Bluetooth Inspector vs BlueTea

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.

BlueTea is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) testing and automation tool for makers, hardware hobbyists, and developers. Scan for nearby peripherals, inspect their GATT services and characteristics, read and write values, subscribe to notifications, then automate all of it with small Lua scripts. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Scan & connect — discover nearby BLE devices, sorted by signal strength, and connect with a tap. • Inspect GATT — browse services and characteristics, see their properties, and read / write / notify values in hex or text. • Quick commands — save labelled send macros for the payloads you use most. • UART console — talk to Nordic UART and similar serial-over-BLE devices, with a live transcript you can export. • Saved devices — name your peripherals and remember their preferred characteristics so reconnecting is instant. AUTOMATE WITH LUA • Write scripts in a built-in editor with syntax highlighting and autocomplete. • Drive your devices in code: scan, connect, read, write, and react to notifications. • Build live on-screen panels — buttons, labels, and readouts that update as your device responds. • Built-in helpers for hex, bytes, JSON, timers, and per-script key/value storage. • Learn as you go with a Getting Started guide and a searchable in-app Lua API reference. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. • Everything you create stays on your device. • Optional iCloud sync keeps your saved devices and scripts in your own iCloud. BlueTea is built for people who poke at hardware: testing a custom BLE peripheral, or automating a repetitive read/write workflow. Bring your own device and start scripting.