Comparison

Beyond Haunted vs EVP Ghost Recorder

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

Head to head
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
Features
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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

About

EVP Ghost Recorder

This app transforms your iPhone into a tool for paranormal audio investigation. Record sound with live visual feedback, then use specialized filters to isolate faint voices from background noise. Organize your findings into detailed investigation sessions.

Highlights
  • One-tap recording with live waveform/spectrogram
  • Organized investigation sessions with metadata
  • Voice band-pass and rumble/hiss cut filters
  • Adjustable playback speed and reverse playback
  • Export clips as WAV files
  • Spectral noise removal (Pro feature)
  • Session log exports (CSV, JSON) (Pro feature)
Features
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EVP Ghost Recorder turns your iPhone into a paranormal investigation recorder. Capture audio during your sessions, then listen back with filters made for pulling faint voices out of the noise. RECORD • One-tap recording with a live waveform and spectrogram • Recordings are organized into investigation sessions with location, date/time, investigators, weather and equipment • Clips are grouped by day with search and sorting LISTEN CLOSER • Voice band-pass (300–3400 Hz) and rumble/hiss cut • Gain, playback speed (0.25×–2×) and reverse playback • Export any clip as a WAV file through the share sheet EVP GHOST RECORDER PRO (one-time purchase) • Spectral noise removal with automatic or manual noise profile, plus a noise gate • Unlimited investigation sessions (the free version includes one) • Markers at exact moments, A/B/C EVP class ratings and tags • Session log exports: CSV, JSON and a printable log No subscription — buy once and restore on your other devices. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your recordings and notes stay on your iPhone. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no data collection. For entertainment purposes. EVP Ghost Recorder records and processes sound from your microphone; it does not detect spirits.

Screenshots

Beyond Haunted4 screens
EVP Ghost Recorder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beyond Haunted at none against EVP Ghost Recorder's 1. Beyond Haunted also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). EVP Ghost Recorder's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. EVP Ghost Recorder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beyond Haunted asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beyond Haunted against 5.0 for EVP Ghost Recorder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Beyond Haunted versus EVP Ghost Recorder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeyond HauntedEVP Ghost Recorder
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJoshua Nasonjohn jerde

In-app purchases

None

Beyond Haunted

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

EVP Ghost Recorder

One-time1
  • Pro Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Beyond Haunted free?
Beyond Haunted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EVP Ghost Recorder free?
EVP Ghost Recorder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Beyond Haunted or EVP Ghost Recorder?
Beyond Haunted and EVP Ghost Recorder are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Beyond Haunted or EVP Ghost Recorder have ads?
Neither Beyond Haunted nor EVP Ghost Recorder shows ads.

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