Comparison

Whimbitz vs Beyond Haunted

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

Head to head
About

Whimbitz

Discover and play an endless stream of unique, bite-sized games and interactive experiences. Create your own games simply by describing them, with no coding required. The feed constantly updates with new content, ensuring endless entertainment.

Highlights
  • Endless feed of unique games
  • Instant play, no downloads
  • Create games with natural language
  • Variety of game types
  • Bookmark and share creations
  • Follow creators
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An infinite arcade in your pocket. Whimbitz is a bottomless feed of tiny, original games. Swipe up: a new one. Swipe again: something completely different. None of them existed yesterday. DISCOVER & PLAY Swipe through an endless feed of one-of-a-kind creations from people all over the world. Every swipe is a surprise — a one-minute puzzle, a weird little arcade, a haunted choose-your-own-adventure, a drawing toy you've never seen before. No menus, no downloads, no waiting. Tap and play. WHAT YOU'LL FIND - Puzzle games, word games, platformers - Interactive stories and visual novels - Drawing tools and art experiments - Trivia, quizzes, and flashcards - Simulations and sandbox toys - Or something nobody's thought of yet NEVER THE SAME TWICE Open it on the bus. Open it in line. Open it before bed. The feed never runs dry — there's always a new Whimbit waiting, and you'll never see the same one twice unless you bookmark it. The more you play, the better the feed gets. MAKE & SHARE When you find something you love, like it, bookmark it, follow the creator, send a message to the mind behind it. And when inspiration strikes, make your own — just describe what you want ("a match-3 game with sushi on a conveyor belt") and Whimbitz turns it into something real. No coding, no templates. Want to tweak it? Just keep talking. Say "make it harder" or "add a timer" and watch it evolve. Free to use. Open it once. You'll forget what time it is. https://whimbitz.com/terms https://whimbitz.com/privacy

About

Beyond Haunted

This app uses real device sensors to detect paranormal activity, offering a more unsettling and authentic ghost hunting experience. It features multiple instruments, including EMF and spirit box, and provides detailed evidence logging.

Highlights
  • Real sensor-based readings
  • EMF, barometer, and vibration meter
  • Spirit box tuned to haunted locations
  • EVP audio and SLS video recording
  • Offline searchable archive of case files
  • Apple Watch integration for pulse monitoring
Features
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Most ghost hunting apps make their readings up. You already know the ones. The needle that jumps on cue. The thermometer on a phone that has never had a temperature sensor. The figure that appears because the app decided it was time for a figure. Ghost Kit does none of that, and it is more unsettling for it. Every number on screen comes off a real sensor in your hand. When the field climbs in an empty hallway, it climbed. When a figure locks onto something in the dark, the camera genuinely found a shape there. Nothing here is invented. Which means when something does happen, you have to sit with it. FIVE INSTRUMENTS THAT ACTUALLY MEASURE PROXIMITY watches four sensors at once and only speaks when two of them move together, in the same moment, for no reason either of them can explain. An outlet cannot trigger it. Neither can you. Most nights it says nothing at all, which is exactly why the nights it does say something are worth paying attention to. SENSORS is your EMF meter, barometer and vibration reader. Set a baseline in a quiet room and every reading afterwards is a measured change from the way you found the place. Peak hold keeps the spike on the dial after it has gone, so you do not lose it while your head is turned. VOICES is a spirit box tuned to 758 real, documented, haunted locations. Point it at a sanatorium and the words that surface come from that building's own rooms, its own people, its own reported activity. A lighthouse speaks differently from an asylum. Underneath the words runs a bed of speech fragments that are not words at all, so the app can never be accused of having said anything. Whatever you hear in it, you heard. EVIDENCE records EVP audio and SLS video with every instrument logged alongside on one timeline. A voice at twelve seconds, checked against what the room's field and air were doing at twelve seconds. Sudden level changes are flagged automatically and any flag replays that moment alone, at half speed, over and over, until you are sure. ARCHIVE is 758 case files across all fifty states, searchable, readable offline, tied straight into the spirit box. IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT IS PROBABLY NOTHING This is the part no other app in this category will do. Ghost Kit flags sounds that arrive with a movement of the phone and calls them what they almost certainly are: you. It tells you when a high EMF reading is your own laptop. It tells you when the air pressure has been falling all evening because weather is coming through. There is a glossary that explains why orbs are dust and why shadow figures live at the edge of your vision. An app willing to say that has earned the right to be believed when it says a reading is genuine. WEAR IT ON YOUR WRIST With an Apple Watch, Ghost Kit measures the one thing a phone never can: you. Your own pulse, recorded beside the audio, so you can see the moment your heart went before you consciously noticed anything. The watch is also the remote. Start a recording, stop it, and mark your own noises without ever touching the phone, so it can lie still in the dark exactly where you put it. When something registers, your wrist taps. BUILT WITH SOME CARE It never gives you a direction or a distance, because there is nothing to chase and chasing things in the dark is how people get hurt. It hides itself when it notices you moving. It never sends a notification and never asks for your attention. It does absolutely nothing until you open it. Everything you record stays on your phone. No account. No cloud. No analytics. No ads. No subscription. Not now, not later. Ghost Kit is an entertainment app. It does not detect, measure or communicate with anything supernatural, and it says so before you ever use it. What it does is give you real instruments, tell you the truth about what they are reading, and then get out of your way. From Beyond Haunted. beyondhaunted.com

Screenshots

Whimbitz4 screens
Beyond Haunted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Beyond Haunted at every 5 days against Whimbitz's every 2 weeks. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Whimbitz against 5.0 for Beyond Haunted. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Whimbitz ships an update every 2 weeks, Beyond Haunted every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Whimbitz versus Beyond Haunted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhimbitzBeyond Haunted
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB4 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperWhimbitz, IncJoshua Nason

Customer experience

Whimbitz

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beyond Haunted

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Whimbitz

No in-app purchases

None

Beyond Haunted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Whimbitz free?
Whimbitz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beyond Haunted free?
Beyond Haunted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Whimbitz or Beyond Haunted?
Whimbitz and Beyond Haunted are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Whimbitz or Beyond Haunted have ads?
Neither Whimbitz nor Beyond Haunted shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Whimbitz or Beyond Haunted?
Whimbitz ships an update every 2 weeks, and Beyond Haunted every 5 days. Most recently, Whimbitz was updated on November 5, 2026 and Beyond Haunted on November 6, 2026.

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