Comparison

Ghost Sonar Detector vs HauntKeep

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

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About

Ghost Sonar Detector

Features
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Turn your iPhone into a paranormal detection device with real sensor data. Ghost Sonar uses magnetometer, barometer, microphone, and accelerometer to scan for environmental anomalies on a submarine sonar-style radar. Features: - Submarine sonar radar sweep with real-time detection blips - EMF anomaly detection - EVP audio capture - Barometric pressure monitoring - Vibration sensing - 4-level threat indicator - Horror effects: screen shake, red flash, glitch, horror text - Sonar ping and detection alerts - Detection log For entertainment purposes only.

About

HauntKeep

This app transforms your phone into a paranormal investigation kit, featuring tools like an EMF meter, spirit box, and EVP recorder. It provides detailed readings and allows for session recording with environmental context, all designed for atmosphere and a good scare.

Highlights
  • EMF Meter with Kp context
  • EVP Recorder with waveform and spectrogram
  • Spirit Box with synthesized voice sweep
  • SLS camera overlay
  • Session recording with timeline
  • Environmental context tagging
  • Private by design, no trackers
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HauntKeep turns your phone's real sensors into a kit of paranormal investigation instruments: SLS, an EMF meter, a spirit box, an EVP recorder, a vibration geophone, and more. Built for atmosphere, curiosity, and a good scare. Every reading has a source, and the app shows it. A number on screen traces back to a sensor in your phone, with the steps behind it on the same screen: the live input, the baseline it is measured against, and the math in between. Values the app fetches or works out are labeled that way: the day's space weather and local conditions are fetched, and the moon phase is worked out from the date. A mode that needs hardware your phone doesn't have says so and stops. What a reading means is yours to decide. Every mode says which kind it is: REAL for the ones that measure a physical signal, EXPERIENCE for the ones built for mood and story, on the tile, before you open it. Both kinds show their working. THE INSTRUMENTS: each reads a sensor on your phone • EMF Meter: your phone's real magnetometer, with a live baseline, a standard-deviation gauge, and space-weather (Kp) context so you can see when the field leaves your room's normal. • EVP Recorder: records the room to WAV with markers, then plays it back with a waveform, spectrogram, variable speed and a high-pass filter. • Sound: a live level meter and FFT spectrogram of the room. • Vibration: a geophone that turns your accelerometer into a seismograph for taps and footsteps. • Shadow: place your phone and watch for luminance and motion changes. • Dowsing Rods: two rods swung by real changes in magnetic heading. • Vision: a low-light camera enhancer. • SLS: a pose-estimation skeleton overlay on the live camera. THE EXPERIENCES: interpretive, and each names what drives it • Dictionary: a word engine driven by live field readings. • Phonetic (Spirit Box): a synthesized voice sweep; the field sets how busy it is, and the words come from the app's own bank. • Radio Sweep: a sweep across live internet radio. • Music Box, Morse, REM Touch, Talking Board, Draw, White Noise, and a live multi-sensor Investigation camera. SESSIONS • Record a baseline sweep so spikes are measured against your room's own normal. • A cross-mode timeline lines up every mode's events on one ruler and flags moments when two or more independent sensors fire within the same 2 s window. • Tag a session with real environmental context: weather, sunrise/sunset, moon phase, and the space-weather Kp index (optional; uses approximate location). • Export a session as a clean report or a shareable zip. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Yours alone: no accounts, no ads, no trackers, no analytics SDKs. • Your recordings, photos, and notes stay on your device. • The one thing that ever leaves your phone is an approximate, rounded location, sent to a weather service when you tap to add environmental context. • Deleting the app removes all of its data. FREE TO EXPLORE Free to install, with the EMF meter and the Talking Board fully open: no time limit and no ads. The whole investigation layer is free too: sessions, the baseline sweep, the cross-mode timeline and environmental context. One optional purchase opens the remaining modes and lets you take a case file away: PDF reports, session bundles and CSV export. Pay once; there is no subscription. WHAT TO EXPECT The instruments read your phone's real sensors, and every value arrives with the steps behind it. HauntKeep is an entertainment app, not a scientific, medical, or safety instrument, and it makes no claim about what its readings mean. What those readings mean is left entirely to you. It contains paranormal and mild-horror themes and is intended for a general (not young child) audience. Grab a friend, turn out the lights, and go ghost hunting. HauntKeep™ is a trademark of Hevenis LLC.

Screenshots

Ghost Sonar Detector3 screens
HauntKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HauntKeep at Free against Ghost Sonar Detector's $0.49. HauntKeep also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). Ghost Sonar Detector's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

HauntKeep is free to download; Ghost Sonar Detector costs $0.49 up front. HauntKeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ghost Sonar Detector asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Ghost Sonar Detector versus HauntKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhost Sonar DetectorHauntKeep
Price$0.49Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB50 MB
Age rating9+12+
Developersatoshi amasakiCaelori LLC

In-app purchases

None

Ghost Sonar Detector

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

HauntKeep

One-time1
  • Full Toolkit Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Ghost Sonar Detector free?
Ghost Sonar Detector costs $0.49, with no in-app purchases.
Is HauntKeep free?
HauntKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ghost Sonar Detector or HauntKeep have ads?
Neither Ghost Sonar Detector nor HauntKeep shows ads.

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