Locate Beacon vs Holyiot
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.
Holyiot
This utility app allows users to read and modify Bluetooth beacon broadcast information. It also provides real-time environmental data, including temperature, pressure, and humidity.
- Read Bluetooth beacon broadcasts
- Modify broadcast parameters
- Read environmental temperature
- Read environmental pressure
- Read environmental humidity
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A Bluetooth beacon app, which can read the broadcast information of the device and modify the broadcast parameters,And read the current environment temperature, pressure, humidity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Locate Beacon at 3.5 against Holyiot's 1.0. Locate Beacon also leads on review sentiment (31% vs 0%) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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, 3.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Locate Beacon has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Locate Beacon's written reviews are positive against 0% of Holyiot's.
Locate Beacon ships an update every 5 weeks, Holyiot every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Locate Beacon | Holyiot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (15 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Radius Networks | Shenzhen Hong yi yun jia technology Co.,LTD |
Customer experience
Locate Beacon
Holyiot
In-app purchases
Locate Beacon
No in-app purchases
Holyiot
No in-app purchases
Questions
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