LightBlue®
- CategoryUtilities
- First releasedSeptember 8, 2012
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- Bundle IDcom.PunchThrough.LightBlue
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
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Report an issueLightBlue® can connect you to all of your devices that use Bluetooth Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth Smart, or Bluetooth Light).
LightBlue® has two modes, central and peripheral. In central mode, you can scan for and connect to all BLE devices around you. Once connected, you have a detailed view of all the device's profiles, from which you can read and write to characteristics and subscribe to notifications.
To enter BLE peripheral mode, navigate to the "Virtual Devices" tab and tap on the "+" icon to create a virtual device. When the blue checkmark is checked for a device, your iOS device is advertising as that particular BLE peripheral. LightBlue® allows you to customize the services and characteristics of any virtual peripheral profile. You can also clone any peripheral you connect to in central mode and save that profile to your list of virtual peripherals—simply connect to a device and tap on the "Clone" button on the top right of the screen.
Full support of read, write, and notify is included. You can view the signal strength (RSSI) to get an idea of how close you are to the peripheral.
The log tab allows you to keep track of all significant BLE events that occur while using the app (e.g., device discovery, connection, reading, writing), and you can share the content of the log.
Use LightBlue® to test your new BLE Heart Rate Monitor, temperature sensor, Microchip AVR-BLE and PIC-BLE development boards, TI CC2540 Keyfob, Nordic uBlue, Panasonic PAN1720, etc. LightBlue® is also ideal for developers wanting to test the firmware of their own BLE peripherals.
Key features: - Scan and discover Bluetooth peripherals in the vicinity - See basic device info (UUID, RSSI) - Browse services and characteristics - Register for notifications and indications - Send data from notifications and indications to AWS IoT or Adafruit IO via our Cloud Connect feature - Read values from characteristics - Write to characteristics in Hex, Oct, Bin, Decimal or ASCII - Clone peripheral profiles - Choose from an array of common, preconfigured peripheral profiles - Advertise as a peripheral using custom profiles - Thoroughly log and share BLE events - Custom UI and extended support for connecting to Microchip AVR-BLE and PIC-BLE development boards
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Use to work great at connecting my Apple Pencil to my iPad. Since update it no longer works. I tried everything possible to get it to work again and nothing fixes it.
It’s hard to get a true reading of battery levels for my Heart Rate straps I use for cycling. The best way I’ve found is to use this tool to get an honest number. Previously, I’d use an app and it would use bars or some other metric and it didn’t even seem accurate. What an awesome tool!
The app could not be used by me due to the apps design. The app uses very light colored fonts on a white background with no way to change or use dark mode to help use the app. Larger fonts would be nice to.
This app has been invaluable to me for years. But ever since the redesign, it’s been buggy to the point that it’s completely unusable.
I was told this program would be able to locate a lost Fitbit watch, but that’s not true. I can only find it if it’s right under your nose. Completely useless program, very user unfriendly, not recommended. Basically this is so lame that it will only tell you if the watch is right next to you, how useless IS THIS?! 😂😅
Zero instructions on how to use the app. Just a bunch of jibber jabber that looks like code.
I needed to find a missing Oura Ring, this app was able to isolate which room and where in that room by tracking the signal strength. It even identified the manufacturer ID.
I tried to connect a 1st generation Apple Pencil to the 5th generation IPad but didn’t work. Useless for a app that was supposed to work.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.