Bluetooth Sleuth
Let's see that BLE
$0.99
1.11for iPhone, iPad
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About Bluetooth Sleuth
Bluetooth Sleuth is meant to be a well rounded app for interacting with your iOS or supported macOS device's Bluetooth functionality. This includes advertising and scanning for peripherals, as well as broadcasting, monitoring, and ranging iBeacons.
The following covers some of the features included in Bluetooth Sleuth:
[ADVERTISE]
- Ability to configure an advertisement with your device
- Create custom services, with their own characteristics and descriptors to advertise
- Automatically saves custom services for later reuse
[SCAN]
- Ability to scan for all advertising devices within range
- Ability to scan for specific advertisements that contain the provided CoreBluetooth UUID
- Displays all peripherals, sorted by RSSI, with the ability to connect to devices that are open to connections
- Browse a peripheral's services, characteristics, and descriptors
- Monitor recent peripheral RSSI values with included graphing tools
- Ability to automatically reconnect to a previously connected peripheral
[SEARCH]
- Review published UUID values from the Bluetooth organization
- Search for specific UUID values, types or companies
[BROADCAST]
- Configure your device to act as an iBeacon by providing it with a UUID, and optional major and minor values
[RANGE]
- Observe for the presence of any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide
- See device information for any iBeacons located
- Monitor recent iBeacon RSSI values with included graphing tools
[MONITOR]
- Observe region updates for any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide
The following covers some of the features included in Bluetooth Sleuth:
[ADVERTISE]
- Ability to configure an advertisement with your device
- Create custom services, with their own characteristics and descriptors to advertise
- Automatically saves custom services for later reuse
[SCAN]
- Ability to scan for all advertising devices within range
- Ability to scan for specific advertisements that contain the provided CoreBluetooth UUID
- Displays all peripherals, sorted by RSSI, with the ability to connect to devices that are open to connections
- Browse a peripheral's services, characteristics, and descriptors
- Monitor recent peripheral RSSI values with included graphing tools
- Ability to automatically reconnect to a previously connected peripheral
[SEARCH]
- Review published UUID values from the Bluetooth organization
- Search for specific UUID values, types or companies
[BROADCAST]
- Configure your device to act as an iBeacon by providing it with a UUID, and optional major and minor values
[RANGE]
- Observe for the presence of any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide
- See device information for any iBeacons located
- Monitor recent iBeacon RSSI values with included graphing tools
[MONITOR]
- Observe region updates for any iBeacons broadcasting with the values you provide
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.11
Last updated on Oct 7, 2023
Old Versions
- Updated for iOS 17
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Version History
1.11
Oct 7, 2023
- Updated for iOS 17
1.10
Jul 16, 2023
- Lots of small tweaks to simplify flows and provide even more useful information
- Bugfixes
- Performance optimizations
- Bugfixes
- Performance optimizations
1.9
Dec 20, 2022
- Updated for iOS 16
- Supports receiving characteristic value updates
- Bugfixes
- Supports receiving characteristic value updates
- Bugfixes
1.8
Mar 22, 2022
- Improved interface for displaying device properties
- Your selection for RSSI strength chart visibility will persist across sessions
- Your selection for RSSI strength chart visibility will persist across sessions
1.7
Jan 2, 2022
- Provides an updated home screen for iPad users
1.6
Nov 3, 2021
- Search UUID values published by the Bluetooth organization
- Generate 16, 32 or 128 bit CBUUID values where applicable
- Interface updates
- Fixes an iOS 15 specific bug
- Generate 16, 32 or 128 bit CBUUID values where applicable
- Interface updates
- Fixes an iOS 15 specific bug
1.5
Aug 27, 2021
- When setting up an advertisement with a descriptor, a warning will be presented about requiring a value for it to be used
- Bugfix for advertisements
- Bugfix for advertisements
1.4
Mar 13, 2021
- When viewing a connected peripheral, the app will now attempt to reconnect upon disconnecting
- Ability to cancel a reconnection attempt
- Ability to cancel a reconnection attempt
1.3
Feb 27, 2021
- When advertising or broadcasting, the view now only shows relevant information for that action
- Reduced app file size
- External links have been replaced with local documents
- Increased visibility for delete button on stored values
- Bugfix for advertisements
- Reduced app file size
- External links have been replaced with local documents
- Increased visibility for delete button on stored values
- Bugfix for advertisements
1.2
Jan 4, 2021
- Provides real time graphs for peripheral scan and iBeacon monitoring to observe RSSI strength over time
1.1.1
Nov 25, 2020
- Bugfix
1.1
Nov 19, 2020
- UX improvements
1.0
Oct 4, 2020
Bluetooth Sleuth FAQ
Bluetooth Sleuth is available in regions other than the following restricted countries:
Saudi Arabia
Bluetooth Sleuth supports English
Click here to learn how to download Bluetooth Sleuth in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Bluetooth Sleuth.
iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
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