Comparison

Dead Media vs HauntsIO

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

Head to head
About

Dead Media

Catalog your physical media collection with a realistic shelf view. Scan barcodes to add discs, track what you've watched, and connect with other collectors to buy and sell. Analyze your collection's statistics and discover new releases.

Highlights
  • Realistic digital shelf display
  • Barcode scanning for quick entry
  • Track watched movies and ratings
  • Buy and sell discs with other collectors
  • Collection statistics and reports
  • Import from other collection apps
Features
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The app for 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD collectors. Scan a barcode and your disc lands on a shelf that looks like the one in your living room: real spines, at real widths, in your pocket. With the rise of streaming, owning your movies has never mattered more. Track your collection, review what you watch, and buy and sell with collectors who get it. THE SHELF Log every disc you own and see it lined up spine by spine, growing with every haul. Sort by title, director, label, or year. Filter to your steelbooks, your Criterions, your blind buys, your unwatched pile. Box sets and TV seasons included. THE DATABASE Scan a barcode and the details fill themselves in. Over 100,000 physical releases with covers, spines, labels, and editions, built by collectors and growing every day. Bulk scan an entire haul in minutes. Bringing a collection with you? Import from Letterboxd, Blu-ray.com, CLZ, or My Movies Pro. THE REVIEWS Rate and review every movie you watch. Follow fellow collectors, see what the community is watching, and find your next favorite through people whose shelves you trust. Your Letterboxd rating history comes with you. THE MARKET Buy and sell discs directly with other collectors. No fees, no middleman: message the seller, agree on a price, and settle up between yourselves. Sellers verify with a phone number, and ratings keep everyone honest. THE REPORT Your collection, in numbers: formats, genres, directors, decades, labels, streaks, and what it's all worth. BONUS FEATURES • New release calendar and pre-orders • Movie of the Week, chosen by the community • Share a snapshot of your collection Start your shelf.

About

HauntsIO

Record your visits to places with photos and notes, creating a personal map of your life. Organize experiences into trips and lists, and automatically detect flights. Share your journey with friends and discover new venues.

Highlights
  • Location check-ins with photos and notes
  • Organize visits into trips and lists
  • Automatic flight detection
  • Friend sharing and tagging
  • Personalized year-in-review narrative
  • Bucket list and discovery features
Features
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Check-ins are the breadcrumbs that become stories on Haunts.IO Haunts is a check-in app for the places that matter to you. Open it when you arrive somewhere, tap the venue you're standing in, drop a photo and a quick note, and you've added a row to a map of your real life that grows quietly in the background. Every check-in is a breadcrumb. The pins cluster as you zoom out, and over time a year of weekends becomes a route you can scroll through. Pull up any venue and see when you were last there, who you tagged, what photo you took, and the nearby places you might want to revisit. The Stats tab shows the same data the other way around: top venues, busiest months, countries crossed, and a heatmap of where your life happens. Year in Review reads the trail and writes a short narrative of your year from the venue names, photos, and trips you logged. Trips and lists are where the breadcrumbs turn into stories. A trip groups every venue you visited on one weekend or one country crossing, and trips nest, so a multi-week Europe sweep can hold the smaller Paris and Rome legs inside it. Lists are reusable: a Saturday brunch list, a downtown best-of, a wineries-near-home list you build over months. Bucket list venues are the inverse, places you haven't been yet but plan to, surfaced on the map and in nearby search whenever you're close enough to stop in. Flights are detected automatically. Two airport check-ins within sixteen hours pair into a flight with a great-circle arc on the map and on the full-screen 3D Globe, and the AI suggests airline and route if you don't remember. Logging just the airport you started from is enough, and Haunts asks about the destination later. Friends run through all of it. Public profiles let anyone with your handle browse the venues you've made public. Friend requests, mutual following, and contacts match (emails and phone numbers hashed on your device before they leave it) make it easy to find the people you share visits with. Tag friends on a check-in and the visit shows up on their feed too. Every check-in has three visibility states, public, friends, or private, so the weekend bar crawl stays out of your work network. Stickers and achievements add a light game layer for the people who like that, and stay invisible if you don't. A monthly leaderboard tracks XP from check-ins, photos, and streaks, and once-a-year visits like a hometown anniversary or a recurring conference count toward it too. The Apple Watch companion checks you in from your wrist, with the same nearby venue coverage as the phone. Home screen widgets jump straight to the Nearby list, so checking in takes about three seconds when you're walking through a door. Search covers your full history and forgives how memory works: possessive names like Lowe's, or remembering "winery" when the venue is a "vineyard." A discovery tier on top pulls in venues you haven't been to yet, biased to where you're standing. Free to use, no ads, no selling your data. Sign in with Google or Apple.

Screenshots

Dead Media4 screens
HauntsIO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Dead Media at 29 against HauntsIO's 4. On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 4.9 for Dead Media against 5.0 for HauntsIO. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dead Media has 29 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Dead Media versus HauntsIO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDead MediaHauntsIO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (29 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings29 — better4
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB94 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperBymike LLCMDPSync, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Dead Media

No in-app purchases

None

HauntsIO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dead Media free?
Dead Media is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HauntsIO free?
HauntsIO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dead Media or HauntsIO?
HauntsIO is rated higher. Dead Media averages 4.9 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while HauntsIO averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Dead Media or HauntsIO have ads?
Neither Dead Media nor HauntsIO shows ads.

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