Love Exploring vs Treasure Trails
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.
Treasure Trails
Discover over 1,200 self-guided treasure hunts, detective mysteries, and spy missions across the UK. Solve clues and puzzles while exploring towns and villages. Submit answers for a chance to win monthly cash prizes.
- Over 1,200 UK treasure hunts
- Detective mysteries and spy missions
- Self-guided exploration
- Solve clues and puzzles
- Monthly cash prize draw
- Explore towns and villages
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Explore the UK with over 1,200 treasure hunts, detective mysteries and spy missions. From seaside towns and rural villages to inner cities, there are Trails all over the UK waiting to be explored and enjoyed. The Trails are entirely self-guided, just choose your location, download your Trail and start your adventure. You’ll be exploring the streets like never before, solving sneaky clues and completing cryptic puzzles as your adventure unfolds. Once you’ve seen the sights, solved the clues and had your fun, you can submit your answer to find out if you were right and enter the monthly cash prize draw. Gather your fellow explorers and see if you have what it takes to find the treasure, solve the mystery or complete your mission. To find your nearest Trail adventure, please visit www.TreasureTrails.co.uk
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Love Exploring at 5.0 against Treasure Trails's 1.0. Love Exploring also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 31%) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Treasure Trails's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Love Exploring's written reviews are positive against 31% of Treasure Trails's.
Love Exploring ships an update monthly, Treasure Trails every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Love Exploring | Treasure Trails |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better | 30.8% of reviews |
| 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 | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 410 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Newredo | Treasure Trails |
Customer experience
Love Exploring
Treasure Trails
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
Treasure Trails
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Love Exploring
No in-app purchases
Treasure Trails
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Love Exploring free?
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