AR Spinnen

AR Spinnen is an augmented-reality spider app, so the obvious audience is anyone looking for a creepy prank or a novelty scare on a phone screen. By our assessment, the strongest thing here is the immediate visual joke: a spider effect appearing in augmented reality is simple and direct. The trade-off is that the whole idea is very narrow, and once the trick is understood, there is not much else to discover. In practice these apps are all about timing, framing, and a bit of patience with the camera. AR Spinnen sits in the prank and Halloween-ish corner of entertainment apps, not in any serious utility category. It is the sort of thing that works for a brief laugh and then is done.