Built for real-world exploration.
Everything you need to get people exploring — verify presence, layer game mechanics on the world, reward exploration with real prizes, and keep hundreds of players moving through the same hunt safely.
Prove the player was really there.
Three flavours of progress marker — pick any combination per waypoint.
QR codes
Up to 4 QR markers per waypoint. Camera-based scan with a built-in torch toggle.
NFC tags
Up to 4 NFC tags per waypoint. The app suppresses Android's default tag UI so scans feel native to Treasure Hunt.
BLE beacons
Up to 4 BLE beacons per waypoint, identified by their iBeacon identity. Real-time signal strength shown to creator and player alike.
Every marker carries a creator-written location clue — name, description and photos — so players can find the physical tag once they're inside the geofence.
Turn a walk into a game.
An optional layer of full game mechanics on top of any hunt — location-only hunts stay first-class.
Quiz & code challenges
Multiple-choice questions or secret passphrases, graded instantly. Challenges can gate a waypoint, hide a treasure's identity until solved, or block a quest — with creator-set retry cooldowns from 1 minute to 24 hours.
Quests with objectives
Storylines discovered as you play — reach a waypoint, scan a marker, collect an item, solve a challenge. Finish the chain to earn rewards: a treasure, an item, an unlocked waypoint, even an early extraction.
Items & inventory
Keys and tools picked up along the way, kept in their own inventory — separate from your treasure backpack. Some challenges only open with the right item in hand.
Clues & logs
Hints reveal themselves as you progress and file into your clue log automatically. Quests get their own quest log, so long hunts stay navigable.
Creators manage everything in dedicated vaults — Progress Markers, Treasures, Challenges and Items — and reuse them across hunts.
Designed for fair, repeatable play.
Built-in limits so a single player can't sweep the map clean of every reward.
Tight 15 m geofence
Players must be physically inside the waypoint to interact — no drive-by scans, no proxy completions.
Virtual backpack, 10 slots
Claimed treasures ride in your backpack for the session — returned to the hunt if you time out or abandon, permanently yours only on successful extraction. Then the creator ships the real prize.
One reward per waypoint per session
Even with multiple treasures hanging off a waypoint's progress markers, a player can only pocket one per visit. The rest stay in play.
FIFO joining queue
Hunts with a participant cap automatically queue new players in arrival order and admit them as slots open.
Extraction buffer time
When a creator ends an open-ended hunt, every active player gets a buffer window to reach an extraction waypoint and keep their loot.
Extraction waypoints & session duration
Every hunt has at least one exit. Creators can also set a per-player session duration — a personal countdown to extract once you've joined.
Social from the ground up.
Hunts live in a feed, creators build audiences, and every adventure leaves a trail.
Feed & filters
Released hunts appear as rich cards — filter by map style, gameplay, duration, waypoints, distance from you, participants and rewards still available.
Votes, comments & follows
Upvotes come from players who actually joined. Comment threads with photos, creator profiles with stats, follow and message the creators you like.
Journal
Your personal activity log — hunts joined, waypoints completed, treasures claimed and extracted, day by day.
A reliable fallback when scans don't work.
Bad GPS, broken QR, dead NFC tag, missing beacon? Players can fall back to a manually-reviewed selfie — and creators stay in control of how often.
For players
Take a selfie at the waypoint, optionally following the creator's instructions ("standing in front of the blue door"). Wait for approval. No need to abandon a hunt because of bad signal.
For creators
Review queued selfies. Approve, request a retake with a message, or permanently block a player from using the selfie fallback at a specific waypoint if they're abusing it.
Standing on solid foundations.
Real-world maps
Design, find and play hunts on real map tiles with a Google-Maps-grade location engine keeping your position honest.
Firebase Auth
Google and Apple sign-in handled by Firebase, with push notifications for selfie reviews, end-of-hunt warnings and queue admits.
Cross-session safety
Test sessions are tagged separately from live sessions, so analytics stay clean between the testing phase and the release phase.