BLE Scanner Alternatives

BLE Scanner is described as 'Was developed with a vision to help Bluetooth community, developers who wants to build BLE products & applications' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to BLE Scanner for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Android, Android Tablet and Rust apps. The best BLE Scanner alternative is btscanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BLE Scanner are Bluesniff, Blueman, Radar: Track BLE Beacons and BLE Radar.

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    btscanner

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    btscanner is a tool designed specifically to extract as much information as possible from a Bluetooth device without the requirement to pair.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Bluesniff

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    Bluesniff is a proof of concept Bluetooth device discovery tool. Bluesniff can be concidered a bluetooth wardriver of sorts. It is meant to raise awareness of BT security issues and likely has a lot of room for improvement.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Blueman

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    Bluetooth manager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    blueman device manager
     
  6. BLE Radar icon

    BLE Radar

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    The app for BLE ether monitoring tracks your environment, finds some devices, makes relations between devices around you, and tracks devices' movements.

    13 BLE Radar alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    BLE Radar screenshot 1
     
  7. Toothpicks icon

    Toothpicks

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    Welcome to Toothpicks: an awesome Bluetooth device manager for macOS. With Toothpicks you can add your favorite Bluetooth devices to the menu bar and connect/disconnect them with a single click. Alternatively, define a connect/disconnect hot key for each of your Bluetooth...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Toothpicks screenshot 1
     
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    bluetuith

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    bluetuith is a TUI-based bluetooth connection manager, which can interact with bluetooth adapters and devices. It aims to be a replacement to most bluetooth managers, like blueman.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. Bluejay Bluetooth Manager icon

    Bluejay Bluetooth Manager

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    A Bluetooth manager and Bluez front-end. With it, you can pair devices, connect to and remove devices, turn Bluetooth on and off, and more. Bluejay is powered by the Qt6 graphical toolkit and KDE Frameworks.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Bluejay Bluetooth Manager screenshot 1
     
  13. GNOME Bluetooth icon

    GNOME Bluetooth

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    gnome-bluetooth is a fork of bluez-gnome focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
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    BlueTUI

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    TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
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