Comparison

Bluetooth Smart Discover vs Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bluetooth Smart Discover

Scan and connect to nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices. Discover services and characteristics, then read, write, or enable notifications. View standard advertising data from BLE broadcasters.

Highlights
  • Scan for BLE peripherals
  • Connect to BLE devices
  • Discover services and characteristics
  • Read/write BLE characteristics
  • Enable BLE notifications
  • View BLE broadcaster advertising data
Features
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Microchip’s SmartDiscover provides the ability to scan and connect to nearby Microchip Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) peripherals and listen to BLE broadcasters. Once connected to a BLE peripheral, the user can discover all the services and characteristics that are enabled in the peripheral. It lets the user read, write or enable notifications as appropriate for the discovered characteristics. The standard advertising data types included in the advertisement data of the discovered BLE broadcasters can also be checked.

About

Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder

Easily find misplaced Bluetooth devices like phones, headphones, and watches. The app uses signal strength indicators and augmented reality to guide you. Save devices, view their last known location on a map, and receive alerts if you leave them behind.

Highlights
  • Signal strength indicator
  • AR camera tracking
  • Last seen map
  • Separation alerts
  • iCloud sync
  • Apple Watch app
Features
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Lost your earbuds, keys or headphones? This app helps you find them, keep them with you, and check whether a hidden tracker is following you. FIND IT WHEN IT'S NEARBY 1. Open the app and tap your item. 2. Walk slowly one way. The app tells you how close you are: Far, In the room, Close, Within arm's reach. - Your phone beeps and vibrates faster as you get closer, so you can look around instead of at the screen. - It tells you when you're getting warmer or colder, and when you walked past it. - Camera view: see the room behind the screen while you search. - If it stops hearing your item, it says "Lost contact" instead of guessing. FIND WHERE YOU LEFT IT - Save your things. If one goes missing, see on a map where your iPhone last heard it. - Get walking directions there, and a street-level view of the spot where available. - Notify When Nearby: get a notification when it's back in range (for gear your iPhone has heard and can connect to; not Apple devices). - Pro: a 7-day trail of places it was with you while the app was open, and a plain-English answer to "where did I leave it?" DON'T LEAVE IT BEHIND - Left-Behind Alert: get a nudge when you walk away from something you saved. Free alerts work while the app is open. - Pro: Always-On Guard keeps those alerts working in the background and on a locked iPhone, for items your iPhone can connect to (not after you swipe the app away). - Pro: Before You Go. One tap before you head out shows what's with you and what's missing. Star your essentials and it checks for you when you leave home. - Pro: Safe Zones warn you if you leave a trusted place without it. CHECK FOR HIDDEN TRACKERS — FREE - Safety Scan looks for an unknown Bluetooth tracker traveling with you. - It flags a device that moves with you from place to place, or stays near you for 8 minutes. - Found one? Track it down with distance in feet or meters, free. - Every flag is saved for 60 days. Share a report as text. - Your own gear? Mark it "This is with me" to ignore it. - Keep the app on screen as you walk. If the screen locks, it can't hear every tracker, like AirTags. - It can miss a tracker that's silent or keeps changing its identity, so keep your iPhone's tracking notifications on. KEEP YOUR TAGS WORKING - A warning when a tag's battery is low (for tags that report it). - A heads-up when a saved tag has gone silent for days. USE IT YOUR WAY - iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, synced with iCloud. - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show what's with you at a glance. - Ask Siri, or add Control Center buttons, to open Find Nearby or the Safety Scan. - Apple Watch: find from your wrist with warmer and colder hints, see what's nearby and where you last had it, plus a complication that shows what's with you. - Search any device by name or brand. GOOD TO KNOW - Works with Bluetooth earbuds, headphones, speakers, watches and key tags. - It only hears things that are switched on: earbuds closed in their case or a dead tag stay silent. - No name? It shows the brand, like "Sony device". Rename saved items and pick their icons. - Unnamed Apple devices show as "Apple device". The app can't make an item play a sound; for AirPods or an AirTag, use Apple's Find My. - Honest by design: if it can't check something, it tells you. FREE Everything above not marked Pro, including the whole Safety Scan, plus a one-minute preview of distance and voice. EXACTTRACK PRO - Estimated distance in feet or meters - Voice guidance, and wrist taps on Apple Watch that speed up as you get closer - Always-On Guard - Before You Go and the leaving-home check - Safe Zones, the 7-day trail and the plain-English answer Monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Cancel anytime. Already own ExactTrack (lifetime)? You keep distance, voice and wrist taps for life. Privacy: https://fierce-inlet-63133.herokuapp.com/find-airpords-privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bluetooth Smart Discover4 screens
Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder at 4.4 against Bluetooth Smart Discover's 3.7. Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (222 vs 3). Bluetooth Smart Discover's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Bluetooth Smart Discover asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder has 222 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Bluetooth Smart Discover's written reviews are positive against 56% of Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bluetooth Smart Discover ships an update every 8 months, Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bluetooth Smart Discover versus Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluetooth Smart DiscoverBluetooth Lost BLE Finder
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.4 (222 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews55.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3222 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS8.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMicrochip Technology Inc.FuturaApp, Inc.

Customer experience

Bluetooth Smart Discover

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder

All ratings223 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive55.9%
Neutral2.9%
Negative41.2%

Bugs and requests

Bluetooth Smart Discover

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App keeps showing searching for hours
  • App doesn't work without payment
  • Free version doesn't allow ringing the phone
  • Cannot ring the phone
  • App doesn't work
Show 4 more
  • Never could find the phone
  • Finds non-existing TVs but nothing else
  • App doesn't emit a noise anymore
  • Cannot get the app on computer to find phone

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add map to devices
  • Translate app to French
  • Allow ringing the phone
  • Add sound to find device

In-app purchases

None

Bluetooth Smart Discover

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder

Subscriptions2
  • ExactTrack Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • ExactTrack Pro7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • ExactTrack: Precise Finder$59.99

Questions

Is Bluetooth Smart Discover free?
Bluetooth Smart Discover is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder free?
Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bluetooth Smart Discover or Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder?
Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder is rated higher. Bluetooth Smart Discover averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder averages 4.4 from 222 ratings.
Do Bluetooth Smart Discover or Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder have ads?
Neither Bluetooth Smart Discover nor Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bluetooth Smart Discover or Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder?
Bluetooth Smart Discover ships an update every 8 months, and Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder monthly. Most recently, Bluetooth Smart Discover was updated on October 24, 2026 and Bluetooth Lost BLE Finder on October 29, 2026.

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