SCPI Commander vs Bluetooth Sleuth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SCPI Commander
Control LXI enabled instruments directly from your device. Send SCPI commands, automate measurements with a built-in script engine, and process results. Easily manage and export instrument data, logs, and screen dumps.
- Connect to LXI instruments
- Send SCPI commands
- Built-in script engine
- Automate measurements
- Process measurement results
- Export data and logs
- Instrument identity inquiry
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This app will connect to any LXI enabled instrument. You can control and get data back using for example SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) or any other kind of commands that can be send as plain ASCII over socket. Built-in script engine to automatize measurement and process the result. Features * Connected instrument can be added as favorite to make connection easier next time. * Automatically enquires the identity of the connected instrument. * Favorites can be exported as a CSV file. * Interactive IO, send and see the results immediately * Logging off a number of measurement. * Easy export off the session from both interactive io and logging measurement . * Ability to change the time-out value * Ability to change how much data can be read back. * Quick access to the instrument web-page * Quick access to common SCPI commands. * During logging, possible to pause and step through measurements. * Extensive help for interactive IO and logging measurement * Script Engine to automatize measurement * Process the measured values * Statistical calculations (Mean, Median, Standard deviation) * Export Statistical, binary blocks etc as CSV. * Easy to get screen-dump from connected instrument, save, print, view and zoom * Help for all screens, including all commands * Possibility to print favorites, logs and picture (AirPrint enabled printer)
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: SCPI Commander at Free against Bluetooth Sleuth's $0.99. SCPI Commander also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Bluetooth Sleuth's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0). On ratings volume, 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
SCPI Commander is free to download; Bluetooth Sleuth costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bluetooth Sleuth holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
SCPI Commander ships an update weekly, Bluetooth Sleuth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SCPI Commander | Bluetooth Sleuth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Augustsson | Sean McNeil |
Customer experience
SCPI Commander
Bluetooth Sleuth
In-app purchases
SCPI Commander
No in-app purchases
Bluetooth Sleuth
No in-app purchases
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