Bluetooth Inspector for PC

★ ★ ★ Bluetooth Inspector Overview

What is Bluetooth Inspector? The Bluetooth Inspector app allows users to discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services for information and characteristics. Users can view information and signal strength for all peripherals and devices, get battery level for their own Apple devices, and see model identification broadcast by devices around them. The app also allows users to extract software and firmware version strings from devices broadcasting this information, read any characteristic's value, and write characteristic values back to the peripheral as string, numeric or hex.

Software Features and Description

1. • Log found peripherals, services, characteristics and values, and export a .log file of timestamped events for your analysis (pro).

2. • Read any characteristic's value, even for services not well known and are custom to the device being interrogated.

3. • Shortcuts integration with actions for scanning and interrogation, enumerating services and characteristics, and reading values (pro).

4. Discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services for information and characteristics.

5. • View information and signal strength for all peripherals and devices, updating in real time as you move around.

6. Bluetooth connectivity is only used when this app is in the foreground and up to a few seconds after being backgrounded to safely disconnect from peripherals being interrogated.

7. • See model identification broadcast by devices around you, mapping the Apple device identifier to the marketing name.

8. • See a history of the value of a characteristic since the session started, timestamped to when the value changed (pro).

9. • Extract software and firmware version strings from devices broadcasting this information.

10. • Write characteristic values back to the peripheral as string, numeric or hex (pro).

11. • Get battery level for your own Apple devices — no need to install the app on all your devices.

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Download and install Bluetooth Inspector on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Bluetooth Inspector	Get App ↲	1,162 4.56	George Garside

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Bluetooth Inspector app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Bluetooth Inspector on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Bluetooth Inspector"
The search will reveal the Bluetooth Inspector app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Bluetooth Inspector is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Bluetooth Inspector.
Now enjoy Bluetooth Inspector on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	George Garside	4.56	1.7.2

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native Bluetooth Inspector Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use Bluetooth Inspector,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "Bluetooth Inspector" » then Click "Install".
- Bluetooth Inspector will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get Bluetooth Inspector on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	George Garside	1162	4.56

Download on Android: Download Android

Bluetooth Inspector functions

- Discover nearby Bluetooth peripherals and inspect their services for information and characteristics

- View information and signal strength for all peripherals and devices, updating in real time as you move around

- Get battery level for your own Apple devices

- See model identification broadcast by devices around you, mapping the Apple device identifier to the marketing name

- Extract software and firmware version strings from devices broadcasting this information

- Read any characteristic's value, even for services not well known and are custom to the device being interrogated

- Write characteristic values back to the peripheral as string, numeric or hex (pro)

- See a history of the value of a characteristic since the session started, timestamped to when the value changed (pro)

- Log found peripherals, services, characteristics and values, and export a .log file of timestamped events for your analysis (pro)

- Shortcuts integration with actions for scanning and interrogation, enumerating services and characteristics, and reading values (pro)

- Support available on Twitter @grgarside or georgegarside.com/apps/bluetooth-inspector

- Bluetooth connectivity is only used when the app is in the foreground and up to a few seconds after being backgrounded to safely disconnect from peripherals being interrogated.

✔ Pros:

- The app is able to detect a wide range of Bluetooth enabled devices.

- The status icon color changes provide useful information about nearby devices.

- The app works well with devices that the user wants to connect with.

☹ Cons:

- The app may repeatedly ask for consent to connect with devices that the user does not want to connect with, which can be frustrating.

- The app is not compatible with MacOS Catalina due to the use of APIs that are not available in that version.

Top Pcmac Reviews

Works great on 13.4.1

By Nevermind the Bollocks! (Pcmac user)

I do not see any problems with this app on my iPhone. I see just about every the app enabled device around my apartment and other units. Great detail. I’d love to know what the status icon color changes mean.
Can be helpful, but...

By Exit on true (Pcmac user)

Works great with devices you want to connect with, but I don’t want to connect to, what I believe to be, my neighbor’s the app headphones to do the discovery. This is where the problem comes in. It keeps asking, and asking, and asking... consent is an issue especially with wireless and a device that are not yours. Local laws around my area say that is a violation and can include fines to attempt and/or use wireless devices that are not yours without consent. Quick fix would be to ask once and remember the response.
Just Works. And works well

By JoeTooCool (Pcmac user)

Read about it in a WAPO column. Blew me away. I would have guessed that I had 5 or 6 devices nearby. How naive am I. It was more like 20 including a neighbor’s TV. What to do with this information? Not much yet, maybe one day it will help diagnose a pesky BT connection. But for now, it’s a great app for awareness building. Thank you George & thanks for keeping it free.
Misunderstood

By MrWizardno2 (Pcmac user)

I originally bought this on my iPhone. Suddenly it showed up in the App Store without compatibility for Catalina and I rated it poorly for lack of support! In all reality, it was my mistake. I thought it was like GarageBand that removed support for Catalina - but that is not the case. The app developer released this for MacOS after Big Sur came out and it uses APIs that are not available in Catalina. I can't use it (until Big Sur removes the ContentFilterExclusionList in 11.2) yet! It is, however, great on iPhone and iPad!