A night investigation app for the Gulf's abandoned forts, villages and old cemeteries.

Phantom Lens turns an Android phone into a ghost-hunting kit: it reads the phone's real sensors, finds real heritage sites around you, and plays out a night investigation at the place itself.

In development: in private testing on Android, not released yet. It launches in the Gulf first, once it is stable.

$A night discovery in Phantom Lens$

What it does

Five instruments, one night

Real sensor readingsMagnetic field, air pressure, light and motion, read live from the phone.

Spirit boxA sweeping radio in the style of the classic hand-held box, answering in the place's own dialect.

3D scanDepth from the camera builds a point cloud of the room or the ruin around you.

Heritage night map4,000+ Gulf forts, villages, wells and cemeteries, with holy cities and revered sites left out.

DiscoveriesPlayers share their own night captures from real places on one map.

Honest by design

What is real, and what is play

In the app	What it is
Sensor readings (magnetic field, pressure, light, motion)	Real, from your phone
Your own photos, videos and recordings	Real, from your phone
Places and their history (OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia)	Real places
Apparitions, voices and scenes the app adds	Entertainment
The app's own investigator posts	Marked “Simulation”

Phantom Lens is built in Oman, with Claude Code as its engineering partner: an Android app (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, ARCore, on-device vision) and a Cloudflare backend.

Privacy

Privacy policy

Camera images and scene analysis stay on your phone. To find nearby sites, an approximate position (rounded to about 1 km) is sent to OpenStreetMap's public Overpass service. Map tiles come from OpenFreeMap and site histories from Wikipedia. Sign-in (Google or email) is handled by Firebase, and your public posts show your name without its last two letters. No ads and no tracking. Your evidence photos stay on your phone unless you share them. Questions you speak to the spirit box are sent as text to our server to be understood, and kept without your name, device or location to improve the answers; they are deleted after 90 days. Spoken questions are turned into text by your phone's speech service (usually Google's), which may process the audio online.

Terms

Before you go out at night

Phantom Lens is an entertainment app. It does not prove or detect anything paranormal; the readings are your phone's sensors, and the apparitions and voices are part of the game.

Respect every place and the people buried there. Don't enter private, closed or unsafe sites, don't trespass, don't record people without their permission, and never use the app while driving.