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How it compares
Where this app is the right tool, and where Apple’s Find My or an AirTag clearly is not.
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How to choose a Bluetooth finder app for iPhone
This category has a credibility problem. Here is how to read it, including where our own app stops being the right answer.…
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Find My Device₊ and Apple’s Find My: what each is for
These are not competitors. They fail in different places, which is the useful way to think about them.…
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Do you need an AirTag, an app, or both?
The distinction is simple once stated: an AirTag creates a signal, an app reads one. They solve different halves of the problem.…
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Tile, Chipolo and budget tags: what the app adds
A tag makes an object findable. A scanner is how you finish the search once you are in the room.…
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GPS tracker or Bluetooth: which do you need?
These get compared as if they are alternatives. They are not, they answer different questions and cost very different amounts t…
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SmartThings Find and iPhone: the gap
If you own Samsung hardware and carry an iPhone, you are in a gap that neither company has any incentive to close.…
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Google’s Find Hub and iPhone owners
The common household case: an iPhone owner trying to find an Android phone, a Pixel Watch or a tagged bag belonging to someone e…
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Why iPhone Settings doesn’t show every device
People reasonably assume the Bluetooth list in Settings is a list of what is nearby. It is not, and the difference matters.…
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Free or paid: what actually differs
Scanning for Bluetooth devices is not a difficult engineering problem. Anyone claiming their scan is fundamentally better is ove…
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Chipolo and other tags: where the app fits
The moment you own tags from more than one brand, you own more than one app, and that is the problem a scanner solves.…
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Try it alongside what you have
Free on the App Store. Most people end up using both.
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