Author: Jennifer Allen / Source: reviewgeek.com
How often do you find yourself misplacing your keys and totally forgetting where you left them? If missing keys is a frequent occurrence for you, a Bluetooth key finder tracker can go some way to curing this issue. Here’s the best of the bunch.
Unfamiliar with Bluetooth trackers?
Here’s the quick summary. Each of these devices is small and lightweight enough that you can easily clip it onto your keys, ensuring you’ve got some way of tracking down where they went. You hook it up to your smartphone so, providing you have your phone, you can track where the tracker is, just like if you were using something like Find my iPhone. It’s the kind of tool that—in theory—you’ll be wondering how you went without after no time at all.Now, admittedly, Bluetooth trackers aren’t perfect. Each tracker is small and low-powered, meaning they’re not strong enough to have long range. In some cases, the connection can be flaky too, simply due to the size of the device. It’s all too easy for the accompanying app to not pick up on the location. However, it’s still way better than nothing. You can always wander from room to room, activating the app and waiting for it to pick up and ring. It remains far easier than actually looking through each room the old fashioned way. All that said, if you tried a Bluetooth tracker years ago and hated it we’d encourage you to give it a second shot—even in the last year or two the quality of the devices across the board has improved significantly.
With that caveat in place, here are some of the best bluetooth key finders out there.
Tile Mate ($20)
Purportedly the world’s best selling Bluetooth tracker, it makes sense that Tile Mate does exactly what you need it to do, and a little more. It’s small and perfectly sized for looping onto your keychain. By connecting to your smartphone, you get ideal security. It uses Bluetooth tracking for short to medium range distances, with the app also using mapping tools for longer ranges.
Where Tile Mate really stands out is that it automatically records the last time and place you saw the item, so you can backtrack and retrace your steps. If it’s really far afield, any time a user within the Tile community comes within range of it, you’ll get a heads up of its most recent location again—it’s clever stuff. Also, if you have your Tile Mate but you can’t find your phone, you can hit a button on it and it’ll help you track that device down instead. It’s a great time saver, thanks to such clever implementation.
Pixie Tracker ($20)
Available in numerous different guises, albeit only for iPhone, the Pixie Tracker is a small tag that attaches to the outside of your phone, then via adhesive or keyring tags on other devices. Because of that need for a tag attached to your phone, the Pixie Tracker is available in either 2 or 4 packs with additional cases also included for covering the tag a little more discreetly.
Indoor range is about 30 feet…
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