Comparison

Bluetooth Inspector vs Cmdly

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

Cmdly

Features
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Stop googling the same commands over and over. Cmdly is a fast, no-nonsense cheat sheet for the commands you always forget. Git flags, that one docker command, the kubectl syntax you can never remember — all in one place, always in your pocket. Tap any command to copy it, then paste it straight into your terminal. Done. START WITH READY-MADE SETS Cmdly comes loaded with hundreds of the most-used commands across git, bash, vim, python, docker, kubectl, npm/node, rails and more. Pick the systems you use and you're ready to go in seconds. MAKE IT YOURS Add your own commands as you go. Create whole new systems for anything — terraform, psql, your team's custom scripts, whatever you reach for. If you type it in a terminal, it belongs here. FIND IT FAST Search across everything by command, description, or tag. No scrolling, no digging. BULK IMPORT Got commands scattered across notes and gists? Import a CSV and pull them all in at once. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your commands sync privately across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own iCloud. Add something on your laptop, grab it on your phone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No servers. No tracking. Your commands live on your device and sync through your personal iCloud — nobody else can see them, including us. Cmdly is the reference you'll actually use. Add it once, stop googling forever.

Screenshots

Bluetooth Inspector4 screens
Cmdly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cmdly at none against Bluetooth Inspector's 1. Bluetooth Inspector's advantage is chart position (#39 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cmdly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Bluetooth Inspector versus Cmdly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBluetooth InspectorCmdly
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#39 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeorge GarsideAndrien Ricketts

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.)

Cmdly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bluetooth Inspector

One-time1
  • Bluetooth Inspector Pro$3.99
None

Cmdly

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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