Love Exploring vs Craftis AR
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.
Craftis AR
Transform your crayon drawings into animated 4D characters that come to life on your screen. Scan a QR code from an activity pack and watch your creations interact with the real world through augmented reality.
- Bring drawings to life in 4D
- Augmented reality experience
- Interactive AR activities
- Combines coloring and 3D animation
- Sound integration for immersive experience
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Bring your colouring-in to life with the Craftis AR app! Use your crayons to design your own characters and watch them appear in 4D, right in front of your eyes. Download the free Craftis AR app, scan the QR code on your children’s activity pack and point your device towards the page. Whether it's discovering a new world through the eyes of a cheeky explorer, or being the lead singer in your own rock band, each QR code triggers a new activity which combines your colouring in, 3D animation and sound, to create a fully immersive AR experience. Don’t forget to show us your photos, we’d love to see them! @CraftisUK
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Verdict
Love Exploring and Craftis AR both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Craftis AR's written reviews are positive against 60% of Love Exploring's. Love Exploring's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Love Exploring against 5.0 for Craftis AR. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Love Exploring's written reviews are positive against 100% of Craftis AR's.
Love Exploring ships an update monthly, Craftis AR every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Love Exploring | Craftis AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| 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 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 401 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Newredo | Harmony Studios Limited |
Customer experience
Love Exploring
Craftis AR
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
Craftis AR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Love Exploring
No in-app purchases
Craftis AR
No in-app purchases
Questions
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