ClueKeeper vs Adventure Lab®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ClueKeeper
Design and participate in interactive clue hunts that guide players through locations with puzzles and challenges. Explore your surroundings in new ways, even offline, with augmented reality features.
- Create custom clue hunts
- Solve puzzles and riddles
- Augmented reality clues
- Offline play support
- Explore surroundings
- Play sample hunts
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ClueKeeper is a powerful platform for creating and playing clue hunts! What's a clue hunt? A clue hunt is a game in which the players solve clues that lead them from one to the next. The clues can be straightforward questions, physical challenges, clever puzzles or riddles, or whatever else the hunt creator can imagine. With the help of our friends from Zappar, we even support augmented reality clues! A hunt might send players searching around their local park, through the best-kept secret spots of their city, or even across state lines. ClueKeeper hunts provide a great way to have fun and explore your surroundings in a new and exciting way! Our app even works offline, allowing you to explore off-the-beaten path areas without a consistent cell connection. To get started, try out the sample hunt "Welcome to ClueKeeper"!
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
The clearest difference is monetization model: ClueKeeper at free against Adventure Lab®'s free with in-app purchases. ClueKeeper also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). Adventure Lab®'s advantage is ratings volume (6.5K vs 20) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, 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.
Adventure Lab® holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Adventure Lab® has 6.5K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of ClueKeeper's written reviews are positive against 83% of Adventure Lab®'s.
ClueKeeper ships an update every 3 months, Adventure Lab® every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ClueKeeper | Adventure Lab® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (20 ratings) | 4.9 (6.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 6.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ClueKeeper LLC | Groundspeak Inc. |
Customer experience
ClueKeeper
Adventure Lab®
Bugs and requests
ClueKeeper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
ClueKeeper
No in-app purchases
Adventure Lab®
No in-app purchases
Questions
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