Comparison

Hotspot Info vs Bluetooth Sleuth

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

Head to head
About

Hotspot Info

Gain deep insights into your device's personal hotspot. View detailed information on sharing types, connected clients, network speeds, and technical parameters. Analyze Wi-Fi, USB, and Bluetooth sharing capabilities, along with comprehensive internet connectivity details.

Highlights
  • Detect network sharing types (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB)
  • View detailed communication type, speed, and mode
  • Analyze connected hotspot clients (IP, MAC address)
  • Access low-level interface information
  • Monitor interface traffic counters
  • Show Wi-Fi access point details (speed, frequencies)
  • Display Bluetooth protocols and standards
Features
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Everything you want to know about your PERSONAL HOTSPOT but were afraid to ask. Hotspot Info is a small and useful utility that lets you see detailed information about current Personal Hotspot sharing from sharing types to connected clients and more. Personal Hotspot lets you connect your computers and devices to the Internet using the cellular data connection on your device. You can share only a cellular data connection; you cannot share a Wi-Fi connection. PERSONAL HOTSPOT INFO • Detect current network sharing types. Support Wi-Fi access point, Bluetooth and USB sharing. • Detailed informations about communication type, speed, mode. • Analyze currently connected hotspot clients. Show IP and MAC address, PING capability, etc. • Low-level informations about the personal hotspot (bridge), W-Fi access point, Bluetooth and USB interface, technical parameters, flags. • Interface traffic counters: upload, download, errors, quality of service (QoS) categories. WI-FI ACCESS POINT INFORMATIONS • Show max. speed by Wi-Fi technologies. • Show Wi-Fi radio frequencies. • Show Wi-Fi radio interference informations. • Show Wi-Fi sharing options. USB SHARING INFORMATIONS • Show USB sharing options. BLUETOOTH SHARING INFORMATIONS • Show Bluetooth protocols and standards supported by your device: Classic, High Speed (HS), Low Energy (LE) or Bluetooth Smart. • Show Bluetooth tethering options: cellular internet connection sharing options via Bluetooth to other iOS devices. • Show supported Bluetooth power class, max. ranges. • Show device supported Bluetooth frequencies and channels with radio interference informations. INTERNET INFO • Show default gateways, IP addresses, networks. • Show DNS servers, search domain names, local MAC addresses, host name resolve. • Depth external address analysis: ISP name, autonomous system name, whois, ping, regional internet registry info. • Full offline MAC vendor database. REACH UI FEATURES • Info menu with feedback and privacy settings • Use the camera icon (upper-right corner) to create and print/send/share a screenshot from the entire page. • Pull down with your finger to refresh the informations. • Long press on a cell to copy/print/send/open as/share the cell value. • Shake your device to refresh the informations.

About

Bluetooth Sleuth

This utility allows users to deeply interact with their device's Bluetooth capabilities. It supports scanning for peripherals, advertising custom services, broadcasting and ranging iBeacons, and searching a comprehensive Bluetooth database.

Highlights
  • Configure custom Bluetooth advertisements
  • Scan for specific or all advertising devices
  • Connect to and browse peripheral services
  • Broadcast and range iBeacons
  • Search Bluetooth assigned numbers database
  • Monitor RSSI values with graphing
Features
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Bluetooth Sleuth is meant to be a well rounded app for interacting with your iOS or supported macOS device's Bluetooth functionality. This includes advertising and scanning for peripherals, as well as broadcasting, monitoring, and ranging iBeacons. The following covers some of the features included in Bluetooth Sleuth: [ADVERTISE] - Ability to configure an advertisement with your device - Create custom services, with their own characteristics and descriptors to advertise - Automatically saves custom services for later reuse [SCAN] - Ability to scan for all advertising devices within range - Ability to scan for specific advertisements that contain the provided CoreBluetooth UUID - Displays all peripherals, sorted by RSSI, with the ability to connect to devices that are open to connections - Browse a peripheral's services, characteristics, and descriptors - Monitor recent peripheral RSSI values with included graphing tools - Ability to automatically reconnect to a previously connected peripheral - Filter results to require names, ability to connect or minimum RSSI value [SEARCH] - Search through over 5,000 records in the Bluetooth database of assigned numbers for companies, services, characteristics and other related values [BROADCAST] - Configure your device to act as an iBeacon by providing it with a UUID, and optional major and minor values [RANGE] - Observe for the presence of any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide - See device information for any iBeacons located - Monitor recent iBeacon RSSI values with included graphing tools [MONITOR] - Observe region updates for any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide

Screenshots

Hotspot Info4 screens
Bluetooth Sleuth4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bluetooth Sleuth at $0.99 against Hotspot Info's $3.99. Hotspot Info's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hotspot Info costs $3.99 and Bluetooth Sleuth $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hotspot Info versus Bluetooth Sleuth: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHotspot InfoBluetooth Sleuth
Price$3.99$0.99 — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCsaba IranyiSean McNeil

Customer experience

Hotspot Info

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%

Bluetooth Sleuth

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hotspot Info

No in-app purchases

None

Bluetooth Sleuth

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hotspot Info free?
Hotspot Info costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bluetooth Sleuth free?
Bluetooth Sleuth costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hotspot Info or Bluetooth Sleuth have ads?
Neither Hotspot Info nor Bluetooth Sleuth shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hotspot Info or Bluetooth Sleuth?
Hotspot Info ships an update every 2 months, and Bluetooth Sleuth every 2 months. Most recently, Hotspot Info was updated on October 24, 2026 and Bluetooth Sleuth on October 16, 2026.

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