BLE vs IOSEA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BLE
This utility tool assists developers in creating and maintaining Bluetooth Low Energy products. It enables connection establishment, monitoring, and configuration for RF testing of BLE devices. Log files can be shared for further analysis.
- Connect to BLE devices
- Monitor connections
- Configure connection parameters
- Start/stop test mode
- Share log files
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This tool is intended to support developers in their work to develop and maintain Bluetooth Low Energy products. BleRf Test can measure the quality of an RF link in both direction for any product implementing the BLE service for RF test. Features: - establish a connection to a BLE device - monitor said connection - share log files with other smartphone apps This app is only intended to support the development of BLE devices.
IOSEA
This utility app lets you register and monitor Bluetooth locators. It discovers and tracks BLE beacons and tags, providing real-time data on their angle, 3D location, and proximity.
- Register and monitor BLE locators
- Discover and track BLE beacons and tags
- Real-time angle information
- 3D location tracking
- Proximity and RSSI monitoring
- Access and exchange database information
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IOSEA app allows users to register and conveniently monitor their BLE IOSEA locators. IOSEA’s locators discover and monitor BLE beacons and tags registered to the user. It is a developer utility that allows users to access and exchange information from IOSEA’s database. IOSEA’s database contains information from Bluetooth devices that are discovered from IOSEA’s locator nodes in real-time. This information includes: -Relative angle information of the beacons or tags with respect to IOSEA’s locator in range. -Location information in 3D space of the beacons or tags in range. -Proximity and RSSI for beacons or tags in range and registered under IOSEA.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IOSEA at 5.0 against BLE's 3.0. IOSEA also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 64 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
IOSEA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IOSEA has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BLE ships an update every 64 months, IOSEA every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BLE | IOSEA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 206 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arendi AG | IoSea LLC |
Customer experience
BLE
IOSEA
In-app purchases
BLE
No in-app purchases
IOSEA
No in-app purchases
