Backyard Apollo AR vs Augmented Halloween
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backyard Apollo AR
Experience a life-sized Apollo Saturn V rocket in augmented reality. Explore it from all angles, walk around it, and launch it with realistic sounds and visuals. Customize your rocket experience and share snapshots.
- Life-sized rocket model
- 360-degree viewing
- Augmented reality placement
- Realistic launch sequence
- Authentic mission sounds
- Customizable rocket experience
- Snapshot sharing
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Its the model rocket you’ve always wanted! See a life-sized Apollo Saturn V rocket up close from every angle walk under and around it, then blast it off! Authentic mission sounds using 3D positional audio — wear headphones for the coolest effect — combine with realistic high-detail graphics, physically-based rendering, and HDR audio recordings of real rocket launches to make the experience just like being there! You’ll be able to launch your rocket again and again, from anywhere you like. Just tap where you want your rocket to appear. It's that easy! Launch a tiny model on your desktop or a full-sized giant in a field! Backyard Apollo offers ways to customize your experience too, making it even more fun to launch your rockets and take snapshots for your friends. “3…2…1…Houston: we have liftoff”!
Augmented Halloween
Experience a thrilling haunted house directly on your mobile device with augmented reality. Explore spooky areas filled with bats, ghosts, and interactive elements, all set to an awesome soundtrack. Perfect for getting into the Halloween spirit.
- Interactive AR haunted house
- Five ghoulish areas
- Bats, lightning, and rain effects
- Ghost pirates and interactive pumpkin patch
- AR cemetery
- Awesome soundtrack and sound effects
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Good Evening Bats and Ghouls, This is your friendly neighbor vampire, Count DaVotes. It's my pleasure to announce the first fully interactive AR Halloween experience that delivers the thrill and excitement of a haunted house. Get into the Halloween season with an augmented reality experience like you've never seen right from your mobile phone. Explore five ghoulish areas that include: - bats - lightning - thunder - heavy rain - fireflies - ghost pirates - interactive pumpkin patch - awesome soundtrack and sound effects - an amazing AR cemetery the size of a football field Easily share all the good times with your friends. DOWNLOAD NOW It's creepy, spooky and so much fun. We'll be adding more content in the run up to the big day, October 31. https://youtu.be/zQmM4I5V1qA Looking forward to eating you there, Count DeVotes Vampire/Human Liaison Animate Objects
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Augmented Halloween at weekly against Backyard Apollo AR's every 7 months. Augmented Halloween also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Backyard Apollo AR's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 2) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Backyard Apollo AR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backyard Apollo AR has 1.5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Backyard Apollo AR ships an update every 7 months, Augmented Halloween weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backyard Apollo AR | Augmented Halloween |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Wobbleworks LLC | Animate Objects |
Customer experience
Backyard Apollo AR
Augmented Halloween
Bugs and requests
Backyard Apollo AR
Reported bugs
3 issues- Startup crashes and sensor reset loops
- Rocket launch sequence freezes
- Persistent audio issues after app closure
Requested features
3 requests- Add more rocket models and launch configurations
- Implement video recording capability
- Improve overall stability and performance
Augmented Halloween
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Backyard Apollo AR
No in-app purchases
Augmented Halloween
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Backyard Apollo AR free?
Is Augmented Halloween free?
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