Haze Explr vs SkateSpots+
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
SkateSpots+
Discover and share skateboarding spots with a community-driven map. Find street spots and skateparks, add details like difficulty and bust factor, and see photos, ratings, and weather. Save your favorites and explore curated collections.
- Community-built map of street spots and skateparks
- Filter spots by type, difficulty, and bust factor
- Add photos, ratings, and comments to spots
- View real-time weather and directions
- Discover featured, nearby, and trending spots
- Save favorite spots and view skater profiles
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SkateMap is a community-built map for skateboarders. Find spots, share your own, and see what other skaters are riding. Browse a satellite map full of street spots and skateparks pinned by real skaters. Search by city, filter by spot type — rails, stairs, ledges, gaps, bowls, you name it — and find skateparks nearby. Found a spot? Drop a pin, add some photos, and tag it with the details: spot type, difficulty, bust factor (how likely you'll get kicked out), surface quality, and best time to skate. Other skaters will thank you. Every spot shows you what you need to know — photos, ratings, comments, real-time weather, and directions from where you are. The Discover tab keeps things fresh with a daily featured spot, what's near you, recently added spots, trending picks, and curated collections like Best Rails, Mellow Spots, and Gnarly Spots. Rate spots, save your favorites, leave comments, and check out other skaters' profiles. You can even browse as a guest before signing up. Built by a skater. Free to use. Growing every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Haze Explr at 4.8 against SkateSpots+'s 4.0. Haze Explr also leads on ratings volume (943 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.2). SkateSpots+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Haze Explr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.00 per month. SkateSpots+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Haze Explr holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Haze Explr has 943 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Haze Explr | SkateSpots+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (943 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 943 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eclectic Services LLC | Ethan Allgaier |
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
SkateSpots+
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
SkateSpots+
No in-app purchases









