About Near
The privacy-first scanning app.
Privacy.
Your environment.
Your rules.
Near Glasses gives you flexible ways to understand your surroundings — and so much more. Tap to scan the area for Bluetooth signatures of known smart glasses without compromising your own data. And when unknown devices enter the space, the radar alerts you so you get more awareness in public spaces.
An all-new scanning engine enables fast and accurate detection, for more flexible ways to monitor your environment. And it runs completely on-device — automatically.
POWERFUL FEATURES
Built for Protection
Stealth Mode
Run Near silently in the background. It continuously scans your surroundings without drawing attention, preserving your battery and your privacy.
Geiger Audio Mode
Turn on audio feedback and hear the app click faster as you get closer to a detected device, just like a real Geiger counter.
Dynamic Island Support
Track nearby devices in real-time right from your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with native iOS Live Activities.
Apple Watch Companion
Get discreet haptic alerts right on your wrist when a threat is detected, no need to check your phone.
Safe Zones
Set geofenced trusted locations (like your home or office) where background scanning automatically pauses to save battery.
Trusted Devices
Easily whitelist your own devices or those of your friends so they never trigger false positive alerts.
One-Tap Evidence Kit
Press and hold any detection to auto-generate a tamper-proof PDF containing an atomic timestamp, RSSI graph, device signature hash, and radar screenshot.
Siri Integration
Start, pause, or stop background scanning completely hands-free using Siri or Apple's Shortcuts app.
Friend Proximity Alerts
Notify your trusted circle if they enter a high-surveillance zone, making sure your friends stay protected alongside you.
Zero-Knowledge Architecture
The app never connects to the internet, not even for updates. It runs 100% locally with updates available via manual file import or peer-to-peer.
Recording-State Inference
Advanced packet pattern analysis detects if the nearby glasses are actively streaming or recording, rather than just being powered on.
Directional Detection
Uses your phone's multiple antennas and an AR overlay to show exactly which direction the glasses are coming from, acting like a privacy compass.
Distance Triangulation
Combines RSSI and time-of-flight measurements to estimate the distance to the detected glasses within ±0.3m accuracy, eliminating rough guesses.
All completely local.
An evolution in privacy.
Near has a powerful detection engine with robust range, and a zero-telemetry architecture with unmatched security compared to cloud-based alternatives. And now logs are stored entirely on-device by default. So you'll get stunning, super-fast alerts — up close or far away, indoors and out. So you can protect your privacy — and beyond.
Built by Henriques
Near was developed by Henriques, a former wearable engineer at Meta. Leveraging deep expertise in consumer hardware and mobile architecture, Near was designed from the ground up to empower users with true environmental awareness and uncompromising privacy.