This is the start of a series of reviews of Ghost Apps (detection, communication and what have you). Our interest in doing this stated with an app known as Ghost Radar that we later discovered was completely fake (thanks to the guy who decompiled the code and explained it all in full). I was always a little on the fence about that app but it made me wonder if there’s any apps out there that are legit or not. Bri and I will be trying various Ghost Apps on both Android and iOS. We’re determined to find out if there’s any legit apps out there that will actually aid people in ghost hunting or spirit communication.
So let’s get started with today’s app: Ghost Detect Pro. It is available for iOS. Here’s what iTunes has to say about the app:
• ALL the sensors on one page
• Radar that actually tracks anomalies
• Very accurate EMF (Electro Magnetic Field) detector
• Super sensitive microphone – hears every little noise
• Records audio for EVP sessions
• EVP that speaks to you, with five different voices available
• Detects vibrations and movement
• Alerts for every sensor
• Draws all this to a very accurate graph
• Quantum Flux detector
• Takes photos and detects anomalies in them – Camera can be turned off an onGraph detail info below:
• Device Sensor Readout/Graph:This will show data over time.
Graph Line Colors:
* Red = Change in magnetic field in the X axis.
* Green = Change in magnetic field in the Y axis.
* Blue = Change in magnetic field in the Z axis.
* Yellow = Change in Electro Magnetic Field Discriminator (see description below).
* White = Change in Microphone Sound Input (see description below).
* Orange = Change in the Quantum Flux, if this line is moving up or down, strange things may happen.
More detailed instructions are in the app, just touch the little blue “i” button.
As you can see, when you start the app you’re treated with a plethora of meters, numbers, radar sweeps and graphs. It looks legit enough. The radar sweeps through and eventually, just like Ghost Radar, finds a blip. The blips can be different colors, just like Ghost Radar. Eventually it might even spit out a word.
The silliest feature of this app is the ghost detection via camera part. Randomly the app will tell you “ghost detected” and switch to the photo section so you can take a picture of it. After a few seconds it snaps a picture and overlays some orbs or a shadowy looking figure on it. oOoooOooOo, spooky, right? I mean, oh snap. Orbs! And sometimes a shadowy figure! IT MUST BE REAL! Only, you can cover up the camera completely and it will still snap a picture and add the overlay of orbs/figure. Gee, ghosts sure are thin if they can get between the camera lens and whatever you use to completely block the camera.
If they had left out the photo part perhaps it would be more convincing, but I already know from experience that the radar part is total BS and the other meters don’t seem to really read anything real. It is true that phones (or at least some phones) can detect some EMF but they’re not really designed to act as an EMF detector.
It also seems that ghost hunting app makers just love the word quantum flux. This is the second app I’ve seen that claims it can read and detect variations in the quantum flux. Well, the iPhone (and Android phones for that matter) do not house any type of laser micrometer; its chronometer is not accurate to within one millionth of a second (as would be required for quantum measurement), it doesn’t have the hard memory necessary to house the highly complex calculations and mathematical theories needed to quantify any such fluctuation, and simply put it doesn’t have the ability to see quantum particles. So yeah, keep using that word guys.
Final verdict? As a joke app, this one is pretty good. You could probably scare someone who isn’t in the know about it being a joke app and convince them their house is haunted (and hey, you’ll have picture proof after it snaps a pic!). For real ghost hunting this app is rubbish and isn’t going to help you detect your way out of a paper bag..
Cost: free
Rating: 0/5 for actual ghost hunting, 5/5 for joking around.
