Comparison

Bekonix Mobile vs Bluetooth

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

Head to head
About

Bekonix Mobile

Create smart, connected products without coding. Design hardware, firmware, and mobile app controls from concept to final product. Ideal for makers and creatives to invent in real-time.

Highlights
  • No-code product design
  • Hardware and firmware integration
  • End-user mobile app control
  • Interactive LED animation design
  • Real-time product invention
  • Bluetooth hardware control
Features
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The no-code way to create smart, connected products from concept to final design. Our goal is really to help you create smart, connected projects and products from concept to final design. So that means everything from putting together the hardware components, the firmware, the behaviors and even the end-user mobile app to control it... The fact is, just setting up the environment to create hardware, software and app experiences is a daunting task. Add to that the programming obstacles even experienced teams face iterating a new product and you have a recipe for frustration. The Bekonix Platform lets you try out ideas in minutes that would take days or weeks the traditional way. What’s more, since no programming is required, motivated creatives can jump in and not just talk about making a smart, connected product but invent it in real-time. Quick development that anyone can do. This is why we chose a no-code, drag and drop approach so it’s not just about changing how things are made, it’s also about who can make them. We’d really like to help open up these capabilities to all kinds of motivated creatives to make all kinds of things. Tell a story with rich color transitions, sparkles, and natural motion effects. Set up fantastic home, business, and holiday lighting. Make retail displays and animated signs. Enhance your crafts. Create a work of art. Then control it from your iPhone or iPad. The Bekonix platform has three parts: • Bekonix Designer (Mac): Design interactive LED animations on a graphic timeline. • Bekonix OS (NEW!): Firmware installation for Adafruit Itsy Bitsy and Feather boards. • Bekonix Mobile (iOS): Control your hardware over Bluetooth. We worked hard to make it easy. Simply connect LEDs to your hardware and choose a preset on your iPhone or iPad. Because we're makers too, we included tons of advanced options for designers, artists, and people who want to get even more creative. Here's how it works: 1. Design your layout and lighting effects in Bekonix Designer. 2. Connect LEDs to your Bekonix OS hardware. (We support a wide variety of addressable LED strips, strings, matrices, and other formats, as well as sensors and other peripherals.) 3. Upload your projects from your computer to the hardware over Bluetooth. Then use Bekonix Mobile to select programs on your hardware, monitor sensor input, schedule programs to play on special days, and more.

About

Bluetooth

Features
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BLECI Debugger Pro is a powerful BLE debugging tool for developers, hardware engineers, and testers. Scan nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices, inspect GATT services and characteristics, send custom Hex commands, enable notifications, and review live logs in one place. Build reusable Profiles for the devices you work with. Save commands, data parsers, receive rules, timers, services, characteristics, and connection workflows so you can debug faster and reduce repeated manual work. Key features: • Scan nearby BLE peripherals • Filter devices by name, RSSI, and advertised Service UUID • Connect and inspect GATT services and characteristics • Read values, write Hex commands, and enable notifications • Create reusable device Profiles • Configure commands with flexible payloads • Build parsers for raw bytes and Hex data • Set receive rules and timers • Inspect SYSTEM, TX, RX, PARSE, and ERROR logs • Search logs by keyword, UUID, characteristic, or Hex data • Share live logs over a local network • Use the built-in guide to learn BLE debugging workflows Designed for BLE development, firmware testing, hardware integration, protocol debugging, and device validation. Terms of Use: https://codexapp.github.io/Privacy/index.html Vip Terms: https://codexapp.github.io/Privacy/index.html?doc=user

Screenshots

Bekonix Mobile4 screens
Bluetooth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bekonix Mobile at 11.0 against Bluetooth's 16. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bekonix Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Bluetooth every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Bekonix Mobile versus Bluetooth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBekonix MobileBluetooth
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better16
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBekonix岩 胡

In-app purchases

None

Bekonix Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Bluetooth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bekonix Mobile free?
Bekonix Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bluetooth free?
Bluetooth is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bekonix Mobile or Bluetooth have ads?
Neither Bekonix Mobile nor Bluetooth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bekonix Mobile or Bluetooth?
Bekonix Mobile ships an update every 3 months, and Bluetooth every 2 months. Most recently, Bekonix Mobile was updated on October 24, 2026 and Bluetooth on October 14, 2026.

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