BLE View vs Bluefy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BLE View
This utility scans for nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices. It enables connection to devices to discover their services and characteristics, allowing users to read, write, and receive notifications from these characteristics.
- Scan for BLE devices
- Connect to devices
- Discover services and characteristics
- Read device characteristics
- Write to device characteristics
- Listen for notifications
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BLE View scans for nearby Bluetooth Low Energy devices. It allows you to connect to a device and discover it's services and characteristics. Once connected you can read, write, and listen for notifications from device characteristics.
Bluefy
This browser allows direct smartphone connection to nearby Bluetooth devices from web pages, eliminating the need for native apps. It supports various BLE devices like smart home appliances and medical sensors, enabling interaction and data retrieval.
- Web Bluetooth API support
- Connect to BLE devices directly from web
- Interact with smart home appliances
- Connect with medical devices
- Develop Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
- Secure connection (HTTPS) required for Web Bluetooth
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Bluefy – smart Web Browser with support of advanced IoT technology — Web Bluetooth APIs! You can communicate with the outside world using Bluefy Bluetooth browser without using native applications for connection with BLE devices. Our Web BLE Browser provides easy and fast smartphone connection directly from web pages with nearby Bluetooth devices. Now just detect and interact from appropriate web pages with numerous BLE devices such as smart home appliances, medical devices such as a heart rate monitor, glucose monitor, temperature sensors, etc. How to use? - Turn on Bluetooth on your smartphone - Turn on Bluetooth on your BLE device - Open Web Bluetooth API page that supports your device - Connect with the supported BLE device and use the functionality that web page provides For web developers* - Bluefy browser provides developers with the possibility to create web solutions that will work on all iOS devices. - Web Bluetooth API specification allows websites, running in the Central role, to connect to remote GATT Servers over a BLE connection. It supports communication among devices that implement Bluetooth 4.0 or later. - To use Web Bluetooth, your site should work through a secure connection (HTTPS) Bluefy – great Web BLE Connect solution! Develop a Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and imitate the capabilities of native applications, such as stand-alone operation, notifications and other features. Make own web R&D, demos, improve your user experience, share with others, and develop something interesting and unusual! Download Bluefy, use Web BLE features and enjoy its wide functionality. If you have any questions or issues while using our application, do not hesitate to write to us: bluefy.support@pnnsoft.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bluefy at 4.8 against BLE View's 1.0. Bluefy also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 2). BLE View's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bluefy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bluefy has 1.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | BLE View | Bluefy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 41.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | KEVIN LOVETTE | PNN SOFT |
Customer experience
BLE View
Bluefy
In-app purchases
BLE View
No in-app purchases
Bluefy
No in-app purchases
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