Comparison

Hidden Camera Detector vs Hidden Camera Bug Detector

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

Head to head
About

Hidden Camera Detector

Enhance your privacy in unfamiliar locations with this app. It scans Wi-Fi networks for suspicious devices and uses your phone's sensors and camera filters to help detect hidden cameras and electronics. Ideal for travel and everyday safety.

Highlights
  • Wi-Fi network scanner
  • Detect suspicious devices
  • Magnetic sensor for electronics
  • Camera filters for lens reflection
  • Fast and simple interface
  • Privacy and safety tool
Features
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Hidden Camera Detector - Privo helps you feel safer in hotels, vacation rentals, offices, dressing rooms, and other unfamiliar places. It combines several privacy-check tools in one simple app. Use the network scanner to scan your current Wi-Fi network, review connected devices, inspect device details, and notice suspicious or unfamiliar connections that may not belong there. Use magnetic sensor tools to help spot hidden cameras, microphones, speakers, and other nearby electronics. You can also use camera filters to assist manual checks and look for suspicious lens reflections or unusual light points in the room. The app is built for travel, short stays, home privacy checks, and everyday safety awareness. The interface is fast, simple, and easy to use, so you can run a quick room check in seconds. Results depend on your device model, available hardware, network visibility, signal conditions, and the surrounding environment. The app should be used as a support tool together with manual inspection and common-sense safety checks. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/camera-detector/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://sites.google.com/view/camera-detector/terms-of-service

About

Hidden Camera Bug Detector

This app transforms your phone into a multi-channel detector for hidden cameras, microphones, and trackers. It uses infrared, lens glint, magnetic field, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth scanning to help you identify surveillance devices in various locations.

Highlights
  • Infrared scanning for night-vision cameras
  • Lens glint detection
  • Magnetic field detection for powered-off cameras
  • Wi-Fi network scanning for IP cameras
  • Bluetooth scanning for trackers and recorders
  • Privacy-focused, on-device scanning
Features
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Vigil turns your phone into a five-channel sweep for hidden cameras, microphones and trackers. It is the check worth doing before you unpack in a hotel room, a holiday rental, a changing room or an office. FIVE WAYS TO FIND A CAMERA Infrared: night-vision cameras flood a dark room with light your eyes cannot see. The front camera can see it, and Vigil under-exposes the sensor until only the emitters are left. Lens glint: glass reflects light straight back at its source. Sweep with the torch and a lens answers with a small, hard, motionless spark. Magnetic: every camera worth hiding holds a magnet and a switching supply, both of which bend the local field. This is the only channel that finds a camera that is switched off. Wi-Fi: lists every device on the network you are on and flags the ones answering on the ports IP cameras stream over. Bluetooth: finds battery cameras, voice recorders and trackers that advertise themselves, and tells you when one is getting closer. WHERE TO LOOK Smoke detectors, air vents, alarm clocks, chargers, mirrors, TV bezels, power strips, air fresheners and decorative holes. Each mode explains what it is measuring and how to sweep properly. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every scan runs on your device. No video is recorded, no network data leaves the phone, no account is needed and nothing is uploaded — a privacy tool that phoned home would be a contradiction. Vigil raises suspicion, it does not prove anything. If you find something you cannot explain, stop, leave it in place and call the front desk or the police. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hidden Camera Detector4 screens
Hidden Camera Bug Detector4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hidden Camera Bug Detector at 5.0 against Hidden Camera Detector's 4.5. Hidden Camera Detector's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Hidden Camera Detector sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Hidden Camera Bug Detector sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hidden Camera Bug Detector holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hidden Camera Detector has 66 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hidden Camera Detector versus Hidden Camera Bug Detector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHidden Camera DetectorHidden Camera Bug Detector
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (66 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings66 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB12 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperNOVAAPPS LTDHALIME USLU

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Hidden Camera Detector

Subscriptions2
  • Camera Detector: Weekly Access3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • Camera Detector: Yearly Access$59.991 Year
2 purchases

Hidden Camera Bug Detector

Subscriptions2
  • Vigil Pro Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Vigil Pro Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Hidden Camera Detector free?
Hidden Camera Detector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hidden Camera Bug Detector free?
Hidden Camera Bug Detector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hidden Camera Detector or Hidden Camera Bug Detector?
Hidden Camera Bug Detector is rated higher. Hidden Camera Detector averages 4.5 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Hidden Camera Bug Detector averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Hidden Camera Detector or Hidden Camera Bug Detector have ads?
Neither Hidden Camera Detector nor Hidden Camera Bug Detector shows ads.

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