Comparison

Threshold vs Beyond Haunted

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

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About

Threshold

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Threshold: Spirit Box Lab is a focused paranormal investigation app that generates indexed word outputs from live magnetic-field and device-motion activity. Instead of releasing words through a simple repeating timer, Spirit Box Lab uses calibrated sensor activity, sensitivity-based triggering, cooldown behavior, and deterministic indexed selection from a carefully curated 2,048-entry production vocabulary. Configure a Session, Area, sensitivity level, and spoken-output preference before beginning a run. Generated outputs, timestamps, and available technical Trigger Details are saved for later review. SPIRIT BOX LAB • Generate indexed word outputs from live sensor activity • Choose Low, Medium, or High sensitivity • Enable or disable spoken output • View fused magnetic-field and motion activity • Follow trigger progress and cooldown status • Review recent outputs during an active run • Save completed and interrupted runs automatically • Organize runs by Session and Area TRIGGER DETAILS Review the technical context behind saved outputs, including available information such as: • Accumulator activity • Magnetometer contribution • Device-motion contribution • Cooldown state • Sensor-derived signature • Word Index Trigger Details help preserve the conditions surrounding each generated output for later comparison and interpretation. MAGNETIC FIELD MONITOR Monitor live magnetic-field strength and changes from a calibrated baseline. View: • Current magnetic-field magnitude • X, Y, and Z axis readings • Change from baseline • Peak activity • Responsive activity levels Nearby magnets, speakers, electronics, charging equipment, metal objects, and changes in phone orientation can affect readings. VIBRATION BEACON Use the iPhone’s motion sensors to monitor device movement and surface vibration. Choose a sensitivity level and observe: • Current movement level • Stable, movement, and strong-movement states • Movement event count • A responsive full-screen visual beacon For more stable comparisons, place the phone on a fixed surface and avoid unnecessary handling. SESSIONS AND AREAS Create Sessions for separate investigations and Areas for individual rooms, zones, or locations. Saved Spirit Box runs remain connected to the selected Session and Area so activity can be reviewed within its original investigation context. Runs may also be saved as Unassigned when no Area is available. FREE ACCESS Free access includes: • 15 total minutes of complimentary Spirit Box monitoring • Up to 5 minutes per individual run • Calibration time excluded from complimentary usage • Access to previously saved runs after complimentary time is used • Magnetic Field Monitor • Vibration Beacon SPIRIT BOX LAB PRO Upgrade once for lifetime access to: • Unlimited Spirit Box monitoring • Unlimited saved Spirit Box runs • More Sessions and Areas • Trigger Details Spirit Box Lab Pro is a one-time in-app purchase. No subscription is required. PRIVACY-FOCUSED Threshold: Spirit Box Lab does not require an account. Core investigation data is stored locally on your device, and you control what you review or share. Sensor readings and generated outputs should be interpreted within the full context of the investigation. Designed for iPhone.

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
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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

Threshold4 screens
Beyond Haunted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beyond Haunted at none against Threshold's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Threshold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beyond Haunted asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Threshold versus Beyond Haunted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThresholdBeyond Haunted
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperBrandon RomeroJoshua Nason

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Threshold

One-time1
  • Spirit Box Lab Pro$9.99
None

Beyond Haunted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Threshold free?
Threshold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beyond Haunted free?
Beyond Haunted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Threshold or Beyond Haunted have ads?
Neither Threshold nor Beyond Haunted shows ads.

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