Haze Explr vs SideQuest
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
SideQuest
This app offers small, real-life challenges designed to encourage exploration and connection. Users can complete tasks like going for a walk or trying new things, then share their experiences with friends to see diverse perspectives on the same activities.
- Real-life challenges
- Document experiences
- Share with friends
- See friends' perspectives
- Connect through daily life
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Go on a hike with your pet. Meet a new friend. Eat a great lunch. Each SideQuest gives you a small challenge for your life: just to make the plot a little more interesting. Anyone can create a new SideQuest, and anyone can complete one. Add yours to the mix, and see the silly, clever, and funny ways others participated. Document what you're up to. Share it with people who actually know you. See the weird, mundane, and beautiful stuff they're doing too. Stay connected with your friends in a way that actually feels good to look at.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SideQuest at none against Haze Explr's 2. SideQuest also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). Haze Explr's advantage is ratings volume (900 vs 5). On price, ads, monetization model and iOS requirement 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. SideQuest asks for nothing beyond the download.
SideQuest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Haze Explr has 900 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 SideQuest's.
Haze Explr ships an update monthly, SideQuest every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Haze Explr | SideQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (900 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 900 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Eclectic Services LLC | Colden Bjorn Johnson |
Customer experience
Haze Explr
SideQuest
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
SideQuest
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
SideQuest
No in-app purchases
