Comparison

Hidden Cam Detect vs Glint

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

Head to head
About

Hidden Cam Detect

Features
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Hotel room, short-term rental, or your own home โ€” Hidden Cam Detect sweeps the space for hidden cameras, microphones and tracking devices. And when something turns up, it helps you walk to it. SEE WHAT'S ON THE NETWORK Most hidden cameras need Wi-Fi to be useful. The app lists what's connected and tells you what each thing actually is โ€” "IP camera, known brand" instead of "192.168.1.42" โ€” along with the reason it was flagged. Printers, speakers and phones get ruled out instead of padding the list. WALK TO IT, DON'T JUST WORRY ABOUT IT - A proximity meter that rises as you get closer, with haptic feedback. - An AR signal map you paint by walking around the room, so you can see where the signal peaks. (Pro) - LiDAR depth markers that pin a suspicious reflection in 3D โ€” needs an iPhone Pro. (Pro) CHECK WITH YOUR OWN EYES - Lens scan: your flashlight and camera catch the glint a lens reflects back. - Infrared viewer for the invisible IR light night-vision cameras give off. (Pro) - A guided checklist of the places devices usually hide โ€” smoke detectors, alarm clocks, power strips, air vents โ€” and what to look for in each. AFTER EVERY SCAN A clear risk score with the reasoning behind it, plus a panel showing which checks ran and which ones couldn't โ€” so you always know what was covered and what wasn't. Save the result, compare it on your next visit, or export it as a PDF report. (Pro) HONEST ABOUT THE LIMITS No app can find every hidden device, and this one doesn't pretend to. It's a triage tool: it surfaces what a phone can pick up, then guides the rest of the search. "Nothing found" never means a room is safe. A recorder saving to a memory card, an older wired camera, or anything switched off gives off nothing a phone can detect. That's why every scan ends with the checklist. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your scan results stay on your phone and are never uploaded. No account, no sign-in. Optional anonymous crash and usage reports can be turned off in Settings. FREE Wi-Fi scan, Bluetooth scan, lens-glint tool, risk scoring, guided checklist and recent scans, plus one free Full Scan. PRO UNLOCKS Unlimited Full Scan, infrared viewer, magnetometer, LiDAR depth tools, AR locate, AR signal map, extended scan history and PDF export. - Trip Pass: one-time purchase, 72 hours of Pro. Does NOT renew. - Annual: auto-renewable subscription, billed yearly. - Lifetime: one-time purchase. Does NOT renew. Prices vary by region and your local price is shown before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Only the Annual plan renews automatically: it renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://nhanntv.github.io/hiddencamdetect/legal/en/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://nhanntv.github.io/hiddencamdetect/legal/en/privacy.html

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Glint

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Is someone watching? A hidden camera in a rental or a hotel room is small, cheap, and easy to miss. Glint gives you four ways to look โ€” and tells you plainly what each one can and can't see. FREE, AND COMPLETE The network scan is free forever, and the results are never blurred or held back. Glint lists every device sharing your Wi-Fi and says in plain words what each one probably is: a router, a printer, an Apple TV โ€” or something that matches a known camera manufacturer. Most apps in this category show you a scary number and charge you to see what's behind it. We don't. The live magnetic sweep is free too. WHAT GLINT PRO ADDS โ€ข Infrared detector โ€” spots the IR LEDs a night-vision camera gives off in a dark room โ€ข Lens glint finder โ€” catches the reflection a lens throws back at your torch โ€ข Guided room sweep โ€” ten places, in the order cameras are actually found: smoke detectors, alarm clocks, USB chargers, air vents, the two-way mirror test โ€ข Saved reports โ€” a record of every room you've checked NO LOCATION. NO SERVER. Glint never asks for your location โ€” it doesn't need it. Everything runs on your iPhone: the camera feed is analysed frame by frame in memory and never recorded, the network scan never leaves your local network, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. There is no server to leak. HONEST ABOUT LIMITS No app can prove a room is clean, and any app that says otherwise is selling you something. A network scan can't see a camera recording to an SD card. Infrared works in the dark, not in daylight. Glint tells you this at the end of every sweep, because a false sense of safety is worse than none. Glint Pro is a one-time purchase โ€” pay once and keep every tool, on every device you sign in with. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel. Terms of Use: https://identifier-proxy.vercel.app/glint/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://identifier-proxy.vercel.app/glint/privacy/ Terms also include Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hidden Cam Detect4 screens
Glint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Hidden Cam Detect at 16.0 against Glint's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Hidden Cam Detect sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Glint sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Hidden Cam Detect versus Glint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHidden Cam DetectGlint
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size70 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDUY NHAN TRINHAlec Bogdan

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hidden Cam Detect

Subscriptions1
  • Pro ยท Annual$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • 72-Hour Trip Pass$2.99
  • Pro ยท Lifetime$39.99
2 purchases

Glint

Subscriptions2
  • Glint Pro Weekly$9.997 Days
  • Glint Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Hidden Cam Detect free?
Hidden Cam Detect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Glint free?
Glint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hidden Cam Detect or Glint have ads?
Neither Hidden Cam Detect nor Glint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hidden Cam Detect or Glint?
Hidden Cam Detect ships an update every 3 weeks, and Glint every 3 weeks. Most recently, Hidden Cam Detect was updated on October 31, 2026 and Glint on October 25, 2026.

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