Handstand's Hunt! vs giftstring
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Handstand's Hunt!
Embark on a thrilling 12-hour scavenger hunt across your city with a team of friends. Solve riddles, discover new locations, and complete challenges to climb the live leaderboard. It's an unforgettable urban adventure.
- 12-hour scavenger hunt
- Solve riddles to find locations
- Team-based gameplay (4-6 people)
- Interactive challenges at each stop
- Photo, video, and code submissions
- Live leaderboard tracking
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The SF Hunt – created by Handstand – is a 12-hour, 100 riddle scavenger hunt that marches you all over your beautiful city. Using the mobile app, teams of 4-6 people solve riddles that lead them to unique locations around the city. At each location, teams experience something new -- they might search for a secret password, arm wrestle a stranger, or solve a riddle within a riddle. Teams submit photos, videos, or codes within the app, and can track their standings on a live leaderboard. Basically the best day ever. We promise to use your location only during the game and as needed, but thought you should know that the continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Peace.
giftstring
Create a unique, lasting gift by weaving together voice and video messages from loved ones. Perfect for special occasions, this app allows you to record your own message, invite others to contribute, and send a private, playable link.
- Record audio or video messages
- Invite contributors via email
- Create a single, lasting gift
- Send private playable links
- Delete messages anytime
- Cancel gifts before sending
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giftstring is a quiet way to gather what matters: the voice and video of the people who love someone, woven together into a single gift. Mom's eightieth, a friend's wedding, a graduation, a goodbye — moments that ask for more than a card. With giftstring, you record a short message of your own, invite the people who matter, and email it as one beautiful, lasting gift. — Record an audio or video message in seconds. — Invite contributors by email; they each add their own. — When the gift is ready, send it. The recipient gets a private link they can play anywhere. — Your recordings are yours. Delete a message anytime before the gift ships. Cancel a gift entirely if you change your mind. giftstring is built around a simple idea: the most precious thing you can give someone is a few minutes of yourself, and the voices of the people who love them. We don't sell your data, we don't use your recordings to train anyone else's AI, and you can delete everything with one tap. Made for the moments that matter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: giftstring at 5.0 against Handstand's Hunt!'s 4.2. giftstring also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). Handstand's Hunt!'s advantage is ratings volume (99 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
giftstring holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Handstand's Hunt! has 99 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Handstand's Hunt!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of giftstring's.
Handstand's Hunt! ships an update every 3 weeks, giftstring every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Handstand's Hunt! | giftstring |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (99 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Team Handstand | Akila Kesavasamy |
Customer experience
Handstand's Hunt!
giftstring
In-app purchases
Handstand's Hunt!
No in-app purchases
giftstring
No in-app purchases
