Comparison

Ghost Camera vs GhostLab

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

Head to head
About

Ghost Camera

This app simulates a paranormal investigation tool, featuring a live viewfinder with a spirit-strength meter, entity tracing, and spooky camera effects. Capture and share your findings with a built-in gallery and logbook. Designed purely for entertainment purposes.

Highlights
  • Live paranormal HUD
  • Entity tracing with skeleton overlay
  • Multiple camera filters (Glow, Heatmap, VHS, Spectrum)
  • Photo and video capture with HUD
  • Built-in gallery and logbook
  • Live sensor dashboard
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

GhostLab

This app uses your device's LiDAR scanner to create a 3D map of your surroundings in real-time. Visualize rooms with colored dots representing distance, capture stills and video, and explore your scanned environment.

Highlights
  • Real-time 3D room mapping
  • LiDAR-based distance measurement
  • Wireframe and dot visualization modes
  • Color-coded distance display
  • Freeze scan and explore
  • In-app photo and video recording
  • Save and share scans
Features
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This app needs the LiDAR scanner built into iPhone Pro and iPad Pro models. Your iPhone's LiDAR scanner fires a grid of infrared laser dots and times how long each one takes to come back. Spirit Detector draws every one of those measurements where it was taken, so sweeping a dark room builds the room out of light. Walk around and the picture fills in. Walls, furniture, doorways and anything standing in the room arrive as points in mid-air, coloured by how far away they are. Near is warm, far is cold. Nothing is guessed and nothing is drawn from the camera picture: every dot is a distance the scanner actually measured. WHAT YOU CAN DO Sweep a room and watch it build, live, at sixty frames a second. Switch between a drifting sheet of dots and the room as a wire model. Colour by distance with three looks. Freeze the map and walk around what you have captured. Take stills and record video straight to the in-app Library. Save anything to Photos or share it anywhere. REQUIRES A LiDAR SCANNER This app needs the LiDAR scanner built into iPhone Pro and iPad Pro models. There is no software substitute for the sensor, so on other devices it will tell you so and do nothing else. Check your model before buying. FREE FOR 48 HOURS The whole app is free for 48 hours from your first scan. After that, one payment of $4.99 keeps it for good. No subscription, no advertising, and nothing charged again. Nothing here detects, measures or infers anything paranormal, and it does not claim to.

Screenshots

Ghost Camera4 screens
GhostLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Ghost Camera at 4.5 against GhostLab's 3.7. Ghost Camera also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). GhostLab's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Ghost Camera sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and GhostLab sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ghost Camera holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ghost Camera ships an update every 3 weeks, GhostLab every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ghost Camera versus GhostLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhost CameraGhostLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB7 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperZee WeaselJack Miller

Customer experience

Ghost Camera

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

GhostLab

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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
3 purchases

GhostLab

One-time3
  • 3D Map & Clips$4.99
  • Spirit Detector$4.99
  • Spirit Detector Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Ghost Camera free?
Ghost Camera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GhostLab free?
GhostLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ghost Camera or GhostLab?
Ghost Camera is rated higher. Ghost Camera averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while GhostLab averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Ghost Camera or GhostLab have ads?
Ghost Camera shows ads; GhostLab does not.
Which is updated more often, Ghost Camera or GhostLab?
Ghost Camera ships an update every 3 weeks, and GhostLab every 3 days. Most recently, Ghost Camera was updated on November 1, 2026 and GhostLab on October 31, 2026.

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