BLE Workbench

BLE Workbench™ app is an indispensible Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Development Tool. It is also a powerful BLE discovery and inspection utility app. BLE Workbench is available on Mac, iPhone and iPad, taking full advantage of each platform.

BLE Workbench includes all the expected features: scanning, connecting, inspecting, filtering, sorting, renaming, and hiding. In version 2, BLE Workbench introduces features to improve the experience of developing software for communicating with Bluetooth Low Energy devices.

BLE Workbench 2.0 introduces an exciting new feature: Virtual Peripherals! The following BLE peripheral data can be recorded in real time, and exported to a JSON file:

• Peripheral
• Services
• Characteristics
• Descriptors
• Advertisement Data
• RSSI signals
• Characteristic Notify/Indicate values as Data

The exported JSON BLE peripheral data can be inspected, and even modified! Import the valid JSON file into BLE Workbench. The new "Virtual Peripheral" appears as another discovered BLE peripheral. Inspect, Connect, and interact with the Virtual Peripheral just like a real peripheral!

BLE Workbench is built with ZionBLE™ Framework, a powerful BLE Xcode framework available for your company to license separately. ZionBLE™ Framework simplifies and improves Bluetooth Low Energy software integration on iOS, iPadOS and macOS:

• Load Virtual Peripherals from JSON
• Develop apps using XCode Simulators, including the CoreBluetooth features.
• Add tests to cover the Bluetooth features of your app.
• Automate testing within Xcode Simulators including the CoreBluetooth features.
• Leverage prebuilt support for many BLE GATT Services and Characteristics.
• Built on top of Apple's CoreBluetooth Framework.
• Minimal API changes to adopt ZionBLE Framework.