The only free scavenger hunt app. Instant start, no downloads required.

A web-based scavenger hunt app for conferences, campus weeks, public days, and offsites. ISO 27001 certified. 150k+ players, 15,000 hunts, 48 countries. Players start within 15 seconds, from a browser on any device. 25 concurrent devices on the free tier, all features, watermark, commercial use allowed.

Try it free See pricing
Expo hall

APAC Partner Summit

Change game language

Visit partner booths, scan the stand QR, and take a photo at the sponsored set. The middle of the route is shuffled so the hall does not stack on one stand.

Is there a free scavenger hunt app that doesn’t need a download?

Yes. PlayTours is a free, web-based scavenger hunt app. Players join from a browser link or QR code. The free tier includes all features for 25 concurrent devices, a PlayTours watermark, and commercial use. Teams have run hunts in 48 countries on an ISO 27001-certified platform, with 150k+ players and 15,000 hunts. Compare PlayTours with Goosechase and Scavify below, then create a hunt in your browser.

Platform Player access Price Free / trial Branding Best for
PlayTours Browser link or QR. No App Store or Play Store download. From $0. Paid plans from $35 / month for the peak phones in the game, not the guest list. 25 concurrent devices, all features, commercial use allowed, watermark. Custom branding / white-label No-install corporate, campus, and event hunts
Goosechase Native app (iOS / Android / Chromebook) Per-experience / per-participant quotes. Confirm on their site. ~3 participants, 1 live experience, short duration In-app experience branding App-friendly audiences, EDU districts, template-first organisers
Scavify App-focused Quote-led. Confirm on their site. Trial / quote-led Packaged event branding Corporate photo streams and packaged events

Sources: PlayTours pricing, our Goosechase guide, and the Scavify guide . Competitor free-tier details change. Confirm on their sites before you buy.

Running an offsite? See team building scavenger hunt. In Singapore? Open the Singapore team building page. Want the product walkthrough? Open the scavenger hunt app page.

Questions we get

Do I need to download a scavenger hunt app?

No. PlayTours is web-based. Players open a link or scan a QR code in the browser. There is no App Store or Play Store install.

How does PlayTours compare to Goosechase or Scavify?

Goosechase and Scavify are app-focused scavenger hunt tools. PlayTours is built for no-download events: browser play, a free commercial tier (25 concurrent devices with a watermark), and ISO 27001. See the comparison table above and our Goosechase guide and Scavify guide.

Used by companies, cities, universities, and schools.

Companies

Google Apple EY Accenture Wells Fargo P&G Workday Grab Starbucks Red Bull FIFAe d'frens Make-A-Wish Save the Children

Cities

Brimbank City Council Elkhorn, Wisconsin Region of Waterloo Mississauga Visit Washington, Missouri

Universities and schools

Ministry of Education Singapore Housing and Development Board National University of Singapore Singapore Management University Nanyang Technological University Singapore Polytechnic Nanyang Polytechnic University of the Arts London University of Utah Georgetown University Carson-Newman University University of the Virgin Islands Stephens College Smith College

A short note from the founder

Hi,

I started PlayTours because the other software cost too much. We were running real events, and I could not justify what the other tools charged.

Customers wrote in with what they needed. We built those things, one request at a time: booth scans, judged photos, translation, a live dashboard, crowd tools. Years of that built something solid. Large corporate events and major organisations now run whole days on it. FIFAe used it on a finals floor in Copenhagen. Malaysia’s Ministry of Health used it for a public fair. Save the Children mixed a room in Singapore with staff on another continent.

The price is still meant to be fair. When you subscribe, that rate is locked to your account. We do not raise it later for people who already chose us.

The builder can do a lot, and on the first day that can feel like too much. Send us the game you have in mind and we will set it up in PlayTours for free. I am always at hello@playtours.app.

Mo
PlayTours

Free migration for your first game

Every new client can send their game idea, the stops and tasks, photos, logo, and brand colours. We build the first game in PlayTours at no charge. You then test it on the free 25 concurrent devices and edit anything you want.

Email the brief to hello@playtours.app.

hello@playtours.app · first game
Free migrationWe build your first game from the brief you send
Included

You send

  • Game outline and task list
  • Tasks, clues, and photos you already have
  • Brand colours and logo
  • Date, venue, and how people join

We return

  1. Brief received
  2. Colours and welcome screen
  3. Stops and tasks in the builder
  4. Ready for you to test on 25 devices

Build the route, booths, and tasks in one editor.

A start, the stops in the middle, and a finish. Booth codes for sponsors. Photos that can be judged by a person or by AI. Translation for a mixed hall. Shuffle and crowd prevention, so four hundred people are not queuing at the same stand. Time windows, so tasks close when a hall needs to clear. Certificates at the end, and a prize scan that cannot be claimed twice.

Test it on your own phone before anyone else arrives. The same editor runs a 20-person offsite and a public day.

admin.playtours.app
Details & Welcome ScreenStopsItems & InventoryUI Modifications
APAC Partner Summit
  • Fixed firstWelcome and briefingNo-answer check-off
    Edit
  • Sequence shuffledExpo boothsQR scan, multiple choice
    Edit
  • Sequence shuffledPartner photo setJudged photo
    Edit
  • Fixed lastClosing certificateCompletion certificate
    Edit

Run the live event from a dashboard.

Broadcast when a hall closes. Answer a help request. Judge a photo. Look at the map. Download the results. Stop the game before the keynote. Volunteer facilitators get a secret link to one session, not the whole account.

Those tools are not a later upgrade. The free plan has the same dashboard as a three-hundred-phone event.

Facilitator Dashboard
Facilitator DashboardFloor game · Day 2
LIVE01:24:18186 devices
LeaderboardBroadcastMessages 2Judgements 1PointsCoinsProgressTask CategoriesGalleryMapTeam Decks

Teams and Progress

TeamTeam MembersTotal PointsProgressPoints hereCompletion timeUpdated On
North HallAisha, Ken, Priya420Partner photo set802:18 pm
Sponsor WalkMei, Tomas390Partner photo set602:17 pm
Keynote CrewOmar, Lila, Ben355Expo booths1202:16 pm
Floor OpsSofia210Done048.20 mins1:52 pm

Events already run on PlayTours.

Copenhagen

FIFAe finals

Attendees visited booths, kept score, and took photos with sponsored sets.

Malaysia

Ministry of Health

Sihat Sejahtera. Sign-up at the gate, booths around the space, a completion certificate, a goodie bag that could not be claimed twice. Afterwards they had completion times and drop-offs in a spreadsheet for their further analysis.

Hybrid

Save the Children

A staff retreat with most people in Singapore and the rest on another continent. Mixed teams. Randomised puzzles so the room did not cluster. The game made people talk.

Sentosa

Vertex Ventures

A venture firm, a scavenger hunt, free choice of tasks, different starting points so teams did not all begin in the same place.

We had an enormously good experience, and we as moderators had a very manageable task as your system was so easily accessible. FIFAe, Copenhagen

Team building, hunts, events, tours, and campus days.

Team building

Offices and hybrid

Ninety minutes on work phones, with a dashboard if lunch moves. Run by Vertex and Save the Children.

 Scavenger hunt

DIY hunts

25+ task types, teams, clues, judged photos. No app to install.

 Event gamification

Conferences and fairs

Booths, certificates, and a plan sized to your busiest moment. Used by FIFAe and a ministry health day.

 Tourism

Self-guided trails

Codes on plaques, translation, a cutoff when the light goes.

 Education

Orientation

A QR on the hall door that the whole year group can open, on any phone.

Every plan includes every feature.

Typical scavenger hunt apps charge per person, and still lock features. PlayTours does the opposite. Every plan has the same builder and the same live tools. The free plan is how a team tries the real scavenger hunt app. Paid plans lift the concurrent-device cap and take the watermark off.

See the price table Tell us about your event

Tell us about your event

Date, venue, and when people will be playing. We reply with how to run it in the browser. Or start free with 25 concurrent devices. No card.