X-Marks — treasure hunts, big adventures
Get the kids out and about!
🎉 It's out!
Get the kids out and about!
🎉 It's out!
Drop treasure points on a map, name the hunt, and write down the prize. It stays secret until the hunt is complete.
Share over iMessage, WhatsApp or anything else. No accounts, no servers — the whole hunt travels inside an encrypted link.
The map shows rough zones, never exact spots. Get close and a compass appears to point the way.
A treasure hunt walks a child to a real place, so X-Marks treats "who is allowed to send one?" as a safety question, not a convenience. Every phone is set up as either a grown-up's or a young hunter's. A hunter's phone can't make hunts at all, and it only opens hunts from grown-ups already on its list. Anything else is turned away — there is no accept button to talk a child through, so knowing their phone number gets a stranger nowhere.
Choose a grown-up's phone, pick the name your hunters will see, and send your hunting card to each of them.
Choose a young hunter's phone and set a grown-up passcode — one they don't watch you type. This is the key to who they can hear from.
Open your hunting card on their phone and type that passcode. That's the handshake — from then on every hunt you send them opens straight away.
Adding another grown-up later — a grandparent, say — takes their card and the passcode again. That is the only way onto the list.
Point the phone the right way and it BUZZES 📳 … walk the treasure down and it PINGS ✨ … find every X and the PRIZE IS REVEALED! 🏆
It's out! X-Marks is on the App Store for iPhone, iOS 17 or newer. Install it, tell it whether it's a grown-up's phone or a hunter's, and your first hunt takes about a minute to drop on the map.
Been sent a hunt link and nothing happened? Install the app first, then tap the link again — the hunt jumps straight in.