Bluetooth Inspector

Bluetooth Inspector

By George Garside

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2020-05-02
  • Current Version: 1.7.2
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 12.75 MB
  • Developer: George Garside
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Score: 4.5
4.55694
From 1,203 Ratings

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 — 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 Constant use of Bluetooth connectivity can drain your device's battery. Bluetooth connectivity is only used when this app is in the foreground and up to a few seconds after being backgrounded to safely disconnect from peripherals being interrogated.

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Reviews

  • Very Useful | Android when?

    5
    By JamesBond007?
    Love the app, hope it stays the same, and same for the one time payment. But I would like the app to also be available on Android which can even make the app more powerful and useful.
  • Something is wrong

    2
    By cartoon lunatic
    I know I can’t expect much on iPhone side, but I do expect it to be functional in some way. I have purchased the pro version, but it doesn’t seem to have improved things. It might just be the area that I live in. I hit scan, and I get about 80-100 devices listed as Unknown in an unknown area around me. Even interrogating everything, does not update the screen, but I get requests from all my neighbors iPhones and iPads to connect to my phone. What it does not do is find or connect to my Bluetooth speaker sitting 5 feet away. This is not useful. It seems that I don’t have all of the controls or the ability to go further into the app. Or access to support. The map would be useful if I could zoom in closer than a 1000 square feet so all I see is my location buried under a cluster of unknown devices. I don’t know what it would look like on other devices but if this is it for the iPhone then I am just not impressed. Sorry, but I really did want it to succeed because I need the information it promised and all I got was glitch.
  • Good for pro or newby

    5
    By Dilly647
    Awesome app high recommend!
  • ...

    5
    By teamcaffeine
    Malicious background activity. Making daily attempts to scan and interrogate bt devices at 7pm cst, every day if my phone is asleep at that time (with app fully closed, with global bluetooth setting off, and bypassing native privacy log). Not a good sign.
  • Example on shortcut to write character value

    4
    By RJ1234a
    Can you put a screen shot to show how to use shortcut to automatically write character values ?
  • Stupid

    1
    By unluckysucka82
    It don’t work
  • Not really a good app

    2
    By get ready121
    It doesn’t really do anything much except make someone paranoid! It shows all the so called devices but you can’t block them or get any info on them
  • Unusable, constantly crashes

    1
    By cyphonx
    Within a minute of opening the app it becomes unresponsive and crashes.
  • Question

    3
    By ValerieAnn101920
    When you interrogate are they seeing your device name ? If it says my iPad name is Steven iPad , will they know Steven iPad is trying to connect
  • Crashes and locks up often on macOS

    2
    By FluxCapacitor1955
    This app works rather well on iOS, but on macOS it crashes and locks up often. Hopefully this gets fixed because it is an otherwise useful utility.

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