# OvARlay – Treasure Hunt — Hide, seek, find > Hide, seek, find (iPhone/iPad app by Klaus Bechtold.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ovarlay-treasure-hunt/id6798317697 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Klaus Bechtold](https://appshunter.io/developer/6798317699) - Category: Games, Adventure, Family - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 28 MB - Languages: German (Germany) - Released: 2026-08-31 - Data updated: 2026-10-25 ## What is OvARlay? Hide targets in the woods, the park or the garden — then send the children out. They watch themselves move across the map and go looking for whatever you put there. And the map can be anything: a treasure map drawn at the kitchen table, the zoo plan, the board at the trailhead, a city map from 1890. OvARlay puts your real GPS position onto a photo of any map at all. Even one drawn crooked, with no scale, that no mapping service on earth has heard of. OvARlay is a gift to anyone who likes being outdoors: free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no account. THE HUNT • Targets gated by a quiz question or a QR code on the spot • A surprise on finding: text, a picture, or a voice recording • Targets visible from the start — or hidden until found • A sonar tick that quickens the closer you get • Points, a step count, and a history: when you played, how it ended THE PURSUER For anyone who wants it tenser, switch on a pursuer. It walks towards you and blocks collecting while it stands on you — with a heartbeat that quickens as it closes in. If it catches you, it costs a life. One thing matters here: the defaults are set so that brisk walking is always enough. Nobody should be running while looking at a phone. Speed, distance and lives are yours to set. IN AR OR ON THE MAP Hold the camera up and the targets appear in the picture — with direction and distance, arrows for whatever is behind you, and nearer means larger. You can play a whole round through the camera alone. NO MAP OF YOUR OWN? NO PROBLEM Frame an area on the world map and OvARlay turns it into a playable map in one step. It can also suggest targets that are already out there: hunting hides, wayside crosses, boundary stones, towers, springs. Deliberately the overlooked things, not the nearest coffee shop. PASSING HUNTS ON A finished map becomes a file. Send it to the people who are going to play, with every target and surprise inside it. FOR SERIOUS USE TOO The same machinery carries more than a game. A Roman fort, a monastery garden, a historic quarter: anyone holding an old or archaeological plan can let visitors walk across it. An ordinary maps app cannot — it has never seen the plan. FREE, AD-FREE, SPARING WITH DATA OvARlay costs nothing: no subscription, no in-app purchases, no pro version holding back the best part. There are no adverts and no trackers — no analytics service inside the app counts who plays when, or for how long. Your position never leaves the device while you play. No account, no sign-in, no email address, no server that knows where you walked. Hunts and progress live on the phone. Creating a map does load map data, and sends your position with place searches — while playing, it does not. Starting a challenge, to play the same hunt against others, puts a nickname and a result on a leaderboard — never a position. It is deleted after 30 days at the latest. And one note we think matters: a treasure map you drew yourself holds the real coordinates of your garden. Think about who you send it to. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, © Mapbox. ## Is OvARlay safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess OvARlay. ## Is OvARlay legit? OvARlay – Treasure Hunt has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for OvARlay is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.6 — 2026-10-23 The "Mapbox Outdoors" map style is gone. Mapbox does not allow its maps to be kept on a phone for longer than 30 days – and a hunt should still work without signal weeks after it was prepared. Your hunts are kept: anything made with Mapbox Outdoors is now drawn with OpenFreeMap – same area, same targets. It is loaded again once, the first time the app starts with internet. ### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-18 New: when the pursuer catches you for the last time, you see what you achieved – and can try the same hunt again right away. Your last life announces itself: the warning stays up longer, and the last heart beats. "My hunts" is now a proper button that shows how many hunts you have and which one you played last. The pursuer is now the ghost everywhere, and everything on the map wears its magenta. The "OvARlay" wordmark looks like the one on our website. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-17 New: the home screen lies on a hand-drawn treasure map – with a trail, trees, a lake and the treasure X, in light and dark. Calmer colours: the teal is less glaring in dark mode, and every colour now has one job – teal for what you tap, magenta for the ghost, gold for finds. Fixed: when framing a map area, the size hint was missing its unit ("about 11" instead of "about 11 km²"). ### 1.0.3 — 2026-09-15 New icon: the ghost with the treasure map. The pursuer now looks like the ghost from the icon – and looks at you, on framed map areas too. New: a scale bar on the play map and when framing a map area, in metres or feet. A target's visibility is now called "Visible everywhere", "Camera only" or "Hidden everywhere", and says what it does. Fixed: a sound recording could keep running after the target editor was closed. Fixed: with a great many targets a map could be saved but then no longer opened. Fixed: if a picture or sound could not be loaded, the whole reveal was missing. Fixed: changes to a map whose picture could not be loaded were lost. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-03 Fixed: saving a map could lose its picture – and an interruption while deleting one could leave a map without its own. Fixed: a single damaged map made the whole library read as a failure. Fixed: "Ziele suchen" could spin for good without ever answering or giving up. Fixed: when storage was only temporary, the app still reported "Saved". Fixed: several maps opened at once arrived one at a time, and the same file twice became two maps. The camera view is readable in daylight: the arrow and its hint were nearly invisible in light mode. The camera now stays put when a notification arrives. Starting is quicker, because every hunt's photographs and clues are no longer loaded first. 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