Santa Spy Cam vs grapevineQUEST
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Santa Spy Cam
Create magical videos of Santa, elves, and reindeer in your home. This app offers a vast library of scenes and customization options to generate "sightings" that will enchant children. Easily share your holiday creations with loved ones.
- Live-action Santa, elf, and reindeer videos
- 52 customizable scenes
- 15 Christmas morning scenes
- Integrate physical objects into videos
- Easy social media sharing
- High-quality video production
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Santa Spy Cam™ 3 (SSC3) is the third major release of the Internationally acclaimed “proof of Santa” app, enabling parents (and grandparents) to capture live-action, high-quality video of Santa Claus, his friendly elves, and real reindeer in and around your home! With an almost limitless array of live-action video capability and customization options, Santa Spy Cam™ 3 provides “sightings” of Santa and his elves that children all over the world have always wanted in one easy-to-use app. SSC3 brings an unprecedented level of magic and enchantment to a child's holiday experience with its highly intuitive suite of both Santa and his elves "sighting" options. Version 3 features: >SSC3 offers 52 scenes to choose from, inspiring countless live-action video “sighting” opportunities. > SSC3 offers 15 Santa scenes to make Christmas morning one they’ll never forget. > Several scenes allow users to integrate physical objects left behind including candy canes and notes to Santa left behind by the Elves. > Easy sharing of your "sighting" creations with friends and family on social media including Facebook, YouTube and Email. Get inspired! See what other sleuths have recorded with Santa Spy Cam: https://www.youtube.com/user/SantaSpyCamOFFICIAL Due to the high quality of videos produced by SSC3, processing times for captured “sightings” may take up to several minutes to process. We recommend downloading the app and desired scenes when your device is connected to Wi-Fi. Please make sure your device has sufficient memory available. SSC3 may use over 3 GB of storage if all 52 scenes are downloaded at the same time. For tips & tricks to get the most out of your Santa Spy Cam 3 experience, like us on Facebook, follow @SantaSpyCam on Twitter and visit our website at http://www.santaspycam.com. BELIEVING IS SEEING™
grapevineQUEST
Engage your community with interactive photo scavenger hunts. This app facilitates team-based challenges inspired by treasure hunts, perfect for team building or group activities for all ages. Easily create themed quests and manage missions for participants.
- Photo scavenger hunts
- Team-based challenges
- Themed quest creation
- Event management
- Community engagement
- QR code scanning
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This application allows participants to engage in a fun smartphone-based photo scavenger hunt from grapevineQUEST.com. Inspired by treasure hunts, grapevineQUEST is an online platform that lets groups, organizations and schools engage, and activate their communities through interactive photo quest experiences. The app can be used for team building or any group activity for kids or adults. Select the theme and create a fun QUEST for kids or adults in a few minutes. The event manager starts the teams and receive the mission photos from the teams for the event managers approval or feedback. The team with the most points will win but most important is the fun teamwork and the joy from playing the quest game. The intuitive platform makes it easy to make a repeatable, fun, and positive activity for large or small groups. First you need to plan an event based on a themed quest from grapevine. Our quests are available with many different themes and in a multitude of languages. Once you've finished your event planning, simply use this app to scan the respective QR code for each team.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: grapevineQUEST at 100% against Santa Spy Cam's 22%. grapevineQUEST also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Santa Spy Cam sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. grapevineQUEST asks for nothing beyond the download.
Santa Spy Cam ships an update every 8 months, grapevineQUEST every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Santa Spy Cam | grapevineQUEST |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 22.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Craig Research LLC | grapevine.nu |
Customer experience
Santa Spy Cam
grapevineQUEST
Bugs and requests
Santa Spy Cam
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when trying to download/use scenes
- Doesn't work on iPhone 6/6s
- Stuck on startup screen
- Camera/photo issues
Requested features
4 requests- Restore previous purchases
- More free scenes
- Dark mode option
- Compatibility with newer devices
grapevineQUEST
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Santa Spy Cam
- Grand Entrance2 variantsFree
- Sack of GoodiesFree
- Grand Exit2 variantsFree
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- Grand Entrance$0.99
- Ultimate Collection$3.99
- No Watermark$3.99
- Ultimate Collection 2015$3.99
- New Scenes 2015$3.99
grapevineQUEST
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Santa Spy Cam free?
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