Comparison

HauntKeep vs GhostLab

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

Head to head
About

HauntKeep

This app transforms your phone into a paranormal investigation kit, featuring tools like an EMF meter, spirit box, and EVP recorder. It provides detailed readings and allows for session recording with environmental context, all designed for atmosphere and a good scare.

Highlights
  • EMF Meter with Kp context
  • EVP Recorder with waveform and spectrogram
  • Spirit Box with synthesized voice sweep
  • SLS camera overlay
  • Session recording with timeline
  • Environmental context tagging
  • Private by design, no trackers
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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.

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

HauntKeep4 screens
GhostLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: HauntKeep at 5.0 against GhostLab's 4.5. HauntKeep also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. HauntKeep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GhostLab sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HauntKeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
HauntKeep versus GhostLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHauntKeepGhostLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB110 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperCaelori LLCJack Miller

In-app purchases

1 purchases

HauntKeep

One-time1
  • Full Toolkit Unlock$9.99
2 purchases

GhostLab

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

Questions

Is HauntKeep free?
HauntKeep 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, HauntKeep or GhostLab?
HauntKeep is rated higher. HauntKeep averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while GhostLab averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do HauntKeep or GhostLab have ads?
Neither HauntKeep nor GhostLab shows ads.

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