ThingsLog LoRa Mapper vs QuietCheck Privacy Scanner

You just deployed a gateway. Does it cover the warehouse? The far end of the field? The basement of the building? Stop guessing. Walk the site with LoRa Mapper running and find out. LoRa Mapper connects to your ChirpStack server (v3 or v4, self-hosted or cloud), subscribes to your device over MQTT, and plots every uplink on a live map as you walk — colored by RSSI. By the time you're back at the van you have a clear picture of where the signal holds, where it drops, and whether you need to reposition the antenna or add another gateway. Built for the people who actually do this work: LoRaWAN integrators, network engineers, smart city teams, utility rollouts, and self-hosters who want a proper field tool instead of staring at the ChirpStack live frames page on a laptop. Real-time RSSI map Every uplink appears as a dot the moment it arrives. Green for strong, yellow for fair, red for weak. Walk slower in the red zones. Gateway pins and coverage lines Gateways are plotted automatically from uplink metadata or the ChirpStack API. Tap one to draw lines to every point it received — shows the actual coverage shape, not a theoretical circle. ChirpStack v3 and v4 Paste in your server URL and API key. The app detects your ChirpStack version, finds the MQTT broker, and handles wss:// / ws:// fallback across ports 8883 and 8083 automatically. Multiple surveys, named and saved Save each site as a named map. Reload later, keep adding points, or export and share with the customer. Export to CSV Every point exports with coordinates, RSSI, SNR, timestamp, and gateway ID — ready for a spreadsheet or QGIS. Runs in the background The MQTT connection stays alive while your screen is off. Pocket your phone and keep walking. No account to create. No subscription. Works with any ChirpStack deployment.

QuietCheck helps you notice the Bluetooth devices around you that could be recording or tracking — smart glasses like Meta Ray-Ban, Bluetooth trackers like Tile and Chipolo, drones that broadcast Remote ID, and some cameras that advertise over Bluetooth. It reads the signals these devices broadcast, right on your iPhone. One honest app, not four separate scanners. Private by design: scanning happens entirely on your iPhone — no account to scan, no ads, no tracking. And every alert carries an honest confidence level — Unverified, Low, Medium, or High — because a Bluetooth signal is a clue, not proof that anyone is recording you. A quiet scan isn't a guarantee that nothing's there; QuietCheck helps you notice, it doesn't promise to catch everything. PAY ONCE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. EVER. No weekly traps, no "can't cancel" runaround, no ads. Your first 24 hours unlock every feature — no sign-up, no payment, no limits. After that, a single one-time purchase keeps the full set. That's the whole deal. WHAT IT FINDS • Smart glasses — scans for the Bluetooth signals broadcast by camera-equipped glasses like Meta Ray-Ban and Snap Spectacles. • Bluetooth trackers — detects Tile, Chipolo, and similar trackers nearby, and flags one that keeps showing up near you over time. • Drones — reads the standardized Remote ID signal most drones are required to broadcast. • Action cameras — detects the Bluetooth signal that action and 360 cameras such as GoPro broadcast when their wireless is on. A camera advertising means it's present, not that it's recording. • Hidden cameras — an on-device camera-and-flashlight check that looks for the tell-tale glint of a camera lens. • Action cameras — detects the Bluetooth signal that action and 360 cameras such as GoPro broadcast when their wireless is on. A camera advertising means it's present, not that it's recording. WHAT IT CAN'T DO (we'd rather tell you up front) QuietCheck is a proximity tool: it only ever detects what's physically near your phone, right now. It can't look up, locate, or monitor a device or a person anywhere else. Background detection is best-effort — iOS limits how much an app can scan once it's in the background — so a quiet moment doesn't guarantee nothing's there. The hidden-camera check is a heuristic aid, not a guarantee. It's here to help you notice things, not to replace your own judgment. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Almost everything happens entirely on your iPhone, with no account and no tracking. No analytics SDK, no ad SDK. A few optional features can sync a signature database, submit anonymous feedback, or contribute to a community sighting map — each one is spelled out plainly, and each is off or on-device unless you choose otherwise. BUILT FOR THE REAL WORLD • A proximity radar view for what's nearby right now. • Find It — a warmer/colder proximity locator to home in on a specific device. • Choose exactly which device types alert you; the rest are still logged. • On-device history of past detections, exportable as CSV. • A "please stop recording" card with your state's recording-consent law. • Apple Watch companion, widgets, and Siri Shortcuts. • An optional "meeting mode" that offers to scan around a calendar event. • Optional location tagging — see where a detection happened on a private map. Off by default; your location stays on your phone and is never uploaded. QuietCheck is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta, Ray-Ban, Snap, Tile, Chipolo, Samsung, or any other manufacturer referenced in the app. Product names are used only to identify whose hardware a detected signal belongs to.