QuestaGame vs Treasure Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuestaGame
Embark on outdoor adventures to discover and photograph local wildlife. Compete with others by completing quests, identifying species, and contributing to biodiversity research. Earn rewards, level up, and build your collection while helping scientists.
- Outdoor wildlife quests
- Photograph animals and plants
- Species identification
- Clans and challenges
- Leaderboard competition
- Biodiversity contribution
- In-game rewards and leveling
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Experience the adventure of your local wildlife. QuestaGame takes you outdoors - to your backyard, a local park, a hiking trail, anywhere. Join quests and compete with other players to photograph animals and plants in the wild. Your mission: Saving life on Earth. The game includes all species in your country, using national and global databases. Submit sightings of animals and plants and receive identifications, expert feedback - plus gold reward and experience points. Join quests, buy equipment, gain levels, build your collection, join clans, conquer territories, move up the leaderboard and become one of the great adventurers of all time. All sightings are geo-tagged with location, date, time and submitted to your country's national database (with your permission) - so you can not only map your conquests, but also help scientists, researchers, planners and others record and protect you region's biodiversity while you play. Some important features: - Clans and Head-to-Head Challenges. - Comms featured allows you to see what the community is up to. - QuestaLab allows you to earn gold and gain expertise levels identifying other players' sightings. - Featured sightings...and more! For more information be sure to visit http://www.questagame.com
Treasure Scanner
Scan barcodes and QR codes to earn points and discover hidden treasures. Some codes contain collectible digital items. Explore application images and social media for more artwork.
- Barcode scanning
- QR code scanning
- Earn points for scanning
- Find hidden treasures
- Collect digital items
- Discover artwork
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Treasure Scanner is a barcode and QR code scanner that is fun to use. Use Treasure Scanner as a regular bar code or QR code scanner, but earn points and find hidden treasures every time you scan. Some codes are also special and have collectible items inside. Look carefully within application images and our social media accounts https://treasurescanner.com/#social Some treasure artwork is based on Emoji provided by EmojiOne and licensed under CC BY 4.0 license
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Treasure Scanner at 4.6 against QuestaGame's 3.0. Treasure Scanner also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). QuestaGame's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Treasure Scanner holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of QuestaGame's written reviews are positive against 100% of Treasure Scanner's.
QuestaGame ships an update every 3 weeks, Treasure Scanner every 7 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | QuestaGame | Treasure Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (8 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Earth Guardians Pty Ltd | Sergey Chernyshev |
Customer experience
QuestaGame
Treasure Scanner
Bugs and requests
QuestaGame
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes on opening after update
- App crashes when submitting sightings
- App crashes when selecting observations synced from inaturalist
- Cannot create profile/account
- App says offline when online
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- Cannot delete offline sightings without photos
- Species name display in QLab history is cut off
- Search functionality is inconsistent
- App crashes when adding field notes
- Login issues
- Syncing issues with inaturalist
- Text not readable (dark on dark background)
- Cannot upload photos if wrong one is selected
Requested features
15 requests- Allow editing submitted sightings
- Improve photo upload process (batch, remove)
- Make all text readable (contrast)
- Add iPad version support
- Allow using cameras other than phone
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- More quests/challenges
- Gallery of photos
- Ability to use multiple clans
- Fix species name display in QLab history
- Increase daily sighting limit
- Make app available on iPad
- Allow offline sightings without photos to be deleted
- Improve search functionality
- Add dark mode
- Improve app layout and navigation
Treasure Scanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
QuestaGame
No in-app purchases
Treasure Scanner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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