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The hidden camera detector that shows its work

You are in a room you do not control. A hotel, a rental, a dorm. Candela checks the Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth around you, then hands you a dated record of what answered, what announced itself, and what it never had a way to reach.

Coming soon to the App Store iPhone and iPad. One payment, no subscription.

The problem is not detection. It is the promise.

Every other app in this category ends the same way: a green checkmark and the words “no cameras found”. No app running on a phone can know that. A camera recording to an SD card transmits nothing. A device on the host’s own network never answers. The checkmark is not a finding, it is a guess with good art direction.

Candela will never tell you a room is safe. It cannot know that, and neither can any other app on your phone. What it can tell you, line by line, is exactly what it asked, what answered, and what it could not reach.

What you actually get

A saved inspection report for Hotel room 412, listing the endpoints that responded and the services that announced themselves
The evidence behind one line of the report, expanded
The Bluetooth check reporting 83 broadcasts heard in 69 seconds and which matched a tracker signature
A report line naming a broadcast that matched a known tracker signature
The history of saved inspections, each with its place name and date

How it looks

Network

It asks, and it listens

Candela asks every address on the Wi-Fi you joined to identify itself, using read-only requests. It also listens for the devices that announce themselves to the network without being asked, which is what cameras and recorders do constantly.

Network

It reads the answer, not the brand

A device that answers an RTSP or ONVIF request has told you it speaks the camera video protocol. That is evidence. A vendor name guessed from a MAC address is not, which is why Candela does not show you one.

Bluetooth

It names the window it listened for

Broadcasts are matched against known tracker signatures, including Apple Find My, Tile, Samsung SmartTag and Google Fast Pair. Every result says how long the listen lasted, because ten seconds cannot speak for a device that transmits once a minute.

The record

The report is the product

Name the room, run the checks, keep the report. It carries the raw evidence behind every line and the list of things the inspection could not cover. Export it as text and send it to yourself, to a host, or to a hotel.

Pricing

One payment

No weekly subscription. No renewal to forget about. The category runs on $2.99 to $5.99 a week and it is the single loudest complaint in its reviews. Candela is bought once.

Privacy

Nothing from the room leaves the phone

Candela never signs in to anything and never guesses a password. Every request it makes is unauthenticated and read-only, and the inspection itself stays on your device.

What it cannot see, said first

Every saved report carries this list, so the record stays honest about its own gaps. You should know them before you scan, not after.

Stop wondering. Keep the record.

This is not the app for someone who wants to be told the room is safe. It is for someone who wants to know what was actually checked.

Coming soon to the App Store iPhone and iPad. One payment, no subscription.