IoT Toolbox vs NFC ReWriter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IoT Toolbox
This application helps users test Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) demo applications for specific chipsets. It demonstrates BLE capabilities through standard and custom profiles, allowing interaction with various smartphones.
- BLE demo application testing
- NXP Connectivity chipset support
- Standard BLE profiles
- Custom proprietary profiles
- Smartphone interaction
- Future capability updates
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IoT Toolbox allows the end-user to improve their Out of the Box Experience, providing a user-friendly way to test the BLE demo applications developed for the NXP Connectivity chipsets. IoT Toolbox is an all-in-one application capable of demonstrating NXP’s Bluetooth® LE capabilities through the implementation of Bluetooth® LE and custom proprietary profiles, allowing the interaction with different smartphones. The application interacts with the following Bluetooth® LE profiles: -Blood Pressure -Cycling Speed and Cadence -Glucose -Health Thermometer -Heart Rate -Proximity -Running Speed and Cadence The custom proprietary profiles included are: -NXP Beacon -Over the Air Programming (OTAP) -Thread Shell -Zigbee Shell -NFC Reader -Wireless Console/UART Future development will add more exciting capabilities.
NFC ReWriter
Easily write NDEF messages to NFC tags. This open-source tool also allows for custom transceive commands using a built-in toolkit.
- Write NDEF messages to NFC tags
- Write custom transceive commands
- Open-source project
- React-Native based
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NFC ReWriter is an open source project built on-top-of React-Native. This app could help you easily write NDEF message to NFC Forum tag. Also let you write custom transceive commands in TOOLKIT.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NFC ReWriter at 50% against IoT Toolbox's 0%. NFC ReWriter also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0). IoT Toolbox's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
NFC ReWriter holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of IoT Toolbox's written reviews are positive against 50% of NFC ReWriter's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IoT Toolbox | NFC ReWriter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NXP Semiconductors | Revtel Tech co.ltd |
Customer experience
IoT Toolbox
NFC ReWriter
In-app purchases
IoT Toolbox
No in-app purchases
NFC ReWriter
No in-app purchases
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