Comparison

CX BLE vs BAPI BLE Scanner

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

Head to head
About

CX BLE

This utility app scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, allowing simultaneous connection to multiple peripherals. It enables interrogation, notification retrieval, and reading/writing of BLE characteristics. Event logs can be exported in CSV format.

Highlights
  • BLE device scanning
  • Simultaneous multi-device connection
  • Interrogate BLE characteristics
  • Read/write BLE characteristics
  • Notification retrieval
  • Event logging
  • CSV data export
Features
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The app will scan for BLE peripherals show a list for connection to multiple devices simultaneously, the app can interrogate get notifications, write and read BLE characteristics across different devices. General BLE events are logged as well as individual devices events, they can be exported in CSV format.

About

BAPI BLE Scanner

This app scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices and displays their signal strength (RSSI). It helps determine the reliability of wireless sensor systems in a given environment before installation.

Highlights
  • Scans for BLE devices
  • Displays RSSI signal strength
  • Site verification for wireless sensors
  • Filter for BAPI wireless devices
  • Helps determine sensor/gateway placement
Features
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The BAPI BLE Scanner app provides a simple way to check if BAPI’s wireless sensors will work in your environment. The app automatically scans your environment for BLE devices and displays them with their RSSI value, giving you and indication of the signal strength in your environment. Using the BAPI BLE Scanner app and one of BAPI’s wireless sensors, you can test your environment to see if to see how reliably a wireless sensor system will perform. BAPI’s wireless system consists of sensors and gateways. Sensors will send readings to the gateway, the gateway can then send readings to our cloud monitoring system or to an HVAC system. You can use the BAPI BLE Scanner to perform a site verification in your environment. Contact BAPI to order one of our wireless sensors. Once you receive your sensor, power it on and place it at a location that you want to measure. Open the BAPI BLE Scanner app on your smart device and position yourself where you would like to place a gateway. You can adjust the settings to only see BAPI wireless devices. You can then look at the RSSI value to determine if the sensor will be able to communicate reliably with the gateway and adjust the gateway or sensor position as needed. You can then repeat this process for each point you want to measure. The BAPI BLE Scanner makes it easy to determine how many sensors and gateways you will need for your environment and where to place them. You can then be confident that your wireless system will be able to communicate reliably. Contact us to start the site verification process

Screenshots

CX BLE2 screens
BAPI BLE Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: CX BLE at 4 against BAPI BLE Scanner's 1. CX BLE also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CX BLE against 5.0 for BAPI BLE Scanner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
CX BLE versus BAPI BLE Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCX BLEBAPI BLE Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings4 — better1
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCroxel, Inc.Building Automation Products, Inc

Customer experience

CX BLE

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

BAPI BLE Scanner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CX BLE

No in-app purchases

None

BAPI BLE Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CX BLE free?
CX BLE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BAPI BLE Scanner free?
BAPI BLE Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CX BLE or BAPI BLE Scanner?
CX BLE and BAPI BLE Scanner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do CX BLE or BAPI BLE Scanner have ads?
Neither CX BLE nor BAPI BLE Scanner shows ads.

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