Comparison

livingCam+ vs Bluetooth Sleuth

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

livingCam+4 screens
Bluetooth Sleuth4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
livingCam+ versus Bluetooth Sleuth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlivingCam+Bluetooth Sleuth
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size224 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTzu-Lung ChangSean McNeil

Customer experience

livingCam+

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bluetooth Sleuth

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

livingCam+

No in-app purchases

None

Bluetooth Sleuth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is livingCam+ free?
livingCam+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bluetooth Sleuth free?
Bluetooth Sleuth costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do livingCam+ or Bluetooth Sleuth have ads?
Neither livingCam+ nor Bluetooth Sleuth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, livingCam+ or Bluetooth Sleuth?
livingCam+ ships an update every 4 months, and Bluetooth Sleuth every 2 months. Most recently, livingCam+ was updated on June 25, 2026 and Bluetooth Sleuth on September 22, 2026.

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