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Camera glasses are having a backlash moment — venue bans, regulatory scrutiny, and a public asking "am I being filmed?" LensSentry is the detection app that answers honestly, in both directions.
Press contact: press@lenssentry.com
The all-clear state, and the sentence under it: quiet isn't a guarantee. Full-resolution screenshots and product frames available on request.
The essentials.
| What it is | A smart-glasses detection app: it listens for the Bluetooth Low Energy signals camera glasses broadcast (Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Snap Spectacles, Amazon Echo Frames) and alerts the user that one may be nearby. |
| What's different | Honesty in both directions — the app states that a quiet screen isn't a guarantee and that an alert isn't proof of recording — plus over-the-air signature updates, a session log, and a camera-verify layer in development so every alert gets a next step. |
| Detection basis | Manufacturer identifiers and service UUIDs verified against the Bluetooth SIG registry and public field captures; name-pattern matching; confidence-tiered alerts. Known-lookalike devices (e.g. VR headsets sharing manufacturer IDs) are explicitly excluded. |
| Privacy posture | No location (never-for-location scanning), no accounts, no ads, no analytics, fully functional offline. Optional crowdsourced fingerprints are off by default and contain no hardware addresses, no location, and nothing about the reporter. |
| Status | iOS: live on the App Store ($2.99), United States at launch — apps.apple.com/us/app/lenssentry/id6801921114. On 15 August 2026 the app was confirmed detecting real camera glasses in the field on an iPhone — powered on and unpaired, matched at the highest confidence tier. Android: closed test opening shortly. macOS: an early build is downloadable from lenssentry.com, signed and notarized by Apple; it shares the same detection engine but its own scanner has not itself been confirmed against real glasses. Venue pilot program: accepting inquiries. |
| Pricing | $2.99, a one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases. Priced only after the detection engine was confirmed against real smart glasses in the field on 15 August 2026; charging for a detector before that would have contradicted the product. Over-the-air signature updates are included and will not become a paid tier — a detection library that goes stale unless you pay produces a quieter screen rather than an honest one. |
| Founder | Independent developer; based in Hawaiʻi. Full founder story available on request. |
| Contact | press@lenssentry.com |
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