Face Sketch vs GhostLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Face Sketch
Easily create realistic portraits by selecting and adjusting over 350 unique facial features. Save your creations or share them directly to social media platforms and email.
- Over 350 unique facial features
- Reposition elements for unlimited possibilities
- Create unlimited faces
- Share to Facebook
- Share to Twitter
- Send via email
- Save to photo library
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*** Face Sketch *** Welcome to Face Sketch Create realistic portraits of your friends and family easily! Simply choose each feature and tweak their positions for unlimited faces. * FEATURES * • Over 350 Unique Facial Features • Reposition Elements for Unlimited Possibilities • Create as Many Faces as You Want • Post To Facebook • Post To Twitter • Send in E-Mail • Save To Photo Library
GhostLab
This app uses your device's LiDAR scanner to create a 3D map of your surroundings in real-time. Visualize rooms with colored dots representing distance, capture stills and video, and explore your scanned environment.
- Real-time 3D room mapping
- LiDAR-based distance measurement
- Wireframe and dot visualization modes
- Color-coded distance display
- Freeze scan and explore
- In-app photo and video recording
- Save and share scans
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This app needs the LiDAR scanner built into iPhone Pro and iPad Pro models. Your iPhone's LiDAR scanner fires a grid of infrared laser dots and times how long each one takes to come back. Spirit Detector draws every one of those measurements where it was taken, so sweeping a dark room builds the room out of light. Walk around and the picture fills in. Walls, furniture, doorways and anything standing in the room arrive as points in mid-air, coloured by how far away they are. Near is warm, far is cold. Nothing is guessed and nothing is drawn from the camera picture: every dot is a distance the scanner actually measured. WHAT YOU CAN DO Sweep a room and watch it build, live, at sixty frames a second. Switch between a drifting sheet of dots and the room as a wire model. Colour by distance with three looks. Freeze the map and walk around what you have captured. Take stills and record video straight to the in-app Library. Save anything to Photos or share it anywhere. REQUIRES A LiDAR SCANNER This app needs the LiDAR scanner built into iPhone Pro and iPad Pro models. There is no software substitute for the sensor, so on other devices it will tell you so and do nothing else. Check your model before buying. FREE FOR 48 HOURS The whole app is free for 48 hours from your first scan. After that, one payment of $4.99 keeps it for good. No subscription, no advertising, and nothing charged again. Nothing here detects, measures or infers anything paranormal, and it does not claim to.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GhostLab at 3.7 against Face Sketch's 3.0. GhostLab also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). Face Sketch's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Face Sketch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GhostLab sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GhostLab holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.
Face Sketch ships an update every 10 days, GhostLab every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Face Sketch | GhostLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Peter Gilmour | Jack Miller |
Customer experience
Face Sketch
GhostLab
In-app purchases
Face Sketch
- Full Version$1.99
GhostLab
- 3D Map & Clips$4.99
- Spirit Detector$4.99
- Spirit Detector Pro$9.99
Questions
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