Core Beacons vs Accessibility Inspector
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.
Accessibility Inspector
Customize your device to meet individual needs with a suite of accessibility features. Quickly toggle these settings on or off using a triple-click of the side button.
- Customize device for individual needs
- Configure accessibility features
- Triple-click side button to toggle
- On-device settings management
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Accessibility features help you customise your iPhone for your individual needs. Configure and then triple-click the side button to toggle accessibility features on or off.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Core Beacons at 4.7 against Accessibility Inspector's 2.0. Core Beacons also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 59 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). 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.
Core Beacons holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Core Beacons's written reviews are positive against 75% of Accessibility Inspector's.
Core Beacons ships an update every 2 months, Accessibility Inspector every 59 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Core Beacons | Accessibility Inspector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 59 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fluthaus | George Garside |
Customer experience
Core Beacons
Accessibility Inspector
In-app purchases
Core Beacons
No in-app purchases
Accessibility Inspector
No in-app purchases
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