Serin vs Mic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Serin
This app acts as a personal privacy scanner, detecting nearby smart glasses, hidden cameras, and Bluetooth trackers. It offers guided sweeps for rooms and travel, and a digital mirror to see your own device broadcasts. Privacy is prioritized with no account required and data syncing only via iCloud.
- Detects smart glasses and wearables
- Flags Bluetooth trackers
- Scans networked cameras
- Infrared reflection scanning for hidden lenses
- Guided room and travel sweeps
- Digital mirror for device broadcasts
- Privacy-focused with no account needed
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Serin turns your iPhone into a personal privacy scanner. It looks for the devices that watch you — smart glasses, hidden cameras, and Bluetooth trackers — and tells you what is nearby. CANARY MODE A single glanceable status orb. Green means your surroundings are clear of known recording devices. Amber and red mean something worth a look. WHAT SERIN FINDS • Camera glasses and AI wearables — smart glasses, Spectacles, AI pins, and similar recording hardware • Bluetooth trackers — anonymous tags that stay near you across time are flagged after sustained proximity • Networked cameras — IP cameras, streaming devices, and smart-home hardware on the WiFi you are connected to • Hidden lenses — infrared reflection scanning to spot camera optics in a room ROOM SWEEP & TRAVEL SWEEP Guided walkthroughs for hotel rooms and rentals. Serin steps you through each zone, records what it finds, and produces a shareable report. DIGITAL MIRROR See what your own devices broadcast to everyone around you. PRIVACY BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. Detections stay on your device and sync only through your private iCloud. Serin never uploads location or scan history. SERIN PRO — ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Infrared camera finder • Full travel sweep with PDF export • Deep network scanning • Live Activities on the Lock Screen • Personal insights and trends • Unlimited detection history • No ads IMPORTANT Serin detects wireless signals and visible optical reflections. It cannot find devices that are powered off, hardwired without wireless, or shielded. Signal strength indicates rough proximity, not exact distance. Serin is an awareness tool, not a tool for confrontation, investigation, or emergency response.
Mic
This app verifies the functionality of a physical microphone blocker hardware accessory. It tests if your microphone is truly silent when the blocker is attached and shows you what your microphone can hear without it. It also helps you find the correct hardware model for your specific device.
- Tests microphone blocker hardware
- Visualizes microphone audio levels
- Recommends compatible hardware
- Stores private test history locally
- Works offline
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Mic-Lock® is the official companion app for Mic-Lock® hardware microphone blockers. WHY YOU MIGHT WANT THIS Every app you've ever granted microphone access to can listen on its own schedule, until you remember to go into Settings and revoke that permission. Most people never do. A Mic-Lock® is a small dongle that plugs into your charging port and physically cuts the microphone signal at the connector — no app, no software update, no zero-day can get around it. This app makes sure your Mic-Lock® is actually doing its job. WHAT THE APP DOES - Tests your Mic-Lock®. Plug it in, tap one button. The app listens through your microphone for five seconds and tells you, in plain English, whether any sound got through. - Shows you what your microphone hears right now. Without a Mic-Lock® plugged in, run the same test and watch the audio level any app with microphone permission could be capturing. It is a wake-up call. - Finds the right Mic-Lock® for your device. iPhone with USB-C? iPad with Lightning? Older phone with a headphone jack? The app detects your device and points you at the matching model. - Keeps a private history. Past test results stay on your device only. YOUR AUDIO NEVER LEAVES YOUR PHONE Mic-Lock® does not talk to any servers. There is no account to create, no email to enter, no cloud. Microphone audio is only used during the five-second test, only on this phone, and is gone the moment the test ends. No tracking. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. The app works fully offline once installed. ABOUT MIC-LOCK® Mic-Lock® is a patented microphone-blocker product line made by Columbia Network Security Inc. in Camas, Washington. See the full product line at mic-lock.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mic at none against Serin's 1. Mic also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. Serin sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mic asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Serin against 5.0 for Mic. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Serin | Mic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Summit Veil LLC | Panav Kalra |
In-app purchases
Serin
- Serin Pro$5.99
Mic
No in-app purchases









