Bluetooth Inspector

Name: Bluetooth Inspector
Rating: 4.6 (1507 reviews)
Author: George Garside

By: George Garside

Discover what's around you

Features & Capabilities

Bluetooth Inspector helps you discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services and characteristics in real time, including signal strength and device identifiers. It supports reading and writing characteristic values, and extracts firmware and software version strings from devices that broadcast them, with a history of values timestamped as they change.

It also logs peripherals, services, characteristics, and values to a .log file for analysis, integrates with Shortcuts for common actions, and offers background scanning by advertised service IDs with per-location counts in Live Activity. For Apple devices, you can check battery levels without installing the app on every device. Note: continuous Bluetooth usage can impact battery life.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Developer Tools Programming

By:

George Garside

Rating:

4.60

(1,507) 3 new ratings

Version:

1.7.6 Last updated: 2026-03-09

Version code:

883157517

Creation date:

2020-05-02

Compatible devices:

Size:

17.11MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 48,456 ▲ 49

Other rankings

#15 in developer tools keyword 60

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Developed by:

George Garside

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluetooth-inspector/id1509085044

Website:

https://georgegarside.com/apps/bluetooth-inspector/

User Reviews

Bluetooth Inspector is a promising tool for scanning and visualizing nearby devices, with useful RSSI-based location and a map view. However, it suffers from stability and UI issues—memory leaks, frequent crashes, a volatile device list, and buggy map behavior—that limit its reliability and usability despite strong core features.

Pros

Useful for scanning and discovering nearby Bluetooth devices, making it handy for networking.
Helps locate devices by their signal strength (RSSI), allowing you to estimate distance or location.
Includes a map/location view to visualize nearby devices.

Cons

Memory leak leading to high RAM usage during scans, sometimes forcing close to other apps.
Frequent crashes and overall instability (crashes soon after opening or during use).
Unreliable device list with many 'Unknown' devices and UI that re-sorts, making it hard to identify devices (selection not tied to a device ID).
Map/location features are buggy (zooming doesn't persist and navigation can be hard to use).

Recent reviews

Pretty cool app learning as I go.

by Me*****, 2026-05-16

tried many. all suck. this one is great. too busy using it to write a long review. finally, after years of searching, i've found the holy grail.

by ja*****, 2026-05-11

After leaving it open for a while scanning, it used all of my ram and had to force quit most things open to get back to working. Must have a memory leak somewhere. Other than that, very useful and love it. Still keeping it.