Comparison

Glint vs Hidden Camera Detector Spot

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

Head to head
About

Glint

Features
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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 — 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 — 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 • Infrared detector — spots the IR LEDs a night-vision camera gives off in a dark room • Lens glint finder — catches the reflection a lens throws back at your torch • Guided room sweep — ten places, in the order cameras are actually found: smoke detectors, alarm clocks, USB chargers, air vents, the two-way mirror test • Saved reports — a record of every room you've checked NO LOCATION. NO SERVER. Glint never asks for your location — 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 — 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/

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Hidden Camera Detector Spot

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You check into a hotel room, a holiday rental or a changing room, and the thought arrives: is anything watching? Spot gives you five real instruments and a checklist so you look everywhere. It is deliberately honest about what a phone can and cannot do — see the list below of what no app can find, including this one. INFRARED SWEEP Almost every hidden camera that works in the dark floods the room with infrared at 850 or 940 nanometres. Your eyes cannot see it; the front camera nearly can, because its infrared filter is far weaker than the rear camera's, so that light lands on the sensor as a pale violet-white dot. Turn the lights off, open the infrared sweep, and move slowly around the room. Spot lifts the shadows so a faint infrared source separates from a dark room instead of vanishing into it, and rings anything abnormally bright. LENS GLINT SWEEP A camera lens is a retroreflector: shine light at it and it sends light straight back, which is why animal eyes flash in a photograph. Spot lights the torch and looks for that signature — a small, very bright point that appears from one angle and vanishes from another. Glass and polished metal do the same, so every ring is a prompt to walk over and look, never a verdict. THE ROOM CHECKLIST Most hidden cameras are found by looking carefully, not by waving a phone around. Spot walks you through the places they are actually installed — smoke detectors and vents, anything facing the bed, sockets and USB bricks, shelves, bathroom fittings, and mirrors, including the fingertip test that tells a normal mirror from two-way glass. SAVE WHAT YOU FIND Anything that looks wrong, capture it. The photo and your note stay on your phone, so you have a record if you need to raise it with a host, a hotel or the police. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE The camera feed is analysed live, in memory, and discarded. Nothing is recorded or uploaded, and there is no account. WHAT SPOT CANNOT DO It cannot find a camera that is powered off. It cannot find one with no infrared that is hidden behind an object, and it cannot see through walls. It reads your own Wi-Fi and nearby Bluetooth advertisements, but it does not decode radio transmissions — no phone app can, whatever the category claims. A ring on screen means "brighter than its surroundings", which is a reason to go and look. FREE • The full room checklist for hotels, rentals, your own home, changing rooms, offices and cars • Run the network scan and see how many devices answered • The complete, honest list of what no phone app can find Charging for a written checklist would be taking money for nothing, so it is free — and it is the only thing that finds a daylight camera, a powered-off one, or a two-way mirror. SPOT PRO UNLOCKS THE INSTRUMENTS • Infrared sweep: the LEDs a night-vision camera gives off in a dark room • Lens glint sweep: the reflection an uncovered lens returns to your torch • The network scan results: which device is which, and the ports each answered on • Bluetooth scan: what is broadcasting around you, with signal strength • Sensor scan: a magnetometer that reacts to concealed metal and magnets • Unlimited saved findings with photos and notes • Adjustable glint sensitivity and infrared view profiles SUBSCRIPTION Pro is available as an auto-renewing subscription: • Weekly — $3.99 per week, with a 3-day free trial. • Yearly — $17.99 per year. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://leomarston.github.io/manycode-legal/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Check the room before you settle in.

Screenshots

Glint4 screens
Hidden Camera Detector Spot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Glint at none against Hidden Camera Detector Spot's shown. Hidden Camera Detector Spot's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Glint sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Hidden Camera Detector Spot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glint ships an update every 3 weeks, Hidden Camera Detector Spot every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Glint versus Hidden Camera Detector Spot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlintHidden Camera Detector Spot
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlec BogdanEmine Saridogan

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Glint

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

Hidden Camera Detector Spot

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Yearly$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Glint free?
Glint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hidden Camera Detector Spot free?
Hidden Camera Detector Spot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Glint or Hidden Camera Detector Spot have ads?
Hidden Camera Detector Spot shows ads; Glint does not.
Which is updated more often, Glint or Hidden Camera Detector Spot?
Glint ships an update every 3 weeks, and Hidden Camera Detector Spot every 2 days. Most recently, Glint was updated on October 31, 2026 and Hidden Camera Detector Spot on October 31, 2026.

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