Comparison

Ghost Camera 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

Ghost Camera

Features
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Point your phone into the dark and see what it finds. Ghost Camera is an SLS-style ghost-hunting camera made for entertainment: a full-screen viewfinder with a live paranormal HUD, eerie words, a clicking Geiger-style soundtrack, and spooky camera effects. Take it to a sleepover, a night walk, or wherever the lights flicker. POINT IT INTO THE DARK Everything on screen follows a restless spirit-strength meter. The LED bar creeps from green to red, the clicks come faster, and every so often a word drifts over the image — COLD. WATCHING. BEHIND YOU. ENTITY TRACING When a human-shaped figure enters the frame, Ghost Camera traces it with a glowing skeleton, colored by the current spirit strength. If you've watched paranormal TV, you know the look. Recording video with the skeleton on is part of Pro. CAMERA FILTERS & EFFECTS Four looks for that found-footage feel: a green Glow FX, a heat-map style Heat FX, grainy VHS FX, and the color-shifted Spectrum FX (VHS FX and Spectrum FX come with Pro). They're visual filters over your device's normal camera — pure entertainment, no special hardware involved. CAPTURE AND SHARE Photos and videos come out exactly like the screen: HUD, effects, words and traced figures baked right in, with an optional location tag. The built-in gallery keeps your captures together, and the logbook remembers every word — when it appeared, how strong the signal was, what the sensors were doing. LIVE SENSOR DASHBOARD Your device's real sensors, one spooky screen: magnetic field, acceleration, pressure and gyroscope, each with its own history graph, plus a live compass. GHOST CAMERA PRO Pro removes the ads, unlocks the premium effects, lets you record video with the tracking skeleton, drops the watermark, and opens the full wordbank. You can subscribe or buy it once and keep it forever — the app shows each option with its name, duration and price before you decide. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. FOR ENTERTAINMENT One thing said plainly: Ghost Camera is for fun. The readings, words and detections are generated by the app and aren't evidence of anything paranormal — reflections, posters, coats and screens can all set it off. Investigate, don't assume. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://weaseldev.com/privacy/ghostcamera.html

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

Ghost Camera4 screens
Beyond Haunted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Beyond Haunted at 5.0 against Ghost Camera's 4.5. Beyond Haunted also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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. Ghost Camera sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Beyond Haunted asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beyond Haunted holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ghost Camera ships an update every 3 weeks, Beyond Haunted every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ghost Camera versus Beyond Haunted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhost CameraBeyond Haunted
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB4 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperZee WeaselJoshua Nason

Customer experience

Ghost Camera

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beyond Haunted

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

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Ghost Camera

Subscriptions3
  • Ghost Camera Pro$1.997 Days
  • Ghost Camera Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Ghost Camera Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Ghost Camera Pro Lifetime$29.99
  • Ghost Camera Pro Lifetime$34.99
None

Beyond Haunted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ghost Camera free?
Ghost Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beyond Haunted free?
Beyond Haunted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ghost Camera or Beyond Haunted?
Beyond Haunted is rated higher. Ghost Camera averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Beyond Haunted averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Ghost Camera or Beyond Haunted have ads?
Ghost Camera shows ads; Beyond Haunted does not.
Which is updated more often, Ghost Camera or Beyond Haunted?
Ghost Camera ships an update every 3 weeks, and Beyond Haunted every 5 days. Most recently, Ghost Camera was updated on October 24, 2026 and Beyond Haunted on October 11, 2026.

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