Build your own treasure hunt

Hide targets outdoors and send the children off. They watch themselves walk across the map — and the map may be one you drew yourself.

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🎯Search & find

Targets with a riddle or a QR code, surprises when one is found, and a sonar tick that quickens the closer you get.

The pursuer

Optional: it walks towards you and blocks collecting while it stands there. Brisk walking is always enough — nobody should be running with their eyes on a phone.

🗺️On any map

Hand-drawn, historical, photographed. Your real GPS position travels across that very picture.

What it looks like

The map during a round: targets as pins, the tally along the top,
the pursuer as a glowing ghost. — On the map: what has been found, what is still open — and where the pursuer is standing.

Camera view of a sunlit forest track with labels floating over it,
naming targets and their distance. — In AR the targets hang in the camera view, with direction and distance.

AR view at a lake shore: the pursuer is 71 metres away and the next
target lies behind you. — 71 metres. Walking briskly is enough — nobody should run.

A find announced in the middle of the AR view: congratulations,
ten points, the target was called Parkplan. — Found: points, the name of the target — and on to the next one.

A round's closing card: 105 points, 9 of 9 targets, 26 minutes,
1980 steps. — At the end: targets, time and steps — and your best run so far.

The summary of a round played: 40 points, 4 of 4 targets, and every
find with the time it happened. — Every round stays — each find with the time it happened.

A list of your own hunts with thumbnails and a button to build a new
one. — Your hunts: open them, edit them, send them.

A hunt's settings: map or AR, and sliders for the pursuer's speed,
head start and lives. — You set the rules: with a map or AR alone, and how merciful the pursuer is.

How you build a hunt

Photograph a map, pick one from your gallery, or simply frame a section of a live map.
Set a few points whose real position you know — with a framed section that step disappears entirely.
Hide the targets: by hand, or from suggestions of things already standing out there.
Send the map as a file — and set off.

What else is in it

points, a step count, a history
lives — being caught costs one
AR: targets in the camera view, with direction and distance
target suggestions: hunting stands, wayside crosses, boundary stones
challenge: play the same hunt against others

A gift. No catch.

OvARlay is meant to be fun and to get people outdoors — that is all it wants. Not your money, not your attention for adverts, and not your data.

🎁Free

Everything is in it from the first hunt on: no subscription, no in-app purchases, no pro version holding back the best part.

🚫No ads

No adverts and no trackers. There is no analytics service inside the app counting who plays when, or for how long.

🔒Sparing with data

No account, no email address. While you play, your position stays on the phone, and so do your hunts and your progress. A challenge shares a nickname and a result, never a position. All the details

Not only for playing

The same machinery carries more than a children's hunt — from a birthday party to a guided city walk.

🎉Celebrations

A birthday party, a company event or a wedding party: one group, one occasion, fun in front.

🎒Groups out and about

A school trip or a youth camp: discovering a place instead of just being told about it.

🧭A place to explore

City marketing, a holiday region or an open-air museum: not one event, but many visitors, again and again.

See all eight occasions

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