Core Beacons vs HTTP requests
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Core Beacons
This tool allows developers to scan and analyze Bluetooth LE device advertisements on iOS. It displays general CoreBluetooth information and detailed parsing for various beacon formats, including sensor data. Explore your Bluetooth environment and understand how your device presents it to applications.
- Scan Bluetooth LE advertisements
- Display CoreBluetooth information
- Parse Ruuvi sensor tags
- Parse Eddystone UID, URL, and TLM frames
- Parse Mijia temperature/humidity beacons
- Parse AltBeacon formats
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Core Beacons is a development tool for iOS. Core Beacons lists the advertisements of Bluetooth LE devices in range, as made available to applications by the CoreBluetooth API. Core Beacons lets you explore your "Bluetooth environment" and shows how your iOS device presents this environment to applications. Core Beacons displays general CoreBluetooth information and, if advertised by a device, service and/or manufacturer-specific data. Detailed parsing support is available for • ruuvi sensor tags: • Format 3 (raw data v1) • Format 4 (sensor data encoded in Eddystone URL) • Format 5 (raw data v2) • Eddystone: UID, URL (incl. Physical Web) & TLM frame types • mijia temperature & relative humidity sensor beacons (as far as this protocol is documented) • AltBeacon Core Beacons may be most useful when working with "beacon" type BLE devices.
HTTP requests
This tool allows you to send HTTP requests and validate/format JSON data. It offers a simple interface for importing requests from Curl or creating them within the app, and for inspecting responses.
- Import requests from Curl
- Create requests in-app
- Beautify JSON
- Inspect responses
- JSON validator
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Absolutely free client for Http requests and json validator/formatter. Small, but powerful interface: - import request from Curl or create them in app, - beautify json, - inspect response
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Core Beacons at 100% against HTTP requests's 20%. Core Beacons also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Core Beacons holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Core Beacons's written reviews are positive against 20% of HTTP requests's.
Core Beacons ships an update every 2 months, HTTP requests every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Core Beacons | HTTP requests |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fluthaus | Vlad Koshechkin |
Customer experience
Core Beacons
HTTP requests
In-app purchases
Core Beacons
No in-app purchases
HTTP requests
No in-app purchases
Questions
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