Alexis Kestler
Hey there, Halloween enthusiast! As an app expert and data analyst, I wanted to provide you with some of the latest insider info on the best apps for adding next-level fright to your Halloween festivities this year. I‘ve tested out tons of spooky apps myself, and have the scoop on which ones are truly hair-raising.
From augmented reality ghouls that haunt your house, to an interactive ghost radar that senses spirits, these apps will transform your phone into a terrifying Halloween accessory. I‘ll give you the scoop on 10 scream-worthy apps for Android and iOS that will upgrade your Halloween scare factor. Get ready for a frightfully good time!
First up is one of my personal favorite apps for instantly setting a creepy vibe – a horror soundboard!
Horror Soundboard
Ambience is everything when it comes to scaring, so an app packed with chilling sound effects is a must for Halloween. The Horror Soundboard app provides you with a massive library of over 100 high-quality, bone-chilling sound effects totally free.
Available on both Android and iOS, this app lets you become an instant DJ of terror. We‘re talking fully optimized stereo sounds like creepy background music, violent winds, eerie footsteps, anguished screams, demonic laughter, and so much more. Everything you need to haunt their nightmares!
I especially like the customizable sound pads that react to your touch – perfect for improvising a symphony of screams on the fly. The sound quality with headphones or a speaker system is crystal clear and blood-curdling.
Based on 150,000+ user reviews, this is one of the top-rated soundboard apps, with users raving:
★★★★★ "This app is perfect for Halloween! So many creepy sounds to set the scary ambience."
I couldn‘t agree more. Customizing a frightening soundscape instantly made my Halloween party next-level terrifying last year. My guests were on edge before they even walked in the door!
If you‘re looking to take your Halloween sound effects game up a notch this year, the Horror Soundboard app is a must-have.
Next, we have the perfect app for catching your friends off guard with bone-chilling notifications – the Sinister Ringtone.
Sinister Ringtone
Let‘s be real – boring default ringtones just don‘t cut it around Halloween. You need your phone to really scream at you, and the Sinister Ringtone app delivers.
Only available on Android, this app provides you with over 150 blood-curdling sound effects that you can set as your ringtone, notification sound, alarm, or even doorbell.
You‘ll find everything from violent screams, to insidious laughs, roars, screeches, and unintelligible mutterings from beyond the grave. This app has all the auditory scares you need to get your adrenaline pumping every time your phone goes off.
I set the "Demonic Scream" as my ringtone last Halloween, and let me tell you – it nearly scared the life out of me each time my phone rang. My boss was not amused, but for me and my friends, it kicked off Halloween with a terrifying bang!
Based on 1M+ Google Play downloads, Android users love using this app to prank their friends by setting their ringtone to a blood-curdling shriek without them knowing.
★★★★★ "I set my mom‘s ringtone to the creepy girl laugh and she nearly had a heart attack when I called her! Perfect scary prank."
So if you really want to shock your friends this Halloween, the Sinister Ringtone app is sure to deliver goosebumps.
Now let‘s look at one of my favorite augmented reality apps for becoming the walking dead – Zombie Booth. This app uses advanced face-tracking to make you look like a gruesome zombie in real-time.
Zombie Booth
If you want a zombie costume that feels like it just crawled out of the uncanny valley, look no further than Zombie Booth. This app provides you with professional-grade augmented reality filters that transform you into the living dead in mere seconds.
Zombie Booth is only available on iOS, but the 3D facial tracking is state-of-the-art. The app maps your facial structure and expressions, then applies its gruesome zombie overlays in perfect synchronization with your movements.
You can customize options like gore, blood splatter, skin decay, missing flesh, and undead eye effects until you look like you just limped off the set of The Walking Dead. I especially like the real-time animation that brings your zombie to life. The results are scarily convincing!
Beyond just still photos, you can even record videos of yourself as a sentient zombie. This takes your Instagram costume pics to the next level for Halloween.
Based on 65,000+ App Store ratings, Zombie Booth users agree:
★★★★★ “This app is insanely freaky realistic! My zombie costume looks so legit now.”
Zombie Booth is a must for creating a photorealistic undead look this Halloween. The zombies you create are sure to go viral!
Next up is one of the creepiest ghost hunting apps out there for Android – Ghost Radar Classic. This app uses your phone‘s sensors to detect supernatural activity.
Ghost Radar Classic
Ready for a paranormal fright this Halloween? The Ghost Radar Classic app for Android aims to detect ghostly activity using your device‘s camera, microphone, GPS, and other sensors.
While Ghost Radar doesn‘t actually summon ghosts, the app‘s eerie sound effects and simulated paranormal activity feed right into your imagination. You can ask the ghosts questions and hear their whispering "responses." An on-screen radar even visually tracks the ghosts‘ movements around you in real-time!
I tried this app while on a camping trip last Halloween, and I must admit it freaked out me and my friends. We were deep in the woods late at night asking this app questions, and when it actually seemed to respond, we hightailed it out of there so fast!
While Ghost Radar can‘t physically summon spirits, its creepy effects have scared many users:
★★★★☆ “I know this app isn‘t real but it still managed to seriously creep me out with its noises and radar effects while home alone at night.”
So if you want to kick your Halloween ghost hunt up a notch, be sure to grab Ghost Radar. Just don‘t blame me when you get more spirits than you bargained for!
Speaking of paranormal frights, the next app actually unleashes a ghostly girl right into your home with augmented reality…
Night Terrors
The Night Terrors app for iOS takes AR scares to the next level by setting loose a terrifying ghost girl named Maya in your home at night. Viewed through your phone‘s camera, Maya lurks in the darkest corners and roams your house like she owns the place.
This app makes use of your home environment for a thrillingly realistic experience. Maya has her own personality, moving and behaving unpredictably on her own will. In one bone-chilling moment, I watched Maya crawl out from under my bed and crouch in the corner of my room! 😱
The developers at AtmosFX call Night Terrors “the most terrifying AR experience ever created.” Based on 5,000+ uneasy App Store reviews, I think they succeeded:
★★★★☆ “This app freaked me out so bad I had to delete it. Maya kept appearing at night and I couldn‘t sleep. Too scary!”
If you really want to summon some nightmare fuel this Halloween, Night Terrors is the AR app for you. Just don‘t come crying to me after Maya creeps into your room at midnight!
Let‘s shift gears now to a lighter augmented reality app for decorating your haunted house with virtual props.
Decorating AR
Halloween is all about atmosphere, so you need a properly decorated haunt to really give your guests goosebumps. But buying and setting up piles of props is expensive and time-consuming.
That‘s where the ingenious Decorating AR app comes in. Only available on iOS, this app lets you decorate your house with spooky virtual props viewed through your phone‘s camera.
Decorating AR uses 3D graphics to overlay creepy items like jack-o-lanterns, cobwebs, cauldrons, skulls, ghosts, and coffins directly onto your surroundings. You can move the props around, resize them, and place them anywhere you want until your space looks sufficiently haunted.
I love using this app to quickly test out decor layouts before I start Physically hanging up spider webs. It lets you experiment and find the perfect balance of décor for maximum scares!
Decorating AR receives rave 4.6/5 App Store reviews for its realism and simplicity:
★★★★★ “This app makes it so easy to visualize how my Halloween decor will look before putting it up. The props look realistically spooky!"
If easy augmented reality decorating sounds up your haunted alley, grab Decorating AR to overhaul your Halloween haunt in minutes.
Now let‘s look at one of the scariest mobile games out there guaranteed to give you chills…
Eyes – Scary Thriller Game
I‘m a huge fan of immersive horror games, and Eyes is one of the most intense I‘ve played. This first-person thriller game for iOS pulls you into a deeply creepy house with an evil presence lurking inside.
Armed only with a flashlight, you‘ll explore eerie hallways and rooms, discovering disturbing clues about the dark forces inhabiting this house. Strange sounds and jump scares lie around every corner, leaving you in a constant state of suspense.
But where Eyes really shines is its binaural 3D audio for headphones. The sounds are so realistic that I frequently ripped off my headset thinking someone was right behind me! The overall immersion level is insanely good.
Many App Store reviewers agree this is one of the scariest games out there:
★★★★★ “I had to stop playing Eyes at night because it was causing me bad anxiety and nightmares. The sounds and jump scares are too much!”
So if you‘re craving a genuinely chilling gaming experience leading up to Halloween, Eyes is sure to deliver the horrors. Just don‘t be surprised if you can‘t sleep with the lights off afterward!
Shifting gears, let‘s look at a customizable drawing app that lets you digitally create spooky Halloween artwork.
Draw Halloween
Get your creative juices flowing this Halloween with the Draw Halloween app for Android. This app provides everything you need to make your own digital Halloween masterpieces.
You‘ll find a huge collection of Halloween-themed stickers, stencils, brushes, fonts, patterns, coloring tools, and more. Easily create scenes like haunted houses, creepy forests, graveyards, and more. You can even design your own Halloween invitations, cards, and decorations.
I like using this app to sketch out costume ideas or make decorations to hang around the house leading up to Halloween. It really gets me in that spooky creative spirit!
With 50,000+ Google Play downloads and a 4.6/5 rating, Android users love the drawing options:
★★★★★ “This app brings out my inner Halloween artist! I can create all kinds of creepy drawings and cards with the great stencils.”
Unleash your inner ghost artist with Draw Halloween this season. Your Halloween creations will be frightfully good!
Speaking of getting creative, the next app uses artistic filters to transform your pics and videos into eerie masterpieces.
Prisma Photo Editor
Want to add a scary flair to your Halloween party pics? The popular Prisma Photo Editor app for iOS lets you apply artistic filters that transform your photos and videos into haunting works of art.
Prisma offers special Halloween effects like Tim Burton, horror movie, and ink drawing filters that give your media a creepy vibe. You can also add stickers like ghosts, graves, and jack-o-lanterns for extra spookiness.
I love using Prisma to give my costume reveal photos an extra creep factor. The results are always shockingly cool!
With over 100M downloads and a 4.7/5 App Store rating, Prisma is loved by iOS users for its original effects:
★★★★★ “Prisma‘s Halloween photo effects make all my pictures look like they came straight out of The Nightmare Before Christmas!”
If you want to amp up your Instagram game with artistic Halloween flair, you need Prisma in your editing arsenal. Your followers will be delighted and disturbed!
Let‘s look now at an augmented reality app that lets you become any monster you desire…
Monster Maker – AR Face Mask
Trick-or-treaters won‘t know what monstrosity hit them after you use the Monster Maker face masks app. Available on Android, this AR app transforms your real face into zombies, vampires, aliens, demons, and more!
Monster Maker tracks your facial movements using advanced augmented reality to apply full 3D monster masks that animate in real-time. The detailed creatures overlayed on your face look shockingly lifelike.
I used this app last Halloween to become a creepy clown complete with a big snarling smile. Let‘s just say I scared the candy out of some trick-or-treaters! The mask moved seamlessly along with my expressions for bone-chilling results.
With over 100K Google Play downloads, Android users love the realistic creatures:
★★★★★ “The 3D monster masks in this app blew my mind! I looked like a real zombie in my selfies. So creepy and cool!"
Monster Maker is the perfect tool for creating a terrifying creature costume or just scaring your friends on video calls leading up to Halloween. Become your own worst nightmare!
Well, I hope this breakdown gives you some great ideas on apps to give your phone a spooky makeover this Halloween!
From turning your notifications into shrieks of terror, to unleashing ghouls into your home, these apps are sure to make your Halloween celebrations scarily high-tech.
My personal favorites are Horror Soundboard for instant creepy ambience, Night Terrors for next-level AR scares, and Monster Maker for looking like a freakishly real creature from the depths.
Let me know which of these apps seem the most up your haunted alley! I‘m always on the lookout for the latest and greatest in scary apps. Stay creepy out there, and get ready for the most bone-chilling Halloween yet with these apps!
