Jack vs HalloweenCamera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jack
This app lets you digitally carve and display a realistic 3D pumpkin with a flickering candle. Choose from dozens of designs and enjoy spooky ambient sound effects to create a festive Halloween atmosphere on your device.
- Realistic 3D Jack-O-Lantern
- 40 carving designs
- Ambient sound effects
- Lightning strike effect
- Interactive controls (rotate, shake)
- Supports landscape and portrait
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Jack-O-Lantern is an app that displays a carved 3D pumpkin. The pumpkin is recreated in loving detail right down to the flickering candle inside. Dozens of carving designs are included, so no getting your hands dirty carving the real thing. Set your iPhone in a dock to give your desk that appropriate Halloween atmosphere, or bring your iPad with you to spookify any outing. Artificial pumpkin smell not included. Features: - Highly realistic 3D Jack-O-Lantern. - 40 different carvings to suit your every need. - Scary ambient sound effects for that extra atmospheric touch. - Double-tap the screen for a lightning strike. - Drag your finger to rotate the view. - Shake to change carvings. - Supports both landscape and portrait rotations. - Options are included in the Settings application. Also check out the Jack-O-Lantern Screen Saver for MacOS, available at http://www.killerrobots.com/
HalloweenCamera
Apply real-time Halloween-themed masks to faces using your device's camera. Save your creations to your photo library. Be mindful of battery consumption during use.
- Real-time face recognition
- Halloween icon masks
- FaceTime camera integration
- Save images to photo library
- Masking for children's faces
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Trick or Treat! Happy Halloween! Let's enjoy masking the face of children with Halloween's icon. HalloweenCamera recognize faces using the FaceTime camera in real time, and mask the faces with Halloween's icon such as pumpkin. ■Notice While this app is running, it may be significant consumption of the battery because it is continually performing face recognition processing. Please be careful on the remaining amount of the battery. Also, please use the "Save Energy" of the setting as necessary (accuracy of recognition will fall) ■Feature - Real-time face recognition using the FaceTime camera - You can save image to the photo library
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HalloweenCamera at Free against Jack's $0.99. HalloweenCamera also leads on update cadence (every 7 months vs every 30 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Jack's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). On 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
HalloweenCamera is free to download; Jack costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Jack ships an update every 30 months, HalloweenCamera every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jack | HalloweenCamera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Killer Robots | sorakaze Inc. |
Customer experience
Jack
HalloweenCamera
In-app purchases
Jack
No in-app purchases
HalloweenCamera
No in-app purchases
