Comparison

Color Hunter vs SideQuest

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Color Hunter

This game challenges you to find specific colors in the real world using your phone's camera. Capture photos of the "Color of the Day" or a selected hue to complete daily hunts.

Highlights
  • Daily color hunting challenges
  • Camera-based color matching
  • Find "Color of the Day"
  • Capture photos of real-world colors
  • Interactive color discovery
Features
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Want to try a daily color hunting game that turns your camera into a color-matching challenge? Select a color or Reveal Color of the Day. Your mission: find it somewhere in the real world - your home, your street, your commute - and capture photos of it to complete your hunt.

About

SideQuest

Discover playful real-world quests that transform ordinary days into memorable adventures. Explore your city, engage in creative challenges, or connect with others through unique, bite-sized activities. Keep track of your journeys and level up in real life.

Highlights
  • Playful real-world quests
  • Themed quest packs
  • City-specific quests
  • Solo or group adventures
  • Journal for memories
  • XP, levels, and badges
  • Quest cost and time upfront
Features
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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. 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. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://tinysidequest.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Color Hunter4 screens
SideQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SideQuest at 100% against Color Hunter's 25%. SideQuest also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3) and device support (3 vs 1). Color Hunter's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Color Hunter sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and SideQuest sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SideQuest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Color Hunter's written reviews are positive against 100% of SideQuest's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Color Hunter ships an update every 2 days, SideQuest every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Color Hunter versus SideQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor HunterSideQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB162 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDigiTalya Studios, LLCOMG Career

Customer experience

Color Hunter

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

SideQuest

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Color Hunter

One-time4
  • Play without ads$0.99
  • Play without ads$1.99
  • Play without ads$2.99
Show 1 more
  • Play without ads$9.99
10 purchases

SideQuest

One-time10
  • UC San Diego$9.99
  • Tulane University$9.99
  • University of Pennsylvania$9.99
Show 7 more
  • University of Georgia$9.99
  • University of Texas at Austin$9.99
  • NJIT$9.99
  • One SideQuest Pack Key$9.99
  • Tucson City Edition$14.99
  • 1 City Edition$14.99
  • Originals + 2 Cities$34.99

Questions

Is Color Hunter free?
Color Hunter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SideQuest free?
SideQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Color Hunter or SideQuest?
SideQuest is rated higher. Color Hunter averages 3.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while SideQuest averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Color Hunter or SideQuest have ads?
Both Color Hunter and SideQuest show ads.
Which is updated more often, Color Hunter or SideQuest?
Color Hunter ships an update every 2 days, and SideQuest every 3 days. Most recently, Color Hunter was updated on November 5, 2026 and SideQuest on November 5, 2026.

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