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Cupquake goes hunting for jump scares in the app store, and the app store delivers.

Tiffany Herrera, better known to her millions of subscribers as iHasCupquake, has built a career out of screaming on camera for a living, and her video “Playing CREEPY APP GAMES” is a tidy example of why that formula still works. Instead of a full-length horror title, Herrera goes digging through mobile app marketplaces for the cheap, unsettling novelty apps that circulate in horror-fan corners of the internet. What she finds ranges from genuinely creepy to unintentionally funny, and her reactions carry the video.

• Herrera opens with a digital spirit board app — a virtual Ouija board where she poses questions and watches the on-screen planchette spell out responses.
• She then loads a simulated phone-call horror app built around a menacing clown character, complete with eerie recorded voice lines designed to trigger jump scares mid-conversation.
• The video closes with a short indie Japanese horror game, continuing a pattern in Herrera’s catalog of spotlighting atmospheric international horror titles alongside the bigger-budget games she covers.

The Spirit Board Segment

The video’s first stop is a “Spirit Board” style app, a mobile riff on the classic Ouija board that lets Herrera type in questions and watch a virtual planchette drag itself across letters to spell out answers. It’s low-tech by design, leaning on suggestion and pacing rather than graphics to unsettle the player. Herrera treats it the way she treats most paranormal gimmicks in her videos — half skeptical, half genuinely spooked — narrating the responses out loud and reacting to anything that lands a little too on the nose.

This kind of segment is a staple of her channel’s horror rotation, sitting alongside the kind of session-based scare content she’s explored in videos like 10 Video Games That Will Consume Your Life, where the appeal isn’t production value but the discomfort of not knowing what’s actually driving the interaction.

The Creepy Clown Call App

The centerpiece of the video is a simulated phone-call app that connects Herrera to a scripted, prerecorded “call” from a menacing clown character. The app is built specifically to string along the illusion of a live call, dropping in eerie voice lines and timed jump scares meant to catch the player off guard mid-conversation. It’s the segment that produces the video’s loudest reactions, with Herrera’s genuine startle response doing most of the heavy lifting for the comedy.

It’s the fake phone call format that gets her every time — not the visuals, just the voice showing up when she least expects it.

These novelty call-simulator apps have circulated for years as cheap, shareable scares, and Herrera’s testing of one here fits the same instinct that’s driven her to react to homemade and indie horror experiments across her channel, similar in spirit to the international indie titles she’s flagged in pieces like Weirdest Gaming Tech You Can Only Buy In Japan.

The Japanese Indie Horror Closer

Herrera wraps the video with a short Japanese indie horror game, a genre she returns to repeatedly because of how effectively small-budget titles from Japan lean on dread and atmosphere over jump-scare spam. The segment is shorter than the app-based bits but gives her a chance to slow down her commentary and actually play rather than just react to a scripted scare sequence.

It’s a familiar closing beat for her horror content — cap the silly novelty-app segments with something that plays more like an actual game, giving the video a mix of comedic reaction and legitimate playthrough footage.

By the time the video ends, Herrera’s rundown of the spirit board, the clown call, and the indie horror closer has covered the full range of what the mobile “creepy app” genre offers — cheap gimmicks, scripted scares, and the occasional genuinely well-made indie surprise, all filtered through the reactions that have made her one of YouTube’s most recognizable horror-gaming personalities.