Comparison

Scary Ghost Prank vs Spider

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

Head to head
About

Scary Ghost Prank

Add realistic ghosts, vampires, aliens, and other supernatural entities to your photos. This app lets you prank friends or create spooky narratives with easy-to-use editing tools and shareable creations.

Highlights
  • Add realistic ghosts and supernatural entities
  • Vampire, alien, and guardian angel packs
  • Seamlessly blend effects with original photos
  • Extensive library of entities
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Share creations on social media
Features
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Unleash the thrilling world of the supernatural right into your photos with Scary Ghost Prank. This innovative iOS app brings a spine-tingling twist  to your pictures by seamlessly adding eerie ghosts, mysterious spirits, and otherworldly entities. Perfect for those who love a good scare or want  to prank their friends, our app makes every photo an adventure into the paranormal. Add Spooky Ghosts To Your Photos! What's New This Year: Vampire Visits: Transform your nighttime snaps with the haunting presence of ancient vampires. Eerie Girls: Add the chilling touch of ghostly girls to your photos, perfect for creating a spooky narrative. Alien Encounters: Bring a sci-fi twist with our new alien pack, making it seem like you've had a close encounter! Guardian Angels: Contrast the scary with the serene by including ethereal guardian angels in your pictures. Features: Realistic Effects: Our state-of-the-art technology ensures that each supernatural addition looks incredibly real, blending seamlessly with your original photo. Wide Range of Entities: Choose from an extensive library of ghosts, spirits, and other entities to find the perfect fit for your photo. Easy to Use: Simply select a photo, choose your preferred supernatural being, and watch as our app does the rest. Share with Friends: Easily share your spooky creations on social media or directly with friends and enjoy their astonished reactions! *Including: zombies, spirits, ghostly apparitions, tortured souls, and more! Check some testimonials: Cool ***** by Saraleh77 - Version 1.2 - Jan 21, 2014 This such a cool app. Great way to freak people out! Fun for ghost hunters ***** by colestreet222 - Version 1.1 - Dec 23, 2013 This is a great app for pranking friends who are really into ghosts or ghost hunting. You can add ghosts to any pics and you can take pics right in the app and share them with friends immediately. ***Here's all you have to do*** 1. Download the Ghost Camera Prank app to your device. 2. Take a photo of yourself or a friend, or grab one from your own photo library. 3. Begin the fun! Choose the ghost that best matches the photo you took and add it in! 4. Now you're ready to show the world, Share it on Facebook, tweet it on Twitter, email it to all of your friends, share it on Instagram and save it to your camera roll from right within your app! 5. Rinse and repeat! - Do it all over again with a new photo :-) Prank your friends by taking their picture and adding a realistic ghost in the photo behind them It only takes about 10 seconds to customize, but you'll be laughing for a lot longer :-) The app has a lot of ghosts you can use for free and also some packages availables after purchase if you desire enjoy even more. Here's just some of the features of Ghost Camera Prank * Pick out a lot of realistic and scary ghosts to add to your picture, there is one for every occasion! * Watch your Facebook likes, shares and comments skyrocket when your friends see the image you created * Keep an eye on how many retweets and replies you get after you tweet one of your hilarious creations * Email it to yourself or your friends directly from the app so you can entertaint them right from their inbox * Share it on Instagram and have your followers instantly see your new cool creation * Save it directly to your camera roll so you can share via iMessage, text or just so you can look back at it to make yourself laugh over and over again :-) Download Paranormal Camera now!!!

About

Spider

Apply animated creatures crawling on your hand or face using the live camera. Choose from a variety of insects and mechanical beings, with options for swarms, sound effects, and vibration.

Highlights
  • Live camera effects
  • Hand and face modes
  • Variety of creatures
  • Swarm options
  • Customizable sound and vibration
  • On-device processing
Features
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Something is moving across your skin. Open the live camera and see animated creatures crawl over your hand or face. The effect appears on the live image; no photo is needed. HAND OR FACE Choose a target, then a creature. Show your palm or the back of your hand and move gently. Face mode places creatures across the forehead, cheeks, nose and chin. THE FULL CREATURE COLLECTION Meet a spider, scorpion, cockroach, ant, beetle, wasp, mutants, a mechanical ant and a mechanical worm. FOUR SWARMS Send groups of spiders, ants, cockroaches or mechanical worms across your hand or face. SOUND AND MOVEMENT Set the eerie music and creature sounds independently, with vibration on attacks. LIVE CAMERA Use good light and move gently. Creature contact with skin is approximate. Camera images and tracking are processed on your device. The app does not record, save, share or upload camera images or video.

Screenshots

Scary Ghost Prank4 screens
Spider4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Scary Ghost Prank at 85% against Spider's 13%. Scary Ghost Prank also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 132 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Scary Ghost Prank sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Spider sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scary Ghost Prank holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Scary Ghost Prank has 979 ratings behind it against 116, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Scary Ghost Prank's written reviews are positive against 13% of Spider's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scary Ghost Prank ships an update every 3 months, Spider every 132 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Scary Ghost Prank versus Spider: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScary Ghost PrankSpider
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (979 ratings) — better2.3 (116 ratings)
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews — better13.3% of reviews
Number of ratings979 — better116
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 132 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB185 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperJorge Gregorio Martin BelloENRASOFT APPS SL.

Customer experience

Scary Ghost Prank

All ratings975 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral6.1%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews397 reviews
Positive85.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.8%

Spider

All ratings116 ratings
Positive28.4%
Neutral6.0%
Negative65.5%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive13.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative83.1%

User reviews

Scary Ghost Prank

From 979 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and creative
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Great for pranking friends
  • 👍 Realistic-looking ghosts
  • 👍 Lots of customization options

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paid content required for full experience
  • 🔍 Obvious watermark on edited photos
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 📱 Limited functionality on older devices

Spider

From 116 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 😂 Funny sound effects
  • 👻 Spooky for pranks
  • 🤩 Desire to be Spider-Man
  • 👍 Lengthens hands (for some)
  • 🤣 Scares grandma

Room to improve

  • 👎 Horrible app design
  • 👎 Cannot close app
  • 👎 Bad app quality
  • 👎 Dumb sound and hand graphics
  • 👎 Fake-looking spider

Bugs and requests

Scary Ghost Prank

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inability to save edited photos
  • Forced sharing of edited photos
  • Inconsistent performance and crashes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free ghost options
  • Ability to resize and position ghosts freely
  • Improved realism and variety of ghosts
  • Video editing capabilities

Spider

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Locked into app
  • Screen is pitch black
  • Spider doesn't show on hand
  • Spider walks on black screen
  • App exits unexpectedly
Show 5 more
  • Spider is off-hand, crawling mid-air
  • App crashes
  • Screen goes black when pressed
  • App does not work
  • Screen doesn't show hand, all black

Requested features

12 requests
  • Make spider look better
  • Make spider more realistic
  • Fix hand graphics
  • Improve spider animation
  • Make spider graphics better
Show 7 more
  • Make spider quality better
  • Allow video recording of hand
  • Fix hand stretching issue
  • Add choice of spider
  • Add choice of lighting
  • Add editing options
  • Add more variety to actions

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Scary Ghost Prank

One-time10
  • Enjoy the app without banners$0.99
  • Horror Pack$0.99
  • Heads Pack$0.99
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  • Half Figure Pack$0.99
  • Extreme Horror$0.99
  • Spooky Apparitions$0.99
  • Remove Watermark$0.99
  • Scary Score$1.99
  • Unlock all Packs&Ads&Watermark$2.99
  • All Packs and Features$4.99
2 purchases

Spider

Subscriptions2
  • Spider Premium Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Spider Premium Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Scary Ghost Prank free?
Scary Ghost Prank is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spider free?
Spider is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scary Ghost Prank or Spider?
Scary Ghost Prank is rated higher. Scary Ghost Prank averages 4.6 out of 5 from 979 ratings, while Spider averages 2.3 from 116 ratings.
Do Scary Ghost Prank or Spider have ads?
Both Scary Ghost Prank and Spider show ads.
Which is updated more often, Scary Ghost Prank or Spider?
Scary Ghost Prank ships an update every 3 months, and Spider every 132 months. Most recently, Scary Ghost Prank was updated on November 1, 2026 and Spider on November 9, 2026.

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