livingCam+ vs Bluetooth Sleuth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
livingCam+
Control and monitor your Z-Wave smart home devices and view live video feeds from your camera gateway. Create custom scenes for powerful automation and integrate with voice assistants for hands-free control.
- Z-Wave device control
- Push notifications
- Scene creation and control
- Amazon Echo integration
- Live video surveillance
- SD card/NAS/Dropbox video playback
- Time lapse video playback
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livingCam+ is the App for the world’s first 2-in-1 smart home Z-Wave camera + gateway. The App can control and get push notifications over all the Z-Wave devices connected to the camera gateway. It also provides very easy and powerful scene creation and control capabilities that will make all your creative smart home control idea come true. Amazon echo is easily integrated with the App and the camera gateway so that you could do the voice control over all your smart home devices. The App also provides all the video surveillance functions for the camera gateway, including live video, SD card/NAS/Dropbox video playback and time lapse video playback. You can enjoy the smart home control while viewing the live video anywhere in the world.
Bluetooth Sleuth
This utility allows users to deeply interact with their device's Bluetooth capabilities. It supports scanning for peripherals, advertising custom services, broadcasting and ranging iBeacons, and searching a comprehensive Bluetooth database.
- Configure custom Bluetooth advertisements
- Scan for specific or all advertising devices
- Connect to and browse peripheral services
- Broadcast and range iBeacons
- Search Bluetooth assigned numbers database
- Monitor RSSI values with graphing
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Bluetooth Sleuth is meant to be a well rounded app for interacting with your iOS or supported macOS device's Bluetooth functionality. This includes advertising and scanning for peripherals, as well as broadcasting, monitoring, and ranging iBeacons. The following covers some of the features included in Bluetooth Sleuth: [ADVERTISE] - Ability to configure an advertisement with your device - Create custom services, with their own characteristics and descriptors to advertise - Automatically saves custom services for later reuse [SCAN] - Ability to scan for all advertising devices within range - Ability to scan for specific advertisements that contain the provided CoreBluetooth UUID - Displays all peripherals, sorted by RSSI, with the ability to connect to devices that are open to connections - Browse a peripheral's services, characteristics, and descriptors - Monitor recent peripheral RSSI values with included graphing tools - Ability to automatically reconnect to a previously connected peripheral - Filter results to require names, ability to connect or minimum RSSI value [SEARCH] - Search through over 5,000 records in the Bluetooth database of assigned numbers for companies, services, characteristics and other related values [BROADCAST] - Configure your device to act as an iBeacon by providing it with a UUID, and optional major and minor values [RANGE] - Observe for the presence of any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide - See device information for any iBeacons located - Monitor recent iBeacon RSSI values with included graphing tools [MONITOR] - Observe region updates for any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: livingCam+ at Free against Bluetooth Sleuth's $0.99. livingCam+ also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On update cadence, 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
livingCam+ is free to download; Bluetooth Sleuth costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
livingCam+ ships an update every 4 months, Bluetooth Sleuth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | livingCam+ | Bluetooth Sleuth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 224 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tzu-Lung Chang | Sean McNeil |
Customer experience
livingCam+
Bluetooth Sleuth
In-app purchases
livingCam+
No in-app purchases
Bluetooth Sleuth
No in-app purchases








