Beacon Simulator

1.5.1

Vincent Hiribarren

4.36

362 reviews

100,000+
Downloads

Free

Broadcast Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. iBeacon,Eddystone & AltBeacon supported.

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Beacon Simulator turns your Android device into a flexible BLE beacon advertiser and transmitter, supporting iBeacon, AltBeacon, and Eddystone formats. It enables background broadcasting, beacon configuration management, and nearby beacon scanning, making it a practical tool for developers testing beacon software. With a free model and a sizeable install base, it reports 100,000+ total downloads and 110 in the last 30 days.

Pros & Cons

Supports multiple beacon formats (iBeacon, AltBeacon, Eddystone).
Background broadcasting and configuration management.
Beacon scanning with copy capability.
Available in English and French and free to use.

MAC address rotation can affect broadcast consistency on some devices.
Cannot broadcast multiple frames with the same MAC address.
Broadcast capability is device-dependent and may vary by phone model.

About Beacon Simulator

Beacon Simulator was a tools app developed by Vincent Hiribarren. It was removed from Google Play Feb 28, 2024 and is no longer available for download.

Download Statistics

Beacon Simulator had been downloaded 120 thousand times before it became unavailable.

User Ratings

Beacon Simulator was rated 4.36 out of 5 stars, based on 360 ratings.

App Information

Beacon Simulator was free to download. The APK download size was 1.15 MB. The last available version was 1.5.1. The last update was on March 19, 2017.

Technical Requirements

Beacon Simulator required Android 5.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play July 2016.

Description

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon simulator.

More data about Beacon Simulator

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	120 thousand
Rating	4.36 based on 360 ratings
Version	1.5.1
APK size	1.15 MB
Number of libraries	4
Designed for Android	5.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Beacon Simulator has been downloaded 120 thousand times.

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Comments on Beacon Simulator for Android

★★★★★ Grea App! I use it to simulate Eddystone-EID beacons and works like a charm. The only app that I found that can simulate Eddystone-EID and that just works.

★★★★★ Great tool for evaluating beacon applications (own or others) without having access to all variants of physical beacons. Supports multiple beacons simultaneously of different types, and can be used to scan for beacons as well.

★★★★★ Great App to use while development an embedded BLE solution. The App has small bug . When setting an beacon simulator with UUID 00 11 22 33 44 .etc. The real broadcasted beacon has this UUID 00 01 12 33 (additional zero)

★★☆☆☆ This app was absolutely the best when I first started using it, but now it seems to have stop working as in it appears functional but doesn't actually broadcast so I don't get any traffic at all to what I am promoting. Please fix or let me know what I can do.

★★☆☆☆ The scanner works alright, but the simulator does not. The packets sent by the simulator can only be picked up by the same app. Tried multiple other apps and a hardware detector I built myself and nothing picks up the packets from this app.

★★☆☆☆ My device supports ble 4.2 but its saying that your device doesn't support ble even I checked with ble checker app, and it congratulated me.

★★☆☆☆ No option to set the MAC address. Uses random MAC. Otherwise, does the job.

Technologies used by Beacon Simulator

5 permissions · 4 libraries

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Trust & Safety: Uses standard Bluetooth and location permissions to enable BLE scanning and advertising. No unusual data access is indicated; follows typical Android safety practices for a BLE utility.

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