Bluetooth Inspector

Pretty cool app learning as I go.

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.

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.

I’m able to control battery levels of things plugged in and also turn off appliances that are on all the time eating a little power.Why does it have to be connected?

Great for networking

When Bluetooth is turned off, BT Inspector is somehow attempting to scan for bluetooth, even with background app refresh turned off system-wide 🤨

Crashes a lot when trying to Send any kind of message. To my ESP32-C3 iOS 26.2 with iPhone 13 Pro Max.

For developing BLE apps, this would be much more useful if it would refresh the supported services of a device without having to uninstall and reinstall the app.

I know I can’t expect much on iPhone side, but I do expect it to be functional in some way. I have purchased the pro version, but it doesn’t seem to have improved things. It might just be the area that I live in. I hit scan, and I get about 80-100 devices listed as Unknown in an unknown area around me. Even interrogating everything, does not update the screen, but I get requests from all my neighbors iPhones and iPads to connect to my phone. What it does not do is find or connect to my Bluetooth speaker sitting 5 feet away. This is not useful. It seems that I don’t have all of the controls or the ability to go further into the app. Or access to support. The map would be useful if I could zoom in closer than a 1000 square feet so all I see is my location buried under a cluster of unknown devices. I don’t know what it would look like on other devices but if this is it for the iPhone then I am just not impressed. Sorry, but I really did want it to succeed because I need the information it promised and all I got was glitch. Update: I still cannot get any other information about this app. I figured out how to work the app and it works a bit more stable on a newer device. But in the end, all it tells me is that I am surrounded by a bunch of unknown and unconnected devices. I can’t tell if they are disrupting my connections to my equipment or not or where they are because the map covers several city blocks and won’t zoom in further to a useful distance of just my building. And again, I can’t tell if that is a design feature or a glitch because I have no documentation to show me basic information about this app.

Even with a device actively selected, the list of devices re-sorts itself constantly and the selection is only preserved by index, not by device ID. I have no idea who thought this would be an acceptable UI choice but it is not. It also rainbow pinwheels constantly, requiring a force quit.