Bluetooth Inspector vs TWSNMP For Mobile
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.
TWSNMP For Mobile
This mobile application provides a suite of network management tools, including ping, SNMP browsing, and graphical displays of network traffic, CPU, memory, and disk usage. It also offers features for checking server certificates, NTP, syslog, DHCP, and mail servers, along with DNS lookups and MAC address vendor searches.
- PING response confirmation
- SNMPv2c MIB browser
- Graphical traffic display
- LAN port status panel
- Host CPU/memory/disk usage graphs
- Server certificate testing
- DNS lookup
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Mobile version of SNMP Manager This is the mobile version of the standard TWSNMP manager for network management. The following functions are supported (1) Response confirmation by PING (2) MIB browser compatible with SNMPv2c (3) Graphical display of traffic (amount sent/received) (4) Panel display of LAN port status (5) Graphical display of host CPU, memory, and disk usage (6) List of host processes (7) TCP/UDP port list (8) Server certificate test (9) NTP server test (10) syslog server test (11) SNMP TRAP server test (12) DHCP server test (13) Mail server test (14) DNS lookup (15) MAC address vendor name search (16) Port number search (17) MIB tree display (18) Display your IP address using STUN server Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bluetooth Inspector at Free against TWSNMP For Mobile's $2.99. Bluetooth Inspector also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). TWSNMP For Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On 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
Bluetooth Inspector is free to download; TWSNMP For Mobile costs $2.99 up front. Bluetooth Inspector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TWSNMP For Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
TWSNMP For Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bluetooth Inspector has 1.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bluetooth Inspector ships an update monthly, TWSNMP For Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bluetooth Inspector | TWSNMP For Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #40 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | George Garside | Masayuki Yamai |
Customer experience
Bluetooth Inspector
TWSNMP For Mobile
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.)
TWSNMP For Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bluetooth Inspector
- Bluetooth Inspector Pro$3.99
TWSNMP For Mobile
No in-app purchases
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