Bluetooth Inspector Reviews

Not a lot to say, this is a wonderful and clean app that provides a nice clean interface to see what is in the air around you. It provides fantastic detailed insight into the bluetooth devices around you. I even discovered some things I hadn’t realized were broadcasting (like my Nvidia Shield TV remote is always on!). I love finding unbloated tools like this that follow the philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well. Everyone should try it to gain a level of knowledge about security and all of the chatter that devices do these days.

Plain and simple, if your into who is honing in on your calls, txt messaging, and accessibility to your microphone and camera via Bluetooth because they have credential access (network providers) and all networking applications, or you shared your network hot spot, Bluetooth, wifi connection(s). BluetoothInspector will save you an eminence amount of time researching!

App crashes immediately after showing progress indicator. I have deleted and reinstalled BluetoothInspector . App has permission for Bluetooth. Cool app I hope the developer fixes the issue.

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Update: thank you for responding to this issue. I appreciate how a bug in the beta OS could make your app look bad, and I agree that’s not fair. I kept BluetoothInspector on my phone specifically because I found it useful, not obnoxious, etc. I was disappointed when it didn’t work on my phone. Looking forward to a resolution to the issue.

I originally bought this on my iPhone. Suddenly it showed up in BluetoothInspector Store without compatibility for Catalina and I rated it poorly for lack of support! In all reality, it was my mistake. I thought it was like GarageBand that removed support for Catalina - but that is not the case. BluetoothInspector developer released this for MacOS after Big Sur came out and it uses APIs that are not available in Catalina. I can't use it (until Big Sur removes the ContentFilterExclusionList in 11.2) yet! It is, however, great on iPhone and iPad!

I cannot find a way to clear the cache. I have BLE device that has the ability to change model numbers, but BluetoothInspector only shows the first one it saw. When I change the advertised model name, BluetoothInspector doesn't show the new name. I can see the new name with other apps, and it appears that the model number is cached. There is no obvious control to clear cache, and there is no contact email displayed anywhere to ask a question. I'm hoping to maybe get a response in this review.

Read about it in a WAPO column. Blew me away. I would have guessed that I had 5 or 6 devices nearby. How naive am I. It was more like 20 including a neighbor’s TV. What to do with this information? Not much yet, maybe one day it will help diagnose a pesky BT connection. But for now, it’s a great app for awareness building. Thank you George & thanks for keeping it free.

BluetoothInspector is great. It however will not allow me to join any of the devices scanned unless I buy the Pro version. I refuse to on principle and my account doesn’t have .50 or .99 that it asks for. I think that this is ridiculous but if that be the way it is then that be the way it is.

Works great with devices you want to connect with, but I don’t want to connect to, what I believe to be, my neighbor’s Bluetooth headphones to do the discovery. This is where the problem comes in. It keeps asking, and asking, and asking... consent is an issue especially with wireless and a device that are not yours. Local laws around my area say that is a violation and can include fines to attempt and/or use wireless devices that are not yours without consent.

Quick fix would be to ask once and remember the response.

BluetoothInspector have been really useful for me.
But I still can’t get my apple devices that signed in with the same iCloud to show the battery.
I can see my devices but no matter what I do, it won’t show the battery info.
Any suggestions to fix this?
Thank you

Good job George, I feel like everyone who will use this application will feel like using a tricorder in a way. :)

Keep striving to make it better because the effort itself will yield its own reward.

I see many devices detected by bluetooth but states it as "unknowns." I have no idea what it is. It'd also be nice to show distance between device and program but that's just wishful thinking.

I honestly think MacOS should take the lead on this as their bluetooth UI is very limited.

This really helps, as we know some strange things have been going around our house. I haven’t noticed any bugs yet, BUT...I’m not complaining!!! Thanks for BluetoothInspector!! Very useful.

Can't resize app window on macOS 12.3 for some reason.

For vision reason I have display resolution larger and it would help if I can resize BluetoothInspector window so it fits on screen. Can you fix?

I tried looking for a support contact email but did not find one so I'm leaving a review. Thanks in advance.

Downloaded to troubleshoot BT signal from my laptop. after replacing its BT PCIe card my headphones have intermittent connection and audio stutters

BluetoothInspector does find the signal but only shows initial strength. Doesn’t seem to refresh because strength percentage never changes unless I force quit and reopen.

I do not see any problems with BluetoothInspector on my iPhone. I see just about every Bluetooth enabled device around my apartment and other units. Great detail.

I’d love to know what the status icon color changes mean.

Great!
Wish there was a button to reset/clear. Gets cluttered quickly because it remembers everything. Works awesome though.

So unfortunately this does work but it doesn’t work on all Bluetooth devices I currently lost my headphones and I just found them and I tried to trace them and they did not pop up :/so I’m guessing if you have AirPods or something it might work But other than that it did not work for me

BluetoothInspector does what it says, accurate with signal strength. I paid for pro version and in my opinion it was worth it. Thanks for a good app as well as good app support.

I am having quite a time just trying to sync my Lofree keyboard. BluetoothInspector doesn't offer instructional guidance in terms of how to sync up devices that my mac doesn't recognize, or what certain numbers mean relative to identifying unkown devices... So yeah, 1.99 down the drain.

App crashes right after opening it I wish it worked though
iOS 14.5

Seems like the iOS software update may have corrupted the sessions log. I can't sort anything anymore. The log won't sort when I tap each sections (peripheral, characteristic, unknown, signal or whatever)... plus I don't know how to even use the thing. I don't know the coding thing so well.. im tryng to learn through this. I don't know how to setup shortcuts either... I need a guide or tutorial

Every other BLE app feels half finished / not suitable for anything outside of development. This supports Automation, meaning it supports reading and writing values with voice commands. It’s not even fair how much better that fact alone makes Bluetooth Inspector if you are a maker and want to control any BLE device with your phone.

I feel like an adult version of my ten-year-old self trying to win street fighter by choosing random buttons. Except this time, potential losses include my already rocky marriage. 😂

Is there any way that multiple "iPhone 13 Pros" (with different signal levels) would be coming from only one phone and showing under both connected and unconnected? Seems doubtful.

When i downloaded and opened BluetoothInspector i was met with frustration. It couldn't find any bluetooth devices even know i had one right next to me. The blue tooth device wasn't even locating my phone or connecting to it so i downloaded BluetoothInspector in hopes it would actually appear as a blue tooth device for my phone. But i only got 0/0 blue tooth devices on BluetoothInspector and i checked my sisters phone and she was connected to several. Disappointed that it couldn't even track down one.

I like that it show and updates all devices in range continually, I have some devices that the manufacture ID is unknown, how do I pull the 12 digit mac from the 32 bit ID given?
I tried the 3 blocks of 4 characters between the long blocks without success.

BluetoothInspector presents a devices UUID but has no idea what a MAC address is. Given that it doesn’t seem to be able to interrogate the devices announced names. It makes it nearly impossible to know exactly what device you’re interrogating. This won’t work for me. Had to delete BluetoothInspector . ☹️

its a really good utility app for finding transmitted singals, you should definitely buy the pro version to write to devices and get locations

Because I felt like have been targeted by someone I use my Bluetooth a lot at home and work my question to the developer is that under the start interrogating named in then the unknown which looks like the device is hooked up to me is it???? Cause I didn’t give permission to these devices I am seeing on my phone can you please answer this question because it looked like they hooked up to my Bluetooth iPhone or am I being paranoid???

This is a useless app as is … when you pay for BluetoothInspector , you really get nothing …. GPS info is collected but not displayed in Session dump, You cannot rename/customized BT entry, no user document, the developer has no easy way to feedback to him ….

Things to add and improve:
1) Allow changing the name of a BT device to indicate what it is (ex: Bill iPhone, John TV, etc) - Store that info so when it seen again, you know.
2) Add the GPS position to each device in the Session dump file
3) Allow blocking or non-display of known BT device(s) (ex: do not display your personal devices, just everybody else, etc)
4) Add link to developer feedback for BluetoothInspector
5) Provide and allow adding a picture for device (ex: if it a phone, use a icon for a phone, if a printer, icon for a printer you can add)
6) Store all this data on phone and cloud where ever so it inly entered once.

Thank you