Can you find a hidden camera with a cheap spy camera detector or app?

You have probably heard in the news about people finding hidden spy cameras in the most awkward places like this couple who found a hidden camera when they rented an apartment. In South Korea, over 6,000 cases of spy cameras were reported last year, mostly from hidden cameras in public toilets.

So what if we could just download an app to our smartphone and scan a room for any hidden cameras and be able to find them?

Or buy a hidden spy camera detector for under $10?

Wouldn’t that be great? The thing is you can actually do that. But the big question is do they actually work?

We decided to test if they work or not, one free app that you can download from the Google Play Store and one spy camera detector that you can buy online for under $10.

The camera detector is basically a Radio Frequency detector and should be able to find any camera that is using WiFi.

It also comes with something called laser detection which is red LED lights on the back that are flickering while you look through the peephole and any lens that you look at is meant to reflect back for you to easily detect it.

You have probably heard that there are apps, claiming to be able to find hidden spy cameras, using your phone’s hardware. So we are going to try one of does apps as well and once and for all find out if they really work or not.

Most of these apps are free to use and the one we are using in this test is the first one we found searching for “find hidden cameras” in Google Play Store.

We used a few different cameras for this test.

The first one is a very small wifi spy camera with a battery, the other one is a mini-camera that uses wifi as well and the last one is a USB charger with a built-in spy camera that dosen’t use wifi.

So after a few hours of testing, we can definitely say that the app is just a waste of time for finding hidden cameras.

It didn’t detect any of the three cameras that we used in this test. We did try it before we started on a much bigger security camera just to make sure the app and phone worked, which it did.

The camera detector did okay, and could actually be used to find a hidden camera under the right circumstances. What I mean by that is, if there are no other devices interfering with the signal you could actually pinpoint where a hidden camera might be.

Just remember it won’t find hardwired cameras.

Now you might wonder if we recommend you buy a cheap spy detector like the one we used in our test.

It’s really up to you but we think your money is better spent on a little more expensive one since the built quality is really bad on the one we used in our test. The antenna fell off our device just after two days of testing.

If you feel you want to check this RF detector out on Amazon you can just click here.

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