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NearLens
Detect nearby smart glasses before they detect you.
NearLens uses Bluetooth LE to detect smart glasses nearby. Ray-Ban Meta, Snap Spectacles, and EssilorLuxottica frames broadcast a wireless signature when they are on. NearLens reads that signal. No camera, no internet, no account required. Detection runs in the background. You get an alert. Most people have no practical way to know when someone near them is wearing recording-capable glasses. This app is a direct answer to that problem.
I built NearLens because I could not find any iOS tool that told you whether smart glasses were nearby. The ones that existed were Android-only or required you to already know what you were looking for.
The detection is not complicated: Ray-Ban Meta, Snap Spectacles, and EssilorLuxottica frames broadcast a Bluetooth LE signature to sync with their companion apps. That signature is identifiable. NearLens reads it, matches it against a known list of manufacturer IDs, and alerts you. No camera. No internet. No account.
There is some irony in building a privacy tool specifically to protect people from the category of hardware I find most interesting. I thought about that longer than I probably should have.
Free on the App Store. Ask me anything about how the BLE detection works or where this goes next.
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About NearLens on Product Hunt
“Detect nearby smart glasses before they detect you.”
NearLens was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 1 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #94 on the daily leaderboard. NearLens uses Bluetooth LE to detect smart glasses nearby. Ray-Ban Meta, Snap Spectacles, and EssilorLuxottica frames broadcast a wireless signature when they are on. NearLens reads that signal. No camera, no internet, no account required. Detection runs in the background. You get an alert. Most people have no practical way to know when someone near them is wearing recording-capable glasses. This app is a direct answer to that problem.
NearLens was featured in iOS (110.2k followers), Privacy (11k followers) and Security (2.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 45.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted NearLens?
NearLens was hunted by Marcos Rezende. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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