Bluetooth Inspector vs BluetoothAssistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bluetooth Inspector
Explore nearby Bluetooth devices and examine their services and characteristics. View real-time signal strength, battery levels for your own devices, and identify model names. Extract software versions and read or write characteristic values.
- Real-time signal strength and device information
- Apple device battery level monitoring
- Device model identification
- Software and firmware version extraction
- Read and write characteristic values
- Characteristic value history
- Log and export data
- Background scanning with Live Activity
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Discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services for information and characteristics. • View information and signal strength for all peripherals and devices, updating in real time as you move around. • Get battery level for your own Apple devices — no need to install the app on all your devices. • See model identification broadcast by devices around you, mapping device identifiers to the marketing name. • Extract software and firmware version strings from devices broadcasting this information. • Read any characteristic's value, even for services not well known and are custom to the device being interrogated. • Write characteristic values back to the peripheral as string, numeric or hex. • See a history of the value of a characteristic since the session started, timestamped to when the value changed. • Log found peripherals, services, characteristics and values, and export a .log file of timestamped events for your analysis. • Shortcuts integration with actions for scanning and interrogation, enumerating services and characteristics, and reading values. • Background scanning by advertised service IDs with device count mapped by location found and status shown in a Live Activity. Get support @grgarside or georgegarside.com/apps/bluetooth-inspector Constant use of Bluetooth connectivity can drain your device's battery. Bluetooth connectivity is only used when this app is in the foreground and up to a few seconds after being backgrounded to safely disconnect from peripherals being interrogated, unless Background Scanning is enabled in the app and the Live Activity is running.
BluetoothAssistant
Easily discover, connect, and debug Bluetooth devices. This tool offers signal strength detection, information reading, and data read/write capabilities for efficient Bluetooth management.
- Device scanning
- Signal strength detection
- Device connection
- Device information reading
- Data reading & writing
- Log data
- Batch writing
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Bluetooth Assistant can help you discover surrounding Bluetooth devices, connect and debug them. Key Features: Device scanning Signal strength detection Device connection Device information reading Data reading & writing Log data Batch writing Data packet storage Save and delete common write data Privacy policy： https://hzjuzhi.com/apps/bluetooth/privacy/ Terms of Use： https://hzjuzhi.com/apps/bluetooth/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bluetooth Inspector at none against BluetoothAssistant's shown. Bluetooth Inspector also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2). BluetoothAssistant's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Bluetooth Inspector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BluetoothAssistant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bluetooth Inspector holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.5K and 1K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of Bluetooth Inspector's written reviews are positive against 62% of BluetoothAssistant's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.
| Parameter | Bluetooth Inspector | BluetoothAssistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) — better | 4.2 (1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.5% of reviews | 62.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 1K |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #46 — better | #48 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | George Garside | Hangzhou OrangeJuice Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Bluetooth Inspector
BluetoothAssistant
User reviews
Bluetooth Inspector
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Accurate Bluetooth detection
- 🔍 Useful for finding lost devices
- 👍 Clean and intuitive interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🔍 Difficulty identifying unknown devices
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with device interrogation
BluetoothAssistant
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient
- 👍 User-friendly
- 🔒 Helpful in finding lost devices
Room to improve
- 🐛 Doesn't work as expected
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 💻 Compatibility issues
Bugs and requests
Bluetooth Inspector
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to refresh device list without reinstalling
- Inconsistent behavior when selecting devices
- Mapping feature not functioning as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to rename detected devices
- Option to filter or hide known devices
- Integration with device location tracking
- Support for other wireless protocols (Wi-Fi, etc.)
BluetoothAssistant
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes and freezes
- Unable to connect to certain devices
- Inaccurate device information
Requested features
3 requests- Support for more Bluetooth devices
- Improved device detection and connection
- Better battery optimization
In-app purchases
Bluetooth Inspector
- Bluetooth Inspector Pro$3.99
BluetoothAssistant
- VIP$3.99
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