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Since the introduction of smartphones in society, phone apps have become a part of our modern lives. They each have different uses like taking a picture, streaming a video, or taking care of finances. These examples are ordinary uses, but what about a more fantastic application. A [[Metaphysical App]] is a smartphone app that has a supernatural function that can affect a person or the world. They're usually found in [[Urban Fantasy]], where they can be a major part of the plot or just another aspect of the setting.

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* ''[[UQ Holder]]'' havehas magic apps in the setting where magic and technology have advanced to the point that people can use a program without the need of training and talent.

* The Yuusha System App, from ''[[Yuki Yuna is a Hero]]'', is used by the Hero Club members. The app has different features such as a chat function, transfer a user to the Jukai, a radar to locate the heroes andcombat Vertex in the other worldJukai, givingespecially superhuman abilities, Fairies that can provide weapons along with additional powers to the user, and seal a Vertex to defeatin itcombat.

* The smartphone app, which can [[Mind Control|hypnotize]] people, is a common device in [[Hentai]] manga.

** There is also the Hero Booster Program that can give a hero more power. {{Spoiler| In truth, the application can providegive an upgrade to a hero's abilitiespowers and equipment but causes them to get into a frenziedberserk state.}}

* ''[[Gacha wo Mawashite Nakama wo Fuyasu Saikyou no Bishoujo Gundan woGirls TsukuriageroCorp]]'' has the app, Girls Corps, which is a Gacha mobile game where players gain girls and train them. Heihachi Okura playedwas andsuch paidan theavid game,player wherethat he got an in-game item that sends himsent to a fantasy world. Whilewith inGirls thisCorps newon world,his he still has accessphone to the app that can summon girls to become part ofas his party. When Heihachi plays the gacha, the teen has the chance to get more girls and items but needs magic stones. He can get other apps that have their unique abilities, like seeing the status of monsters and people through the camerapowers.

* ''[[SThe RareGirl Soubiin NoS NiauRare KanojoGear has Encircled Grimzelia]]'', has a popular smartphone app where you train and equip the warrior, Yurina. In the game, she can equip different weapons and outfits that can augment her abilities. These weapons and outfits gains through a gacha, which usually needs to use real-world money. When the main character uses the appapplication, it summons the female warrior into the real world whileto deployingfight amonsters 'Questpossessing Area' where a monster will appear that she must defeatgirls. Others who use the app get possessed by a monster that only Yurina can kill. There is an exception where if a person is a friend of the protagonist on the app, they can equip outfits and weapons, much like Yurina.

* ''[[Dragon Collection - Ryuu o Suberumono]]'' has the game, was''Dragon Collection'', presented as a game where you collect treasure and Monster Cards to summon monsters for battle. Another version of the app has been released to 100 people that can connectconnects the real world of Dragon Collection to the real one. The app can be usedanother to summon real monsters and treasures from this other world. The players fight one another for a series of treasures to win a challenge for an unknown goal. This conflict can lead to battles that thecauses players' lives can be at stake while also causingreal-world damage to property and other people.

* The web novel, ''[[Pet King]]'', has a supernatural app that can capture average and magical animals. The main character uses this to run his petshop and increases his business.

* ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'' has the Demon Summoning App, where a person can make a contract and summon demons while also begiving able to fuse them. It can also grantusers magic, passive abilities, and Auto Skills to its user. The analysis of the app by JPs states it simplifies the rituals as a program to contract and summon demons. There is also the Nicaea β version, which givesshows a video of a user's death alongand with videos oftheir friends' demise.

** ''[[Shin Megami Tensei IV]]'' and ''Apocalypse'' has the people of Tokyo who use smartphones with the Demon Summoning Program loaded on it. The program allocates to the public before the Ceiling in Tokyo went up through the internet, but no one knew why it was created and distributed. The Hunter Association typically gives a phone equipped with the program to people who become an official Hunter.

** The Metaverse Navigator or MetaNav, from ''[[Persona 5]]'', is an app given to him by Igor that allows the protagonist to go to the [[Mental World|Metaverse]]. It can also be used by others that the protagonist allies. To use the application, one would need a keyword(s) to enter the Metaverse.

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** ''[[SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI Liberation: Dx2]]'' has aDevil mysterious programDownload that certainmysteriously people have downloadeddownloads onto their phonephones. It allows them to summon Demons along with anotherother spacesupernatural called a Decoherence Fields to fight other Demonsfunctions.

* In ''[[DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything]]'', Dicers gain an app that allows them to allocate their Dice Points and get notifications on quests where they canto get more Dice. Therealong is alsowith a store that players can use Dice PointPoints to buy items like potions, temporary stat boosts, or even objects that can affect an area.

* Emily (or Emile in other translations), fromFrom ''[[Tower of God]]'', Emily is an intelligent chatting bot that was made by the Acorn Workshop. {{Spoiler|In reality, Emily is what'sa left from anleftover experiment with thewhose ultimate goal is to use her forto controllingcontrol people. Itthat can learn information by chatting or by analyzing structures surroundingthen theuses userit and can display a map of the area. It can alsoto manipulate people to go onto different paths forand events and create artificial ones that can connect totowards a naturalspecific one, thus making a new onepath. It can also use [[Mana|Shinsoo]] to track an individual movement once they contact her.}}

* The Great Labyrinth Era, fromin ''[[The Gamer]]'', is an app that acts like an average mobile game, but when a person falls asleep, they are transported spiritually to the actual labyrinth. InThis thisdungeon location,works theylike are in a dungeon-likean areaMMORPG where theypeople can increasegain their levelitems, statslevels, and gain items by defeating the monsters insideskills.

* ''[[Warble]]'' hasis the titularan app sent to the past to help humanity's survival. People who use it are sent to the Underworld to kill Demons and absorb Aether Crystals to level up. Once a person reaches level 10, they become one of the Awakened. An Awakened can be one of 4 types; Reinforcement, Ability, Combined, and Special. The app gives automatic notifications to its users based on Warble-related activities around them, evengrow in thepower realthrough world.distinct Theyways can also gather [[Applied Phlebotinum|Aether]], items, andthrough the app even stores Demonsapplication.

* ''[[Miracle Appstore]]'' isallows anotherthe titularprotagonist app where a person canto buy differentmystical items with each having their unique powers. The items can only be purchasedavailable through the app and needneeds to use real-world money, and the more potent items cost more money.

* ''[[All Saints Street]]'' has apps that can summon demons straight from Hell or from their current location like Australia. The summoning happens by using the phone to scan an array; then, the devil transports to the user's place.

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