How to find Applin, Sweet Apple, and Tart Apple in Pokémon Go

Applin, Sweet Apple, and Tart Apple are new Pokémon and evolution items added into Pokémon Go as of the Sweet Discoveries event on April 24. But the evolution items needed to evolve Applin into Appletun or Flapple are proving difficult for trainers to find.

The Sweet and Tart Apples in Pokémon Go can only be found randomly by clicking an Apple that appears on the overworld as you pass it. These Apples are rare, and there’s no guarantee once the current event ends that any will spawn again, which is making it difficult for trainers to collect the amount needed for each evolution ahead of time.

So what do you need to do to find them, and as many as possible, in the shortest amount of time?

The best way to get Sweet and Tart Apples in Pokémon Go

Finding Tart Apples and Sweet Apples is not easy; they have a random chance to be picked up when you find one of the elusive Apples that spawn throughout the Sweet Discoveries event. You can increase the odds of finding these Apples in Pokémon Go, though, by using Mossy Lures, which are currently increasing the spawns of Apples when used, giving you more chances of finding either the items or Applin spawns.

Applin is also found in these Apples as a rare spawn but can also appear in the wild if you’re lucky. Though trainers are finding it hard to find wild Applins outside of the Apples. In reality, the Pokémon and items are only seeming to spawn most of the time with the Mossy Lure, with some trainers complaining that the Pokémon and their content are effectively locked behind a pay wall.

To evolve Applin into Flapple and Appletun, you need a lot of these items too, with the following evolution methods currently requiring:

• 20 Tart Apple and 200 Applin Candy to evolve Applin into Flapple
• 20 Sweet Apple and 200 Applin Candy to evolve Applin into Appletun

If you wanted to get Applin and all of its evolutions, then you would need to find at minimum just over 150 total Apples in the next few days. You’d need to get lucky and find the 40 Tart and Sweet Apples needed for the evolution, and then if you don’t have any way to get any extra candy, you’d need to find over 120 Applin evolutions to get the necessary Apple Candy for each evolution, assuming you transfer most of the Applin’s you catch.

It’s incredibly tedious, especially as Apples are so hard to find, and there’s no guarantee that Apples will stick around post-event either, locking Applin behind the whims of the Pokémon Go team. So do what you can, trainers!