LightBlue® — Bluetooth LE

3.1
670 reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

LightBlue® can connect you to all of your devices that use Bluetooth Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth Smart, or Bluetooth Light). With LightBlue®, you can scan, connect to and browse any nearby BLE device.

Full support of read, write, and notify is included to ease BLE firmware development efforts. You can also view the signal strength (RSSI) in real time to get an idea of how close you are to the BLE device, handy for finding lost Fitbits or other BLE devices!

The log feature allows you to keep track of all significant BLE events that occur while using the app (e.g., device discovery, connection, reading, writing).

Use LightBlue® to test your new BLE Heart Rate Monitor, temperature sensor, 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 for any BLE peripherals
- See basic device info (name, MAC address, RSSI) at a glance
- Browse characteristics and services
- Register for notifications
- Read characteristics
- Write to characteristics in hex or UTF-8 string format
- Thoroughly log BLE events and share them in plain text format

A note on location access: if your Android device is running Android M (6.0) and above, you'll need to grant the app fine location access in order for the OS to surface BLE scan results to the app. This is an Android SDK requirement—we do not use your location for anything, not even while the app is in the foreground.
Updated on
Oct 28, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info
This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.1
653 reviews
A Google user
February 13, 2020
I would rate this thing 5 stars before the recent update. Before I was able to see the user description with the uuid for individual characteristics in the explorer. Now I have to navigate to the correct uuid and go into it to see the characteristic user description. Also, the Hex keyboard does not seem to work right. I can only type in one character at a time, no more. I also can not delete the single character written.
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Punch Through Design
March 2, 2021
Hi Brad, our latest release 1.9.0 should've fixed this, please give it a try and let us know if you're still running into issues. Our inbox is always open: info@punchthrough.com. Thanks for using LightBlue!
Faisal Iqbal (chall3ng3r)
October 20, 2024
The latest update brings now UI changes, which are absolutely awesome. Thanks guys! One thing it broke is after authentication, it doesn't continue and list the available characteristics, and just waits with the connecting dialog open. I have to cancel and reconnect again in LightBlue app to my BLE device. This just started happening after the update, earlier version didn't had this, as I'm using the app daily.
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David Hunt
August 10, 2024
I have been using this app on an iPhone and downloaded the Android version to compare and the obvious feature that's missing - no ability to create virtual devices!?! Without that feature, it's just another BT scanner.
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What's new

Minor bug fixes

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About the developer
Punch Through Design LLC
info@punchthrough.com
123 3rd St N Ste 500 Minneapolis, MN 55401 United States
+1 612-217-2778

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