nRF Toolbox vs IoT Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
nRF Toolbox
This utility app connects to various Bluetooth Low Energy accessories. It demonstrates multiple BLE profiles, including health and fitness sensors, allowing users to monitor data from devices like heart rate monitors and glucose monitors.
- Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity
- Demonstrates BLE profiles
- Heart Rate Monitor support
- Glucose Monitor support
- Cycling Speed and Cadence
- Running Speed and Cadence
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nRF Toolbox works with a wide range of Bluetooth Low Energy accessories. It contains applications demonstrating BLE profiles: Cycling Speed and Cadence, Running Speed and Cadence, Heart Rate Monitor, Blood Pressure Monitor, Health Thermometer, Glucose Monitor, Continuous Glucose Monitor, Monitoring & Diagnostic and more. The source code of this application is available on GitHub: https://github.com/nordicsemi/iOS-nRF-Toolbox
IoT Toolbox
This application helps users test Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) demo applications for specific chipsets. It demonstrates BLE capabilities through standard and custom profiles, allowing interaction with various smartphones.
- BLE demo application testing
- NXP Connectivity chipset support
- Standard BLE profiles
- Custom proprietary profiles
- Smartphone interaction
- Future capability updates
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IoT Toolbox allows the end-user to improve their Out of the Box Experience, providing a user-friendly way to test the BLE demo applications developed for the NXP Connectivity chipsets. IoT Toolbox is an all-in-one application capable of demonstrating NXP’s Bluetooth® LE capabilities through the implementation of Bluetooth® LE and custom proprietary profiles, allowing the interaction with different smartphones. The application interacts with the following Bluetooth® LE profiles: -Blood Pressure -Cycling Speed and Cadence -Glucose -Health Thermometer -Heart Rate -Proximity -Running Speed and Cadence The custom proprietary profiles included are: -NXP Beacon -Over the Air Programming (OTAP) -Thread Shell -Zigbee Shell -NFC Reader -Wireless Console/UART Future development will add more exciting capabilities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IoT Toolbox at 4.0 against nRF Toolbox's 2.6. IoT Toolbox also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). nRF Toolbox's advantage is review sentiment (22% vs 0%) and ratings volume (8 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.
IoT Toolbox holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of nRF Toolbox's written reviews are positive against 0% of IoT Toolbox's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
nRF Toolbox ships an update every 5 weeks, IoT Toolbox every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | nRF Toolbox | IoT Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (8 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nordic Semiconductor ASA | NXP Semiconductors |
Customer experience
nRF Toolbox
IoT Toolbox
In-app purchases
nRF Toolbox
No in-app purchases
IoT Toolbox
No in-app purchases
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