Comparison

Benevity vs Smarthunts

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Benevity

Support causes you care about and participate in company initiatives. Log volunteer hours, donate via various payment methods, and track positive actions in real-time. Discover opportunities tailored to your location, skills, and interests.

Highlights
  • Discover opportunities to do good
  • Donate via payroll, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay
  • Track volunteer time in real-time
  • Log in with Touch ID/Face ID
  • Support company initiatives
Features
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There’s no better time to do good than the moment you’re inspired! With the Benevity app, you can support the causes you care about, and participate in your company’s initiatives, right from the palm of your hand. Whether you’re logging volunteer time at an event, donating during a disaster or tracking positive actions in real-time, it’s easy to do good no matter where you are. To get started your company must be a Benevity client and have authorized the use of this app. Features and options are subject to program availability and company configurations. The Benevity app empowers you to: • Discover opportunities to do good based on your location, skills and interests. • Donate whenever you feel inspired, through payroll, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay or your Giving Account rewards. • Track volunteer time right at the event and in real time. • Log in with Touch ID/Face ID, so you don’t need to remember passwords. • And more! About Benevity Benevity, a certified B Corporation, is the leader in global corporate purpose software, providing the only integrated suite of community investment and employee, customer and nonprofit engagement solutions. A finalist in Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards, many iconic brands rely on Benevity’s cloud solutions to power their purpose in ways that better attract, retain and engage today’s diverse workforce, embed social action into their customer experiences and positively impact their communities. With software that is available in 20 languages, Benevity has processed more than 5 billion dollars in donations, 32 million hours of volunteering time, 210,000 positive actions and awarded one million grants to 251,000 nonprofits worldwide.

About

Smarthunts

Engage in high-tech group touring hunts using iPads or iPhones to explore points of interest and landmarks. This platform offers fun photo and video challenges, augmented reality, and video conferencing for competitive team-building activities.

Highlights
  • High-tech group touring hunts
  • Photo & video challenges
  • Augmented reality features
  • Competitive team building
  • Scavenger hunt activities
  • Facilitator monitoring tools
Features
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SmartHunts® are fun, high-tech, corporate group touring hunts where teams, armed with iPads® or iPhones®, explore your destinations points-of-interest, historic landmarks and cultural venues in a competitive team building activity. The SmartHunts® platform utilizes fun photo & video challenges, augmented reality, ZOOM® video conferencing and Google® Maps to produce the best scavenger hunts ever! Teams use the SmartHunts® App to complete the various challenges of finding locations, solving clues, answering trivia, searching for items, performing stunts, and photographing/recording video of activities during the event. Your event host has access to facilitator features which help monitor all team-submitted content to ensure accurate scoring during the event. Event hosts may monitor team progression including scoreboard, photo and video submissions, track of locations of teams, as well as produce a slideshow with music from the your groups photo and video submission during game play. The SmartHunts App provides your group with a full suite of tools designed to deliver a fun and engaging scavenger hunt for teams of all sizes.

Screenshots

Benevity4 screens
Smarthunts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Smarthunts at 5.0 against Benevity's 2.8. Smarthunts also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). Benevity's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smarthunts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Benevity has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Benevity ships an update monthly, Smarthunts weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Benevity versus Smarthunts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBenevitySmarthunts
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (28 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews14.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB119 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperBenevity, Inc.Smart Hunts, LLC

Customer experience

Benevity

All ratings28 ratings
Positive39.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative53.6%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative78.6%

Smarthunts

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Benevity

No in-app purchases

None

Smarthunts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Benevity free?
Benevity is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smarthunts free?
Smarthunts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Benevity or Smarthunts?
Smarthunts is rated higher. Benevity averages 2.8 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while Smarthunts averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Benevity or Smarthunts have ads?
Neither Benevity nor Smarthunts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Benevity or Smarthunts?
Benevity ships an update monthly, and Smarthunts weekly. Most recently, Benevity was updated on September 25, 2026 and Smarthunts on June 5, 2026.

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