Love Exploring vs Hide & Sheep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Love Exploring
Discover local attractions and outdoor spaces with interactive quiz trails and augmented reality games. Explore new walking routes with detailed maps and helpful information for a fun family outing.
- Augmented Reality Games
- Family Quiz Trails
- Guided Route Maps
- Interactive Park Map
- GEO-Location Discovery
- Audio Tours
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Turn your local parks and outdoor spaces into an adventure with Love Exploring — an interactive app that brings the world around you to life. Discover trails, games, quizzes, characters and augmented reality experiences as you explore. Follow the map, complete challenges and uncover new things to see, do and learn along the way. Explore More Outdoors Love Exploring is designed to make exploring the outdoors more fun, interactive and rewarding for everyone. With Love Exploring, you can: - Discover interactive trails and activities - Explore parks and outdoor spaces using the map - Meet characters and bring them to life with augmented reality - Take part in games, quizzes and challenges - Discover facts, stories and things to do along the way - Explore with family and friends Discover Adventures Near You Whether you're exploring somewhere new or visiting a familiar park, Love Exploring gives you a reason to look closer, follow the trail and discover something unexpected. New experiences and characters are added over time, giving you more reasons to get outside and explore.
Hide & Sheep
Experience an augmented reality trail by finding hidden characters among farmyard objects. Copy their poses, take photos, and collect stamps to share with friends and family. This app requires visiting specific host venues.
- Augmented reality character spotting
- Pose copying and photo taking
- Stamp collection
- Social media sharing
- Venue-specific trails
- Farmyard object interaction
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Gather your flock to follow your local trail, spot the markers and find Shaun in A.R. hiding out amongst the farmyard objects. He will appear beside you so you can copy his pose, take photos and share them your with friends and family as you complete your stamp collection! **Please note, this app can only be used at venues currently hosting the ‘Hide & Sheep’ Trail** These baa-rilliant collages of your day out can be saved as memories and shared on social media - tag @ShauntheSheep in all your uploads! Once you have found a host venue, download the app and enter their unique location code to start the trail. For more information and to find your nearest trail head to https://www.shaunthesheep.com/news/2022/hide-sheep-augmented-reality-trail-app-launches/ Developed by Aardman, the original creators of Shaun the Sheep and Wallace & Gromit. Shaun the Sheep: Hide & Sheep A.R. Trail has been developed for devices that support Augmented Reality from the iPhone 6S onwards. Previous versions of these devices will not be fully supported. Please email feedback@aardman.com if you experience any technical difficulties.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Love Exploring at 60% against Hide & Sheep's 22%. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Love Exploring ships an update monthly, Hide & Sheep every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and July 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Love Exploring | Hide & Sheep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 401 MB | 721 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Newredo | Aardman Animations Ltd |
Customer experience
Love Exploring
Hide & Sheep
Bugs and requests
Love Exploring
Reported bugs
15 issues- Internal server error on account creation
- Server error when skipping signup
- Email already in use error
- App crashes during use
- Dinosaurs not showing on trail
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- Game locks up when taking photos
- External error on sign in
- App restarts phone
- Password reminder doesn't work
- Username already taken error
- No password reset option
- Battery drains rapidly
- Content not appearing on older iPhones
- Unusable on iPad due to UI issues
- No back button on most screens
Requested features
5 requests- More questions in quizzes
- More content across the UK
- Dark mode option
- Improved password reset functionality
- Save progress when finishing trails
Hide & Sheep
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Love Exploring
No in-app purchases
Hide & Sheep
No in-app purchases
Questions
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