Bluetooth Inspector 4+
Discover what's around you
George Garside
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services for information and characteristics.
• View information and signal strength for all peripherals and devices, updating in real time as you move around.
• Get battery level for your own Apple devices (signed into the same primary iCloud account) — no need to install the app on all your devices.
• See model identification broadcast by devices around you, mapping the Apple device identifier to the marketing name.
• Extract software and firmware version strings from devices broadcasting this information.
• Read any characteristic's value, even for services not well known and are custom to the device being interrogated.
• Write characteristic values back to the peripheral as string, numeric or hex (pro).
• See a history of the value of a characteristic since the session started, timestamped to when the value changed (pro).
• Log found peripherals, services, characteristics and values, and export a .log file of timestamped events for your analysis (pro).
• Shortcuts integration with actions for scanning and interrogation, enumerating services and characteristics, and reading values (pro).
Get support on Twitter @grgarside or georgegarside.com/apps/bluetooth-inspector
What’s New
Version 1.6.1
Features:
• A new Hex option in the Write Value shortcut action lets you write a hex value to a characteristic from the Shortcuts app.
• Manually reload a characteristic value with the reload button above the characteristic value history.
• 5 battery icons are now used for more granularity in battery level.
Fixes:
• Make sure the peripheral is in the expected state before trying to write to a characteristic of it.
• Improvements to layout and legibility of various parts of the app for users with an accessibility font size set.
• Fix a missing animation when navigating to a peripheral on a compact display and fix navigating between services and characteristics in split view.
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing, but missing two features
This app is amazing, and pro is pretty cheap too, although I would like an option to remove devices that have disconnected from my phone from the list, and it doesn’t show the battery percentage of devices that I haven’t paired to my phone, which is a feature I expected considering the advertising. Although this probably isn’t possible.
Otherwise, this app does exactly what it says, and it does it really well!
App keeps crashing
Poor
Developer Response ,
I would really appreciate it if you could give the latest update a go and update your review with your findings, especially if you’re able to reproduce when the crash happens. I have a couple of bugs open with Apple regarding the Bluetooth APIs this app uses — any more information to help track down the exact circumstances the crashes occur will help resolve the issues. Thanks
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Information
- Seller
- George Garside
- Size
- 6.1 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple TV
- Requires tvOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2020–2023 George Garside
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Bluetooth Inspector Pro $5.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.