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
Good and could be great app
This app does the most thorough scan for devices that Bluetooth detects. I have used many other tools in the past and none were able to detect much; however, this app was initially able to detect 30 devices, showing the signal strength of each and even revealing Core Errors and more. I plan to purchase the pro version to see those features but I haven’t yet because first I want to learn about what the definitions are and to find out if I’m seeing what I should expect to see on my scan. I feel that this is where the app falls short. I also know it wouldn’t be too difficult to provide the user with some definitions and screen examples…even some resource links would be useful. Besides that, great app!
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your review. I've added more information including demos of the pro functionality to the purchase screen in version 1.3.1. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with at apps@georgegarside.com. Thanks for using Bluetooth Inspector!
A little gem of a tool
Not a lot to say, this is a wonderful and clean app that provides a nice clean interface to see what is in the air around you. It provides fantastic detailed insight into the bluetooth devices around you. I even discovered some things I hadn’t realized were broadcasting (like my Nvidia Shield TV remote is always on!). I love finding unbloated tools like this that follow the philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well. Everyone should try it to gain a level of knowledge about security and all of the chatter that devices do these days.
I’m a bit confused about this I downloaded
Because I felt like have been targeted by someone I use my Bluetooth a lot at home and work my question to the developer is that under the start interrogating named in then the unknown which looks like the device is hooked up to me is it???? Cause I didn’t give permission to these devices I am seeing on my phone can you please answer this question because it looked like they hooked up to my Bluetooth iPhone or am I being paranoid???
In-App Purchases
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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 $3.99
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.