Satan8Ball vs Goetia VM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Satan8Ball
Engage in a dark ritualistic experience where you can ask questions and receive eerie voice responses. Explore a growing archive of occult lore, symbols, and dark mythology for a sinister take on fortune-telling.
- Over 80 eerie voice responses
- Multiple summoning interactions
- Dark ritual visual effects
- Expanding lore archive
- Occult symbols and folklore
- Themed artwork
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Enter a darker ritual experience with Satan8Ball. Ask your question, summon the answer, and listen as the Satan8Ball responds in its own eerie voice. Designed for a more atmospheric and theatrical experience, Satan8Ball transforms the classic fortune concept into something far more sinister. The app now includes two dark experiences in one: ASK Use shake, rotation, or hold-to-summon interaction to awaken the ritual and hear one of more than 80 creepy prerecorded responses. With fog, embers, lightning, and infernal atmosphere, the Ask screen feels more alive than ever. LORE Go beyond the answers and explore a growing archive of dark occult content. Read through entries covering: • occult symbols • infernal figures • folklore and dark myth • ritual concepts • strange historical beliefs Discover entries inspired by Baphomet, pentagrams, summoning circles, grimoires, infernal figures, hellhounds, witching hour lore, and more. Features • Over 80 eerie voice responses • Multiple ways to summon an answer • Dark ritual-inspired visual effects • Expanding Lore archive with themed artwork • Occult symbols, infernal figures, folklore, and strange history • Designed for fans of horror, dark mythology, and supernatural entertainment Satan8Ball is a dark entertainment experience built for those who enjoy creepy atmosphere, occult themes, and sinister fortune-style fun.
Goetia VM
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The seventy-two demon seals of the Lesser Key of Solomon are now executable code. GOETIA//VM reads a seal's stroke geometry the way a compiler reads a circuit board — rectangles become cipher registers, crosses become grounds, crescents accumulate — and compiles the result into a tiny program. Offer a word, invoke, and watch it move through the seal instruction by instruction. Sometimes the output transmutes to AURUM: gematria divisible by 79, gold's atomic number. This is a novelty and educational art project, not a claim of real occult power. Everything is deterministic: no randomness, no server, no network. Same seal, same offering, same answer, every time. The unit tests literally confirm the demons don't work. WHAT'S INSIDE GOETIA SEALS & SATURN PENTACLES — invoke any of four demon seals or four planetary pentacles and watch your offering move through the compiled program in the disassembly and trace panels. PCB VIEW — flip the same seal into copper traces on solder mask, complete with a bill of materials starring a 666-ohm binding resistor. THE RITE — the camera plays the ring of Solomon. Scry a photo, or just name a symptom, to diagnose which of the Testament of Solomon's 36 decan spirits is afflicting you. Then EXPEL it by its recorded counter-formula, BIND it to temple labour, or EVOKE its Goetia ruler up the seven-rung escalation ladder — Conjuration, Constraint, Invocation of the King, the Fire — before granting the License to Depart. THE TEMPLE — bound spirits report to a proof-of-rite ledger, grinding offerings each tick in a hunt for aurum. Hashrate is scripture: a King with 85 legions makes 85 attempts a tick. THE VIGIL — your camera as an instrument: live noise statistics fused into a single Scry Index and tested in real time against Wald's sequential boundaries, with a fear interlock that holds the rite until you're steady. RESEARCHED, NOT INVENTED The ritual layer was built from the primary texts, not imagination: the Testament of Solomon in Conybeare's 1898 translation, the Lemegeton from Peterson's critical edition of the Sloane manuscripts, and the Mathers-Crowley Goetia of 1904. Lamen metals, the escalation ladder, the License to Depart, and the two lost decans honored as lacunae rather than invented — all cross-checked against the source. A one-time preface on first launch explains exactly how far that fidelity goes. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account, no network calls, no analytics, no ads. The camera features used by THE RITE and THE VIGIL process everything on-device and save nothing to your photo library. Nothing you do in this app ever leaves your phone. Built as a native iOS SwiftUI app over a pure Swift core, with dozens of unit tests and simulator UI tests running on every change.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Goetia VM at fortnightly against Satan8Ball's every 16 months. Goetia VM also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Satan8Ball's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and chart position (#129 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Satan8Ball costs $0.99 and Goetia VM $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Satan8Ball ships an update every 16 months, Goetia VM fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Satan8Ball | Goetia VM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #129 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Tracy Gates | RICHARD ROYAL HOOPES |
In-app purchases
Satan8Ball
No in-app purchases
Goetia VM
No in-app purchases









