Geocaching App Reviews

I don't mind paying to upgrade an app. Subscriptions are just annoying and inconvenient. Make it a one time payment to unlock. Subscriptions are becoming a financial epidemic literally everything is a subscription.

I too am one who paid to download the original app; now the company wants subscription payments. Grandfather in your customers who already paid and show some gratitude to those who helped create your company. Shameful money grab!

I like many others purchased the full $10 version. The developers then discontinued that app (no longer usable) and required a subscription to use their new app. Not sure how Apple can allow this. Hey devs, your greed is obvious. And everybody sees it

How about you apply that maintenance to the app we all paid for that you neutered on us???

It’s auto renew and you can’t shut it off!

I am finding quite a few cache showing up as not found yet, that I know for a fact I found while caching with my kid

My family went out recently to look for them as a way to try to help my brother lose some weight and the few that it says that are in my area aren’t even there we looked at multiple and they aren’t there. At least we didn’t pay for the subscription

Please update the map it is VERY out of date. Other than that I am happy with the app!

How about doing what everyone ask for? Give us back our paid app.

A really cool idea. So simple and yet so broken. Trying to find a cache is a nightmare because the app is terrible as a gps navigator. The compass didn’t work. The map doesn’t work and that’s it. A compass and a map. Both which don’t work.

This app and geocaching has lead me on many an adventure. Whether you are in a new place, on vacation or want to rediscover your community, geocaching will take you exploring. 😄

My wife got me into geocaching because of a few of her coworkers. I was upset at my first few tries to find stuff (come to find out caches were stolen/removed). I pay for the subscription, and it’s totally worth it to me. Very happy!

DO NOT BUY THIS APP! I paid $10.00 for this app back in the day for all the premium features. You could download caches to offline lists without problems, and many of the other now "premium" features were included in the original app. This is downright unethical. You guys are the scum of the earth. Cachebot is better, but I’m probably done with geocaching anyway.

This app should really have an expert mode. This app doesn't let you view profiles from logs. What's even worse is that if a cache is disabled, typing in the GC code would return an "invalid code" message. This app is utter garbage and I wish groundspeak would either fix it or kill it. Trying to open a link to a cache to put it on my watch list opens up this sorry excuse for an app instead. And guess what, this app doesn't have the option to add a cache to my watch list. Groundspeak, please put this app where the sun don't shine and stop jerking us around. When my premium membership runs out in about a year, I will not be renewing unless this app is fully functional.

Paid for the $9.99 version and then you bailed on us loyal users for a greedy subscription model. Bad app, bad company, pad people.

I was to wait for 1h it’s seams like 🙄 it is a good app 👌🏻👌🏻

Paid $10 for this app. Now it wants to charge a monthly fee for what is free on the internet. What a scam

Before you install remember that most of the app you have to pay for. Almost all geocaches have to be paid for. Even though I’m using an iPhone X, it still lags like crazy. A lot of the FREE geocaches are old and stolen so you only really get any found. Seriously, why do we have to pay for this, it’s just a scavenger hunt.

Not only did they take my $10 before, get rid of that app, go to this one, and want me to pay more...the GPS/Compass is ALL OVER the place. We sat in my car in a parking lot and literally watched the GPS jump around...not just feet but direction. We tried to go today and it was just frustrating and I’m done. You won’t get a dime from me.

We paid $10 and now charge a subscription to access what we already paid for? Laughable.

Geocaching is fun. It gets us outside to places We would see otherwise and provides exercise.

Having a great time with the family finding these hidden objects but the compass is all over the place!! Please fix!!

Best free geocaching app I have ever used.

I’m not paying a developer $6 a month for such little effort.

Fun with the family

Awesome app!! BUT..Why can’t we just have a 100% free Geocache app??

My wife and I recently started hunting for geocaches together and love it ! We really like the ones hid along dirt roads with little traffic . We have 17 finds in 2 weeks of looking close to home . Looking forward to finding more !

The reason I use this app is for messaging as no other app is allowed to do it, unfortunately. Even reading messages has bugs. Want to scroll? To bad! For some reason they decided to program to jump to the last message, so if you have someone that typed a couple messages and they are longer than the screen, you cannot read them. Have to use computer. Also, a huge annoying bug is that url links that I want to open in a browser get diverted to the app, but the app never opens the cache page. So all url links die. Would uninstall so I could open urls, but then I cannot reply to messages. Please fix the app or let 3rd party developers integrate with messaging. Also give us the option to choose if the app handles url links. I actually would rather it didn’t.

You know what would be consistent. Letting us use the app we paid $10 for...

I very much enjoy geocaching so much so that I paid for the $10 premium version back when it was supposed to be a one-time fee. That money was stolen from me when this subscription-based premium version came out. I would rather spend that money on actual caches to place around town and on my travels. I would like to get my husband into geocaching as well (not to mention all the friends and family who were planning on joining). Sadly, this will likely not happen anytime soon as the $10 I paid was stolen from me, and he's not particularly fond of said deceit and the company that did the deceiving. If you want to make money, why don't you stop being so greedy and actually allow your user to spend their dollars on the physical (and expensive) merch. you sell? I was so excited to hide a golf ball, wad of fake gum, etc. but I don't see that ever happening now... you had the potential to make so much money off of me; hope you're happy with the measly $10 you stole, GroundSpeak, because that's all you're ever going to receive until you change your ways. I'd even pay the $10 again with no hard feelings. Seriously, I'd pay $30—make that $60 including my husband—for permanency. Whoever advised you to make the switch to subscriptions must get a lot of money off of you in the short-term and doesn't really care how long you stay in business. Hope you realize soon your best long term interest is in benefiting your customers long term rather than your pockets short term. Much love

How do I submit a cache? Like if I made a cache and wanted to put it on the app?

App is great. Takes a little getting used to but once you’ve got it figured out it’s awesome!

This company discontinued a version of the app that was sold at a flat rate and replaced it with this subscription version while not necessarily notifying customers. Buyer beware of such unscrupulous ethics.

I have not used this app in a very long time. I will try again, but keep the 1 star for now.

I love this

I wish I could give it a 4.6, because it is a good app but you cannot (as far has I know) get/make waypoints for placing a cach.

Geocaching is 1 of 3 location based games I play. Thanks for making life in a truck a little more fun for this nerd.

How am I supposed to apply favorite points? I can’t figure it out. Kind of a bummer.

Geocaching is just simply pure fun! My little family and I love to treasure hunt while traveling. It creates awesome memories and just brings us some great entertainment.

Great app. Works pretty good

Every time I try to use it, it shows no service. Mind you, these are in places I always have service in. Unfortunate, but at least I found out before I went ahead and splurged for the paid subscription.

This is a great way to get out and enjoy the outdoors with family, friends, and whoever is willing to tag along with you and the app makes it so much easier.

I was having a great time with the app when all of a sudden Christopher Pike decided to archive my cache on my own property because my neighbor didn’t like it.. Not any of his business, but I guess it’s geocachers 0 neighbors 1

I bought the full version for $9.99 four years ago, and now I have to pay monthly or yearly to access the full version of the app. It’s frustrating that I wasn’t contacted about the change. I only use the app occasionally but feel I should have access to what I purchased initially.

Geocaching is amazing best game ever never get tired

I’ve tried to sign in using Facebook multiple times. It claims that I am already logged in with Facebook... then why doesn’t it work?!

This app is good but it is sooooooo expensive to buy premium. Buyer beware you can only find less than half of the caches without premium.

This app does not provide simply tags on their icons to support voiceover functionality for visually impaired users.

Couldn't even get past the sign up screen. Kept saying there was an issue connecting.

We love geocaching, but for the cost of the app, we expect more out of it. Having a family package would be beneficial too.

This is always a great adventure for our family. Kids love it too. Never seem to have trouble with the app and ended up upgrading to a subscription

So much fun! Love having his app.

I paid $10 for the geocaching app and then a couple years later they disabled the app and released this one for free but it only works for premium members. The old app cost $10!!!!!!!!! That’s the most expensive thing in the App Store and now they take away what I paid for, and the new free app only works if you’re paying for a subscription. I don’t geocache enough to pay for the premium membership, but I would like to go geocaching sometimes with the app. When I had the old app I used it all the time instead of a gps. I already was excluded from premium member only caches but now all caches above a 1.5 difficultly or terrain rating are only for premium members. We need to boycott this company until they change things back.

fun time looking for all of the caches. we did this to keep the kids occupied while on vacation and has been a hit! unfortunately i have noticed that using the “cellphone” can take longer as it’s not very accurate. still works and really just adds a bit more fun to he find!

I bout this app about 5-6 years ago so that i could specifically download map areas because Missouri is miserable with cell service. Now they want me to be a member to be able to download. I call BS. That’s why i bought the app!!! Guess i wont be playing this anymore because it’s not worth a yearly subscription to me to get to use the app maybe once a month when I’m not working my two jobs.

A clean, challenging team or individual game that rewards with many outcomes, not the least of which is good fun & health. Cache On!

Seriously my new fav hobby lol

I purchased this app at a wildflower center with the idea of doing their custom geocaching tour. So, I downloaded the app. Then, I tried to enter the first GPS coordinate. Guess what? You can’t add your own coordinates! Imagine that, a geocaching app that doesn’t allow you to enter a GPS coordinate. Wow.

I just can’t express how great the app in the sport is I love it I have almost 200 fine my user name is JC 2408

Downloaded this app a couple of years ago and paid $10 for it. Redownloaded it to play with my nephew now that it’s summertime and I find that I now need to subscribe‽ This was the most expensive game app I’ve ever purchased. How are people who bought the app at the original price not grandfathered in?

Well, we have been Geocaching for a couple years now, and we have seen many improvements in the app over that time. We continue to look forward to even more improvements over time... A few suggestions that we would like to see (in no particular order... lol!) #1- We would like to be able to look up caches by their name, instead of GC#. #2- We would like to be able to look up other Geocachers, view their profile, and view (at least) their HIDES. #3- We would LOVE to receive notifications via SMS/text message (though this is probably a website request, not the app... sorry!) #4- We would REALLY like to be able to “like” posted logs, and even be able to leave short messages in response to the log (similar to Facebook posts) #5- We would like to be able to select more than one trackable to “visit” a cache by clicking an “All Visit” option (or only certain trackables and not others...), similar to the website feature. #6- I would like for the symbol for my hides to be a customizable emoji, or at minimum, be a different colored star than the current yellow. It is so similar to the smiley faces, it can be overlooked! (eg. Pink?) #7- We would like to be able to see caches that have not been found yet as distinguishable from other similar caches, for those of us who like to make a dash for the FTF! (eg. the current symbol with a red exclamation point in the middle, or a new symbol altogether...) I have realized this has become quite a lengthy review, and we hope that it doesn’t come off negatively or seem that we are unappreciative of the changes made. There have been some great improvements, and we like the app much more now than when we first started caching... We feel that some of our suggestions may bring the Geocaching community together, more that it already is... we are so happy to be a part of it, and would like to thank you all for all of the time and effort put into this tool! Much thanks from CarFam99! 🚗👨‍👩‍👧‍👧99

It’s a great pass time

The first app was the best and I often have trouble with this one, is what it is.

Well, 30$ subscription is a considerable amount, but it turned out to be worth it for me, amazing app if you can pay

This is the best app I have. It is so much fun to actually go out into the wild and look for items that you would never have known they were there unless you were looking for them. Some are in plain sight but you would never see it. Best app ever.

I love this app. When my babysitter came to my house we went geocaching. It was awesome. We found it.

I paid $20 for the first app now I have to pay monthly with the new app?! I don’t use the service enough to justify a monthly cost so I won’t be using this anymore.

There’s no way I’m paying to have fun with geocaching. Take your gimmick and be gone corporate banshee

Would be great if the app synced with Apple Watch and also if new caches could be identified like you can while logged into the computer account.

I WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT ZERO STARS JUST FOR THE FACT THAT IT KEPT TAKING ME TO CEMETERIES AND HEAVILY WOODED AREAS!!!

I paid $10 for this app, more than I’ve ever paid for any other app. And now I’m supposed to pay a monthly fee too? No thanks. Geocaching is dying out anyway, and charging for it is only going to kill it off quicker.

Scam artist profiting off of people free work. Insane and greedy

This game is fun to do wherever you are! Geocaches are all over the world. If you are out shopping, there could be a geocache in your parking lot. If you are walking around on a trail, there could be a geocache on that trail! It’s so fun even with basic membership and I found over 250 caches before I got geocaching premium! Even 3 while I was a basic member. Now, I have premium and now it’s even more fun! This is definitely something to download and you know what the cool thing is, this isn’t virtual! You can really find treasure outside your house!

My daughter loved this app so we subscribed to the paid version. It never worked right and we tried over a DOZEN TIMES to cancel the payment. It has been MONTHS and we are still getting billed for this. No customer support, no way to reach anyone to fix it and now we have to figure out how to escalate this with Apple to finally make it stop. Download it at your own peril.

Crashes. Honor the agreement you made with those of us who bought the app.

What in the hell were they thinking when they got rid of the old app and made this one?! The monthly subscription is insane. Wish I could give it no stars. The company owning this is on some bull...

Good adventures but got kicked out 7times in 5mins today June 23, 2018.

The app was updated today, but I can’t login and then it closes down. Please fix this app version so I can continue to have fun finding geocaches.

Keeps crashing. I paid for Pro but keeps kicking me to the login page after a few minutes. Very Frustrating

Paid $10 for the old app. My kids and I loved to run around everywhere and find geocaches. I haven’t been able to use it in quite some time....come to find out that the old app no longer works...and the new app wants me to pay a subscription for an app I might use once a month. You cannot even get every cache unless you purchase the subscription. The owners of this app are money hungry and are sucking the fun out of this activity. Read the other reviews and you’ll see the same disappointment.

When you’re out in the woods with 4 young kids and a million mosquitos, it’s be great if the app didn’t keep logging you out. We finally had to abort because as soon as I logged back in it would boot me out. After we all had about 80 mosquito bites each it just wasn’t worth it. Please fix this issue.

Keeps kicking me out while Geocaching

I love Geocaching but every time that I Login on the mobile app, it logs me out after a few seconds. This is also happening to other Geocachers that I know. PLEASE FIX THIS BUG!!!

Since the new update, the app keeps kicking me out and signing me off. Please fix or adjust settings

Took a break from GC over the winter. Paid for prime membership and updated app. When I sign in the app keeps bringing me right back to the sign in page. Then finally it went through! And a few minutes after kicked me back again and will not let me sign in. Same on my husbands phone. Both phones are up to date. Canceling the membership. Not worth it.

Sorry, but if the app is just going to log me out every four minutes, it’s not going to be of much use.

I have been geocaching for many years and I’ve purchased the app twice $10 each time, and it was worth it to me. But I refuse to pay yearly for it.

Perfect mobile app! Easy access.

Today I was reminded of how disgusting it was for Groundspeak to discontinue a full-featured $10 app and replace it with this subscription-only substitute. By gaiting away all caches above level 2 difficulty, Groundspeak has made the app nearly useless to anyone but premium members, pushing out once avid players and seriously hamstringing our ability to entice new geocachers. There were already premium caches, so by what justification did this company decide to hold the rest of them for ransom on mobile? At this point, I wish I could take back every dollar I ever spent on Groundspeak over the years because I feel so utterly betrayed. I never want the community to forget about what they’ve done. Do not download this app unless you are ready to pay the $30 every year to make it useful and are also willing to hope they never delete THIS app for something even more expensive in the future. This move was not only ridiculous but downright unethical. Do not support this company.

I think the app is cool and all I just think the Compass feature needs work once I found the geocache and the apps compass feature said it was 35 feet away from me if there’s any developers out there take a look at this and see if you can figure something out

Paid for a working app then they attempted to force payment again. I am surprised it was allowed.

There’s still that bug where I paid $10 for unlimited access and then you took it away. Please fix. That should be illegal.

While I agree with Doris45, that operating the app under a basic membership has its limitations, the app still does what it says it will do. The features available with a premium membership are because those people pay for the service. Groundspeak / Geocaching is no different than any other service that has a free basic and a paying premium membership system. The bottom line is it does what it says it will do. That being said, I am giving it 4 stars (I would give it 4.5 or even 4.75 if I could, just not a full 5) because I still find little glitches and some limitations that annoy me (i.e. only being able to see /load caches if zoomed in under a certain level / limit on number of caches visible at one time). Where I am, caches are spread out and I would rather see a wide view rather than needing to scroll over and then load a new area. But given the option of the app on a phone or a GPS that I have to upload and its other limitations, I choose the app on a smart phone any day (where I still have cell service).

We love geocaching but would love a list of geo conventions to go to so we can learn more ! We are new at this!

The app continues to advance and change which is nice, but I do miss the old app that is not supported anymore. Maybe because I was so use using it. Overall the app works well and does what it should, but there are things I would like to see. Biggest right now, I would like the app to work with Apple Watch. Would like an easy place to see all photos without going through comments. I don’t know if it’s the phone or the app, but lately the GPS writhing the app has been off, but when using my separate GPS app, it works just fine. Not sure why it would matter.

So I go to login with Facebook and on Facebook’s end everything goes fine, then it automatically sends me back to the geocaching app and it’s still on the “login with Facebook” page. So it gets 1 star for wasting space on my phone and adding frustration to my life with no reward.

Love to explore new places in our hometown and when on vacation. Always a new adventure!!!

Such a ripoff, really. $30 a year. Sigh. Everyone has to grab for the cash, kind of a shame. The old days of everyone freely sharing caching data were nice.

This is a horrible app unless you have Premium you can’t find any geocaches. It’s all a lie; the only thing you get out of this app is exercise. 😡

You took our paid app away. We want it back.

The App has taken a turn for the worst. Not sure what has been happening with the updates but they seem to make the App crappier. What used to be easy fun with the kids has turned into “let’s see if the App is working today” Hope they improve, kids miss geocaching.

All geocaching should be free. Ask for donations, or have some premium features related to social media cost money. Charging money to see most of the geochaches around me is crazy!

I purchased the old version of the app and had a blast geocaching. But now they have decided to charge a monthly subscription to access the data, which I already paid for in the classic app. Lame

Didn’t even want to give it one star!!! But yet again forced!!!!! This app was extremely difficult for my family to use! Every time we got to a location the GPS would go crazy and start saying we were miles away!!! And after I unsubscribed to the monthly subscription, this company is still charging me money every month for something I don’t even have!!!! I’ve looked it up and I have no subscription it ended and they still keep taking it! Don’t know how to get a hold of these thieves!!! But I’m warning y’all JUST SAY NO!!!

Get ride of the subscription model and honor the agreement made with those of us who bought the app. Myself and dozens of others haven’t cached since groundspeak violated our agreement.

I started GeoCaching about 4 Months ago. It’s been an awesome way to get out of the house and go for walks, drives, biking and runs. Everything that I already did, just got even more fun. Only I haven’t figured out how to see a list of previously found Caches. I’m operating on IPhone 6S. If anyone knows how, please let me know.

This has the makings of a good app, but it still needs a lot of work. It is difficult to figure out how to use it and there are very minimal instructions. This official app should be the best on the market, but it doesn’t come close to c:geo (which unfortunately is not available for iPhone or iPad). After the latest update, I am no longer able to download data for my lists. When I try, it keeps telling me there is a problem and I need to try again. This needs to be fixed!

I like the new format! Things that you need, you just have to find them, both the old features as well as the new ones! Visually better to navigate to what you need. Good upgrade!

I was all ready to get back into this hobby, so I reloaded the app (which I paid $10 for when I first bought it) only to discover that they’ve begun differentiating between “basic” and paid “premium” members. What a huge disappointment. If I’d known this would happen, I would never have purchased the app to begin with.

Free app not very well setup. Can not connect to geocaching servers. Even d/l the app again. Still won’t connect.

I really like to see coordinates with the title!

It took me a while to adjust to the new app and I still am learning new things every day. I usually open the cache in the browser to write my log because I often run out of space in the app section. All in all, I like it and I use it instead of a GPSr.

GeoCaching.com is very easy to use - even for a beginner like me.

As fun as this app is I would love to have accessible for iPads so my students can use it to learn about navigation. Make that possible!

What? Monthly charge to get more than basic. Ha ha ha.

I find this new version cumbersome and hard to use.

Like others, I am disappointed to see this changed to a subscription service. It really discourages casual users.

I used to love geocaching, even tell all my friends about it.. until now! I downloaded again and am unable to play! Even the easiest are 'premium' now! What a bummer!? There should have been a warning when I bought the app that is was for temporary play! This app is pointless unless you want to pay more! I think my original 10 should go toward subscription at least! My original $10 is down the drain… You should offer a discount to existing members.

Very good app I find caches all the time now I am almost always outside super fun.

I paid about $29 for the initial version of the geocaching app which no longer works. Now, the new app only shows levels less than 2. How about maintaining the commitment for my first purchase?

This game is soo fun I really recommend if you travel or go do stuff a lot

I remember the classic app for the iPhones and eventually had to come to this one. Some features I like say the finding trackable items part, the gps part is great yet......when it comes to the logging part is where i seem to fall off. Don’t like logging the trackable part say a visit etc

I bought the classic years ago and I paid for the premium side of it as well . Now it doesn’t work . Won’t connect to the servers anymore . I paid for it and I’m certainly am not gonna pay for the premium member on the new one as I like to do this when I get a chance . Not very happy about this make this right for people that made you the money first .

As the title states, this app isn't the worst thing that's ever happened to geocaching. In fact, I'll go as far as to say that the free app USED to be the worst thing that ever happened to geocaching. There was an influx of people who had zero investment in the game, who did more damage than the dreaded "muggles," having zero concern for returning things as found or for not getting muggled themselves. So this app now basically requires paid membership, which is probably a good thing. The app continues to improve and add more features, and I believe this will all end as a win-win for those of us that love the game!

Just like many people here complaining, I bought the 10 dollar version and it was great. Now that I’m getting back into it I come back to see it’s now subscription based, and I get nothing for buying the amazing old app. These kinds of people are the reason fun activities like this die.

I have been a Geocaching app user for 6 years. Not so happy with later versions of the app for iPad. When I get an email with a new cache listing and I click on the cache to see it in the app, the app no longer goes to that listing when it opens. I have to search for the cache manually. The app is also slow to load. It would also be helpful if the app could be used in landscape mode as well as portrait mode.

This app used to be great. I paid $10 for it and you could pretty much find anything but I guess that wasn’t enough for them because they have since changed it and now you have to pay a monthly/yearly subscription to find pretty much anything. Very disappointed now I don’t even use it

It's really fun to do when it's nice out and not raining also with family and friends also fun on trips

I paid for a life time membership and the company wiped there butts with it and changed to subscription.

This geocaching app works great.

This app was recommended to me, and I was excited about using it! However, I will only be occasional user. I do not plan to ever pay more than a one-time fee for ANY app! Since most of what this app has to offer is unavailable to me unless I pay and pay and pay, I will likely delete it, in hopes of finding another way of tracking down geocaches :(

You are application is never accurate, I miss cgeo

It keeps logging me out, over and over!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

I love Geocaching and it’s my favorite hobby. App is great in locating me to caches.

In 2013, I downloaded this app, and you could see more geocaches than just “above 2.0 difficulty and/or 2.0 terrain.” You could even see more than just regular geocaches. To be honest, you took all the fun out of the app and you still ask for money “To see other geocaches. I live in an area where there is around 1 geocache per square mile, and I can only look for one, because I didn’t have premium. You made a lite version of the app before, and you should have kept that and make he 10$ one have the same caches as before. Until then, I refuse to use this app.

Bad app unstable, bad company, stole from us who purchased the app.

What Can i say its amazing!!

I’m hooked! Caching with the family is too much fun

I ordered a one month premium membership and it just charged me for another month.

Don't even bother with this app. I looked for three different geocaches and there was nothing at each place. One was supposed to be in a coffee shop and there was no coffee shop it was shut down. The second the cashe was thrown over a fence in someones yard. The third was the same as the second and the last one we did there was nothing. Lame app no point in getting it unless you wanna walk miles and not find anything. Especially the fact that I have to pay to see the other cashes. Rip off.

Used to have this app a couple years ago just recently installed it again just to find out they are charging a subscription now! Zero stars!!

We have been geocaching for almost 10 years. It’s taken us all over the world. Have moved from lugging around gps units to caching with cell phone app. Still enjoy it after all these years.

It has been stalling for 10 min and never got in any tips

They took our money and discontinued the app we paid for. Now you must pay for a subscription to access what we already paid for.

It’s amazing that there is still no Apple Watch support.

My username is JC2408This is all I do anymore it is the best app for Geocaching all the negative reviews are completely wrong this app is amazing

Geocaching is amazing fun. UNTIL YOU NEED TO PAY A TON OF MONEY TO VIEW THEM! look, I’d be happy to support the team, but either a one-time purchase or lower subscription would be more reasonable. For now, this app has completely turned me away from geocaching

I paid for the premium app several years ago ($10 I think it was). Used it frequently. Recently opened the app to get back into Geocaching, only to find that the premium app we paid for is no longer the level of access we have in the app. Essentially, they’ve said “we don’t care...we’re taking the product you PAID for and will be making it useless. If you want the app to work...give us a (lot) more money!” These people don’t deserve your money. They’ve abused their existing customer base, and the new product & pricing model is disproportionately expensive for the product received.

This app used to be so reliable. Now it crashes every 5 seconds or says “connection error.” Maybe its time to move over to Cachly instead. Please fix the bug ASAP.

This app is making me cry!!! Today my family was going to go geocaching together and the app isn’t working!!!😭😢 It glitched out of the app and makes me so frustrated, sad, and mad!!! Make the app better, it used to be great!😡😭😢☹️😖😫😩😠

I cannot use the app because it crashes right after I login.

Unfortunately, it’s buggy AF and crashes as often as it works. That’s kind of inconvenient when you’re trying to find a cache and keep getting network error messages, booted out of the app, or just prompted for your login credentials every 10 seconds.

The website and app... no matter which I use, it doesn’t keep me logged in long enough to find the geocache. I’m so disappointed

Keeps crashing on me since update. I’d give it 5 stars if it would stop! Please update. Thank you,

It worked fine for a day and now every time I sign in it automatically goes back to the log in screen and it drives me crazy!

I have been using the app for several years with no problems...until I was forced to update today. It now keeps logging me off. I try to sign back in and it happens again.

I love this app and use it constantly while i’m geocaching. But i guess it updated and keeps throwing me out and not saving my username/password. Driving me crazy!! It’s in the middle of the planetary pursuit, too!!!! Please take a look at this. It was fine last night. I have tried to restart my phone (iphone X) but it doesn’t seem to help!!!

App continuously keeps crashing and will not let login. Too many network errors that are happening.

App crashes on 2 of our 3 phones. All with different username and log in. App would not allow us to log back in. Made for a frustrating experience

Drop the price and I’ll be back. Until then it’s Cashly app! Adios

Nothing like profiting off a treasure hunting game built and maintained by the community. Can I get my $10 back from the good version of the app you deleted?

Today, 4/19 it finally updated to 6.0. I love what I see! Thanks. I always look forward to an update, especially when the update touts cleaner lines and easier use which 6.0 touted. Imagine my disdain when opening the app after download showed the same thing as before the update. I don’t see any of the “updates” explained on the update page. Did someone forget to load the updated file on the update page?

Paid $10 for the old app but then they disabled it so you have to download the new app with 95% of the features locked behind a $30/year paywall. Scammers. You guys are horrible. Wish Apple would shut you down for the BS you pulled. Oh, and I’ll be updating my review every time you update the app :)

I paid a one time fee for this app and now You want me to pay recurring charge. How about I get my &9.99 back since I paid for the app and now can’t use it as intended.

I can’t login for whatever reason.

Some of us have hundreds of trackables with us that we want to visit to a cache. Please add a visit all button! Or at least a selectable option where we can checkmark each travelbug we have with us so we can visit them with the app easily. Takes so much time on the website.

It’s not much work to add iPad layout to your app. What’s your excuse?

Many years user of app. New release today and now app pulls up wrong geocache based on the email alert. This same issue resurfaces every few years. Usually dead in the water for a few days till fixed. Temp solution is to take geocache name from email and manually key it into app. But who wants to do that in this age of super technology!

Paid $10 for the old app and then they disable it so you have to download a new app with most of the features locked behind a subscription paywall. Scammers. You guys are horrible.

As others have said, there are no visible improvments in V6.0 beyond one addition to one menu. I see no sign of the improvements described. This app does have one nice feature (not new). My wife and I geocache under one name. When we find a cache she writes the first draft of the log and I sign the physical log. Then later we alternately edit the e-logs until we are both satisfied and submit. The app makes this very easy. If only it weren't so poorly organized. Go buy Cachly. It is 10 times better in organization, layout, and operation. As far as the fees for membership go, get over it. There are ~75 people in Seattle working their butts off to keep Geocaching going. You want to see disfunction? Wave your magic wand and eliminate them. Your free hobby would crash in no time.

Get ride of the subscription model and honor the agreement made with those of us who bought the app.

This app has almost no point in existing. THAT SEEMS HARSH!...let me explain. This gives quick easy access for geo caching if you have a cell signal, with the fact that the GUI is easy to use. HOwEVER! It restricts access to certain ones based on difficulty so you can't access it regardless. Well you can use a desktop(laptop) browser to get coordinates and directly put it into the google maps app on your phone. Rendering the restriction an annoyance. Better yet if the cache is above a certain difficulty and you can't access it on the app, you can go into your phones' browser and access the "desktop" version of the website, rendering the restrictions of this app sort of useless. However you must now use the desktop gui with awkward touch controls if you're willing to deal with that, if not, see the first tip. The app makes it easy for people that want a brisk walk to an easy adventure, but makes a heavy handed gesture that it restricts access to certain ones behind that membership paywall. If the cache is out of cell signal, insert coordinates to your $100+ gps device, OR download offline maps.(which is a function of this app if you pay the membership, worth paying for, (it makes it easier to do the activity)) This app makes the less difficult ones quick and easy to access, log and all that fun stuff, updating information on the fly, with a sleek GUI that works well and is simple to use. VERY COOL! However it restricts access to certain ones that just, in the end, makes the process just as slow as without the app. So if your out with your friends at say dq or something and your like"hey lets do this!" as a spur of the moment decision, it makes it very useful, unless its a difficult geocache which just makes it cumbersome and potentially keeping people away from doing so on purpose, unless you pay for the membership. If you plan ahead you can bypass the app altogether, rendering the app USELESS. It's a very cool idea, being able speed up that process, but just has an elephant in it's room. If anything the membership should be the way it is with the sending automatically to garmin, pocket queries, lists, premium caches and all that because thats worth paying for the membership. Purposefully making it harder for you to do what the app wants you to do is unintuitive, heavy handed and backwards, and is easily bypassed by simply not using the app. I want to like it because it has everything going for it, but this, in the end, keeps the app unopened, and my phone in my pocket. Because if your actively geo caching and planning ahead, there is no more use for the app unless the cache difficulty is less than two stars. So around town thats out in the open, cool but anything more and it stays in the pocket because it isn't a reason to pay for the membership and just ends up NOT BEING USED.

I always look forward to an update, especially when the update touts cleaner lines and easier use which 6.0 touted. Imagine my disdain when opening the app after download showed the same thing as before the update. I don’t see any of the “updates” explained on the update page. Did someone forget to load the updated file on the update page?

Let us say hello to the app that a bunch of us paid for.

I love geocaching but the new app ruins it because you need to buy Geocaching Premium to find most caches. It isn’t worth it anymore

I was excited about changes described in the update log for v6.0. Upon download, I opened the app and nothing is different. Judging by other reviews, I’m not the only user with the same experience. Also, I don’t appreciate the monetizing of what is arguably one of the best outdoor family activities. I started geocaching in 2003; spent $10 in 2008 to get a convenient app, only to be robbed years later when Groundspeak decided to switch to this subscription based model. Now it’s less convenient and more frustrating. Please do SOMETHING helpful.

What a scam. Purchased the previous app for the steep price of $10 and then they discontinued it - you can't even view the information you put into it. They force you to download the new one and pay $30/year to view caches. What a waste of $10 paid to these thrives. I used to love geocaching, but I have given it up entirely. Shame on you, Groundspeak. You are criminals. I want my $10 that you stole from me.

Five stars if there was ability to edit entries - for typos and such.

The supposed 6.0 update, did not change any looks that I can see. Such hype for something that is a false claim.

Miss the old app. Wish logging trackables were easier. Ah, well.

Seems to be working now. I had loading issue on premium. It wouldn’t let me see descriptions.

Since we usually geocache where there is cell service, this app does what we need it to do.

I used to have the geocache classic app on my phone. That’s how I started geocaching and got pretty into it. It was fun and easy and got me to exercise outside. I haven’t had much of a chance to use spare time and walk around so I decided to start back up. First thing I found was that my old app didn’t work and I never got so much as an email telling me geocache was switching to a new system. So I downloaded the new app cause I was excited to start doing it again. Now I can’t access any geocaches hardly at all. Not even ones I’ve found in the past. There’s no way I would pay for a basic gps system to find things. Instead of getting people outside and making them want to geocache. You people are making it impossible. I’m a college student I barely have time to get outside. Much less the money to pay for a basic app that doesn’t really do anything. Unless the subscription part goes away, consider me not a returning customer

This app will not open on my iPhone. This has been going on for a while. Worked when I first got it a couple years ago. Going back to the web site.

This app just had a major improvement.... Now able to simply tap on link which brings up app with geo location!! Great activity and hobby!!! Get out... move... and discover new locations!!

Best excuse for getting the kids outside and often learning some history

I’m not sure when it happened that Geocaching went from a fun free pastime to requiring a $30 a year subscription to be accessible. I know it sounds cheap, but this app just further restricts the use of geocaching if you have no subscription. The point I deleted was when any geocache over 2 difficulty clutters your map, but is greyed out and inaccessible for free.

Wow, you have taken the tactic of a crappy magazine. Get a few extra bucks when people don’t realize you have them on the hook. Real classy...

Worth the 30 bucks a year for the app.

Absolute greedy people who take advantage of the people who are doing the work for free. Insane.

I paid $10 for the app, I don’t feel it’s fair to now pay $29.99 subscription per year.

Bad app, bad company, stole from us who purchased the app.

Would have given 5 stars but a couple caches were either not in their spots anymore or unsafe to get to. Cache owners should keep track and take them off the site, if they are not being monitored.

This app is worth the premium upgrade. Inexpensive family activity. My kids love the thrill of locating a cache.

I've been geocaching on and off for five or six years and it's always been a lot of fun. This was back when there were two separate geocaching apps - a free one and a $10 version that gave you full access. I used the free one since I didn't think the paid app was worth the price, which while significantly cheaper than an actual GPS, it was very expensive for a mobile app. However, I would much rather pay a one-time $10 payment then submit myself to Groundspeak's new way of doing business. While the previous payment could be thought of as buying a tool, a subscription-based service makes absolutely no sense in this context. Directly from Apple: "Successful freemium apps operate as services that are continuously supported, often requiring sustained content development to retain users." $10 every three months gets you access to sustained content NOT created by Groundspeak. Think about it - every non-basic geocache someone places is providing more reason for someone to pay this company to access it. The people creating these geocaches are not paid by Groundspeak. Doesn't this seem dishonest and immoral? I mean there's sustained content Groundspeak provides too, which I believe involves some events and that sort of thing, but the vast majority of users are paying just to access the caches. I'm not counting app updates or the additional paid features such as lists or GPS downloads because updates are expected out of every app and the features are static. And on top of all this, those who purchased the original paid app have to repurchase access - now continuously, instead of the original one-time payment. The move to a subscription model has really altered my view of the sport of geocaching. What I once thought of as a grass roots community of hiding secret treasures is now just another niche exploited by big business greed. While the app is great functionally, it presents too severe of segmentation between free users and paid users. If the subscription price was lower and included more content actually from Groundspeak, such as merchandise or, heck, geocaching containers, I would probably consider making the payments. But $30 a year is too much for me to spend to access mostly peer-created content on mobile, especially when the geocaching website is free and at least one other free geocaching website exists. An analogy of this business model could be YouTube suddenly charging a subscription to watch videos with a duration over a minute.

Swap over to cachly, it's cheap and works well (one time payment)

Excessive fees. Maybe if they paid me for the caches that I create we could make a deal. But since they are profiting off of my work with no compensation to me, then we must part ways. It is reasonable for fees to develop the app, just not excessive fees. My guess is that any positive reviews not mentioning the fees are fake reviews. The fees are the “elephant in the review” and they are so large I don’t know how you can not mention them.

At $6 a month or $30 a year the subscription should cover the family. If you have a few people using it and looking it’s a lot more fun. Right now that price is crazy for more then one person to use this app

It’s worth the money

I love to do a random geocache with my family when out and about and to my surprise the original app had a pop up saying it was going to be non functional in march. So I decided to get the updated new app only to find that I need to pay monthly to use it. I paid $10 for the original app that lasted me years. I understand the need for more money to pay a developer to refresh and update an app. I would gladly pay another $10 for a new and improved version but the subscription price is just too high for the amount of geocaching we do. Good Bye Geocaching, It Was Nice While It Lasted.

Not worth paying ongoing fees for a hobby you only do sometimes.

Ummm, no. If you wanted to provide a more consistent experience you wouldn’t have taken away the app that a bunch of us paid for....

I’m reviewing this because people are leaving their cache on/in private property in Texas. I will remove and destroy all I find on private property. Include instructions in your app to avoid private property.

In my opinion it’s still a good app, but I preferred the previous version

I used to enjoy this app and the website before they started charging mouthy/yearly to find geocaches. I get they need to make money to keep the service around and all but still, eliminating access to a majority of caches?!

Like 90% of the reviews on here I paid for the $9.99 for the original app. Then when I tried to used this purchase, I have to pay monthly 3x the cost of the original app cost! No thank you. That has to be illegal. ( its like I purchase a tv and then they only give me sound unless I pay monthly ) That was a year ago. Decided to check again today to see if the developers might actually listen to the users but nope... so sad to see a great community and activity destroyed by greed. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Such an amazing way to explore even the most obvious spots around the country. A true tribe of community.

I love Geocaching, this app and Geocaching.com. However, this app lacks the ability to edit your logs or report specific problems with caches (i.e. needs maintenance, or needs archiving, etc). Additionally, the app takes a really long time to update information from the website. Other than that, it’s great to have!

Crashes about 65% of the time when I try and add a new cache to a bookmark list. Been doing so for like the last 2 weeks.

Bring back the old app and honor the agreement with those of us who bought it.

Ummm, no. If you wanted to provide a more consistent experience you wouldn’t have taken away the app that a bunch of us paid for....

To begin with, I wasn’t to fond of this app. I liked the old one a lot better. Things have changed and this new one has started to be really good and I like it. With this last update I’ve been having some trouble logging trackables. At one Geocache today I logged a trackable. When I got back home and checked Geocaching.com there was no signs of my logged trackable. I used the app once more and logged it. Still nothing. At my third attempt the trackable finally got logged.

I’m a paid user. Why do I have to click through the Show me, Next, View garbage every freaking time?! And why isn’t “add to list” a basic feature? Holy crap! They’re really jerking your chain with the hard sell features for the app, even after you buy a subscription. And once you’re inside the sell wall it’s not that great.

I enjoy this geocaching game so this app is great TftApp Eyeash

Updated a week ago and would not load, uninstalled and now no icon! Can open from App Store?!? Anyone else having that issue?

I’ve known about geocaching for a few years but finally decided to give it a try myself. Officially found my first cache today, it’s cool for getting out of your comfort zone and exploring... I actually paid for the premium the first time I was introduced to the app and never got a chance to try it. Now I see that you have to subscribe to it and pay monthly which I don’t mind doing since you pretty much pay for other entertainment there days...

It’s all I ever do anymore

Why did you stop using the Geocaching Classic app?!?!?! That was the best app!!!!!

For a very casual user the monthly cost is too high. One time purchase would be ok.

Please clear from my history

I love this app and have been geocaching with my dad all of my life thankyou so much for making this!!!

This app is perfect and I see no reason why it’s so bad. I’ve enjoyed this and what’s with all the negative reviews? I love this app!

I’m an experienced geocacher. This app is very poorly documented. A step down from the previous paid app, which this app replaced.

This app is useless to me as I have no way to save things for offline use without buying the premium version.

Monthly subscription!! For what?? Way too expensive imho. Give me a call when you go back to $10 one time fee.

Sad to see that what was once a fun family friendly activity has turned into a profit game for some greedy people. I’m considering just removing my caches that I created. Those of us who helped build these caches are now excluded from the game unless we pay the ransom to have this app. It’s a waste of money and very overpriced.

Geocaching is a great way to explore new places and spend some time in the fresh air.

Great improvement. Love the new interface and the ability to send and receive messages. Great job.

Give it try, hunt for a Geocache, gain a smiley and a few badges while learning more about where you live than you ever thought possible.

Been a member since 2005 and introduced hundreds of people around the world to geocaching. Myself and many of those refuse to geocache because we paid for the $9.99 version and then you bailed on us loyal users for a greedy subscription model. Bad app, bad company, pad people.

Update: Crashes and the subscription model is a bad idea. Make it free for those who already paid $10. Still feel ripped off.

I paid for the original app but now suddenly I can no longer see any good caches. groundspeak wants us to pay per month to access anything more than the most boring caches. App is worthless now unless you want another subscription in your life. Don’t forget you rely on your users to place and maintain caches!!

This app has improved a lot inside Lotta good writing easy to manipulate send reports and track

App not showing difficulty above 2 is ridiculous and worth finding a different caching community. Paid $10 for their other app a few years ago but they decided it didn’t push enough premium subscriptions so they killed that app and give you this one that locks out a lot of info. — this isn’t info they enter it is info you enter when you crest a cache. Deceptive at best - unethical company

This version of the app looks great on iPhone X! Thanks!

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Doesn’t work at all...

Sometimes it’s a game, sometimes it’s a sport, almost always it’s a good time and a quirky, fun community. I have to say I liked the old iPhone app much better.

After trying to retrieve username and password, never receive an email to change password or username

I used to enjoy playing this. Bought the upgrade and decided to pick it up a couple years later. There is a subscription fee??? Lol - no ty.

Having fun with family. Young and old. 😎

I reset the password more than 10x and it always pops up...oops something went wrong. Yeah get your act together and figure your own software out.

Great app for family fun!

As this app is improved it gets bettered.

I’ve been an on again, off again cacher.. the fact that there is premium and monthly installments now is sad. I took up geocaching because I am broke and I cannot afford many forms of entertainment.. and now I’m dumping this. It was a good run. Maybe some day it’ll be free to use again.

I am all about supporting people who produce a good app but a monthly subscription is ridiculous! Especially for a fun free activity you do occasionally. Do not support the app.

I love finding geocaches

Best app ever! I really don’t mind paying for memberships... we go geocaching with this app whenever we can. We have found over 600 geocaches, which is so many hours of outdoor adventures! It takes us to great places for walks, and bike rides (even near our home) that we never knew were there! We have also hidden over 50 (using the website to submit for review). I much prefer this app over my gps. We used to have the old app, but this one is much better and I can see why they switched. If you are new to geocaching, buying the premium membership is well worth it!

I was finding many geocaches and been wondering how do you hide a Geocaching because I know you could buy from the Geocaching App Store it’s just now I don’t know how to place one. Will it lock onto the map or will it be a location I don’t know please respond to this PS I love this. Geocaching is the best 😁

Well, you've successfully prevented me from geocaching. Even after I paid for the original app, you go and make a new one..."Better". I will not be strong armed into paiding your ransom and I hope that people see your money grabbing ways and downgrade all caches to 1.5, effectively killing your business. If you're reading the reviews at all, you'll see this is the beginning of the end. Happy Unemployment.

How about since most of us paid $10 for your last app you decided you just wanted to shut down. Make it to where we can do more then just normal caches on here. You are going to drive away more people with this crap app then you will bring in.

Great thing to get our family outdoors and doing something together.

Let’s be honest, the only thing the app developers have to do is make a functional, intuitive app that stores and interacts with users’ data. Since the the app authors don’t regularly create any content, there’s no justification for recurring charges that a one-time charge wouldn’t cover. While the interface works well enough, the app is a serious battery killer. This alone makes the experience a bit miserable. I can go from 100% charge to absolutely drained in about an hour. This absolutely MUST be fixed before I’d even consider paying anything further. $6/mo or $30/yr just isn’t reasonable for an app that’s used only now and then. That kind of pricing demands a considerable amount more content and functionality than what we’re getting. But geocaching doesn’t need anything more than what we already had so there’s no need for such a relatively high subscription price. Please go back to a one-time fee or you’re going to lose a good percentage of the community.

Where is the app we paid for? You did a bait and switch on your most loyal customers. Good job.

It’s a fun way to check out new places. On a motorcycle, it’s much funnier. It’s funnest with a friend. Highly recommend it!!!

Site would only let me edit my last positive review otherwise I would've written a new one.But the latest update took away the WAZE function so now all you get is the compass. Fine when you are near the GZ but otherwise it is useless. Bring back the guidance system please!!!!!

I will edit my review below by adding my opinion on the new version: this is still a ripoff. Visual fixes??? Gee, thanks for nothing. Just google this app for the appalling details. I think it’s a couple of lawyers trying to make a buck on the back of dozens of volunteers. There are other ways to make geocaching work for you. Google those too. I paid 10 bucks for the last app and wasn’t offered a credit for this one. So disjointed, and so not in the spirit of a game in the public domain. I am beyond disappointed and will never recommend or praise this app over the other options available.

Just updated a day ago to latest version and now no caches will load at all. Totally broken and unusable. I pay premium membership so this is especially really unacceptable.

I’m really interested in using this app for some fun adventures but anytime I try to make an account with this app, it tells me there’s a network error right after I try to make my username. Any help would be great 😕

We mostly Geocache while traveling because favorites are often in wonderful spots that only locals know about. When traveling abroad, we have been able to turn off cell service and rely on WiFi. This app actually loads a larger map area than Google Maps, so we use it as our primary navigation app when traveling abroad.

Almost impossible to cancel.

This app is amazing!

Fun fun fun

I live around very few caches and haven’t used an app in a while. I’ve never even used this app before, just the classic version that no longer connects to servers. Come to find that all the caches near me I can’t access and have to pay a monthly fee to access. Why not just charge $5-10 up front for the app itself with unlimited access?

You get what you pay for! The free basic membership is merely an opportunity to learn about this hobby and decide if it’s worth $30 a year to pursue it further. Too many of us are used to free apps, but they can only exist with advertising or donations. With a Premium membership, Geocaching.com is certainly providing a wonderful product at a reasonable price!

There really isn’t much of a point to this app and that breaks my heart. I love geocaching, it’s a family activity that we cherish. It pains me that this app still does not allow me access to my stuff. Great I can see the one trackable in my possession, but I can’t simply click on my hides in my profile to view said hide. Even a clickable link that takes me to the webpage for my hides would be preferable. I honestly am beginning to question what I pay for each year when I can be a basic member and get the same functionality. I’m sure my money goes to the aesthetic updates for this app...seems odd it can’t be put to use in having the same programmers make this worth a cacher’s Time. I don’t recommend this app to anyone. Create a bookmark icon for the website on your phone, that idea is a 4* idea while the app is going to remain at 1* until it’s fixed...which it never will be.

Confusing to navigate at first, but once you figure it out the app itself is fun. What I don’t like is the fact that you pay $30 for a year membership and then instead of getting an email to remind you to renew the subscription or cancel it, they automatically start billing you a $7 monthly cost of a membership. A reminder email would have been nice instead.

I enjoy geocaching. It has taken me and my family on many interesting side adventures!

Specifically, I miss how easy it was to view the bike routes. I also find myself missing the ability to quickly view all the photos associated with a cache in one place without having to scroll through years of old logs. This APP won't stop me from geocaching , but I was prompted to rate it, so there you go. Update 12.8.18 - you’ve gotten way way better at the trail maps!! Yay! But now the app is complicated. I heart caching 4eva. But go back to the navigation bar!!!

I have been an avid geocacher for over 10 years now and am severely disappointed in the lack of availability without having a premium membership. The joy of geocaching is that anyone can do it, and now it feels like only 30% of caches are accessible. This is a unique and exciting way to get in touch with the world and it saddens me to see its functionality cut in half.

It’s ridiculous all this time that has gone by with no support for Apple Watch.

I enjoying Geocaching.

Used the old app for about 4 years...it was a fun diversion with the kids. For someone who only geocached once a month at most a subscription makes no sense.

We paid $10 for unlimited use. You took it away and replaced it with a subscription. Refund us!

It seems with every update we lose more stuff, then gain others we don’t need. Just saying, it happens a lot!

The app has proven to be very useful. The GPS function is very accurate logging on the road is very easygoing. This includes logging trackable. I love it. J2d2zhu

Get outside. Hike. Find stuff. See stuff while you’re finding stuff. It’s fun. It’s exercise. It’s free. Stop reading reviews and download this already. Get outside.

I paid $10 for this app when it was released. Had a blast making finds when it was inconvenient to load and carry my gps. Now it's beyond crippleware.

Maybe if the map wasn’t garbage, the app would be better. I’ve used so many geocache apps that are better. Was hoping the OG would have it locked down. Wrong.

This app is not in the spirit of geocaching. As other reviewers have pointed out, the new subscription model is shady, and especially unfair to those who paid $10 for the old app and full access to all geocaches. They could have at least given the first few months free to the users who kept geocaching alive by paying for that old app. I can only the number of users has decreased with this new model, especially veterans like me.

Love this app and geocaching

I always have my phone on me, and I could always grab a cache of any difficulty level at lunch or while out with my kids. Now I have to upgrade my groundspeak account to premium in order to navigate to any cache above a level 1. I haven’t cached in a while because of that. I even sold my GPSr a while back because I had my phone. I was a huge advocate of caching. As a teacher I took my classes to cache in a local park. I wanted to introduce them to a completely free activity that helped them explore the world around them. The old app was great, and allowed anyone with a smartphone to find any cache. That was good.

Geocaching is a wonderful activity for young and old. This site is the best!

I quit using this app several years ago. Just reloaded it, and now to find most of the caches you need to have a subscription, which costs $30 to $40 a year. I’m pretty sure I paid $5 or 6 bucks for this app already, now it’s a yearly subscription? No, thanks.

We have been geocaching for almost 20 years and still love it! Once you try it your hooked!

Well they took all the fun out of this! Not everyone has the money! Why is my “Classic” app no longer working? I’ve got 34 finds all over the U.S.! What about $10 a year? You would have a lot more takers! Thanks, disappointed!

Just google this app for the appalling details. I think it’s a couple of lawyers trying to make a buck on the back of dozens of volunteers. There are other ways to make geocaching work for you. Google those too. I paid 10 bucks for the last app and wasn’t offered a credit for this one. So disjointed, and so not in the spirit of a game in the public domain. I am beyond disappointed and will never recommend or praise this app over the other options available.

Wish there was a straightforward way to log trackables

There is no reason to hide and maintain caches when the ONLY people profiting in all this is the owner of this app. My caches get allot of finds in the winter due to their location, but I will likely be removing them this winter and simply leave a note behind explaining why they are now gone. Maybe that note will be the new Traveler to get the word out. This used to be a fun sport and I'm sure the developer made a nice living selling the app., then clearly greed has taken over. I refuse to build his empire for free if he is locking everything down to a RIDICULOUSLY high monthly subscription fee. $10/yr might have been OK, but barely. Want to now run a completely for profit subscription business? Then PAY those of us who took the time to build and hide the caches in the first place. WE are the ones who built your business for you !

We started caching in 2007 with a handheld Garmin GPS unit. Previously spent hours entering coordinates manually. We feel like geocaching just got a lot easier. Now we have a 3-year-old and 5-year-old we go caching with, so the ease the ap allows is invaluable.

I absolutely hate this "upgrade" I bought the $10 version a few years ago and now all I'm left with is a scaled down non-user friendly version. So disappointed.

This is an excellent hobby. Gets you out in the woods exploring. The things you find in the woods looking for the cache are as interesting as finding the cache itself.

I like geocaching, but I already paid for features on this app and now they want a monthly subscription fee. Nope, I’ll keep my money and do something else.

The old app was so much better than the new one

While this app has an updated UI, I was saddened to see that they’ve now restricted all but the most entry level caches to those who pay for premium membership. We were quite active in the early days of geocaching, forming our own club and putting out a ton of local caches for people to find. We paid a pretty penny for all kinds of gear from Groundspeak. Then when they put out an iPhone app, we paid the $10 to support that too, to have something on hand to cache with newbies. Haven’t gone out in awhile, but took my brothers family out only to feel like we just got ripped off again by a money-grubbing company that we have put so much into. No thanks! We’ll go where the original spirit still lives on - we’ll try a few we’ve seen reviewed (Cachly seems like it has good reviews), just tired of being taken by the same people and are going to put a stop to it.

I’ve had the app for several years and recently I get an error that it cant connect to the servers and I should try again. It is making me crazy!

App works great, but needs to stay up to date with current technology. Apple Watch and iPhone X should be supported with this app.

It's great except for one problem, it keeps on telling me I haven't validated my email address, but I have. Otherwise, great!

Do not download! This app is junk...

I tolerated this app for a long time, but this most recent update made it even worse for what I’d like to use it for! You used to be able to see how many trackables were in a cache without fully going into it. With this update, you can’t see that anymore. You also can’t log trackables as “visited” when logging. Please update and make trackables easier to use and I will change my review.

Geocaching used to be a fun experience it was free for everyone. Ground speak became greedy they started charing us they removed and app we paid $10 for and gave us nothing back in return. Geocaching will die soon if ground speak doesn't fix the damage they have done. The app is also extremely buggy the classic app was much better!

Geocache used to be completely free. Month to month including hints. Was an amazing activity to do with the family. Was.

I used to love geocaching but then one day I got on my app and it said it was “retired.” I spent $10 on their app to receive access to all of the geocaches and now here I am stuck with an app that doesn’t work anymore and limited access yet again. Not sure how that’s fair since I paid $10 for the app... I don’t see how you can just take access away from people who already purchased it just because you’ve suddenly decided that you want to start having people subscribe.

I am very disappointed with the structure of this app … I bought the old one … the purpose of a one time buy is so I don’t have to subscribe … then the old app is discontinued, and prompts me to download this one, come to find out I can’t even see the geocaches that I already paid to see in the old app? That’s rotten… They should have ported over their old database for those that bought the other app. I only use it once every 6 months anyway … and today when I wanted to use it I found out that it’s been 12 months since I used it last. … That being said, they did a good job with the user interface of this app; but I’m still frustrated that they are ripping off so many people with something that is free for just using the browser with, the only difference being you need to copy the coordinates to put into a separate app to get where you want to go.

I enjoyed the game and the app. I will suggest a QR code reader to log QR trackable‘s. Also to be able to search for favorites and filtered searches would be a plus. Thanks and I know it will improve in the future.

Best app ever! My family and I have the best time, using this app. Built in gps is icing on the cake. Worth every cent! 💗

Imagine if I could get a tap On my wrist when I’m within a cache at a predetermined distance I set for alerts...😍

I received the email announcing the upgrade and immediately installed it. WOW! I absolutely LOVE the new navigation features! I’m beginning to think I don’t need my etrex Looking forward to even more updates to bring the desktop experience mobile.

Just introduced two fellow travelers to the GC world. They are smitten.

I used to love going geocaching! Until they added their stupid membership thing like they don’t already make enough money.

I’m like many others before, a non-premium user who finds little use in the app, currently. I paid for the app many years ago and was annoyed when they phased it out for this current one. But like the time before there was an app, I will happily find geocaches without it as well. I’ve posted in other places that I would probably do an in-app purchase to unlock all non-premium caches, but I’m NOT interested in paying $30 a year for a membership I would use maybe 10-15 times. I geocache when I’m on vacation and in new areas, otherwise, not something I do. So for their to only be one paid option seems like a huge miss by groundspeak. But I think groundspeak must find joy in their ability to ruin their own game. Time and time again they’ve done things that just leave their users scratching their heads, this app being one of them. Oh well, $30 I can spend elsewhere.

The app is junk unless you pay a yearly premium fee. Really disappointing for a game that was developed as a free activity by the community.

We’ve been caching since 2011 and have cached all over US and Europe. We love to get out and see an area via geocaches. Great family fun:passed the fun into our kids and grand children. Smokey 44

I understand the need to make a profit, but I’d already paid for the old app, and it was expensive. As a geocaching app, it’s 4/5 ... some things are not as easy to find as they should be; I had a hard time with trackables. Nevertheless it does work for the basic task of finding caches on a phone.

Great app, but I miss being able to log a TB visit at the same time as a cache log...or at least I haven't figured out how to do that yet. Waiting for the caches to reload in order to log a TB visit is a drag. Great otherwise!

Love geocaching. Please update for iPhone X.

Ever since the new app went into effect the compass on my IPhone 5 has been very inaccurate. Many times I've had a cache in my hand and the app is saying it's 30+ feet away

Whenever I open the app it just says "updating" and shows a black screen and doesn't do anything. Doesn't even work. It's fully updated also.

Makes geocaching anytime anyplace an option.

Give us the old app we all paid for. Disgusting.

I love to do a random geocache with my family when out and about and to my surprise the original app had a pop up saying it was going to be non functional in march. So I decided to get the updated new app only to find that I need to pay monthly to use it. I paid $10 for the original app that lasted me years. I understand the need for more money to pay a developer to refresh and update an app. I would gladly pay another $10 for a new and improved version but the subscription price is just too high for the amount of geocaching we do. Good Bye Geocaching, It Was Nice While It Lasted.

Updating your app will only make people resubmit their 1 star ratings over and over and over........... Most caches are behind a paywall now. I already bought the "classic" app. Why did you get rid of it? Do the right thing and reinstate it! In the meantime I've changed all my hidden caches to be 1.5 or less so everyone can see them. Everyone else should do the same thing!

Update: Crashes and the subscription model is a bad idea. Make it free for those who already paid $10. Still feel ripped off.

On family trips we would use this app to go after various caches, and the kids had a blast. Now they killed it making me pay a premium subscription for it before I can see most caches. I don’t use it often enough to justify a subscription, and already paid $10 for the app when I originally downloaded it years ago. Unfortunately we don’t geocache anymore.

Funny your notes for the latest update say the UI was spruced up but you must be mistaken because it looks crappy on the iPhone X.

The ratings are extremely unfair for terrain, especially in cities, where it’s mostly flat, and you can take the car or subway just about anywhere. Just because it’s five blocks to get to the cache instead of three doesn’t mean I should pay 25$ an month! COME ON! At least make traditional caches with ALL ratings free!

Title says it all. Force closes every time I try to open it. No other app on phone does it.

I paid $10 for the app a few years ago, it was great to go out with my phone instead of downloading from the computer to the GPS, and planning a whole trip. I could just go out for the day find 2 or 3 I’m not a “hardcore” cacher, and maybe that’s what the business model is trying to do is weed out the weekend cacher... but it just seems greedy, they were already making good money with the premium subscriptions, then they decided to charge the weekend cacher? I had to delete the app because I knew I’d never use it again!

This app is amazing and did use it all the time! But there are a few things I think you should look into. Firstly, there is no way to edit a geocache desciption or add images one it has been created. This is a problem for me because there are certain things I hadn't mapped out about my cache that I really needed to add, and no matter what I did, nothing. Second, the fact that I have to may a 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑙𝑦 fee is terrible. I wouldn't make my consumers pay 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 to get access to all the geocaches on a 𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 app, no less, but if you're gonna make a payment, at least make it a one-time thing. This way more people will want to get the membership- because it's simpler, but also you will get more money this way. Everything is just less complex. The last thing isn't so bad, although sometimes it is a problem for me, not being able to "tag" someone else who helped you with the geocache. I think you should be able to link them as well. So to recap, editing a cache, the subscription payment, and others. Please fix these and this could be a 5-star rating. But other than that, this app is great!

If you want to get out of your house and see things you’ve never seen in your own neighborhood this is the game that will make you explore.

The monthly subscription isn’t worth it for an occasional user, and the actual content that makes this useful (I.e. the geocaches) isn’t generated by the developers getting the subscription fee. I’d be happy to pay a one time fee for the app, but not a subscription for something I only use every once in awhile.

A fun thing to do on a car trip. A way to get out an stretch the legs.

Geocaching has become such an amazing experience! So many new features and plenty of caches to find, I have truly found an amazing hobby amongst many new caching friends as well :) If you are uncertain if you’ll enjoy this worldwide game i can guarantee you absolutely will! Come join us and stop being a muggle!

What a great activity! You do not have to pay, but if you do it makes the experience so much better! There are great people that do this. I highly suggest this app and this activity!

I have emailed several times and looked tirelessly on how to stop this subscription. Not even after emailing the company they are still automatically withdrawing almost $5 per month from my card for over 3 years! Ready to take action through the bank. They’d get a call but finding a phone number is impossible. Rip off!

Crashes and the subscription model is a bad idea. Make it free for those who already paid $10. Still feel ripped off.

I have been a premium member for years now and find the app limiting. On more than one occasion it has not kept me logged in. Not a big deal, just a frustration for me, as I tend to have complex passwords. The past week I went out to perform some maintenance on one of my caches and found that I could not log an owner maintenance visit. Seems that you have to use the web site for that action.\\ One part that I find very frustrating with the app is it acting like I do not know anything about geocaching and displaying "got it" messages. Perhaps this happens when the app is upgraded and it must have a indication of if it has displayed a "useful tip" to the user. How about an option to not display theses tips. I think that would be a better approach. Another frustraton is the silly screen that appears when you near a cache that you are navigating to. Just a beep or a vibrate would be enough for me. I do not need to dismiss a message. I also do not like the fact that my caches that are higher difficulty/terrain are now behind a pay wall if the user is using the app and not a standard hand held gps unit. At least with the web site and a loc file, users can find these caches if they wish. Seems like a money grab to me. Update: I feel as a result of the paywall introduced by groundspeak, the find rate of my caches has fallen off, and I have gradually been removing them from the field. As I have no intreat in dumb dime-a-dozen, me too, caches, I am not planning on continuing as a premium member or paying the troll to find the scraps of bait left by greedy dirt bags sitting in their office. Later, groundspeak.

The app crashes immediately every time I open it. Both my phone, and the app, are up to date.

I love this app, great way to pass time on the weekends, but the GPS system is not very accurate. It often says I am 20+ feet away from the actual cache, which makes its a lot harder to find them. Would be 5 stars if this problem gets fixed!

Back before geocacheing was as big as it is now i bought this app for 10.00 dollars. Trying to find something fun for me and my son to do i decide we can treasure hunt.(yes i used my original username) Download the app and open it only to find that they want me to pay a subscription now?! Are you serious? What a real let down. After having already paid for my premium version this less then mediocre free version is garbage. Such a let down.

The app has been a great tool to use, easy and gets us to the geocaches. If you could add the ability to translate within the app, that would be great. I geocache in Europe and it makes it difficult to have to cut and paste from the app into another app for translating.

“Searching for Geocaches” then black screen. Restart the app multiple times before finally showing local caches. Wish I knew a way to revert to old stable version.

Couldn't someone find and meet you at the destination and possibly kidnap you?

I love Geocaching. I dislike this app that makes it so much more difficult than it used to be.

I started geocaching 8 years ago. My wife and I basically became best friends and fell in love on our hikes and finding geocaches! It truly was one of our favorite things to do together. The sad thing is, we never do it anymore because Groundspeak switched to a subscription base when people ALREADY PAID $10 for the full app! I agree with what other have said, quite unethical. What a bummer. Geocaching was such a neat thing...

We used to be able to see all the caches without ANY payment. I can understand a one time fee for a nice app but a subscription membership to be able to view the majority of the caches is absolutely ridiculous. I went from a geocaching fan to a hater. I sure hope they redeem themselves.

Love the app. Wish it cached locally so that we could find caches off network.

Shame on you for charging so much for an activity that was enjoyed by so many. This app will be permanently deleted. My family used to geocache every once in awhile and enjoyed it, but not enough to pay $5.99/month. What, your profit margin wasn’t big enough after we paid $10 for the last premium? RIP-OFF!

Was nice before you had to pay a subscription. After a 10 dollar charge for the app

This newer app requires a subscription to unlock certain features. Seems fair for new customers given the business model is changing to subscription based. But this app replaces a previous $10 geocaching app where many of these features were already available. Seems unethical that pre-existing customers will now lose what they already paid for. There are other apps that grandfather pre existing customers into the features that they already had. And it's worth noting that years ago, $10 for an app was a considerable cost back when apps averages $2-$3. And customers paid that price. That should be worth something today.

No longer free -only get 1.5 star or under for free from this app. :(everything else cost which is pretty much the only reason to geocache

Gives you a little piece of mind, adventure and fun.

Bought a fully functional version and enjoyed with family. Then they got greedy, and took away the features I paid for and started charging a ridiculous monthly fee for something I only use on occasion. A scam only legal in software. The app is very limiting without paying up.

I find the app to have reached a point where it does everything very well. I have one remaining gripe, though: on the filter screen it’s impossible to isolate one Difficulty or Terrain level. The sliders cannot be overlapped to a single point. This is weird, because you can do that with the Android version. Why not here, folks????? Oct 18, 2018 update: this slider concern is still a problem. C’mon HQ, fix it already.

Not sure what is going on, but since going to iOS 11, this application crashes every time on startup.

The old system was great! All the cache items were available and we would enjoy it a few times a year. Now, we get the new version and the 2 around us tell us we have to upgrade for premium.

I love having geocaches at the tip of my finger. Wish I could mark my travel bugs having visited the cach with the app. Lately I can’t even been able to log left travel bugs with the app.

Used to work sufficiently, but now it’s just slow and buggy. It crashes all the time and I can’t really look at anything from a list view. What ever you did with this last update, roll it back and make it work well again.

I had the original app where you paid for the app not the premium account which was perfect for me as a very casual user. This set-up makes little sense as premium cachers are less likely to rely on their phones to find geocaches.

I paid 10 bucks for the old app and now it’s useless.

Would be great if the app synced with Apple Watch and also if new caches could be identified like you can while logged into the computer account.

Adding 10/13/2017: Lab caches do not shop up on this app. There needs to be a way so lab caches can be viewed. Adding 6/10/2017: Great improvements! Would like to see an easier way to view associated pictures from the gallery. One bigger issue is that when caches are newly posted they are not showing up on this app for a while. Even with refreshing the app newly published caches do not show up. This is annoying as people with other apps do see these newly posted caches and people with this app do not. So when you are at an event and caches are published there and then you cannot join the game because your app does not work for this. Adding to previous reviews: 3/19/2017: 1) newly published caches do not show up for a while 2) the compass does not update distance and this appears to be a glitch. Adding to my previous review which was still neutral. After using this app for two full days finding roughly 30 caches I find the app does the following: 1. Drains batteries. After 3 hours it's time to plug in the emergency power. 2. Uses more data. In two days i used 60MB as compared to the old app where I used 150MB in 12 days of geocaching. The amount of time geocaching per day was about the same and the activity / number of finds per day similar. 3. The links to the geoChecker end up in a useless location. 4. I used the list of nearby caches frequently, the new app does not have this 5. Solved puzzles require a workaround by finding your final waypoint inside a menu. The map does not show where the solved puzzles are located. 6. How can I turnoff the jingle that says I am within 30ft of the cache? My previous rating was *** my new rating is a *. That jingle when you are approaching a cache is annoying. The messages on the screen when you DNF a cache or something else are nice for new cachers but if you know what you are doing they are not needed. Would like to see a menu to personalize (switch off/on) some functionalities. 7/16/16: would like to see disabled caches as well. How can we switch off or change it to something more discreet the jingle that goes of within 30'?

I wish that you could see the smileys no matter how far you zoomed out. Other than that it’s an amazing app

App keeps crashing on the "updating" screen! Unusable and seriously frustrating!

I'm probably the world's worst geocache (er), but I'm still having fun. Thanks for this app

The only thing the app needs is a battery saving mode. My power drained from 75% to 36% in twenty minutes of having the app open

...is a dying activity! I bought a new iPhone, so I needed a new geocaching app. My old Samsung android app worked very well, but it's not available for the iPhone. This app won't even let me save a list as a basic member. I am DONE with geocaching!

Stop it. Give us back the app we paid $10 for.

Groundspeak's decision to require a subscription for any cache over 1.5 difficulty is unfortunate and short-sighted. Geocaching should be open source but it isn't; Groundspeak continues to leverage the community for more and more money while offering very little in return. I've spent many resources building elaborate geocaching games and have been a Premium member for years but I'm giving up in disgust. It's just greed. They're taking the entire concept in the wrong direction.

Needs improvement and bug fixing

I paid $9.99 for a lifetime premium membership a couple years back... Now you changed your business model and took away my "lifetime" membership and are now forcing me to pay monthly. Such a shame!! Apple, please remove this app from the store or require them to fulfill their promises.

You’re not trying to bring the outdoor community together. Just trying to make a profit. So sad.

I simply love this game, probably never will stop either.

Be prepared to become absolutely addicted to this. No exaggeration.

I had purchased their previous app for $10, and now it is no longer functional because they terminated support in order to drive people to their subscription based service. I think that is a very sleazy business practice.

I downloaded this to participate in a specific series. I found that I couldn't complete it without signing up to be a Premium member. Even if you have the Geocache ID, you can't search for it and have it show with the free app. Very disappointed and will not continue after this month.

Seriously the compass on the Apple Watch was amazing. Please bring it back.

Like many others I paid $10 for the original app which you stole from us and tried to force us into a subscription model. Nope. Sorry. I’ve removed all my caches because of this crap.

Took a while to get used to the new format. Really like being able to send answers and log at the same time.

This used to be a great app. Then the developers started charging people to see anything but the basic cache. I haven’t geocached since then and it’s been quite a while. I miss it, but I’m not going to pay to see regular caches. It was fine when we just couldn’t see the premium caches that were considered different from the regular ones, but the fun has left the game. :(

After using the App for a few years on an account that is almost 15 years old, I paid a 1 month subscription to access some premium sites in an area of difficult terrain. The App did not provide access to premium content. When I tried to sign out and sign back in, my login name was no longer recognized.

Thanks for letting me know that I paid for nothing. What a ripoff

Great app, but $9.99 / month is absolutely ridiculous. It’s a huge rip-off and the free version only lets you see the easiest and most boring geocaches out there.

The new update annoys me because in the activity logs, it is much less organized than before

This update is like a step backwards. The navigation screen is not very useful. How come I can't log trackables while submitting a log? How come I can't edit submitted logs? Leave it to GC to screw this up.

I love geocaching & the app is great for the most part but a few things should be better I feel... one thing for the trip we took I wish to be able to sort by like points in the filter like on the sight.

Love this app and easy to use

When I go to the geocaching.com site it shows more caches then the app. Super frustrating.

Used to work flawlessly. Now it crashes every time I try to drop a trackable ... no longer can I dip TBs in a log for a cache either. You have just taken all the fun out of grabbing and dropping TBS 👎🏻

Great to get outdoors and find a cache! Love it

I love the new app! It took a while to get used to it, but it just keeps getting better, and the overhaul they did to modernize the old code is now paying off. My favorite newer feature is showing my DNF’s when I’m in an area—So I can avenge them! Keep up the good work—the app is top notch.

Anyone know how to cancel this?

This app used to be great. I loved geocaching with my husband and friends. Now everything in this app is locked behind a paywall. I’ll see a cache I want to try, but if the difficulty is over two, it’s invisible. If the creator marked it as premium only, it’s invisible. I can’t log caches, can’t find things, and can’t see anything without a premium membership. And I’m not willing to pay out the nose for something that is supposed to be a fun, free, community-based activity. It’s ridiculous. Don’t waste your time downloading this app. It’s just a desperate attempt for the creators to make a buck on something that shouldn’t cost money in the first place.