Haze Explr vs PastFinders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Haze Explr
Discover hidden urban exploration spots and share your findings with a community of like-minded adventurers. Contribute your own discoveries to unlock access to exclusive locations, ensuring a trusted network of explorers.
- Discover urbex locations
- Share exploration experiences
- Unlock shared locations
- Contribute to community access
- Map of forgotten places
- Find abandoned buildings and ruins
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Find urbex & off-the-beaten-path locations and share your experiences with other explorers. The more you contribute to the community, the more locations you unlock. This helps to make sure that locations are only shared with explorers who will respect them. Explore abandoned buildings, ghost towns, ruins, natural sights, and other forgotten locations on the map created by the Haze Explr community. Find adventures, make memories Terms of Service: https://app.haze-explr.com/terms/ © 2026 Haze Explr
PastFinders
Discover historical sites worldwide with an interactive globe and curated collections. Experience guided tours and a virtual assistant for context and trivia. Offers premium tours and a society membership for full access.
- Interactive globe with geo-tagged sites
- Expertly curated collections
- Guided tours from museums and historians
- Virtual assistant for guidance and trivia
- In-app purchases for premium tours
- Society membership for full tour access
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Find the stories hiding in plain sight. PastFinders helps you explore historic places, museum collections, and local stories. Discover what is nearby, follow a tour, or explore from home. EXPLORE PLACES AND STORIES Browse the map, discover nearby places, and explore photos and historical details. Find collections and tours from museums, creators, and local organizations, then follow the stories that interest you. FOLLOW A TOUR Turn your next walk into an exploration. Browse tours and their stops, follow along at your own pace, and listen to narration where available. Individual tour purchases are not required. ASK YOUR HISTORY GUIDE Use the Assistant to ask questions, find places, and help plan an exploration. AI features ask for your permission before sharing your questions and relevant context with Google Gemini. You can turn AI data sharing off in Settings. KEEP A FIELDBOOK Save places and tours, revisit your discoveries, and keep your explorations together in your personal Fieldbook. MAKE IT YOUR OWN Start in Light mode, or choose Dark or Automatic in Settings. Manage location and AI permissions in the app. PASTFINDERS SOCIETY Optional PastFinders Society membership is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. View current prices and benefits in the app before subscribing. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://portal.pastfinders.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Haze Explr at free against PastFinders's free with in-app purchases. Haze Explr also leads on ratings volume (933 vs 5) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). PastFinders's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). 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. Haze Explr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month and PastFinders sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PastFinders holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Haze Explr has 933 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Haze Explr's written reviews are positive against 100% of PastFinders's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Haze Explr | PastFinders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (933 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 933 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Eclectic Services LLC | Remains 2B Seen |
Customer experience
Haze Explr
PastFinders
Bugs and requests
Haze Explr
Reported bugs
2 issues- Locations disappearing from account
- Unable to create account or get approved
Requested features
4 requests- Favorite/bookmark locations
- Offline mode for memos and location data
- Ability to filter by location type
- Notification when near unlocked locations
PastFinders
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Haze Explr
- Haze Edgerunner$5.001 Month
- Haze Edgerunner Overclocked$10.001 Month
PastFinders
- Society Member Monthly Subscription$12.991 Month
- Society Member Annual Subscription$99.991 Year
- Tour Purchase Level 1$0.99
- Tour Purchase Level 2$1.99
- Tour Purchase Level 3$2.99
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- Tour Purchase Level 4$4.99
- Tour Purchase Level 5$6.99
- Tour Purchase Level 6$9.99
- Tour Purchase Level 7$14.99
- Tour Purchase Level 8$19.99
