Licensed To Glow vs SideQuest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Licensed To Glow
Discover and book appointments at local salons, spas, and studios for beauty and wellness services. Access exclusive discounts and service credits with membership plans. Enjoy instant booking, real reviews, and transparent pricing.
- Discover local salons and spas
- Book appointments instantly
- View real-time availability
- Read member reviews
- Transparent pricing
- Exclusive member discounts
- Gift cards
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Discover premier salons, spas, and studios near you for manicures, facials, blowouts, massages, lashes, brows, and more - with real availability, real reviews, transparent pricing, and instant confirmation. FREE WITH MEMBERSHIP: • Unlock service credits and exclusive member discounts that can be redeemed on in-person bookings across the marketplace. Choose from monthly, quarterly, or biannual billing plans and cancel anytime. BOOK BEAUTY & WELLNESS IN SECONDS: • Browse curated salons, spas, and stylists near you • View real-time availability and book instantly • Read reviews from members who have actually booked • Explore detailed venue profiles and transparent pricing • Save your favorite venues to your wishlist • Send beauty gift cards redeemable across the marketplace • Pay securely with Apple Pay or a saved card • Sign in privately with Apple, Google, phone, or email Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period unless canceled at least 24 hours before renewal. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation. PRIVACY & SAFETY • We only collect what is needed to deliver bookings and help keep the community safe. You can report or block users from the community feed and manage your blocked list in Settings. Download Licensed to Glow for free and book your first appointment today. Terms of Use: • https://www.licensedtoglow.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: • https://www.licensedtoglow.com/privacy-policy Support: • If you have any idea or questions, please email us at hello@licensedtoglow.com
SideQuest
Discover and complete real-life quests designed to turn ordinary days into small adventures. Earn XP, collect badges, and document your experiences in a personal journal. Packs can be unlocked with one-time purchases.
- Curated quest packs
- Real-life challenges
- XP and badge system
- Personal quest journal
- Solo or group play
- One-time pack purchases
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Give your day a side quest. SideQuest sends you on small, playful real-world quests that turn an ordinary day into a story worth telling. Go solo or bring a friend. Pick a quest, go do it, keep the memory. Write a dramatic museum label for a random object. Board the next bus, ride four stops, and explore wherever it drops you. Have the best outing you can on five dollars. Present one distinguished pebble to a stranger for an official rating. No big plans required. Most quests take under an hour. 100+ ORIGINAL QUESTS, IN PACKS THAT FIT YOUR MOOD Each pack is a themed set of hand-written quests with its own art, voice and badge. • City After Dark: turn one evening into a tiny movie • Make It Weird: creative dares with just enough absurdity • Main Character Energy: act like your life has a plot • Talk to Humans: tiny social moves that leave you a little less afraid of everyone • Soft Reset: quiet rituals for slowing down and looking up • Local Legend: know your city like it's been waiting for you • Curious Forever: odd questions, tiny lessons, real conversations • Taste of Somewhere: let appetite pick the route • Plus a pack of brave, respectful asks where a "no" still completes the quest CITY EDITIONS IN 160+ CITIES See your own city with new eyes. City Editions are quests written for real places, from New York and San Francisco to London, Paris, Tokyo and Mexico City. Crack optional riddles, collect small details, make something, and find the spots worth pausing in. Do them in any order, at your own pace. SOLO OR TOGETHER Take yourself on a little adventure, or finally give your group chat a plan. Invite a friend into a quest and they join free, no purchase needed. Bring two new friends in and you'll unlock Better Together, ten missions made for doing side by side. KEEP THE STORY Add a photo or a note when you finish. Your Journal keeps every adventure in one place, so you can look back on all the times you said yes. LEVEL UP IN REAL LIFE Earn XP, climb levels and collect badges like Certified Oddball, Night Cartographer and Plot Armor. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Every quest shows its time, cost and challenge level up front, so you can pick what fits today and skip what doesn't. PACKS YOU KEEP. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Unlock with one-time purchases: a single pack, a whole city, or all ten core Originals with the Originals Vault. Once it's yours, it's yours. Less scrolling. More adventure. Pick a quest and go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Licensed To Glow at none against SideQuest's 11. Licensed To Glow also leads on ratings volume (189 vs 7). SideQuest's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. SideQuest sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Licensed To Glow asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Licensed To Glow against 5.0 for SideQuest. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Licensed To Glow has 189 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Licensed To Glow's written reviews are positive against 100% of SideQuest's.
Licensed To Glow ships an update every 6 days, SideQuest every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Licensed To Glow | SideQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (189 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 189 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 396 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Licensed To Glow | OMG Career |
Customer experience
Licensed To Glow
SideQuest
In-app purchases
Licensed To Glow
No in-app purchases
SideQuest
- One SideQuest Pack Key$9.99
- City Edition Key$14.99
- Originals + 1 City$14.99
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- Originals Vault$14.99
- Originals + 1 City$19.99
- Discounted Originals Vault$19.99
- Originals + 1 City$24.99
- Originals + 2 Cities$24.99
- Originals + 2 Cities$29.99
- Originals + 2 Cities$34.99
- Originals Vault$34.99
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