Beyond Haunted vs HauntKeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
HauntKeep
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HauntKeep turns your phone's real sensors into a kit of paranormal investigation instruments: SLS, an EMF meter, a spirit box, an EVP recorder, a vibration geophone, and more. Built for atmosphere, curiosity, and a good scare. Every reading has a source, and the app shows it. A number on screen traces back to a sensor in your phone, with the steps behind it on the same screen: the live input, the baseline it is measured against, and the math in between. Values the app fetches or works out are labeled that way: the day's space weather and local conditions are fetched, and the moon phase is worked out from the date. A mode that needs hardware your phone doesn't have says so and stops. What a reading means is yours to decide. Every mode says which kind it is: REAL for the ones that measure a physical signal, EXPERIENCE for the ones built for mood and story, on the tile, before you open it. Both kinds show their working. THE INSTRUMENTS: each reads a sensor on your phone • EMF Meter: your phone's real magnetometer, with a live baseline, a standard-deviation gauge, and space-weather (Kp) context so you can see when the field leaves your room's normal. • EVP Recorder: records the room to WAV with markers, then plays it back with a waveform, spectrogram, variable speed and a high-pass filter. • Sound: a live level meter and FFT spectrogram of the room. • Vibration: a geophone that turns your accelerometer into a seismograph for taps and footsteps. • Shadow: place your phone and watch for luminance and motion changes. • Dowsing Rods: two rods swung by real changes in magnetic heading. • Vision: a low-light camera enhancer. • SLS: a pose-estimation skeleton overlay on the live camera. THE EXPERIENCES: interpretive, and each names what drives it • Dictionary: a word engine driven by live field readings. • Phonetic (Spirit Box): a synthesized voice sweep; the field sets how busy it is, and the words come from the app's own bank. • Radio Sweep: a sweep across live internet radio. • Music Box, Morse, REM Touch, Talking Board, Draw, White Noise, and a live multi-sensor Investigation camera. SESSIONS • Record a baseline sweep so spikes are measured against your room's own normal. • A cross-mode timeline lines up every mode's events on one ruler and flags moments when two or more independent sensors fire within the same 2 s window. • Tag a session with real environmental context: weather, sunrise/sunset, moon phase, and the space-weather Kp index (optional; uses approximate location). • Export a session as a clean report or a shareable zip. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Yours alone: no accounts, no ads, no trackers, no analytics SDKs. • Your recordings, photos, and notes stay on your device. • The one thing that ever leaves your phone is an approximate, rounded location, sent to a weather service when you tap to add environmental context. • Deleting the app removes all of its data. FREE TO EXPLORE Free to install, with the EMF meter and the Talking Board fully open: no time limit and no ads. The whole investigation layer is free too: sessions, the baseline sweep, the cross-mode timeline and environmental context. One optional purchase opens the remaining modes and lets you take a case file away: PDF reports, session bundles and CSV export. Pay once; there is no subscription. WHAT TO EXPECT The instruments read your phone's real sensors, and every value arrives with the steps behind it. HauntKeep is an entertainment app, not a scientific, medical, or safety instrument, and it makes no claim about what its readings mean. What those readings mean is left entirely to you. It contains paranormal and mild-horror themes and is intended for a general (not young child) audience. Grab a friend, turn out the lights, and go ghost hunting. HauntKeep™ is a trademark of Hevenis LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beyond Haunted at none against HauntKeep's 1. Beyond Haunted also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). HauntKeep's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. HauntKeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beyond Haunted asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beyond Haunted against 5.0 for HauntKeep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Beyond Haunted | HauntKeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Joshua Nason | Caelori LLC |
In-app purchases
Beyond Haunted
No in-app purchases
HauntKeep
- Full Toolkit Unlock$9.99








