Locate Beacon vs BeaconSET
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Locate Beacon
This utility app enables your device to act as a Proximity Beacon using iBeacon™ Technology. It can also detect nearby beacons in various formats, providing real-time distance estimates and alerts. Users can configure identifiers and calibrate their own beacons.
- Transmit as Proximity Beacon
- iBeacon™ Technology support
- Detect Eddystone, iBeacon, AltBeacon formats
- Real-time distance estimates
- Alerts for nearby beacons
- Calibrate owned beacons
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Makes your device transmit as a Proximity Beacon with iBeacon™ Technology and configurable identifiers. Finds nearby beacons with Eddystone, iBeacon and AltBeacon formats with real-time distance estimates and displays all identifiers of each one discovered. Provides alerts when beacons are around and allows you to calibrate beacons you own. This app requires a device with Bluetooth Low Energy.
BeaconSET
This utility app allows users to scan for and modify the parameters of iBeacons. It provides essential information like UUID and RSSi, and enables adjustments to settings such as UUID, Major, Minor, and Transmission Power.
- Scan for nearby iBeacons
- View iBeacon common information (UUID, RSSi)
- Modify iBeacon UUID
- Modify iBeacon Major and Minor values
- Adjust Transmission Power
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BeaconSET is an application which will help you scan and modify iBeacons’ parameters. Key Features -Scan for any iBeacons around you -Get iBeacon’s common information, such like UUID, RSSi -Modify iBeacon’s parameters, such like UUID, Major, Minor, Transimission Power, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Locate Beacon at 3.4 against BeaconSET's 3.0. Locate Beacon also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Locate Beacon holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Locate Beacon has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Locate Beacon's written reviews are positive against 33% of BeaconSET's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Locate Beacon ships an update every 5 weeks, BeaconSET every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locate Beacon | BeaconSET |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (16 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.3% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Radius Networks | Yunli-Wuli Network Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Locate Beacon
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In-app purchases
Locate Beacon
No in-app purchases
BeaconSET
No in-app purchases
Questions
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