FrightMaps isn't just a map anymore

FrightMaps started as the app that maps haunted houses. That is still true. It is also no longer the point.

For years the pitch was simple: a map, a directory, a way to find the haunt near you. Then haunters kept asking for the rest of the job. Sell the tickets. Run the light show. Make the twelve-foot skeleton say something. Fire the props without a controller in your hand. So we built it. Since the 4.x app, FrightMaps went from a place you get found to the platform you run the whole night on. Here is everything that shipped, in one place.

Sell tickets right on your listing

Every haunt already had a map listing. Now that listing can take money. Ticketing lives right on your haunt's page — buyers pay in the app, you scan the gate from your phone, and payouts land straight in your bank instead of a spreadsheet you reconcile at midnight. No separate ticketing site, no third-party booth taking a cut of a cut. The same map that sends people to your door now sells them the ticket on the way there. Full walkthrough in Sell tickets on FrightMaps, and you can turn it on today at /ticketing.

Run your light show from your phone

The old "Light Shows" tile was basically a bookmark. It's now xLight Control, and it actually drives the show. Point it at your own Wi-Fi and it finds your xLights and FPP controllers, then lets you start, stop, and steer the sequence from your pocket. No laptop hauled out to the driveway, no crouching over a controller while a family stands there waiting for something to happen. The show is a phone tap now. The how-and-why is in xLight Control: run your light show from your phone.

Give your twelve-foot skeleton something to say

Home Depot sold a lot of those twelve-foot skeletons, and most of them run the same canned loop on repeat until November. Pair your Ultra Skelly to the FrightMaps app over Bluetooth and drive its voice, lights, and live talk-back in real time. React to the kid who froze on the sidewalk. Cut the voice when grandma walks up. Cue the eyes on your mark instead of on a timer. Same skeleton, real performance — the details are in Give your twelve-foot skeleton something to say.

FrightMaps is on Alexa now — and it fires your props

Two new Alexa skills shipped. The first is hands-free discovery: ask for haunts near you and get an answer without touching your phone. The second is the fun one — voice-fire your FrightLink Fire Groups and hub ports out loud, no controller in hand, no phone unlocked. "Alexa, fire the graveyard" is a sentence that now does something in your yard. Both are covered in FrightMaps is on Alexa now, and it fires your props.

The rest of the kit

Props are where this all started, and they still anchor it. FrightLink automates your scares — triggers, groups, and sequences — and everything above plugs into it, whether the trigger is a phone tap, an Alexa command, or a sensor at the walkway. Your crew has a home too: Haunt Clubs gave every club an actual clubhouse with a roster and a wall, instead of a group chat that scrolls away every time someone posts a meme.

And the boring wins count. Maps load noticeably faster after a rebuild that cut database reads by roughly 99%, the tablet layout got a full overhaul so it stops treating a big screen like a stretched phone, and privacy got tighter across the board — less data collected, more of it kept off the network.

Start here

None of this needs a manual. Open the app and the pieces you use light up where you'd expect them: a Sell Tickets control on your listing, xLight Control where the Light Shows tile used to sit, a Bluetooth pair screen for the Skelly, an Alexa link in settings. Run a real haunt? Start with ticketing and the light show — those pay for themselves the first weekend. Just decorate one serious yard? Start with the Skelly and FrightLink. Either way it's the same download and the same account you already have. Open FrightMaps at frightmaps.app.link and turn on whatever you need. The map got you here. The rest of the season runs from the same app now.