Tracker Detect vs PrivacyScan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tracker Detect
This app helps you detect suspicious Bluetooth tracker signals around you. It identifies potential hidden devices in various locations like hotel rooms, cars, or shared spaces, providing guidance on next steps for your privacy and safety.
- Detect Bluetooth tracker signals
- Identify suspicious devices
- Check various locations
- Provides clear next steps
- Privacy safety tool
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Tracker Detect helps you check the space around you for suspicious Bluetooth tracker signals. Use Nearby Scan before you drive, after a trip, in a hotel room, at the office, or when you want to check a bag, coat, or shared space. Tracker Detect shows nearby Bluetooth signals, highlights tracker-like devices that may need attention, and gives clear next steps. Use it to check rooms, cars, bags, desks, travel spaces, and other places where an unwanted tracker could be nearby. Tracker Detect is a privacy safety tool, not a live GPS locator. Results depend on signal conditions, device behavior, and Bluetooth availability. Privacy Policy: https://privacy.ftw-labs.com/ EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PrivacyScan
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Check a hotel room, a vacation rental or a flat you are about to move into for devices that should not be there, and see in plain words what this app can and cannot find. EVERY SCAN IS FREE No account, no trial, no scan limit. You see every result without paying. The optional Pro upgrade only removes ads and lifts the limit on PDF exports. WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES - Lists every device advertising a service on the Wi-Fi you are connected to, with its name, its IP address and the services it offers - Scores each one on how much it looks like an IP camera (RTSP, ONVIF, NVR and camera-style names) - Lists Bluetooth Low Energy devices nearby with signal strength and an estimated distance, and flags names used by cameras and recorders - Walks you through a room inspection: 29 checkpoints in 5 groups — smoke detectors, sockets, USB chargers, alarm clocks, picture frames, vents - Turns on the torch with a live camera preview so you can sweep surfaces for the small bright dot a lens reflects - Saves each scan as a report with a place name. Scan the same place again and the devices that were not there last time are marked NEW - Exports a report as a PDF to keep or send (the first PDF is free) WHAT IT CANNOT DO, STATED PLAINLY An iPhone has no radio receiver for RF sweeping. Apps that animate a radar dial and call it RF detection are showing you an animation. This one does not. It cannot find a camera that records to a local card and never touches the network. It cannot find one on a different Wi-Fi network, or on a router with client isolation switched on. The torch sweep is you looking at a screen: it is a manual aid, not a detector, and it does not see infrared. A high camera score is not a camera. It means that device advertises services cameras commonly use — a network video recorder and a doorbell look alike from the outside. The number is a reason to walk over and look. COMMON QUESTIONS Can an iPhone detect a hidden camera? Not by itself. It can find devices that announce themselves on the network or over Bluetooth, and it can help you look. Anything offline you find with your eyes. Does it detect RF signals? No, and nothing on an iPhone can. There is no RF receiver in the phone that an app can reach. Does the infrared test work? The app shows the back camera's live view so you can check a remote control emits IR and then sweep the room. Most iPhone cameras filter out 940 nm, the wavelength most covert cameras use, so a clean result proves nothing. Does it need an account or internet? Neither. Scanning is local, nothing is uploaded, there is no sign-up. What does Pro add? It removes ads and the upgrade screen after a scan, and unlocks unlimited PDF exports. Scanning, the device list and saved reports are free. What language is it in? It follows your iPhone; the interface is translated into 34 languages. FOR Hotel rooms, short-term rentals, changing rooms, offices, shared flats, and anyone who wants to check rather than assume. Terms of Use: https://ghapps1.wordpress.com/terms-condition/ Privacy Policy: https://ghapps1.wordpress.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tracker Detect at none against PrivacyScan's shown. Tracker Detect also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Tracker Detect sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and PrivacyScan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tracker Detect ships an update weekly, PrivacyScan every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Tracker Detect | PrivacyScan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (71 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ALAATTIN OZKAYA | Grima Hdez |
In-app purchases
Tracker Detect
- Premium Weekly$6.997 Days
- Premium Monthly$19.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$24.991 Year
PrivacyScan
- PrivacyScan Pro Weekly$2.997 Days
- PrivacyScan Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
- PrivacyScan Pro Lifetime$49.99
Questions
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