TransparentBLE vs BlueTerm

TransparentBLE is a local-first Bluetooth Low Energy utility for discovering, inspecting, logging, and controlling BLE devices from iPhone or iPad. Use it to scan nearby BLE peripherals, connect to devices, inspect GATT services and characteristics, read values, write payloads, subscribe to notifications, and debug raw BLE traffic in console and terminal-style views. TransparentBLE also supports reusable BLE profile files. A profile can describe how a device should be matched, which services and characteristics it uses, how notification payloads should be parsed, and which controls should appear in the app. This lets makers, developers, and hardware owners create an iOS control surface for BLE devices without building a custom Swift app. Features: - BLE device scanning with configurable refresh intervals - GATT service and characteristic inspection - Read, write, and notify support - Console and terminal-style BLE debugging - RSSI tracking and RSSI history graph - JSONL diagnostic log recording - Log history with filtering, timeline view, export, and share support - Optional background recording for diagnostics - Live Activity and Dynamic Island status while recording - Import local .bleprofile.json files - Import profiles from supported TransparentBLE links - Profile-based controls including switches, sliders, RGB controls, and option pickers - Local-first design with no ads, analytics, tracking SDKs, or developer-operated cloud service TransparentBLE is useful for BLE debugging, hardware testing, IoT projects, ESP32 experiments, embedded devices, meters, sensors, chargers, and custom BLE hardware where you understand the device protocol. Safety note: BLE profiles and write commands can affect connected hardware. Only import profiles you understand and trust, and test control commands carefully.

BlueTerm turns your phone into a bridge between a Bluetooth serial device and your computer's browser. Connect the device once on the phone, flip one switch, and any browser on the same Wi-Fi becomes a full terminal and live plotter for it. KEY FEATURES - Browser Bridge - one switch serves a terminal and a live plot to any browser on your Wi-Fi. No cable, no driver, nothing to install on the computer. - BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) - Nordic UART devices connect automatically, and a built-in GATT explorer lets you pick the notify and write characteristics yourself when a device uses its own UUIDs. - A terminal that reads like one - timestamps, hex view, selectable line endings (LF / CRLF / CR / none) and one-tap command macros. - Live plotting - numbers your device sends (temp:23.5, rpm=1200, >speed:3.14 or plain CSV) are charted in real time, in the app and in the browser. - Export what you captured - CSV or JSON through the share sheet, so it lands in iCloud Drive, Google Drive or anywhere you choose. - Try it without hardware - a built-in simulator streams sample sensor data, so you can see the whole flow before you own a device. NEW IN 1.2 - AUTOMATION AND AI AGENTS - AI coding agents (MCP) - turn on MCP on the Bridge screen (open it from the terminal's top bar) and an MCP client on your computer, such as Claude Code or Cursor, can read the live log and channel values over the same Wi-Fi (free). With Pro it can also send commands to the device. MCP is off by default, needs its own key and works while BlueTerm is open. - Auto-reply rules and send sequences - reply to a matching line automatically, or send a list of commands with delays and repeats. Free: 1 rule and 1 sequence; Pro: 10 of each. - Trigger capture - when a value crosses a threshold or a pattern appears, the lines before and after are saved for review and export. Free: 1 trigger and 3 saved captures; Pro: 10 triggers and 100 captures. - Long recording (Pro) - write the whole session to files of up to 50 MB each, keeping the latest 20. - Session history - every connection is recorded on the device automatically: all received and sent lines with timestamps. Search it, share it as TXT or CSV, or delete it. Free keeps the last 5 sessions, Pro keeps 100. - Commands sent by a rule or an agent are marked in the phone and browser terminals. BlueTerm Pro is a one-time lifetime purchase, not a subscription. It also removes ads and raises the scrollback, macro and browser limits. WHY THIS APP? Every other Bluetooth serial app ends inside the phone screen. But the work - reading long logs, comparing graphs, copying values into your notes - happens on a computer, and computers have no standard way to open a Bluetooth serial port. Access to the bridge is protected by a password you set yourself, with a lockout after repeated failures, and the address is served on your local network only. Terms of Use (EULA): https://blueterm.mint-soft.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://blueterm.mint-soft.com/privacy