Scavify vs Adventure Lab®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scavify
Create and run interactive scavenger hunts for organizations, universities, and events. Participants complete challenges using their mobile devices to earn points, fostering engagement and exploration. Organizers can customize hunts with various challenge types, rewards, and branding.
- Customizable scavenger hunt creation
- Multiple challenge types (photo, video, GPS, QR)
- Real-time leaderboards
- Automatic scoring
- Participant progress tracking
- Social media integration
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Scavify helps organizations, universities, event organizers, team building groups, tourist destinations, and others worldwide create interactive experiences that connect people through fun and innovation. Scavify’s online platform and app help you create customizable scavenger hunts designed around your objectives to create, drive, and measure engagement - easily. Participants complete tasks and challenges through the app by snapping photos, recording videos, answering questions, scanning QR codes, and using GPS check-ins to earn points. Organizers mix and match challenge types to create an adventure that educates, encourages exploration, inspires interaction, increases team building, and more. The app handles it all. BUILD IT. With Scavify, it’s easy to build custom scavenger hunts and interactive experiences with your own customized tasks and challenges, start/end times, logos, custom rewards, and much more. LAUNCH IT. Launch your hunt to make it available for participants to join. PLAY IT. Using their phones or mobile devices, participants are able to complete tasks and challenges, monitor their progress, interact with other players, share the fun with social media, and much more. LOVE IT. No more paper, no more mandatory meet-ups, no more hassle. You will love how easy it is to create, organize, run and participate in our scavenger hunts and interactive experiences. Features Include: (+) List of challenges for participants to complete (Photo, Video, GPS, Q&A, QR Code, Multiple Choice) (+) Automatic scoring (+) Real-time Leaderboard (+) Photostream of Photos and Videos (+) Like and Comment on photos (+) Facebook and Twitter integration (+) Add logos and custom backgrounds (+) Create custom Rewards (+) Push notifications (+) Advanced scheduling features (+) And much, much more…
Adventure Lab®
Discover hidden gems, learn local trivia, and explore landmarks through interactive outdoor scavenger hunts. Uncover stories and solve puzzles in a contactless adventure. Perfect for families, individuals, or dates looking to get outside.
- Outdoor scavenger hunts
- Discover hidden gems and landmarks
- Learn local trivia and stories
- Interactive and contactless experience
- Multi-stage adventures
- Map-guided exploration
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Explore the world around you in a whole new way with Geocaching Adventure Lab® outdoor scavenger hunts! Community-generated scavenger hunts let you uncover hidden gems, learn local trivia, discover landmarks, and everyday treasures through an interactive, outdoor, and contactless experience. Each Adventure is created by another Adventurer and shares a special location, story, challenge, or educational experience. Whether you’re looking for an activity for your family, yourself, or a date, you’ll love getting outside and exploring with Adventure Lab. As you venture outside using the Geocaching Adventure Lab® app, the map will guide you to Adventures in your area. Adventures can have multiple stages to complete. Explore at your own pace and search for clues to unlock fun stories, puzzles, and hidden adventures. Solve the puzzle at all of the stages to complete your Adventure! Already have a Geocaching account? You can log in with your geocaching username and Adventures count towards your geocaching statistics and total finds. Download the app to find an Adventure near you. More are added every day! To learn more about Geocaching Adventure Lab®, go to https://labs.geocaching.com/learn.
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Verdict
Scavify and Adventure Lab® both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Adventure Lab®'s written reviews are positive against 36% of Scavify's. Adventure Lab® also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (6.5K vs 1K). Scavify's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.4). 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 — 4.8 for Scavify against 4.9 for Adventure Lab®. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Adventure Lab® has 6.5K ratings behind it against 1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 36% of Scavify's written reviews are positive against 83% of Adventure Lab®'s.
Scavify ships an update every 3 months, Adventure Lab® every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scavify | Adventure Lab® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1K ratings) | 4.9 (6.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | 83.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K | 6.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Asbury Mobile, LLC | Groundspeak Inc. |
Customer experience
Scavify
Adventure Lab®
User reviews
Scavify
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Robust and fun scavenger hunts
- 📸 Easy photo/video sharing
- 🏆 Engaging leaderboard
- 🤝 Good for team building
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches (login issues, task tracking, GPS)
- 🚫 Inability to create hunts
- 💰 Expensive pricing
- 🔍 Lack of search functionality
Adventure Lab®
From 6.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Smooth navigation
- 💡 Interesting learning experience
- 🚴♀️ Encourages outdoor exploration
- 🎨 Visually appealing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
- 🗺️ Unreliable map integration
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
- 🔒 Lack of offline functionality
- 📝 Limited logging/review options
Bugs and requests
Scavify
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tasks not showing up for some users
- Hunt completion issues
- Login and sign-up problems
- Freezing and crashing
Requested features
4 requests- Add video upload/clue option
- Allow editing of hunt details (start/end time, point values)
- Implement admin point addition
- Improve map functionality (location tracking, precise icons)
Adventure Lab®
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incorrect answers being marked as correct
- Stages not unlocking in the proper order
- Location services not working reliably
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to view past answers
- Integration with main geocaching app
- Offline caching capabilities
- Feedback/reporting mechanism for CO
In-app purchases
Scavify
No in-app purchases
Adventure Lab®
No in-app purchases







