Comparison

SysScope vs BleControlsPi

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

Head to head
About

SysScope

Monitor your iPhone's real-time performance with detailed diagnostics for CPU, memory, battery, and network. Access advanced tools like speed tests, ping, and port scanning. Customize with home screen widgets and alerts for key metrics.

Highlights
  • Real-time CPU and memory monitoring
  • Detailed battery status and predictions
  • Advanced network analysis tools
  • Live sensor data (motion, pressure)
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Alerts for battery and thermal state
  • Device stats export
Features
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SysScope is your iPhone's complete diagnostic dashboard — real-time vitals, powerful network tools, motion sensors, and home screen widgets in one beautifully designed app. OVERVIEW See your device name, model, hardware identifier, iOS version, and build number. Monitor CPU load across every core with a live per-core breakdown and up to 2 hours of CPU history. Check uptime, timezone, language, locale, orientation, and IPv6 address. POWER Track battery level with animated gauges, charging state, and low power mode. Get live discharge and charge rate estimates with predicted time-to-empty and time-to-full. Monitor thermal state from Normal to Critical, and view screen brightness and refresh rate in real time. MEMORY See your app's RAM usage alongside total system RAM, with a full memory breakdown — wired, active, inactive, compressed, and free — shown as a color-coded bar. Storage is covered too: total, used, and free space at a glance. NETWORK TOOLS A complete toolkit for network analysis: • Live WiFi details — SSID, BSSID, signal strength • Cellular carrier and radio technology (4G/5G) • Internal and external IP, subnet mask, and gateway • Download and upload speed tests • Ping latency measurement • DNS lookup and Whois query • Custom ping to any host • Visual traceroute • Port scanner with 22 common service labels • LAN device browser • Wake-on-LAN sender All results are saved to a scrollable network history log. SENSORS Live motion data — gravity, user acceleration, rotation rate, magnetometer readings, barometric pressure, and relative altitude. Track pitch, roll, and compass heading in real time. Monitor microphone input level and scan for nearby Bluetooth devices with signal strength ratings. TOOLS Generate audio tones at any frequency for speaker or hearing tests. Track GPS coordinates with altitude, speed, course, and accuracy. WIDGETS Add a home screen widget to surface your key stats without ever opening the app. ALERTS Set custom thresholds for battery level and storage. Enable thermal state alerts. DeviStats notifies you when your device needs attention. EXPORT Share a full device stats snapshot as plain text — useful for support tickets, diagnostics, or device reports. All metrics refresh every second. Battery, CPU, and RAM history is preserved for up to 2 hours and persists across sessions. Supports dark, light, and system theme.

About

BleControlsPi

Features
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The BLEControlsPi App allows to create various iOS controls such as Button,Toggle, Sliders, Steppers, Pickers (color, date, options) to Control a Raspberry Pi. Manipulating these controls sends their value to the Raspberry Pi (or linux device) in real time over Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE). You can also define Display controls such as Gauges and Text Displays, to create a Dashboard, where the Raspberry Pi sends info to the iPhone/iPad also in real time over Bluetooth. You can create, edit, size, and positions the controls in the app without being connected to a Raspberry Pi. However, before you can connect to, and control the Raspberry Pi you must instal the Python code (see below). IMPORTANT: You must install the free companion Python Software on the Raspberry Pi - where you define your own handlers (callback) functions that take actions on the Raspberry Pi, or fetch data on the Raspberry Pi to send to the iPhone/iPad. The code is provided with an automated installer for the Raspberry Pi. See https://github.com/bluepieapps/blecontrolspi-python and the README. The app provides 2 free controls. These can be created , deleted and re-created as often as you wish, allowing you to test any configuration, or run a simple control scheme. If you need more controls, you can use In-App Purchases to buy Control Packs (in quantity 1,3,5 or 9) for a small fee. This is not a subscription. Once you own the pack - it is yours to use. Packs allow the creation of any controls offered in the app, and any such controls can be edited, deleted and re-created at will. You can install the app on multiple iPhones/iPads that all use the same Apple ID. Controls Packs, and Controls you define on one device are synchronized to the other devices on app restart. Add a new control on your iPhone, and it will show up on your iPad. delete a controls from your iPad, and it will be deleted from your iPhone. See a video of the app at: https://youtu.be/8y3t2luLw3k See the documentation at: https://bluepieapps.com/Control-Pi-over-bluetooth/ - There is docs on how the controls, working which type of controls are available. - There is also an explanation of how you create handlers in the Python Code on the Raspberry Pi to have the RPi react to the controls you have defined.

Screenshots

SysScope4 screens
BleControlsPi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SysScope at none against BleControlsPi's 4. BleControlsPi's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BleControlsPi sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. SysScope asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
SysScope versus BleControlsPi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSysScopeBleControlsPi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoy NakdimonNormand Frenette

In-app purchases

None

SysScope

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

BleControlsPi

One-time4
  • Controls Pack 1$0.99
  • Controls Pack 3$2.69
  • Controls Pack 5$3.99
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  • Controls Pack 9$6.99

Questions

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

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