Comparison

Faraday Edge vs GPS Bug Detector

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

Head to head
About

Faraday Edge

This cloud-based network management tool simplifies guest and employee network administration for organizations. It offers features like captive portal design, role management, and access control without requiring technical expertise. The app also includes a smart networking assistant for conversational management.

Highlights
  • Guest and employee network access
  • Captive portal design
  • Role management (duration, quota, bandwidth)
  • Access control list
  • Access point & switch provisioning
  • Monitoring
  • Smart networking assistant
Features
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Faraday Edge is an all-in-one powerful cloud-based network management product making it very easy to manage guest and employee networks for end users without any technical background at all. Built on Aruba Central, with the added values like the guest & employee network access, captive portal design, role management (duration, quota, bandwidth limitations), access control list, access point & switch provisioning, and monitoring, Edge provides a complete solution to the essential needs of organizations such as retails, stadiums, hospitals, banks, schools, etc. Additionally, experience the conversational level network management with smart networking assistant. Independent of how many locations are being managed, Edge will make it easy for you!

About

GPS Bug Detector

Features
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Someone can hide a tracker in a car in under a minute. Finding it takes longer. GPS Bug Detector gives you four different ways to search, because no single sensor catches everything. Scan a room, a rental car, a hotel or an office, and see what is actually around you before you settle in. BUG DETECTOR The magnetometer reads changes in the magnetic field around electronics tucked inside seats, bumpers, panels and furniture. Watch the gauge climb as you move the phone closer. This is the layer that finds hardware with no radio at all, which is exactly what a passive GPS logger is. SPY CAMERA Three ways to hunt for a lens, because hidden cameras hide differently depending on the room. Flash lights the surface and holds the exposure so glass gives itself away. Sweep walks you across a wall or ceiling in a slow pass so nothing gets skipped. Retro-reflect catches the bright pinpoint bounce a lens sends straight back at your light source. This is the one that finds cameras behind smoke detectors, mirrors, vents and clock faces. The camera view also picks up infrared emitters that night vision setups use, which your eye cannot see in a dark room. BLUETOOTH SCAN The Bluetooth scanner lists every BLE device broadcasting nearby, sorted by signal strength in dBm. Known hardware gets labelled, so your neighbour's laptop reads as a laptop and an unknown tag reads as unknown. Walk toward a device and watch the number climb until you are standing on top of it. Tap any result to open the device inspector for advertised services and full signal history. WI-FI SCAN See every device sitting on the network you are connected to, with its IP address and manufacturer. Routers, phones, laptops and smart TVs get identified. So does an IP camera. If you are staying somewhere and a Hikvision or Reolink device shows up on the house Wi-Fi that nobody mentioned, you will know in about ten seconds. HISTORY Every scan is saved. Run one when you check into a room and another the next day, and compare. A device that appeared overnight is worth a second look. WHO USES IT Travellers checking an unfamiliar room before unpacking. Drivers who share a car, sell a car, or just got one back from a shop. Hosts and guests who want a quick privacy pass on a rental. Anyone with a reason to believe a device followed them home. WHAT THIS APP IS NOT This is not a radio frequency sweeper. Your iPhone has no RF antenna a developer can reach, and any app claiming to sweep RF is guessing. GPS Bug Detector works only with sensors your phone actually has: the magnetometer, the camera, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Every reading you see is a real reading. It cannot detect an audio bug or a listening device that transmits over cellular, and it cannot find a passive GPS logger over the air, since a device that only records and never broadcasts has no signal to catch. The magnetometer pass is your best tool in that case, and a physical search is still worth doing. EULA:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy & EULA: https://www.appsera.net/app-store-privacy-policy-gps-bug-detector/

Screenshots

Faraday Edge1 screens
GPS Bug Detector4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Faraday Edge at none against GPS Bug Detector's 3. Faraday Edge also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GPS Bug Detector sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Faraday Edge asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Faraday Edge versus GPS Bug Detector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFaraday EdgeGPS Bug Detector
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB49 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFaraday Networks Inc.Ramazan Tugay Kahraman

In-app purchases

None

Faraday Edge

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

GPS Bug Detector

Subscriptions2
  • Bug Detector Pro$2.997 Days
  • Bug Detector Pro$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$69.99

Questions

Is Faraday Edge free?
Faraday Edge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GPS Bug Detector free?
GPS Bug Detector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Faraday Edge or GPS Bug Detector have ads?
Neither Faraday Edge nor GPS Bug Detector shows ads.

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