A daily photo scavenger hunt for trips, birthdays and mild group rivalry
Set up a photo scavenger hunt for your friends, family or colleagues in a couple of minutes. At midnight your time a new envelope lands on everyone’s phone. Tear it open, go take the photo, and see what everyone else came up with.
Plays in any phone or laptop browser today, with no sign-up. Or get the app: iPhone (TestFlight) · Android (APK).
This is the app, running a sample hunt. Press “Try it yourself” and swipe the envelope to tear it open.
Missed it · stunt double
A sample hunt · photos are illustrative
Clue 01 of 10
A hunt runs for 3 to 30 days. You set it up once, send one link, and the app does the daily bit.
Pick a name, a place (or tap Use my location), your dates and team size (1 to 12; 1 is a solo hunt). Scav suggests themes to suit; keep them or pick your own. AI drafts a clue for every day, and you tweak or rewrite any of them before day one.
Share your team’s link or hold up the QR code. No accounts, no passwords. Teammates join your team; anyone else can start a rival one from the same link. Lost in the group chat? Send it again from your team page.
Each clue opens at midnight your time, with a nudge at 8:00. Swipe the envelope open, take a photo or pick one, add a caption and post. Everyone sees everyone’s.
Clue 02 of 10
Every day’s challenge shows up in its own envelope, printed in that day’s colour with a rubber stamp in the corner and a tag saying whether it’s a solo, team or all-teams job.
There’s no button to read it. You drag your thumb across the strip and tear the paper open. Each envelope gets its own little animation to suit the clue, and opening it ends in a celebration. Past days stay open in the Days tab, so you can flick back through every clue and photo whenever you like.
Note: on a foldable, the clue and the day’s photos sit either side of the fold.
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Pho timeClue 03 of 10
You’re free to cheat or chicken out, provided you don’t mind the whole hunt hearing about it straight away. There’s no quiet version of either.
From 9pm the night before, you can open tomorrow’s envelope early to plan your shot. Scav immediately grasses you up to every other team.
Not happening today? Veto the clue and your team gets a backup challenge. Everyone else gets a freshly written jab, and it’s stamped on the photos you post that day, next to what you did instead. If several teams veto, each stamp only lands on its own team’s photos.
Clue 04 of 10
The photo is the main event, but every day brings a side quest. Both are written to fit your hunt, and both behave themselves when Kids can play is on.
One with every clue. On an adults’ hunt they’re cheeky and sometimes rude. You answer when you post your photo, then see how every team split.
Turns up on random days (never day one, about a third of the rest) with a topic to suit the hunt. Your team writes two true things, then picks a ready-made lie or writes its own. Guess everyone else’s lie in secret.
Note: guesses stay secret until the morning reveal, so nobody can copy the smart team.
Clue 05 of 10
Each day’s photos go up on a pinboard, taped on like polaroids, with your team’s face stuck in the corner and a rubber stamp for anyone who vetoed or sent stunt doubles.
React with an emoji and vote for photo of the day; the winner gets a trophy. Short video clips post just like photos.
When the hunt ends you get an album: every day’s best shot, the most loved clips and some very official awards, e.g. most votes, most vetoes and most peeks.
🏆😂🔥Vetoed👀❤️Clue 06 of 10
Whoever starts a team takes a quick team photo. It sits in the corner of every photo your team posts, so everyone knows whose handiwork they’re looking at.
Not in the same room yet? Skip it, and Scav draws a team portrait from your name and the hunt. Retake it with a real one whenever you’re together.
Clue 07 of 10
Trains get cancelled and people forget. Rather than a sad gap in the album, the next morning Scav draws a ridiculous stand-in of your team attempting the clue anyway, with an excuse on your behalf.
Note: every stand-in is labelled as drawn by the app, and never passed off as a real photo.
Missed it · stunt doubleClue 08 of 10
Mix any of fourteen themes when you set up a hunt, from Wholesome and Local culture to Fitness, Nature and Nightlife.
Turn a week in a new city into a proper group album, past the hotel pool and into the backstreets.
Pair Cheeky (adults) with Nightlife and give both halves of the party a shared scoreboard before the first pub.
Switch on Kids can play and Wholesome so cousins, aunts and grandparents can team up without anyone needing a login.
Stretch a birthday over a long weekend or a month of Nostalgia and Foodie clues that people can join from wherever they live.
A weekday hunt with five-minute solo and team challenges. Clues open at midnight wherever each team is.
Set the team size to one or two and see who finds the strangest landmark or the best pastry by Friday.
Clue 09 of 10
Nothing kills a group game faster than making your uncle reset a password in a car park. A hunt lives behind its invite link: open it on an iPhone, an Android phone, a tablet, a foldable or a laptop browser, and you’re in.
Note: anyone with the link can join, and every photo is visible to the whole hunt. Share it with the people you mean to play with.
Clue 10 of 10
Tell Scav where you’re going, how many days you’ve got and which themes suit the crowd. AI drafts one clue per day, each with its own colour, print and format.
It doesn’t know your high street is dug up or that your brother won’t go near boats, so read the list before the hunt starts. Edit any clue, reorder them, ask for a fresh one, or write your own.
Bribing the locals…
The small print
No. Anyone can play in a web browser: they tap the invite link you send, scan your QR code or open the email invite, and they’re in the hunt. If you’d rather an app, there’s one for iPhone (via TestFlight) and Android (an APK you install yourself).
There are no accounts, so your place on a team comes from your team’s link. Open that same link on the new phone, tablet or browser and you’re back on your team with every day and photo intact.
Yes. Pick a team size of 1 when you set up the hunt, and everyone plays as a team of one against everyone else.
Every one. Edit the wording, change the order, dismiss a clue, ask for a fresh draft, or write your own. It’s worth a read-through so they fit your town and your crowd.
Everyone in your hunt sees every photo posted to it; there’s no private or team-only posting. Anyone with a hunt link can join, so keep the link in the group chat rather than posting it publicly.
Switch on Kids can play when you set up the hunt. The clues, the Would you rather questions and the Two truths topics all stay family friendly.
Yes, any time, from your team page. Delete my data removes your team and everything it made: photos, clips, reactions, votes and its team photo. The hunt carries on for everyone else.
Nothing disappears. Every day’s clue, photo, caption, veto stamp and stand-in stays in the Days tab, and the album rounds up the best shots, clips and awards.
Day one starts whenever you say
I built Scav for our own group first. It takes about two minutes to set up a hunt for yours.
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