BooAlert vs Ghost Hunting Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BooAlert
Explore your surroundings using your device's compass to detect magnetic fields. Enhance your experience with night vision and EVP features. Includes a flashlight for dark environments.
- EMF, NVG, & EVP detection
- NVG mode with screenshot capture
- EVP recording, playback, and sharing
- Adjustable EMF sensitivity
- Built-in flashlight
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Note: iPods do not have EMF capabilities due to the lack of an internal compass. Use your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to explore the world in a different way. BooAlert utilizes your device's compass to display the magnetic field around you. Get a deeper feel of your findings with a built in NVG and EVP extension. BooAlert also has a built in flashlight for users in dark areas - not available on iPads. Key Features: * EMF, NVG, & EVP * Integration of BooAlert.com * Capturing screenshots in NVG-Mode * EVP recordings, playback, & sharing via email * Adjustable EMF sensitivity * Flashlight on capable devices
Ghost Hunting Tools
This app simulates paranormal activity detection and spirit communication. It features a ghost detector, radar, and a large word bank to interpret signals, offering an immersive experience for paranormal enthusiasts.
- Paranormal activity detection
- Spirit communication
- EVP detector
- Real-time paranormal radar
- EMF reader
- Large word bank for interpretation
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The lights flicker. Your phone hums in your hand. Somewhere in the static, a voice is trying to come through. Are you listening? Ghost Hunting Tools is a full paranormal investigation kit running on your phone. Spirit box, EVP visualizer, ghost detector, and EMF meter, all in one app. Built for first-time ghost hunters and veteran investigators alike. Free to use, with a Pro upgrade when you are ready to dig deeper. What's inside Spirit Box and Ghost Talker Open a session and the app scans for ghostly signals, pulling words from a curated dictionary in real time. Read them on screen, find every one again in your Word History, and watch as patterns start to form. The kind of one-word-at-a-time communication serious investigators look for, without the radio hiss. EVP Visualizer Watch the background static the app generates on its own (it never uses your microphone). When a signal is strong enough to become a word, darker bars rise: that is the EVP behind it. Some words you will write off as coincidence. Others will sit with you longer than you expected. EMF Detector A working EMF meter pulled straight from your phone's sensors. Watch the readings spike when something steps into the field. Cross-reference with the spirit box and you have two channels lining up at once. Sensor Dashboard EMF, pressure, vibration. Your phone has more paranormal-detection capability than most people realize, and the dashboard reads them side by side. The EMF Alarm sounds when the field rises or drops past your trigger level. Easy-to-follow graphs let you spot the moment everything goes quiet, right before it doesn't. The Word Bank A large dictionary of words the app surfaces during scans. No filler, no random noise for the sake of it. Just the vocabulary that paranormal investigators have reported reaching for them again and again. Pro unlocks a much bigger bank and lets you add your own words. Pro Version Remove ads, unlock the expanded dictionary, and add custom words of your own: names of the deceased, places of interest, anything you suspect might be listening. Pro purchases also fund continued development of the app, so the hunt keeps getting better because of the people who go pro. Why people keep this app on their home screen You do not have to believe in ghosts to enjoy Ghost Hunting Tools. You just have to be curious about what happens in the quiet moments. Open the app at a bonfire, in a basement, in an empty hotel room. Bring a friend. Tell us what you find. Ghost hunt safely Trust your instincts. Don't go alone to places you don't know. If something feels wrong, close the app and walk away. Tools are tools, and your judgment is what keeps you safe. A note on entertainment Ghost Hunting Tools is built for fun and curiosity. We can't promise you will talk to a real ghost. We can promise you will have a story. Privacy Policy: https://weaseldev.com/privacy/ghosthunting.html Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ghost Hunting Tools at 4.2 against BooAlert's 3.4. Ghost Hunting Tools also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 31 months) and ratings volume (11K vs 15). BooAlert's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. BooAlert sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ghost Hunting Tools sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ghost Hunting Tools holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ghost Hunting Tools has 11K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of BooAlert's written reviews are positive against 68% of Ghost Hunting Tools's.
BooAlert ships an update every 31 months, Ghost Hunting Tools every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BooAlert | Ghost Hunting Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (15 ratings) | 4.2 (11K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.7% of reviews | 67.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 196 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | booalert llc | Zee Weasel |
Customer experience
BooAlert
Ghost Hunting Tools
User reviews
BooAlert
From 15 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👻 Fun and scary experience
- 🎬 Great for making movies
- 💡 Interesting ghost hunting app
- 👍 Good for beginners
- 🤩 Amazing and cool features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Won't stay open
- 🐛 App closes unexpectedly
- 🐛 Doesn't work
- 🐛 Fake readings
Ghost Hunting Tools
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Accurate and intelligent responses
- 🔍 Able to detect paranormal activity
- 🔑 Helped communicate with deceased loved ones
- 🌟 Surprisingly effective for a free app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional glitches and crashes
- 🔍 Inconsistent in detecting paranormal activity
- 🔊 Too many ads interrupting the experience
- 🤔 Unsure if it's truly communicating with spirits
Bugs and requests
BooAlert
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes on opening
- App closes after a few seconds
- App freezes
- App won't stay open
- App minimizes automatically
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- App crashes during sessions
- App has trouble loading
- EMF doesn't work
- NVG sends back to home screen
- Pictures not saved to camera roll
- Ad removal not working
- App crashes on iPad Air and iPhone 6
- App crashes on iPad Mini 4
- App crashes on iPhone 6
- App crashes on iOS 9
- App crashes on iPhone 5S
- App crashes on iPhone 4g
- App crashes when opening EVP
- App crashes when opening functions
- App crashes when trying to use EVP
Requested features
8 requests- Fix crashing issues
- Add camera to see ghosts
- Improve app stability
- Fix bugs
- Make it more real
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- Add more features
- Remove ads
- Fix saving pictures issue
Ghost Hunting Tools
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when opening on certain devices
- Word history gets cleared after a few new words
- Microphone not working consistently for some users
Requested features
4 requests- Record and playback EVP sessions
- Expand the word dictionary for better communication
- Add a background mode to use with other apps
- Improve the EMF detector sensitivity and accuracy
In-app purchases
BooAlert
- Ad Removal$1.99
Ghost Hunting Tools
- 1 Month Pro Subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- 1-Year Pro Subscription3 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Ghost Hunting Tools Pro$19.99
- Ghost Hunting Tools Pro$34.99
Questions
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