Comparison

Your Beacon Simulator vs Lumen Playground

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

Head to head
About

Your Beacon Simulator

Features
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Your Beacon Simulator is a powerful, multi-platform developer utility designed to simulate, broadcast, and discover virtual beacons. Built entirely in modern SwiftUI, it eliminates the need for physical hardware when testing location-based applications, indoor navigation systems, or proximity triggers. Whether you are configuring virtual beacons on the go or managing complex proximity layouts from your desk, the app leverages your device's native Bluetooth stack to deliver a seamless, hardware-free testing environment. KEY FEATURES • Virtual Beacon Broadcasting Group multiple configurations under a single Proximity UUID. Enjoy full control over Major/Minor IDs and calibrate Measured TX Power on the fly. Export and share your configurations instantly. • Advanced Discovery & Scanning Target specific Proximity UUIDs to actively scan your environment. The real-time dashboard categorizes signals (Immediate, Near, Far, Unknown) and provides deep-dive metrics including raw RSSI, estimated distance in meters, and last-seen timestamps. • Apple Watch Companion* Control active broadcasts and discovery scans right from your wrist. Enjoy real-time state mirroring, tactical haptic feedback, and a tailored wearable UI. • Background Monitoring* Utilize CoreLocation to track UUID regions even when the app is minimized. Get rich local notifications and pinpoint the exact Major/Minor ID that triggered an event. • Session-Based Live Logging Eliminate guesswork with a real-time event ledger. Track exactly when your app initiates scanning, catches a new beacon, or marks a missing device as stale. OPEN SOURCE Proudly open-source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Find the source code, contribute, or file issues directly on my GitHub repository. *Disclaimer: The Apple Watch companion app requires a paired iPhone. Background Monitoring is available exclusively on iOS and iPadOS.

About

Lumen Playground

Features
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Lumen Playground is the living SwiftUI catalog for Lumen UI, a cross-platform primitive design system. Search the public component library, exercise real native controls, and compare Lumen's semantic light and dark themes directly on iPhone or iPad. Every example is built with the same LumenUI package available to application developers. Explore: • Foundations, actions, forms, feedback, data display, navigation, and native presentations • Interactive loading, disabled, selected, validation, overlay, and empty states • Native Dynamic Type, VoiceOver semantics, focus behavior, and platform conventions • Shared Lumen icons, colors, spacing, typography, and visual treatments • Direct links to implementation documentation and public support The catalog works without an account and does not include advertising, analytics, tracking, or data collection.

Screenshots

Your Beacon Simulator4 screens
Lumen Playground4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Your Beacon Simulator at every 4 days against Lumen Playground's every 2 weeks. Lumen Playground's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Your Beacon Simulator ships an update every 4 days, Lumen Playground every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Your Beacon Simulator versus Lumen Playground: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYour Beacon SimulatorLumen Playground
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMuhammad Akbar ReishandySantiago Molina Orozco

In-app purchases

None

Your Beacon Simulator

No in-app purchases

None

Lumen Playground

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Your Beacon Simulator free?
Your Beacon Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumen Playground free?
Lumen Playground is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Your Beacon Simulator or Lumen Playground have ads?
Neither Your Beacon Simulator nor Lumen Playground shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Your Beacon Simulator or Lumen Playground?
Your Beacon Simulator ships an update every 4 days, and Lumen Playground every 2 weeks. Most recently, Your Beacon Simulator was updated on October 25, 2026 and Lumen Playground on October 25, 2026.

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