Core Beacons vs TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test
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.
TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test
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How fast does your .tflite model actually run on this iPhone? Pick CPU, GPU or Neural Engine. Get real latency and QPS. No Mac, no Xcode project, no Bazel build, no cloud, no account. Open a .tflite file from the Files app, pick an accelerator, run it. A real measurement on the exact device you care about, in about a minute — no Bazel workspace, no benchmark tool built from source. PICK THE ACCELERATOR - Neural Engine — attaches the Core ML delegate, so supported operators run on the Apple Neural Engine - GPU — attaches the GPU delegate, backed by Metal - CPU — the plain interpreter, with a thread count you choose: 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 One configuration per run: run it, change the delegate or thread count, load it again, compare the numbers yourself. WHAT YOU GET - Latency: mean, min and max, in milliseconds - Queries per second - Total queries completed and total run duration - A query count you set per run, from 50 to 5,000 invocations Mean, min and max time the model inference call only — no pre-processing, no post-processing. Duration covers the whole loop. The screen stays awake during a run. WHAT YOU SEE ABOUT THE MODEL - Every input and output tensor: index, name, shape and data type (uInt8, int32, float16, float32 and the rest) - Model file size and framework - Live app memory usage against the memory available to the app, refreshed while the model runs - A device tab with model identifier, system version, disk space, and the exact TensorFlow Lite runtime version this build links against A MobileNet model ships in the app and loads on launch, so you see a real measurement before importing your own. READ THIS BEFORE YOU TRUST A NUMBER Inference runs on a zeroed dummy input. The app fills every input tensor with zeros and invokes the model, so what you measure is the compute cost of the graph on the accelerator you picked — latency and throughput, nothing else. It is not an accuracy test. It will not tell you whether your model gives the correct answer, and it does not show output tensor values. Ask it "how fast", not "how correct". What it does not do, stated up front: no side-by-side accelerator comparison in one run, no per-layer or per-operator profiling, no result export, no image or real-data input. It opens .tflite files only. PRIVACY Your model never leaves the device. Loading, inspection, inference and timing all happen locally on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no sign-in — your models and your results are never uploaded. TensorFlow Lite is now called LiteRT; the format and the .tflite extension are unchanged. TensorFlow, the TensorFlow logo and any related marks are trademarks of Google Inc. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Core Beacons at Free against TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test's $1.99. Core Beacons also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 16.0). TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test's advantage is chart position (#126 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Core Beacons is free to download; TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Core Beacons ships an update every 2 months, TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Core Beacons | TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #126 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fluthaus | Anh Nguyen |
In-app purchases
Core Beacons
No in-app purchases
TFLite LiteRT TensorFlow Test
No in-app purchases
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