window and a 256 MiB soft size cap, both configurable, keep repeat lookups offline-fast.
Full move browser
Every move a Pokémon can learn, with localized effect text pulled in alongside it.
Build info, one click away
Version, OS/architecture, and build metadata surface in an About dialog for quick bug reports.
Under the hood
A small, dependency-light Go binary — no runtime, no API key, no telemetry.
| Language | Go, version 1.26 or newer |
| GUI toolkit | Fyne v2 |
| Data source | PokéAPI, via the pokeapi-go client — free, no key required |
| Build tool | go build, or the bundled justfile for packaged builds |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Module path | codeberg.org/lfrancesca/pkmnviewer |
Clone it, build it, run it
Three commands, one binary. A recent Go toolchain is all it needs.