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 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
     
    • btscanner is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to BLE Scanner.

    • btscanner is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to BLE Scanner.

    • btscanner is Free and Open SourceBLE Scanner is Freemium and Proprietary
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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.

    14 Bluesniff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    The Radar is an Android app designed to track and monitor Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon devices, like smart bands, HT sensors, proximity beacons.

    4 Radar: Track BLE Beacons alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Android TV
    • Fire TV
     
    • Radar: Track BLE Beacons is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to BLE Scanner.

    • Radar: Track BLE Beacons is Free and ProprietaryBLE Scanner is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Radar: Track BLE Beacons is LightweightBLE Scanner is not according to our users
  4. BLE Radar icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
  5. Toothpicks icon
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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 is the most popular Mac alternative to BLE Scanner.

    • Toothpicks is Free and ProprietaryBLE Scanner is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. BlueSoleil icon
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    The best Bluetooth driver/Bluetooth software for Vista, Linux, WinCE. Easy-to-use, Innovative and Interoperable. Connect with Bluetooth headset, Bluetooth mobile phone, Bluetooth mouse and Bluetooth GPS Receiver etc.

    12 BlueSoleil alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • BlueSoleil is the most popular commercial alternative to BLE Scanner.

    • BlueSoleil is Paid and ProprietaryBLE Scanner is Freemium and Proprietary
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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