Comparison

Bluetooth Inspector vs SIMSY

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

SIMSY

Features
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The SIMSY app is your gateway to a new mobile experience. SIMSY provides a mobile data service with a difference. Use our app to download our eSIM, order a physical SIM, top up your account and manage your mobile services. With our app you can get your MCP key, which allows you to integrate the SIMSY mobile solution directly into your favourite AI tool whether that's chat GPT, Claude, a perplexity or anything else you might want to use. • Use your MCP key to access the SIMSY MCP Server. • SIMSY allows you to integrate connectivity with a suite of AI tools including Lovable, Windsurf, Databutton, Cursor, RooCode and Replit. • Head to s-imsy.com to look at the available base applications and to see how you can use SIMSY to integrate with your other connected solutions. The SIMSY app enables quick, easy and free remote access into any of your devices, whether it’s Raspberry PI, home automation system, video cameras, Nvidia Jetson devices, home networks or anything else you can think of. You can also take your SIMSY SIM roaming, travel round the world with low cost data and only pay for the data you need to use. Your credit will not expire so you don't need to continually buy bundles.

Screenshots

Bluetooth Inspector4 screens
SIMSY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SIMSY at none against Bluetooth Inspector's 1. SIMSY also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Bluetooth Inspector's advantage is chart position (#43 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence 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. SIMSY asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Bluetooth Inspector versus SIMSY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluetooth InspectorSIMSY
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#43 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorge GarsideS-IMSY Ltd

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.)

SIMSY

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bluetooth Inspector

One-time1
  • Bluetooth Inspector Pro$3.99
None

SIMSY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bluetooth Inspector free?
Bluetooth Inspector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SIMSY free?
SIMSY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bluetooth Inspector or SIMSY have ads?
Neither Bluetooth Inspector nor SIMSY shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bluetooth Inspector or SIMSY?
Bluetooth Inspector ships an update monthly, and SIMSY monthly. Most recently, Bluetooth Inspector was updated on October 14, 2026 and SIMSY on September 29, 2026.

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