Adventure Lab® vs Maze Lab Creator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Adventure Lab®
Discover hidden gems, learn local trivia, and explore landmarks through interactive outdoor scavenger hunts. Uncover stories and solve puzzles in a contactless adventure. Perfect for families, individuals, or dates looking to get outside.
- Outdoor scavenger hunts
- Discover hidden gems and landmarks
- Learn local trivia and stories
- Interactive and contactless experience
- Multi-stage adventures
- Map-guided exploration
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Explore the world around you in a whole new way with Geocaching Adventure Lab® outdoor scavenger hunts! Community-generated scavenger hunts let you uncover hidden gems, learn local trivia, discover landmarks, and everyday treasures through an interactive, outdoor, and contactless experience. Each Adventure is created by another Adventurer and shares a special location, story, challenge, or educational experience. Whether you’re looking for an activity for your family, yourself, or a date, you’ll love getting outside and exploring with Adventure Lab. As you venture outside using the Geocaching Adventure Lab® app, the map will guide you to Adventures in your area. Adventures can have multiple stages to complete. Explore at your own pace and search for clues to unlock fun stories, puzzles, and hidden adventures. Solve the puzzle at all of the stages to complete your Adventure! Already have a Geocaching account? You can log in with your geocaching username and Adventures count towards your geocaching statistics and total finds. Download the app to find an Adventure near you. More are added every day! To learn more about Geocaching Adventure Lab®, go to https://labs.geocaching.com/learn.
Maze Lab Creator
Easily design and create custom mazes with a variety of tools and color options. Share your unique maze creations and drawings with others.
- Maze creation tools
- Customizable background and pen colors
- Drawing section with various tools
- Share maze creations
- Share drawings
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Maze Lab lets you make a drawing or maze, save it to your device, and share as a photo. In the saved mazes section you can play the maze in the app, and share a maze file so another Maze Lab user can import and play your maze. Enjoy! NOTE: Receiving a Maze Lab file over email is straightforward, just click the file and it will import into your Maze Lab app. When receiving a Maze Lab file over iMessage, follow these steps: click on the contact name of the message thread, then click on the Documents section, and then click on the Maze Lab file, and finally, click 'open in Maze Lab'.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Adventure Lab® at Free against Maze Lab Creator's $0.99. Adventure Lab® also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (6.5K vs 2). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Adventure Lab® is free to download; Maze Lab Creator costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Adventure Lab® against 5.0 for Maze Lab Creator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Adventure Lab® has 6.5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Adventure Lab® ships an update every 3 weeks, Maze Lab Creator every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Adventure Lab® | Maze Lab Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (6.5K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.5K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Groundspeak Inc. | Jennifer Orlich |
Customer experience
Adventure Lab®
Maze Lab Creator
Bugs and requests
Adventure Lab®
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incorrect answers being marked as correct
- Stages not unlocking in the proper order
- Location services not working reliably
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to view past answers
- Integration with main geocaching app
- Offline caching capabilities
- Feedback/reporting mechanism for CO
Maze Lab Creator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Adventure Lab®
No in-app purchases
Maze Lab Creator
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Adventure Lab® free?
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