Comparison

Patrones vs Ghost Camera

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Patrones

Design and share macramé knot patterns. Easily create designs by tapping knots and explore options by pressing longer. Export your creations as images or PDFs to share with others.

Highlights
  • Create macramé knot patterns
  • Tap knots to change direction
  • Long-press for more options
  • Export patterns to image
  • Export patterns to PDF
  • Share creations with others
Features
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Create basic patterns of macramé knots, you can share your creations with other people. Just press on the knots to change the direction and leave pressed for more options. You can now export your patterns to image and pdf. To share a file, go to the list of patterns and leave it pressed on the file you want to send.

About

Ghost Camera

This app simulates a paranormal investigation tool, featuring a live viewfinder with a spirit-strength meter, entity tracing, and spooky camera effects. Capture and share your findings with a built-in gallery and logbook. Designed purely for entertainment purposes.

Highlights
  • Live paranormal HUD
  • Entity tracing with skeleton overlay
  • Multiple camera filters (Glow, Heatmap, VHS, Spectrum)
  • Photo and video capture with HUD
  • Built-in gallery and logbook
  • Live sensor dashboard
Features
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Point your phone into the dark and see what it finds. Ghost Camera is an SLS-style ghost-hunting camera made for entertainment: a full-screen viewfinder with a live paranormal HUD, eerie words, a clicking Geiger-style soundtrack, and spooky camera effects. Take it to a sleepover, a night walk, or wherever the lights flicker. POINT IT INTO THE DARK Everything on screen follows a restless spirit-strength meter. The LED bar creeps from green to red, the clicks come faster, and every so often a word drifts over the image — COLD. WATCHING. BEHIND YOU. ENTITY TRACING When a human-shaped figure enters the frame, Ghost Camera traces it with a glowing skeleton, colored by the current spirit strength. If you've watched paranormal TV, you know the look. Recording video with the skeleton on is part of Pro. CAMERA FILTERS & EFFECTS Four looks for that found-footage feel: a green Glow FX, a heat-map style Heat FX, grainy VHS FX, and the color-shifted Spectrum FX (VHS FX and Spectrum FX come with Pro). They're visual filters over your device's normal camera — pure entertainment, no special hardware involved. CAPTURE AND SHARE Photos and videos come out exactly like the screen: HUD, effects, words and traced figures baked right in, with an optional location tag. The built-in gallery keeps your captures together, and the logbook remembers every word — when it appeared, how strong the signal was, what the sensors were doing. LIVE SENSOR DASHBOARD Your device's real sensors, one spooky screen: magnetic field, acceleration, pressure and gyroscope, each with its own history graph, plus a live compass. GHOST CAMERA PRO Pro removes the ads, unlocks the premium effects, lets you record video with the tracking skeleton, drops the watermark, and opens the full wordbank. You can subscribe or buy it once and keep it forever — the app shows each option with its name, duration and price before you decide. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. FOR ENTERTAINMENT One thing said plainly: Ghost Camera is for fun. The readings, words and detections are generated by the app and aren't evidence of anything paranormal — reflections, posters, coats and screens can all set it off. Investigate, don't assume. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://weaseldev.com/privacy/ghostcamera.html

Screenshots

Patrones2 screens
Ghost Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ghost Camera at 4.5 against Patrones's 4.0. Ghost Camera also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Patrones's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ghost Camera sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Patrones asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ghost Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Patrones's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ghost Camera's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Patrones ships an update every 4 months, Ghost Camera every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Patrones versus Ghost Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatronesGhost Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB140 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperScala Tecnologias de Informacion S.C.Zee Weasel

Customer experience

Patrones

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Ghost Camera

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Patrones

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Ghost Camera

Subscriptions3
  • Ghost Camera Pro$1.997 Days
  • Ghost Camera Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Ghost Camera Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Ghost Camera Pro Lifetime$29.99
  • Ghost Camera Pro Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Patrones free?
Patrones is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ghost Camera free?
Ghost Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Patrones or Ghost Camera?
Ghost Camera is rated higher. Patrones averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Ghost Camera averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Patrones or Ghost Camera have ads?
Ghost Camera shows ads; Patrones does not.
Which is updated more often, Patrones or Ghost Camera?
Patrones ships an update every 4 months, and Ghost Camera every 3 weeks. Most recently, Patrones was updated on November 2, 2026 and Ghost Camera on November 1, 2026.

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