Ghost Camera vs GhostLab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
GhostLab
This app simulates a spirit box using eight voice banks to generate audio fragments. Ask questions and listen for potential messages, with sessions recorded and saved. It's an instrument for exploring generated sounds, not proof of the paranormal.
- Eight voice banks with unique tones
- Echo, reverb, and white noise effects
- Adjustable sweep rate
- Session recording and library
- 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 Ghost Camera's shown. GhostLab also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Ghost Camera sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and GhostLab sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Ghost Camera against 4.5 for GhostLab. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ghost Camera ships an update every 3 weeks, GhostLab weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ghost Camera | GhostLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Zee Weasel | Jack Miller |
Customer experience
Ghost Camera
GhostLab
In-app purchases
Ghost Camera
- Ghost Camera Pro$1.997 Days
- Ghost Camera Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Ghost Camera Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Ghost Camera Pro Lifetime$29.99
- Ghost Camera Pro Lifetime$34.99
GhostLab
- 2-Day TrialFree
- Dead Channel Lifetime Unlock$7.99
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