“Bluetooth scanner finds nearby devices. See what's around you.”
“Inspect device services and characteristics. Interrogate & communicate.”
“Write values to set characteristics. Respond & configure.”
“Shortcuts to scan and interrogate. Enumerate and read values.”
“Follow all discoveries and changes. Export .log file.”
“Personalise the UI to rearrange and reorder the details that matter most.”
“Live Activity. Track scanning status outside the app.”
A closer look at the screenshots
Named device types populate the scan list above a review quote.
A connection state appears beside a Bluetooth service description.
A hexadecimal keypad accompanies a characteristic write field.
A multi-step Shortcuts workflow occupies the screen.
Colours and timestamps structure the event log.
A configurable detail screen appears beside a chart-ranking claim.
Dynamic Island and Live Activity views appear on iOS wallpaper.
About this app
Discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services for information and characteristics. • View information and signal strength for all peripherals and devices, updating in real time as you move around. • Get battery level for your own Apple devices — no need to install the app on all your devices. • See model identification broadcast by devices around you, mapping device identifiers to the marketing name. • Extract software and firmware version strings from devices broadcasting this information. • Read any characteristic's value, even for services not well known and are custom to the device being interrogated. • Write characteristic values back to the peripheral as string, numeric or hex. • See a history of the value of a characteristic since the session started, timestamped to when the value changed. • Log found peripherals, services, characteristics and values, and export a .log file of timestamped events for your analysis. • Shortcuts integration with actions for scanning and interrogation, enumerating services and characteristics, and reading values. • Background scanning by advertised service IDs with device count mapped by location found and status shown in a Live Activity. Get support @grgarside or georgegarside.com/apps/bluetooth-inspector Constant use of Bluetooth connectivity can drain your device's battery. Bluetooth connectivity is only used when this app is in the foreground and up to a few seconds after being backgrounded to safely disconnect from peripherals being interrogated, unless Background Scanning is enabled in the app and the Live Activity is running.
Headlines in this set
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“Bluetooth scanner finds nearby devices. See what's around you.”
The two sentences define nearby-device discovery in accessible language.
“Inspect device services and characteristics. Interrogate & communicate.”
Services and characteristics signals protocol-level inspection, while the second sentence is terse jargon.
“Write values to set characteristics. Respond & configure.”
Write values makes the app's active configuration ability explicit.
“Shortcuts to scan and interrogate. Enumerate and read values.”
The named actions explain automation inputs and outputs but form a dense line.
“Follow all discoveries and changes. Export .log file.”
Export .log file states a concrete debugging output.
“Personalise the UI to rearrange and reorder the details that matter most.”
The long sentence explains the purpose of reordering but could be shorter.
“Live Activity. Track scanning status outside the app.”
Outside the app clearly states the value of the named Live Activity feature.
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