Comparison

Bluetooth Inspector vs MQTT Tester

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

MQTT Tester

Features
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An MQTT Tester app is a software tool used for testing MQTT-based applications. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to interact with an MQTT broker and send/receive MQTT messages. With an MQTT app tester, users can specify the topic, message payload, and other parameters for the MQTT message, and the tester will send the message to the MQTT broker and receive any responses from the broker. MQTT Tester app can also simulate a large number of MQTT clients connecting to the broker and sending messages simultaneously, helping to identify any performance bottlenecks or scalability issues in the application. Overall, an MQTT Tester app is a valuable tool for developers and testers who are working with MQTT-based applications.

Screenshots

Bluetooth Inspector4 screens
MQTT Tester3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MQTT Tester at none against Bluetooth Inspector's 1. MQTT Tester also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). Bluetooth Inspector's advantage is chart position (#44 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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

Both are free to download. Bluetooth Inspector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MQTT Tester asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Bluetooth Inspector versus MQTT Tester: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluetooth InspectorMQTT Tester
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.5K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#44 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB26 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGeorge GarsideMy Ciright Inc.

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.)

MQTT Tester

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bluetooth Inspector

One-time1
  • Bluetooth Inspector Pro$3.99
None

MQTT Tester

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bluetooth Inspector free?
Bluetooth Inspector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MQTT Tester free?
MQTT Tester is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bluetooth Inspector or MQTT Tester have ads?
Neither Bluetooth Inspector nor MQTT Tester shows ads.

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