Halloween is the perfect time for spooky fun with your friends and family. But these days, people have higher expectations for spooky season than just the classic party games like bobbing for apples or guessing the number of candies in a jar. Luckily, you can use your phone to delight and scare your friends and family with these Halloween apps.

Some of the best multiplayer Halloween apps include The Ghostand Mimicry. Fans of scary movies will love the Horror Movies Quiz Trivia Game. If you’re looking to decorate your phone for Halloween, you’ll find Walli is a great option. Finally, kids will love the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown app, and you can monitor their trick-or-treat route with the Life360 app.

Here’s a rundown of the best Halloween apps in 2025. From multiplayer horror games to digital safety tools, here are some apps to make sure your Halloween is equal parts fun, safe and scary.

Trick-or-treating apps

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Life360—Best trick-or-treating app

• Devices: iOS and Android
• Cost: Basic service free, Gold and Silver services with monthly subscription

Life360 remains the gold standard for family location tracking on iOS and Android. Once you’ve added your family to the app, you’ll see everyone’s location live on a map. It provides peace of mind when your little ghosts and goblins roam the neighbourhood.

You can even set up safety zones, so you’ll get notified when your kids leave or arrive somewhere. Just make sure your child's phone is charged, as a dead battery can be scarier than any haunted house.

Pro tip: Your kids need phones for this app to work! Check out our guide on the best cell phones for kids to get your family what it needs to stay safe.

Halloween party game apps

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The Ghost – Multiplayer Horror —Best Halloween horror app

• Devices: iOS and Android
• Cost: Free with in-game purchases

The Ghost is a new online horror game where you and your friends work to escape a series of haunted locales. Solve mysteries and find the tools you need to escape, all the while avoiding the ghosts that haunt the halls. Find anomalies as a group across locations like an abandoned asylum, a school, and a cursed apartment complex. You can even use voice chat in-game to coordinate with each other.

The Ghost supports up to 5 players, letting a sizeable group get together and play. The best part is that one player can take on the role of the ghost, laying traps to prevent the team of survivors from succeeding. While the game may not be the most stunning to look at, it's a great time with friends on a bone-chilling night. Do note that it’s rated T for Teens. For more kid-friendly games, check out Among Us below.

Mimicry: Multiplayer Horror—Best Halloween game for large groups

• Devices: iOS and Android
• Cost: Free with in-game purchases

Mimicry has stepped up as the top mobile horror experience for groups of up to nine people. It’s essentially a social deduction game with a terrifying twist: One of your friends is secretly a monster that can mimic others. The other eight players must work together to leave the location before the monster can eliminate the entire squad.

Mimicry is easy to learn and has pretty decent graphics for a mobile game. It also supports real-time communication via voice chat. That said, this may not be the best game for kids. While it’s not graphic per se, the app store recommends players be at least 12 years old.

Among Us—Best Halloween game for kids

• Devices: iOS and Android
• Cost: Free with in-game purchases

Among Us may not be new, but its Halloween updates keep things fresh. Every October, the game adds seasonal maps, limited-time costumes, and new ways to stir up chaos in space. You can also play with upwards of 15 people. 

The setup is a lot like Mimicry. Each round starts with one player as the secret alien monster, determined to eliminate the rest of the crew. The other players are tasked to discover who the monster is or escape. Unlike the other games on this list, Among Us is a cartoon-style game. There’s enough of an atmosphere to make it spooky at times, but it’s not scary.

The game is incredibly popular, which keeps its Halloween updates fun and fresh. It’s easy to learn and offers a ton of potential with different map options and game settings. The most difficult part of the game is figuring out which members of your friends and family are the monsters—and not giving yourself away. The game is rated 4.1 on the iOS App Store with over 815,000 reviews.

Horror Movies Quiz Trivia Game—Best Halloween movie trivia game

• Devices: iOS
• Cost: Free

Test your knowledge across decades of horror cinema. If you consider yourself a horror movie buff, it's time to put your money where your mouth is. Horror Movies Quiz Trivia Game offers trivia questions from all sorts of films across the ages. Between The Exorcist, Child's Play, The Fly, and even more contemporary horror films, this app will truly test your knowledge and whether or not "you like scary movies”.

You can test yourself or use the one-on-one multiplayer mode for a horror movie trivia tournament. You can also use the app as your source of questions for a Halloween Jeopardy game. Whatever you decide to do, the app is easy to use and offers hours of fun.

Halloween lifestyle apps

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Walli—Best Halloween wallpaper app

• Devices: iOS and Android
• Cost: Free with in-game purchases

Walli is still one of the best wallpaper apps out there. Its library now includes AI-generated art and 4D motion wallpapers. Yes, that means endless Halloween themes from neon pumpkins to gothic graveyards. If you’re the type who swaps your phone wallpaper as soon as the calendar hits October 1st, Walli’s seasonal collections will make your home screen look hauntingly good.

It's worth noting that Walli contains in-app purchases to remove ads and unlock unlimited access to the library of wallpapers. That said, there's more than enough value within the free version to celebrate Halloween this year.

Carve-A-Pumpkin from Parents magazine

• Devices: iOS exclusive
• Cost: Free

Carving pumpkins is one of Halloween’s oldest traditions, but it’s also one of the messiest. Between scooping out the insides and wrangling carving tools, it can quickly turn into chaos, especially with younger kids involved. The Carve-a-Pumpkin app from Parents Magazine offers a fun, stress-free alternative. 

You can choose from five different pumpkin shapes and customize them with a mix of pre-made stencils or your own designs. It’s easy to use, completely safe, and, best of all, requires zero cleanup.

Do I have enough data for my apps?

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For most of these apps, you’re going to need an internet connection to get the full experience. Phone apps use more data than almost any other function of your phone, so check out our data usage guide to figure out how much high-speed data you normally use. Luckily,  you can take advantage of plenty of great unlimited plans that won’t eat into your candy budget.

Smaller carriers called MVNOs offer service at discounted rates on the larger carrier’s networks. While they may not have as many perks, you can typically find solid plan options with plenty of priority data at a much friendlier price than the major carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. Plus, these carriers usually offer access to 5G networks too, so you can count on having fast speeds.

Best phone plans for Halloween apps

Public Mobile offers service on Telus' nationwide 5G network. You can snag 60GB of 5G data and unlimited talk and text for just $45/month. Even better? Public doesn't require a contract; you can leave whenever you find a better deal.

If you want a plan with Bell's network, but not its prices, you could try out Virgin Plus. The carrier's $45 plan gives you 30GB of 4G LTE data and unlimited talk and text on one of Canada's largest networks. That’s more than enough speed for basic browsing.

Customers wanting Rogers service can look into Fido. Fido's best plan is the Data, Talk & Text Plan with 60GB of data, which is just $45/month if you enroll in.