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.
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.
- Wi-Fi network scanner
- Detect suspicious devices
- Magnetic sensor for electronics
- Camera filters for lens reflection
- Fast and simple interface
- Privacy and safety tool
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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
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Hidden Camera Detector | Hidden Camera Bug Detector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (66 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | NOVAAPPS LTD | HALIME USLU |
In-app purchases
Hidden Camera Detector
- Camera Detector: Weekly Access3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Camera Detector: Yearly Access$59.991 Year
Hidden Camera Bug Detector
- Vigil Pro Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Vigil Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
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