The Scariest App
The official native companion for The Scariest Things — the horror reviews site and podcast. Every review, every episode, the way they were meant to be read and heard.
Now in closed testing — on both platforms. The Scariest App is being trialed through Google Play Closed Testing on Android and Apple TestFlight on iOS — built natively on each platform, ad-free, and designed to keep your reading and listening entirely on your own device. Check back here for the public release.
See it in action.
The whole site, beautifully native
Reviews, interviews, festival coverage and lists from The Scariest Things — pulled in and rendered as clean native screens. No ads, no clutter, no website-in-a-box. Just the writing.
A podcast player worth the name
The full episode catalog with background playback, resume-where-you-left-off, a proper queue, and offline downloads — the things generic horror-app players keep getting wrong.
Loudness-matched, every episode
On-device EBU R128 normalization plus a multiband EQ, so a whispered festival interview and a blaring trailer sit at the same comfortable volume — no more riding the volume knob.
Your horror viewing diary
Track what you've watched across films The Scariest Things has covered — a watchlist, a seen-log, and your own rating next to theirs. Your horror-watching life, as it runs through the site.
Sign in with WordPress.com
Read and post comments using your existing WordPress.com account. You authenticate on WordPress.com's own page — the app never sees your password, and only ever holds a revocable token.
Collects nothing, holds nothing
No accounts of our own, no analytics, no server we operate. Your reading history, ratings and settings live encrypted on your device — and nowhere else.
It collects nothing. Really.
A horror app shouldn't be the scariest thing on your phone. So it keeps nothing — there's no server to leak what was never collected.
Read the full privacy policy →- No servers.There's no R'lyeh backend. The app talks only to the public The Scariest Things site, its podcast feed, and — if you sign in — WordPress.com directly.
- Encrypted on your device.Reading history, ratings, downloads and settings stay in encrypted on-device storage, excluded from cloud backup.
- No ads, no analytics.No third-party advertising, profiling, or crash-reporting SDKs. None.
- Sign-in is yours to revoke.Commenting uses a WordPress.com token you authorize and can revoke any time — your password is never typed into the app.