Comparison

FourScan vs cool

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

Head to head
About

FourScan

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Protect your privacy with 4 scanning technologies. Worried about hidden cameras or listening devices in hotels, Airbnbs, or rental spaces? FourScan runs 4 detection scans sequentially with a single tap. [4 Detection Powers] 1. Magnetic Scan - Detects magnetic field anomalies from electronic devices 2. Infrared Scan - Uses front camera to detect IR LEDs from night vision cameras 3. Wi-Fi Scan - Discovers suspicious devices on the local network 4. Bluetooth Scan - Searches and analyzes nearby BLE devices Note: Basic checking tool, not a substitute for professional investigation.

About

cool

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cool-radar turns the radios already inside your iPhone into a radar for the devices around you β€” with no extra hardware, and without inventing a single number. WHAT YOU SEE Nearby Bluetooth LE devices appear as contacts with an estimated distance, a bearing once there is enough geometry to support one, and a ranked guess at what each device actually is. The Wi-Fi card shows the link your phone is really on: type, interface, local address and subnet, the default gateway and the gateway's manufacturer. Where both ends have UWB hardware, distance stops being an estimate and becomes a measurement. HONEST BY DESIGN Every value carries a badge. "Measured" is a hardware reading. "Inferred" is a value the math derived. Distances read "β‰ˆ 4.5 m" because radio ranging is an estimate, not a ruler. When there is not enough geometry for a direction, the app draws a ring of possible positions and a question mark instead of a convincing-looking arrow. And when iOS simply does not expose something β€” neighbouring Wi-Fi networks, raw spectrum, Wi-Fi CSI β€” the app says so instead of filling the gap with fiction. THE MATH INSIDE β€’ Log-distance path-loss inversion, with a per-device exponent that recalibrates itself from the geometry you walk β€’ Kalman filtering with motion-gated noise, so a device that is standing still stops drifting on screen β€’ Robust multilateration with Huber weights, so a single reflection off a wall cannot drag a position across the room β€’ A naive-Bayes hypothesis engine that ranks device types from the broadcast name, company ID, advertised GATT services, transmit power, address policy and advertising cadence β€” and shows you the evidence behind every guess β€’ Behaviour analytics over the signal time series: advertising interval, jitter, trend and periodicity β€’ Radio tomography that maps excess path loss into an attenuation picture of the space FEATURES β€’ Top-down radar with range rings, pinch to zoom, double tap to reset β€’ Device list with search and type filters β€’ Device card with signal history, ranked hypotheses and the evidence for each β€’ Unwanted-tracker heuristics based on public advertising patterns β€’ CSV export of a session β€’ Full Russian and English, switchable inside the app PRIVACY All sensing and all math run on your iPhone. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifier. One optional setting β€” off until you turn it on β€” may send a 24-bit manufacturer prefix to a public vendor database to name your router. Nothing else ever leaves the device. Use cool-radar only on networks and devices you are entitled to inspect. It does not decrypt Find My identities, does not enumerate neighbouring Wi-Fi networks, and provides no covert tracking of people. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. Bluetooth works on every iPhone. UWB distance needs U1/U2 hardware on both devices. Room geometry needs a LiDAR model. Anything unavailable on your hardware is shown as unavailable rather than simulated.

Screenshots

FourScan3 screens
cool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FourScan at 16.0 against cool's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
FourScan versus cool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFourScancool
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developersatoshi amasakiZheniy Shacc

In-app purchases

None

FourScan

No in-app purchases

None

cool

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FourScan free?
FourScan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is cool free?
cool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FourScan or cool have ads?
Neither FourScan nor cool shows ads.

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