Comparison

Spooky Spots vs Paranormal Pitstops

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

Head to head
About

Spooky Spots

Discover haunted hotels and historic buildings with this travel app. Plan your routes, add multiple stops, and explore locations near you or in your favorite cities. Contribute to the growing database by sharing your own findings.

Highlights
  • Map of haunted locations
  • Search by city
  • Customizable trip routes
  • Add multiple stops
  • User location suggestions
  • Community contribution
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Looking for ghosts? How about cool, historic buildings that may or may not have permanent residents? Spooky Spots is here for you! Use the map feature to see what is near you, or search your favorite city. Use the 'Trip' feature to explore them all! Seriously though, you can add multiple stops, change your route, and even adjust where you start or end your journey! Spooky Spots is a growing database. If you would like to share locations and help this community grow, head to the settings page and fill out a very basic form.

About

Paranormal Pitstops

Discover and explore America's most haunted locations with a detailed map and historical information. Investigate paranormal activity using your phone's sensors with a suite of ghost hunting tools. Track your visits, earn badges, and share your findings.

Highlights
  • Map of 764 haunted locations
  • Detailed haunt history and photos
  • Ghost hunting tools using phone sensors
  • Spirit box with real-time readings
  • EVP recorder with transcription
  • Check-in and earn badges
  • Favorite haunts and bucket list
Features
Currently charting
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Paranormal Pitstops maps 764 of America's most haunted places: historic hotels, asylums, battlefields, cemeteries and roadside legends. Find the haunt nearest you, read its story, then investigate with ghost hunting tools that use your phone's real sensors. FIND THE HAUNTS • A dark, map-first view of every location, clustered by region • Search by name, city or state • Tap any haunt for its history, photos and directions • "Near Me" frames the closest haunts to wherever you are • Optional alerts when you're near a haunt, even with the app closed INVESTIGATE WITH REAL TOOLS • Ghost Whisperer: a spirit box driven by your phone's magnetometer, motion, air pressure and sound level. When a reading jumps off its baseline, words come through, and the exact reading behind every word is shown. Sessions are saved by location and room so you can review them later. • ParaSonic DR60 EVP recorder: a 1990s voice recorder recreated in software, with on-device transcription of what it hears • ParaSonic EMF-5 meter: reads the 60 Hz fields from household wiring in milligauss, with a baseline you set • Motion Detector: watches the room through your camera and captures movement • Unmovable Object: an alarm that trips if anything moves your phone • Share clips and session cards of your investigation MAKE IT YOURS • Favorite haunts and build a bucket list • Check in when you visit and earn badges in your Ghost Hunter Passport MEMBERSHIP The map and haunt stories are free. The tools and badges come with a membership: $4.99 a month, $29.99 a year, or $59.99 once for lifetime access. Prices are shown in your local currency in the app. Subscriptions are charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase and renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them any time in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.paranormalpitstops.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.paranormalpitstops.app/privacy.html HONEST BY DESIGN Every tool reads a real sensor; nothing is faked or random. Ghost Whisperer's words are driven by those readings and are for entertainment. Haunt stories are grounded in real history, lore and documented accounts. Visit respectfully and legally: always get permission and follow posted rules. Locations and coordinates from open data sources; photos licensed via Wikimedia Commons with on-screen credit.

Screenshots

Spooky Spots4 screens
Paranormal Pitstops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spooky Spots at none against Paranormal Pitstops's 3. Spooky Spots also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Paranormal Pitstops's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#178 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Paranormal Pitstops sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Spooky Spots asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Spooky Spots against 4.0 for Paranormal Pitstops. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Spooky Spots versus Paranormal Pitstops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpooky SpotsParanormal Pitstops
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (7 ratings)4.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better3
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
Best chart rank—#178 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB25 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperKonoha Koders LLCFRANK JOSEPH CAMBELETTA

Customer experience

Spooky Spots

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

Paranormal Pitstops

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Spooky Spots

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Paranormal Pitstops

Subscriptions2
  • Pitstops Membership Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pitstops Membership Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pitstops Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Spooky Spots free?
Spooky Spots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Paranormal Pitstops free?
Paranormal Pitstops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spooky Spots or Paranormal Pitstops?
Paranormal Pitstops is rated higher. Spooky Spots averages 3.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Paranormal Pitstops averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Spooky Spots or Paranormal Pitstops have ads?
Spooky Spots shows ads; Paranormal Pitstops does not.

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