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
Turn everyday outings into exciting real-world games with AI-powered quests and personalized destination suggestions. Explore new places, track your discoveries on a unique map, and share adventures with friends.
- AI-powered random quests
- Mood-based destination selection
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Exploration map with fog clearing
- AI-driven place information
- Personalized discovery feed
- Friend activity and sharing
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Make every day feel like an adventure. Sidequest turns your city, and everywhere you travel, into a real-world game. Random destinations by mood. Fresh places every day. Watch the map fill in as you walk. ◆ EXPLORE ◆ • Tap the dice for a Random Quest. A real-world adventure • Pick your mood: Nature, Food, Adventure, or Hidden Gems • Set your distance: walking, biking, or driving • Get turn-by-turn directions to a destination you've never been • Don't like it? Re-roll for somewhere new ◆ DISCOVER ◆ • Fresh places near you every day, curated to your taste • Restaurants, cafes, parks, viewpoints, hidden gems • Swipe through your daily picks • Save the ones you love to your Want to Go list • Skip the ones you don't, and the algorithm learns ◆ MAP ◆ • Automatic tile-by-tile fog clears as you walk, drive, or bike • See exactly how much of your city, country, and world you've explored • Drill into any continent, country, state, city, or neighborhood • Widgets put your stats and maps right on your home screen ◆ SAVE ◆ • Three rating tiers: Must Go, Would Go, Meh • Add photos, notes, and tags • Auto-organize into Food, Nature, Adventure collections • Always know which spots were great ◆ SHARE ◆ • Add friends, see their saved spots and exploration stats • Share beautiful cards of your spots, city guides, and stats • Discover places through the people you trust ◆ FOR EXPLORERS WHO LOVE A REAL-WORLD ADVENTURE ◆ If you love treasure hunts, scavenger hunts, or geocaching, Sidequest scratches the same itch with a different twist: there are no hidden boxes to find. The destination IS the discovery. A hidden coffee shop. A viewpoint you've never seen. A trail nobody told you about. It's GPS-guided real-world exploration, minus the cache maintenance. Questions or ideas? Reach out at support@knowaspot.app Subscriptions are managed via your iTunes account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Unused trial time is forfeited upon upgrade. Privacy Policy: https://knowaspot.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://knowaspot.app/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Haze Explr at 85% against Sidequest's 18%. Haze Explr also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (924 vs 216). 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 Sidequest sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Haze Explr holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 924 and 216 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Haze Explr's written reviews are positive against 18% of Sidequest's.
Haze Explr ships an update every 3 weeks, Sidequest every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Haze Explr | Sidequest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (924 ratings) — better | 4.4 (216 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.7% of reviews — better | 17.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 924 — better | 216 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 167 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Eclectic Services LLC | Riley Palattao |
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
- Sidequest Pro$4.997 Days
- Sidequest Pro$5.997 Days
- Sidequest Pro$6.997 Days
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- Sidequest Pro$7.997 Days
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Sidequest Annual$17.991 Year
- Sidequest Pro$19.991 Year
- Annual$29.991 Year
- Sidequest Annual3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Sidequest Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year









