Toothpicks Alternatives

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

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  1. PairPods icon
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    A macOS menubar app that lets you share audio between two Bluetooth devices simultaneously. PairPods makes it easy to create shared listening experiences.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. SoundShare brings seamless audio sharing to macOS, allowing you to connect multiple Bluetooth audio devices and share music, podcasts, or videos with friends.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3.  11 likes

    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
     
  4.  8 likes

    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.

    13 Bluesniff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. BLE Radar icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
  6. ToothFairy icon
     3 likes

    AirPods are great, but they don’t work quite as smoothly with Macs as they do iPhones. You can’t tell at a glance whether audio will play from the AirPods or your Mac’s built-in speaker, you have to dig into a Bluetooth submenu to connect, and then you have to go back to the...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. AirBuddy icon
     1 like

    AirBuddy brings the same AirPods experience you have on iOS to the Mac. With AirBuddy, you can open up your AirPods case next to your Mac and see the status right away, just like it is on your iPhone or iPad.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  9. Blueberry icon
     Like

    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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