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There are soooo many ghost hunting apps for phones these days. I know 99% of them are jokes but I’m wondering if there’s at least one that isn’t.

This is actually an update video to a Ghost Radar video that Breezieana and I did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSv9PEfDNi4

Ghost Radar is an app by Spud Pickles: http://spudpickles.com/

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As I mention in this video, this is probably the last time I will talk about Ghost Radar.  However, if anyone out there has evidence that they want to share don’t hesitate to post it as a comment.

It’s that time again; time for another review of a Ghost App!  This is another app for iOS and it’s called Ghost Detector Tool.  iTunes has this to say:

If the picture looks like something out of a bad Sega CD game, allow me to explain how it works.

What happens in this app is that after you turn it on it pops up with a camera that shows you what you’re looking at.  The camera’s colors can be adjusted using the spectrum and gain settings because allegedly various colors will reveal more ghosts or something.  As you scan the screen may occasionally start to turn into static to indicate a presence.  If it goes into full static mode, a picture overlay may appear (such as a skull, a face, etc) and it will say a word.

So on the outside it isn’t as complicated as Ghost Radar but it is much cheesier.  The static thing is only there to scare you, as is the picture of a skull or whatever that may pop up.  ONOZ A BAD SPIRIT!  The words are near impossible to hear even if you have the phone turned up all the way, making it pointless.  It doesn’t display the word on the screen so if you miss it then that’s it, you miss it.

If they got rid of the static and the spooky picture overlay they might be able to fool some more people.  Like the other app that we reviewed, as a joke to scare someone this might work OK (though not as good as the other since you can’t actually understand the words it spits out).  As a serious ghost hunting tool don’t even waste your time with this one.

Cost: free
Rating: 0/5 for ghost hunting, 2/5 for joking around.

Next time will be an Android app that people have claimed to have fairly good results with.  Due to the nature of this upcoming app it might be a little longer before we get a review out on it.  Look forward to it!

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:

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.