SPECTRAL vs GhostLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SPECTRAL
Transform your device into a paranormal investigation tool. Utilize real sensors to detect electromagnetic fields, capture spectral evidence with advanced cameras, and communicate with potential entities using a spirit box. Explore haunted locations and record your findings.
- Real magnetometer, motion, and microphone sensors
- SLS skeletal camera for figure detection
- EMF radar and sensor readings
- Spirit box with multiple voice banks
- EVP recorder with anomaly tagging
- Seance board for communication
- Multiple vision filters (Night Vision, Thermal, etc.)
- Record and share investigation videos
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SPECTRAL turns your iPhone into a ghost hunting kit: EMF radar, spirit box, SLS camera, EVP recorder and séance board in one app. It reads your phone's REAL magnetometer, motion sensors and microphone and turns them into atmospheric investigation tools. SLS CAMERA Maps human-shaped figures onto your camera feed in real time. Sometimes it finds you. Sometimes it finds something smaller in the corner that walks away on its own. Skeletons are saved into your photos and videos. EMF RADAR Live readings from your phone's magnetometer on a signal graph. The meter climbs as fields shift and blips appear on the radar. Temperature, voltage and frequency readouts track anomalies. SPIRIT BOX 6 channels, each with its own voice and word bank: STANDARD, DEMON, CHILD SPIRIT, SOLDIER'S ECHO, SÉANCE and ANCIENT. Speak out loud and entities answer when they hear you. Capture and share any word the instant it comes through. EVP RECORDER Record sessions from the room around you. Peaks are tagged as anomalies automatically, so you can jump to the moment something answered. SÉANCE BOARD Ask a question aloud and watch the planchette spell out the reply, letter by letter. VISION CAMERA Seven modes, including Green Glow, Heat Map Colors, Blacklight Glow, Ectoplasm, Shadow Veil and Specter Mode. Entities manifest without warning and orbs drift through frame. Every photo gets an entity type, threat level and confidence score. RECORD & SHARE Film your hunt with overlays, skeletons and orbs and share it to your feed. Standard clips run 30 seconds with a watermark; PRO records up to 3 minutes without one. INVESTIGATIONS 30+ case files in haunted places: abandoned asylums, forgotten chapels, sunken parishes, lighthouses. Each has a backstory, zones to sweep and entities to identify. A new case rotates in daily and one stays open to everyone each week. Close a case to get an animated Case Closed card. EVIDENCE JOURNAL Every capture is archived and classified. Climb 4 investigator ranks, keep your daily streak, complete daily missions and unlock radar themes in the Season Pass. Halloween, full moons and the 3 AM witching hour intensify activity. SPECTRAL PRO Every channel, filter and case, the custom case builder, 3-minute video without a watermark, longer recording sessions, Deadwave mode, audio effects, entity forensics, sensor calibration and no ads. Monthly, yearly or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Monthly and yearly Pro are auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Lifetime is a one-time purchase and does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://peerware.site/spectral-terms Privacy Policy: https://peerware.site/spectral-privacy-policy WARNING Eerie audio, sudden visual effects and atmospheric horror. Not recommended for young children or anyone sensitive to jump scares. DISCLAIMER SPECTRAL is an entertainment app. It reads real device sensors, but readings are interpreted for atmospheric effect and do not detect actual paranormal activity. We make no scientific claims about ghosts or spirit communication.
GhostLab
This app simulates a spirit box using eight voice banks to generate audio fragments and words. Ask questions aloud and listen for potential messages, with sessions recorded and saved. It's an instrument for exploring generated sounds, not proof of the paranormal.
- Eight distinct voice banks
- Generated audio fragments and words
- Session recording and saving
- Adjustable sweep rate
- Offline functionality
- No ads or microphone use
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Dead Channel is a spirit box instrument built around eight voice banks. Tap Start and they begin: broken syllables, breaths, and pieces of English words, deep men and high women, forward and backwards, a few at a time with silence in between. Ask your question out loud, then listen. When a longer, clearer word or a whispered sentence comes through, the phone taps once and the screen flushes red. • Eight voice banks, each with its own tone, played in clusters with silence between • Echo, reverb, and a white noise bed that dips under the voices • Sweep rate from slow and sparse to fast and crowded • Every session is recorded with the effects you used and saved to the Library • Works offline, with no account and no ads, and it never uses the microphone Every sound is free to try for 48 hours. After the trial, a single one-time purchase unlocks Dead Channel for good. There is no subscription. Dead Channel is an instrument. It plays generated audio, and it does not prove the paranormal. Some voices are generated with Piper from the LibriTTS-R corpus (Koizumi et al., CC BY 4.0).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: GhostLab at none against SPECTRAL's shown. SPECTRAL's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. SPECTRAL sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and GhostLab sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SPECTRAL holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
SPECTRAL ships an update every 5 days, GhostLab weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SPECTRAL | GhostLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Peerware | Jack Miller |
Customer experience
SPECTRAL
GhostLab
In-app purchases
SPECTRAL
- Spectral Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Spectral Pro Annual$19.991 Year
- Shadow & Specter Filter Pack$0.99
- Séance Channel$0.99
- Ecto Detector Filter$0.99
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- Ancient Spirit Pack$0.99
- Child Spirit Channel$0.99
- Demon Channel$0.99
- Soldier's Echo Channel$0.99
- UV Spectrum Filter$0.99
- Season Pass Premium$2.99
- Spectral Pro Lifetime$19.99
GhostLab
- 2-Day TrialFree
- Dead Channel Lifetime Unlock$7.99









