Best Bluetooth Tracker in 2024 TESTED | moto tag, airtag, Pebblebee, Chipolo, smarttag2, Tile Pro

[@chriscrowe11]

I was gifted some non-rechargable tile trackers a few years ago and the batteries are starting to go. Finding comprehensive reviews/comparisons of these trackers is impossible, so thank you so much for this! Made me laugh when you pulled out the military grade tracker as a "control" 😂😂😂 definitely helped put accuracy/latency into perspective

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

Hahahaha. MilSpec = BestSpec

[@FoggyMooseBog]

Only 97 likes for the most elaborate and in-depth review and research ever? Huh?? Thank you for this quality video!

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

Glad you liked it/got something from it. This comment counts for at least 100 likes.

[@EleosAnim]

Id' like to see a chart/table showing all the things you could do with these tags to really view the comparison clearly, in the end. like each column would list down their battery life, battery replacable, distance, app userfriendly, subscription? etc. that would've helped alot for us watching this follow all the information presented.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@EleosAnim Feature Matrix sheet of sorts?

[@pelvishakerg271]

Being a pixel user I think moto tag is the right choice.. especially when UWB works. Other option is Pebblebee.. decisions decisions. Fantastic review mate very thorough!

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

Appreciate the kind words, and I would have to agree... at least as of now. Hopefully Google has something up their sleeve.

[@akasha1337]

When it will work? it's not very accurate at this point

[@frustratedalien666]

Accurate. I have two Moto Tags and can't wait for the UWB update, but right now they are the best Android Find My Device trackers.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@frustratedalien666 eufy is supposed to drop soon too.

[@frustratedalien666]

@@IllinoisDailyCarry I didn't realize they were still on track to release this. I thought they were holding back like Tile

[@Zeverinsen]

Thank you for the comprehensive review! I actually think I might buy Samsung and Moto Tags :-)

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

Love to hear it. I think you will be quite happy with the mix of solutions. That seems get the best from what I've seen.

[@FPS-WIFI]

Great video, cant wait to see your next trial and to see how the google findmy network expands in the future. I knew about tile and samsung trackers but didnt know google had entered the market until recently. I ended up picking up a moto tracker with your link, thanks for the detailed comparison.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@FPS-WIFI Greatly appreciate it. Sounds like a 2nd Gen airtag is coming soon too. I also found a new GPS tracker I want to use.

[@michaelludvik]

Great to see such a detailed review/comparison! Fantastic work.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@michaelludvik thank you kindly. Hope it helped.

[@justinwaltman9422]

Appreciate this! Thanks!

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@justinwaltman9422 Hope it helped.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@justinwaltman9422 nah, Life360 bought Tile.

[@sctexan5392]

Newbie to the idea of a bag tag: I'm looking for one to use as I fly around the world, am I correct that in order to be found, the tag has to in range of a phone that has the service? Example, if I have a tile tracker and my bag is in the wrong airport. Someone in that airport has to be near that bag and also have the tile app running.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

Accurate. Apple Airtags benefit from other devices also helping with that process like Macbooks and iPads.

[@richardpetty9159]

In practice, this seems to work really well for domestic travel. If you travel to a country where there are no iPhones, then probably not so much.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@richardpetty9159 Accurate.

[@ChelWongBalisong]

as an android person this was incredibly helpful. I'm curious how the tile pro stacks up but yeah, looking like samsung is the way to go for me

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

Thanks for this. Was hoping this wasn't all just a big waste of time/money hahahaha. I'm guessing within the year we will see a Google Tag.

[@ChelWongBalisong]

@@IllinoisDailyCarry nah this is EXACTLY what I needed WHEN I needed it. Helpful data for making informed decisions and no risk of bias. Keep on doing what you do man.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@ChelWongBalisong My man! I'm sending three generations of Tile out soon so I'll hopefully have an answer for you on that as well.

[@ChelWongBalisong]

@@IllinoisDailyCarry dope. I'm keeping a Samsung tag in my shopping cart but awaiting your video for tile! Subscriptions are a huge turn off for me though. I wish other ones had recharging cables. It's a pain to swap batteries and wonder if it's got enough juice

[@SalmanMKC]

I prefer replaceable batteries, means you don't have to buy a new tracker in the future when the battery dies

[@gr8bkset-524]

I'm surprised that given how new the Google Find My network is and that users must install and opt-in the devices in the network even tracked. Perhaps an onscreen table of devices vs time behind GPS tracker would be useful.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

That would definitely be interesting to see to say the least.

[@somyevirmani5428]

Why is ultra wide band necessary in iphones?

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

It's not necessary in any device, just allows for much better location of lost tags.

[@DarthAwar]

​​@@IllinoisDailyCarryUWB is close Range Wide Signal allowing for more accurate range and elevation detection atm BT is just Rough Range based on Signal Quality. Bluetooth 6.0 will have similar feature baked in to the Standard like LE is with Bluetooth v5.4

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@DarthAwar thanks for the reply.

[@erichchan3]

@@DarthAwar Bluetooth Channel Sounding feature in BT 6.0 seems to be a game changer similar to UWB. Hopefully we will start to see BT 6.0 devices in later 2025.

[@Wootsk]

Does UWB helps to detecting the device in the "lost" better? There is a test where someone shipped a android pebblebee, samsung and airtag together. The pebblebee is the only device that is have poor update. I can only come up with 2 conclusion that either the UWB makes a difference or there is really a difference in system. I thought it could be a different carrier issue. But a samsung tag means that the phone that detects the pebblebee suppose to be also in android network.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@Wootsk I think it helps with location from others overall. Even if not in lost mode.

[@Wootsk]

@@IllinoisDailyCarry Yup, but I am not able to find any mention of it online. All they mentioned about is using on items where you lost them and last location and UWB helps in accurate tracking. I know of parents using airtags on their child so if they gotten lost, the parent is able to find them. There are lots of such cases from a parent forum I am in. Bluetooth isn't going to be useful in area like a huge theme park or zoo where the kids could be running around. If my Bluetooth can find them, I can already see them.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@Wootsk I couldn't either but I don't know how it could do anything other than help its "findability."

[@Wootsk]

@@IllinoisDailyCarry did some search on UWB and it seems to have 3 great advantage on UWB which I think makes a difference between the find my devices. 1. UWB has much longer than and detection, it is accurate till 50m but detection till at least 200m. 2. UWB has faster detection with a test comparing one of the model to Bluetooth. UWB is in MS with speed 1000x faster than Bluetooth. 3. Android Bluetooth system also require multiple devices to register the tag. Thus considering the above, a tag in android network might not be registered before it leaves the Bluetooth range of multiple devices.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@Wootsk you can change the settings for Google FindMy to low network/single device. Love this reply. Great to be surrounded by fellow nerds.

[@ladz9647]

nice review

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

thankyoukindly. Hope it helped.

[@jkidding386]

correction - i think smarttag2 is ip67

[@MXG000]

Waiting for eufy android version

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@MXG000 I'm surprised they're not already in the space.

[@MXG000]

@@IllinoisDailyCarry they said it will be released in 30 days.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@MXG000 Aw snap!

[@justinwaltman9422]

I thought tile was eufy?

[@YosefElgart]

Pebblebee 2 tags broke on me hole very weak

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@YosefElgart pretty sure they'll send you a free replacement with beefier "clip hole(?)"

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@YosefElgart hope you didnt lose anything.

[@a3a14613]

Samsung somehow wiped both my SmartTag2 trackers off my device list this morning exactly when I desperately needed one of them to work to find my lost luggage and I couldn't get tech support to admit their recent update was the cause, so I have NO further trust in Samsung. None. Zero. But are Apple AirTags any more reliable?

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@a3a14613 wow. That's ridiculous. I would guess Apple is more reliable but I have yet to make the switch on my second phone.

[@RurouniKalainGaming]

Good test, great info and informative thanks. That said...dont need to hear your "Um's" and breathing as your waiting on something. Cut that down on the editing room floor, lol.

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

Fair. I've always been working to avoid editing as much as possible, but I think time has come for me to start cutting them up a bit more. *inhales.

[@RurouniKalainGaming]

@@IllinoisDailyCarry Fair on that as well for me. Sometimes I'll just do a take over again and have it have less gaps, lol. I was just editing out a lot of them for work so it's been on my mind a lot. xD Also, at the very least, the link for the 4-pack of Samsung Tags doesn't work atm. Cheers!

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@RurouniKalainGaming Hahaha. Thanks for the heads-up!

[@IllinoisDailyCarry]

@@RurouniKalainGaming Updated. Thanks again.

[@victorjohansson6455]

I disagree with the other poster. You sound like an actual human rather than most youtubers who edit their videos to be so fast paced that it's hard tagging along. Keep it real, and great vid!