Blueman Alternatives

Blueman is described as 'Bluetooth manager' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Blueman for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best Blueman alternative is btscanner, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Blueman are Bluesniff, BLE Radar, iStumbler and Toothpicks.

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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 Blueman.

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

    • btscanner is Free and Open SourceBlueman is also Free and Open Source
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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
     
  3. 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
     
    • BLE Radar is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Blueman.

    • BLE Radar is Free and Open SourceBlueman is also Free and Open Source
    • BLE Radar is Privacy focusedBlueman is not according to our users
  4. iStumbler icon
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    iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.

    24 iStumbler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • iStumbler is the most popular Mac alternative to Blueman.

    • iStumbler is the most popular commercial alternative to Blueman.

    • iStumbler is Paid and ProprietaryBlueman is Free and Open Source
  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
     
  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
     
  7. Blueberry icon
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    Blueberry is a gnome-bluetooth front-end, Blueberry works on any desktop environment and should work on any distribution as long as gnome-bluetooth is installed. It is an application which configures Bluetooth.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    BLE Scanner was developed with a vision to help Bluetooth community, developers who wants to build BLE products & applications.

    14 BLE Scanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
    • BLE Scanner is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Blueman.

    • BLE Scanner is Freemium and ProprietaryBlueman is Free and Open Source
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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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