You Have to Try These 10 Horrifyingly Fun Halloween Apps

There’s just a few weeks left to pick your perfect costume, carve a pumpkin, and prepare for all the ghosts and ghouls that are sure to abound on Halloween night. And to make your celebration at home, with friends, family or neighbors even more memorable this year, we recommend trying out any of these great Halloween-themed apps and games which are sure to truly reign in the Halloween fun. Continue reading to learn about 10 horrifyingly fun Halloween apps you have to try!

10 Vampify - Turn Yourself into a Vampire

Nothing is more synonymous with Halloween than vampires, ghosts and other spooky, ghoulish characters of the night. And while a good-old-fashioned Ghost Hunters-style excursion or middle-of-the-night blood sucking might not be in the cards this year, fortunately you don’t have to go much farther than your iPhone or iPad to experience the sheer thrill.

For just $0.99, you can download the full-featured Vampify app on your iOS device, which allows users to transform themselves into 3D animated vampires that blink, snarl, bite, grow fangs and more. You'll even get to experiment with a variety of realistic-looking bloody effects, among other spooky tricks.

9 Halloween Spooky Sound Box

Fans of gore, horror and all things Halloween will instantly become the hit of the party with Halloween Spooky Sound Box. Boasting nearly 100 realistic and high-quality Halloween sound effects, this app allows you to instantly play-out-loud and on-demand from a library of scary sounds, spooky music, ghostly voices, horror tunes, and more.

With fully-customizable buttons for each sound, you’ll have a blast laughing away as you spook the hell out of your friends and family. Simply assign any of the pre-recorded Halloween sounds to a button and tap for instant fun — no internet connection required.

8 Halloween Backgrounds & Halloween Wallpapers HD

This fun, simple and straightforward app is loaded to the brim with free-to-download and free-to-use Halloween-themed wallpapers and high-definition backgrounds for your iOS device, including several live backgrounds which actively change as you use them throughout the day.

There’s really no better way to start reigning in the spirit of Halloween than by downloading Pocket Books’ Halloween Backgrounds and Halloween Wallpapers HD from the iOS App Store. It’s 100 percent free, and 100 percent certain to liven up your home screen with Halloween flair.

7 Halloween Party Salon

Thanks to modern advancements like smartphones and the App Store, there’s now more ways than ever before for the kids or grandkids to design and configure their  perfect Halloween pumpkins.

Like with Halloween Party Salon, which brings pumpkin carving to the digital, touchscreen stage like never before. The game features over 10 different pumpkin designs and over 100 individual ways to ‘carve’ and configure them to your liking. No mess, no stress — this app is perfect for anyone looking to get in on the Halloween fun without the need for a physical pumpkin.

6 Ghost Lens AR Fun Movie Maker

Among the influx of innovative new apps to take advantage of Apple’s augmented reality (AR) platform, Ghost Lens AR ‘Fun Movie Maker’ offers a clever way of capturing true-to-life photos and videos which you can change and customize, adding from a library of ghostly “Fade in” and “Fade out” effects to enhance their spookiness. 

This feature-packed app supports up to 60 minutes of continuous video recording, or capturing still photos, to the backdrop of a myriad of filters and transparency settings. Instantly share your spooky photo and video creations with friends and family on social media, or simply explore and experiment with all the and frightening possibilities.

5 The Walking Dead: Dead Yourself

Fans of the popular AMC series The Walking Dead will feel right at home with the show’s namesake photo filter app: The Walking Dead: Dead Yourself.

Instantly snap photos and transform yourself into a realistic-looking zombie with the tap of a button, or import a previously-captured photo of yourself to edit using the app’s incredibly realistic-looking zombie eyes, mouths, and other aesthetic features and props from the show.

4 Halloween City

Those who're too old, unwilling or unable to make it out into the streets for some good-old-fashioned trick-or-treating this year need not worry, as the wonderful world of iOS has your back with the fully-featured Halloween City game.

This unique and interactive game allows players to decorate their own personal city with a variety of Halloween characters, including Vampires, Pumpkins, Monster Plants, Werewolves, Mummies, Zombies, and so on, while exploring a number of ghostly attractions, spooky lairs, and collecting coins to level up along the way.

A fun and engaging way to celebrate from the comfort of home, Halloween City is rated one of the best free-to-play themed games on the App Store.

3 Make a Zombie

The 4.5/5-star rated Make a Zombie app is another popular Halloween-themed title on the App Store, and allows users to create “literally millions and millions” of unique, custom-designed zombie avatars which can then be “unleashed” (shared) via email, Twitter, Facebook, iMessage and more.

Design your custom zombie using the included backgrounds, bodies, clothes, eyes, hairstyles, heads, legs, mouths and other features to create the cutest (or deadliest) looking zombie you possibly can. Then, save or share your creation with friends and contacts on social media, or print your zombie using an AirPrint-compatible printer. For a nominal in-app fee, you can even have your zombie emblazoned on a T-shirt and shipped right to your door!

2 Five Nights at Freddy’s

This is the first of several titles in the Five Nights at Freddy’s series, and is the first official mobile port of the game to iOS.

The storyline and method of gameplay is relatively simple, as several reviewers note, but the underlying strategy in Five Nights at Freddy's is both increasingly challenging and frightening.

“For all the simplicity of the game’s controls and premise, Five Nights at Freddy‘s is frightening. It’s a fantastic example of how cleverness in design and subtlety can be used to make an experience terrifying,” said IndieGameMag Editor, Joel Couture. “Simple still images and proper character design steal the show in this game, and show that [developer] Scott Cawthon knows quite a lot about the secret fears people feel when looking at creepy dolls and toys. It’s elegant in how it sows fear, and is a must-own for anyone who likes scary games.”

With Halloween right around the corner, Five Nights at Freddy’s sounds like the perfect game to add that extra hint of fright to your night.

1 Skullduggery!

Topping off the list of our all-time favorite Halloween-centric iOS games is another spooky but nonetheless high-rated classic: Skullduggery!

As told by its developers, ClutchPlay Games, “In Skullduggery! you’ll play as a Semi-Organic Autonomous Skull employed as a collection agent for the IRS. Using the elasticity of your own brain, flick yourself around the fortresses of the afterlife’s biggest deadbeats.”

That may sound a bit creepy and uninviting, but, truth be told, Skullduggery! is not only recipient of the App Store’s Editors Choice Award, but is, by method of play, an increasingly complex and addicting game of strategy. 

Rated 4.5/5 or higher by prominent online gaming blogs including AppSpy, Touch Arcade and GameMob, Skullduggery! can be yours to play this Halloween season for just $2.99.