BLE Laboratory Pro vs BAPI BLE Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BLE Laboratory Pro
This app allows users to scan for and interact with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices, displaying advertisement data and enabling communication with services and characteristics. It also supports configuring the device as a BLE peripheral with custom profiles and services.
- Discover BLE devices with advertisement data
- Interact with services, characteristics, and descriptors
- Read and write UTF-8 and HEXA data
- Configure as a BLE peripheral
- Create custom services and characteristics
- Detailed runtime performance logs
- Slick UI and efficient navigation
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Are you developing BLE hard- or software? Are you interested in experimenting with BLE devices? Or do you just want to learn about devices in your vicinity? Look no further, you have found the best app! This is the result of years of BLE research and development. Here are the highlights: === Operation Mode Scanner === * Display discovered devices with complete advertisement data, * Interact with found services, characteristics, and descriptors, * Read and write UTF-8 and HEXA data with optimized keyboards. === Operation Mode Transmitter === * Configure as sending BLE peripheral with multiple profiles, * Create as many services and characteristics as you need, * Compose readable values out of static, dynamic, and interactive components. === Besides These === * Detailed log for analyzing the run-time-performance of every operation, * Slick UI and efficient navigation – the UI will never block you. Test the app with both operation modes – later on, unlock what you need via In-App-Purchase. Stay tuned for many more professional features – Version 1.0 is just the beginning!
BAPI BLE Scanner
This app scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices and displays their signal strength (RSSI). It helps determine the reliability of wireless sensor systems in a given environment before installation.
- Scans for BLE devices
- Displays RSSI signal strength
- Site verification for wireless sensors
- Filter for BAPI wireless devices
- Helps determine sensor/gateway placement
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The BAPI BLE Scanner app provides a simple way to check if BAPI’s wireless sensors will work in your environment. The app automatically scans your environment for BLE devices and displays them with their RSSI value, giving you and indication of the signal strength in your environment. Using the BAPI BLE Scanner app and one of BAPI’s wireless sensors, you can test your environment to see if to see how reliably a wireless sensor system will perform. BAPI’s wireless system consists of sensors and gateways. Sensors will send readings to the gateway, the gateway can then send readings to our cloud monitoring system or to an HVAC system. You can use the BAPI BLE Scanner to perform a site verification in your environment. Contact BAPI to order one of our wireless sensors. Once you receive your sensor, power it on and place it at a location that you want to measure. Open the BAPI BLE Scanner app on your smart device and position yourself where you would like to place a gateway. You can adjust the settings to only see BAPI wireless devices. You can then look at the RSSI value to determine if the sensor will be able to communicate reliably with the gateway and adjust the gateway or sensor position as needed. You can then repeat this process for each point you want to measure. The BAPI BLE Scanner makes it easy to determine how many sensors and gateways you will need for your environment and where to place them. You can then be confident that your wireless system will be able to communicate reliably. Contact us to start the site verification process
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BAPI BLE Scanner at 5.0 against BLE Laboratory Pro's 3.4. BAPI BLE Scanner also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). BLE Laboratory Pro's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). 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
Both are free to download. BLE Laboratory Pro sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. BAPI BLE Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.
BAPI BLE Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BLE Laboratory Pro has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | BLE Laboratory Pro | BAPI BLE Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Lauer | Building Automation Products, Inc |
Customer experience
BLE Laboratory Pro
BAPI BLE Scanner
In-app purchases
BLE Laboratory Pro
- Scanner Support$8.99
- Transmitter Support$12.99
- All Operation Modes$17.99
BAPI BLE Scanner
No in-app purchases
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