Comparison

Ghost Detect 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 Detect

Features
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Turn your device into a professional-grade paranormal investigation toolkit, wrapped in a tactile interface and powered strictly by authentic hardware sensors with zero simulated data. CORE CAPABILITIES • Tactical HUD & Live Filters: Overlay telemetry onto your camera feed and toggle real-time visual modes, including Thermal Ironbow, Night Vision, Full Spectrum, and Motion Delta. • Dual-Camera & 3D Spatial Meshing: Monitor environments simultaneously with front/rear feeds, dual-camera stereo depth, and LiDAR/TrueDepth 3D spatial surface meshes and point clouds. • Hands-Free & Physical Triggers: Start captures and log anomaly tags instantly using Camera Control, the Action Button, physical Volume buttons, or Siri Shortcuts without looking at your screen. • Live Sonification & Captions: Acoustic sonification translates telemetry anomalies into pitch cues and Geiger clicks, paired with live captions for silent or low-visibility vigils. • Crash-Resilient Recording: Capture video, audio, and high-frequency telemetry with continuous disk streaming and intelligent thermal power management. INTEGRATED SENSOR SUITE • SLS & Depth Camera: Real-time AI skeletal tracking up to native 4K and 240 FPS slow-motion, continuous 3D surface reconstruction, facial landmark mapping, and stereo low-light boost. • 5-Sensor ITC & Interrogation: Correlate simultaneous environmental deflections across EMF, Barometer, Light, Motion, and RF into natural-language translation rationales. • EVP Recorder & Carrier Waves: Live spectrogram, multi-engine speech transcription, anomaly markers, and multi-spectrum acoustic noise generation (White, Pink, Brown). • EMF Detector: 3-axis electromagnetic monitoring with K2-style meters, directional radar, and dynamic graph views. • Motion & Seismograph: High-sensitivity G-Force impact and vibration detection with rapid TARE baseline calibration. • Barometer, Light & RF Scanner: Real-time ambient Lux tracking, atmospheric pressure shift detection, and spatial 2.4 GHz BLE radar mapping. PRO EVIDENCE LAB & FORENSIC ANALYSIS • Synchronized Telemetry Playback: Replay footage with interactive 360° Vector Radars, K2 meters, Geophones, and rolling spectrograms synced down to the millisecond. • Precision Inspection Engine: Inspect captures with exact frame-by-step pads, post-capture tracking model comparisons, interactive depth filters (Silhouette, Contour, Point Cloud), and full video tuning. • Universal Media Import: Load pre-recorded video or extract Live Photos directly from your Files app or Photos Library with automatic orientation correction. • Multi-Format Forensic Export: Burn active visual filters and tracking wireframes directly into MP4 video, export universal 3D models (Apple USDZ / Stanford PLY), or package raw metric depth streams and synchronized CSV logs into ZIP case archives. • Investigator Dossier & Achievements: Review field career statistics, unlock 20 tiered paranormal trophies, and verify milestones on global Game Center leaderboards. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

GhostLab

This app simulates a spirit box using eight voice banks to generate audio fragments and words. Ask questions aloud and listen for potential messages, with sessions recorded and saved. It's an instrument for exploring generated sounds, not proof of the paranormal.

Highlights
  • Eight distinct voice banks
  • Generated audio fragments and words
  • Session recording and saving
  • Adjustable sweep rate
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or microphone use
Features
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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).

Screenshots

Ghost Detect4 screens
GhostLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ghost Detect at none against GhostLab's 2. On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. GhostLab sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Ghost Detect asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ghost Detect ships an update weekly, GhostLab every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Ghost Detect versus GhostLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGhost DetectGhostLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB98 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperMarilena AnastasiouJack Miller

In-app purchases

None

Ghost Detect

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

GhostLab

One-time2
  • 2-Day TrialFree
  • Dead Channel Lifetime Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is Ghost Detect free?
Ghost Detect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GhostLab free?
GhostLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ghost Detect or GhostLab have ads?
Neither Ghost Detect nor GhostLab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ghost Detect or GhostLab?
Ghost Detect ships an update weekly, and GhostLab every 4 days. Most recently, Ghost Detect was updated on October 7, 2026 and GhostLab on October 17, 2026.

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