Comparison

MCU BLE Terminal vs Loopsy Terminal

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

Head to head
About

MCU BLE Terminal

Features
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McuBleTerminal is a Bluetooth Low Energy terminal app designed for ESP32 development. It allows you to view serial output and send text commands wirelessly from your smartphone. No USB cable, no drivers, no WiFi and no cloud services required. The app works together with the McuBleTerminal ESP32 library and acts like a classic serial monitor, but over BLE. Typical use cases include debugging, viewing sensor data, testing firmware behavior and interacting with ESP32 devices while they are powered in real environments. Features include a clean terminal interface, monospace font, dark and light mode support, multilingual UI and a built in demo mode that works without any hardware. This app is intended as a development and debugging tool. ESP32 library and examples are available on GitHub: https://github.com/dominik-ewers-solutions/MCU_BLE_Terminal

About

Loopsy Terminal

Features
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Loopsy Terminal lets you pair your iPhone with your laptop and run shell or AI agent sessions (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini) from your phone. Pair securely with a QR code. Sessions live on your laptop and you can switch back to them from your phone or browser anytime. Open source, self-hostable on Cloudflare Workers free tier. Features โ€ข Pair with your laptop in seconds via QR + 4-digit code โ€ข Run shell, Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini sessions remotely โ€ข Persistent sessions โ€” switch between them like browser tabs โ€ข Voice input on iOS โ€ข End-to-end pairing token + per-phone secret, revocable โ€ข Open source: github.com/leox255/loopsy

Screenshots

MCU BLE Terminal2 screens
Loopsy Terminal3 screens

Verdict

The call

MCU BLE Terminal and Loopsy Terminal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
MCU BLE Terminal versus Loopsy Terminal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMCU BLE TerminalLoopsy Terminal
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size19 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDominik EwersAnza Cloud Limited

In-app purchases

None

MCU BLE Terminal

No in-app purchases

None

Loopsy Terminal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MCU BLE Terminal free?
MCU BLE Terminal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Loopsy Terminal free?
Loopsy Terminal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MCU BLE Terminal or Loopsy Terminal have ads?
Neither MCU BLE Terminal nor Loopsy Terminal shows ads.

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