Joyraft vs Smarthunts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Joyraft
Discover unique and exciting events and experiences happening in Boston. Find activities for friends, romantic evenings, or group outings, curated by local experts. Stay informed about the city's best upcoming happenings and connect with others over shared interests.
- Discover hot events and experiences
- Uncover city secrets
- See friends' interests
- Connect with like-minded people
- Save and organize activities
- Content curated by local experts
- Event notifications
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Boozy indoor mini golf, after-hours museum parties, on-demand hibachi…we show you the experiences you don’t want to miss in Boston. Browse cool events for a friends reunion, girls night out, romantic evening & more. Joyraft is all about things to do together. • Easily discover the hottest events & experiences in Boston • Uncover the city’s best kept secrets • See what your friends are interested in doing • Connect with like-minded Bostonians over shared experiences • Create and join themed folders of the activities you’ve saved in Collections • Save experiences for later • Enjoy content curated by local experts • Get notified of Boston’s best upcoming events • Be in the Boston-know Created by The Boston Calendar – sharing events that don’t suck since 2013.
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.
- High-tech group touring hunts
- Photo & video challenges
- Augmented reality features
- Competitive team building
- Scavenger hunt activities
- Facilitator monitoring tools
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Joyraft at 1.3K against Smarthunts's 1. Smarthunts's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Joyraft against 5.0 for Smarthunts. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Joyraft has 1.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Joyraft ships an update every 3 weeks, Smarthunts weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Joyraft | Smarthunts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | TTMYS, INC. | Smart Hunts, LLC |
Customer experience
Joyraft
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In-app purchases
Joyraft
No in-app purchases
Smarthunts
No in-app purchases









