Bonsai³ vs BLE Scope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bonsai³
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Bonsai³ turns your GitHub contributions into a living voxel bonsai. Connect GitHub to grow a voxel bonsai from your recent contributions. Rotate and zoom the bonsai, choose its species and pot, and browse consecutive 90-day seasons to see how its form changes over time. Up to 12 seasons are kept in the history archive. Want a preview? Choose Look around first to view a fully grown bonsai and browse its seasons. No account or sign-in is required. Share any season as a postcard through Apple's system share sheet, or save it to your photo library. On iPhone and iPad, the Bonsai³ Widget keeps your current bonsai close at hand. GitHub authorization opens in Apple's secure browser session. Bonsai³ requests read-only profile access, stores the access token in the device Keychain, and uses GitHub's official GraphQL API. It never receives your GitHub password, email address, repository names, or repository content. Bonsai³ has no developer-operated server, analytics, ads, or tracking. The app and Widget share only the connected GitHub username, contribution snapshot, and bonsai data through Apple's private App Group storage. The Widget never receives the token or contacts GitHub. Bonsai³ is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub.
BLE Scope
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BLE Scope is a lightweight utility for anyone working with Bluetooth Low Energy hardware — firmware developers, integrators, and hobbyists who need to see exactly what a device is broadcasting and talk to it directly. SCAN - Real-time scan of nearby BLE peripherals with continuous RSSI updates. - Per-device RSSI history chart with a moving-average line, so you can watch signal behaviour as you move around. - Signal-strength grouping and sorting that stays readable while scanning. INSPECT ADVERTISEMENTS - Connectable flag, Tx power level, and advertised service UUIDs with well-known names resolved. - Hex dump of manufacturer-specific and service data, with the company identifier decoded. GATT - Connect to a peripheral and discover its services, characteristics, and descriptors. - Read characteristic values, with decoders for well-known characteristics. - Subscribe to notifications and indications with a rolling value log. - Write values as hex or text, with or without response. FAVORITES - Mark the peripherals you care about; favorites are stored on device and persist across sessions. BLE Scope has no account, makes no network connections, shows no ads, and collects no data. Scanning and connections run only while the app is in the foreground.
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Verdict
Bonsai³ and BLE Scope are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Bonsai³ | BLE Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sakino Tomiura | byungwoo koh |
In-app purchases
Bonsai³
No in-app purchases
BLE Scope
No in-app purchases









