Cachly User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience79.9% of reviews
Neutral3.9% of reviews
Negative experience16.2% of reviews

~ Based on 482 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Cachly Safe?

Cachly - Geocaching appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Cachly is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 3,646 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,646 App Store ratings for Cachly.

Is Cachly Legit?

Cachly - Geocaching appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cachly is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

My go to caching app!

Love love love cachly! It’s a main reason I’ll never switch from an iPhone. So many great features!! Love the FTF icons on unfound/logged caches especially! But hi-lighting (with so many colour options), the red perimeter circles, the offline cache hiding which also has the red perimeter circles, so it’s super easy to pack in a tight power trail! A lot more amazing features I’m probably forgetting.
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Go to Geocaching Tool

Since I discovered this some years ago it has been the app I use for geocaching 99% of the time. Somewhere along the way it started asking for a rating after each use so things it.

Don’t waste money

It wouldn’t let me get on and I spent $5 on this and it wouldn’t even work fix this app

Not available in Canada

Just wasted $7 because I can’t use the app in Canada

Paid cachly pro and doesnt work

I paid cachly pro for the whole year (12,99 eur) and not working, can see almost no caches

Ca bug

Depuis la maj ca bug
Les filtres ne marchent plus
Enfin ca marche a + 20km
Mais a l epicentre on retrouve tout
La cache se fige après le log la fenêtre ne se baisse pas

The best app

The best caching app across all platforms, with new features coming all the time

Best App for Geocaching

Cachly provides loads of great features that the base geocaching app doesn't support, and is generally a better and more thoughtfully designed application. That being said, I think there are ways that it can be improved:

1. The proximity notification system is currently great for when you're navigating to a specific cache. However, I think it would be fantastic if there could be a way to enable the app to constantly monitor in the background (whether or not you have the app open) for any nearby caches.
This would be great for discovering caches that you didn't even know were there whilst going about your daily business.
To save battery life and mobile data the app could just load the coordinates (to allow the app to know how close you are) of nearby caches and only load full cache details when you click on the notification, and use downloaded offline caches where already available.

2. Adding friends is currently not possible using Cachly. It would be great to see a built-in system to add friends by usernames and qr codes, instead of having links to the Geocaching website.

3. Hiding your own caches or uploading your own trackables is currently not possible in Cachly. It would be great to see this be implemented as a feature to prevent the need to use the Geocaching website as well.

4. iOS widgets! It would be great to have some useful widgets such as nearby caches on a map or viewing the status of hidden caches; the official Geocaching has some of these already.

Hopefully this is useful: these features will help Cachly to become more of a standalone app, and remove the need to use the official Geocaching app and website on top of Cachly to access all of Geocaching's features. Thanks again for creating such a useful app!
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2 words... User Friendly

What an outstanding geocaching tool. It's worth every penny for the content and user-friendly setup. And the best thing is, it continues to evolve through user feedback.

Bug (?) report

Hi Cachly, love your app! I just wanted to report what might be a bug or something to otherwise iron out. I’ve noticed when looking through my logs that, within each date, they appear in the order I must have posted them in, rather than chronologically. For example, I drafted GC1A, then GC2B, then GC3C. The following day I found and drafted GC4D. I went through them later and for whatever reason posted my drafts in this order: GC2B, GC4D, GC3C, and lastly, GC1A. On Cachly, my logs list will appear from top to bottom as follows: GC4D (as it was most recently found), then GC1A, then GC3C, then GC2B.
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Parfait mais

Edit 2025
Des options moins intuitives qu’avant. Des augmentations de prix sévères. Des supers options qui arrivent dans les autres app et pas sur cachly.
Bref c’est dommage pour une app qui était géniale y a 5 ans
Édit 2026
Ça serait chouette d’avoir un afficher plus pour ne plus avoir à scroller quand y a des géo qui affiche leur log en 23 langues pour d’avoir un max de longueur !
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Great App

Our caching app of choice. Very helpful when hiking.

Rocky start, but super awesome app now!

6/29/2024 Update: I am so happy that the app developer reversed the decision to take away the premium maps from people who had already paid for them. This app is seriously awesome for offline Geocaching. Today I found 8 caches all offline with the descriptions with even logs and images available to me. When the Apple Car Play support is added I might consider paying for the subscription too as there are some additional features I would love to have. Thanks for this new awesome way to Geocache and making Geocaching while offline so much better than the official app. Only 4/5 stars due to my original frustration. Original Review: I purchased the $5 app on April 2nd 2024. Then purchased the $3 premium offline maps immediately after downloading for the first time. Now with this new 8.0 update they’ve removed my maps that I had paid extra for an now say that I have to pay the new yearly $5 subscription. Don’t get me wrong, I can afford $5/year. But this is still fraud. I understand that everything is moving to a subscription model but to force people to pay extra for what they already paid for is wrong! Do yourself a favor and use the official Geocaching app that your $30-$40 premium subscription already gets you and use Organic Maps for mapping while offline.
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Great App for caching

I always use this app on my caching adventures because it has many features that I enjoy.
The only reason for not giving it a full 5 stars is that I would like to be able to enlarge the display of distance to the GZ to make it easier to read whether walking or driving - ageing cachers’ eyesights are not always the best.
Great App - thanks.
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De client à vache à lait

J’ai acheté l’app. J’ai payé l’achat intégré. Maintenant on me demande un abonnement pour CarPlay.
CarPlay. Une interface d’affichage basique qu’Apple a standardisée pour les développeurs.
Je paie déjà Geocaching Premium pour les caches. Cachly n’héberge rien, ne produit aucune donnée. L’app affiche juste ce que je paie déjà ailleurs.
Et pour voir ça sur l’écran de ma voiture, il faudrait un troisième paiement ? Récurrent ?
C’est du racket déguisé en “modèle économique”. Prendre une fonctionnalité basique, la verrouiller, et parier que ceux qui ont déjà payé finiront par céder.
J’ai payé pour cette app. Elle devrait évoluer, pas se transformer en machine à sous.
1/5 – L’étoile est pour ce qui fonctionne encore. Le reste, c’est de l’avidité pure.
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Everything I have Ever Needed in a Geocaching app!

This app has everything the "official" app has, but fortunately a lot more!

I love:
1) the integration of Google, Waze, or iPhone maps to give driving directions to the cache,
2) the responsive and smooth loading maps, over one DOZEN map sets available, including OFfLINE maps for most countries, all US states and Canadian provinces. The new premium maps have good topo and a lot more trails included! #cachlypremiummaps are a great investment of a few extra dollars!
3) a quick view of recent cacher success with green/red and date stamp, FTF indicators and a custom lonely cache feature,
4) and even the ability to load and share and create on Cachly and text to others custom .gpx files.
5) clicks COs linked name then hit hides to see a map of all caches by that owner that are currently active!
6) full cache data can be loaded for offline use.
7) highlighter tool has over 20 colors and each color can be custom named. For example the red highlighter I have titled “Y2K caches” and highlighted all Y2K caches globally. That way if I do a search of an area and one is within map view I can immediately see that it is nearby since it is highlighted!
8) counties map!! This is a pro feature but so worth it. For those of us who county cache this is a game changer!

This is a TOTAL replacement for the "standard" app. I Love it!
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Response from developer

Thank you!!

Awesome. Best ToTT around

For those on the fence, get this app! It is literally the best. If you are trying to get all the caches without paying for premium at Geocaching, don’t bother, but if you are a premium member and want a bunch of other, easy to use resources, this is for you. Love the maps (yes, I did purchase some). The interface is easy and intuitive unlike the geocaching app. Can’t wait for CarPlay to be functional!
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CarPlay

Awesome

Subscription not working.

It’s a well organised app, but
I upgraded to pro and my account only has basic features. I tried to find help through geocaching.com, but had to go through a convoluted registration process. Really difficult to get help and to resolve this issue. Disappointing as I’ve paid to use all of the features but can’t.
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Une arnaque ?

Je suis très déçu ! J’ai acheté l’application pour me rendre compte que beaucoup de choses qui étaient intéressantes se trouvaient derrière un abonnement supplémentaire à Géocaching premium !! Je paye déjà un abonnement Géocaching je ne vois pas l’intérêt de télécharger un second abonnement ! De plus beaucoup de caches ne sont pas visible au final. Bref à fuir immédiatement !!!
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