Bluetooth Inspector

Name: Bluetooth Inspector
Rating: 4.6 (1526 reviews)
Author: George Garside

By: George Garside App

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Overview

Version:

1.7.7

Last updated: 2026-06-17

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.

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By:

George Garside

Rating:

4.60

(1,526) 6 new ratings

Version:

1.7.7 Last updated: 2026-06-17

Version code:

887058962

Creation date:

2020-05-02

Compatible devices:

Size:

17.13MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-17

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 48,836 ▼ 245

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#10 in developer tools keyword 60 ▼ 1

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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

I am trying to find a lost AirTag that i lost two years ago. Apples find my app won’t cut it so I spent 4 dollars for the pro version of this. Just saying it isn’t worth it, but it could be if you add these things: a bar that fills up from left to right to show signal strength, this way you could check how close you are and it’s easy to understand. Also add a distance meter, and also on map, allow you to click the dots to see what device it is. Also an option to Pin devices would be nice. This would help tremendously in my search for a long lost AirTag, and it could definitely help in so many other ways. I just hope this gets added because I just paid $4 for a map that barely even works.

by We*****, 2026-06-30

I’ve got a couple Bluetooth scanner apps and so far I find that it has the best feature set and frankly a very nice look (nerdy apps don’t have to be ugly…) But, it is missing an editing feature - being able to name devices so I’m not guessing what is what on future scans would really be super helpful. Especially when a get more than a dozen “Unknown” devices and once I figure out what they are I can’t tell the app so it shows me It’s “xyz sensor” going forward