{
  "name": "TFind tracker support matrix",
  "description": "Which Bluetooth tracker families the Android app TFind detects, the Bluetooth LE identifier each is matched on, what actions are possible per family, and which trackers are not detected at all. Derived from the app's own parser, not from testing individual models.",
  "publisher": "DreamTeam Mobile",
  "app": {
    "name": "AirTag Tracker Detect: TFind",
    "package": "com.dreamteammobile.tagtracker",
    "platform": "Android 8.0+",
    "url": "https://tfind.app/",
    "price": "Free to download and scan, with ads. Pro is a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase."
  },
  "sourceOfTruth": "https://tfind.app/which-trackers-tfind-detects-android/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "lastVerified": "2026-08-20",
  "matchingRule": "TFind matches the Bluetooth LE advertisement format, never a model name or hardware generation, because BLE advertisements do not carry one. Any model inside a supported family is read by the same rule; anything outside the three formats is not detected at all.",
  "detected": [
    {
      "family": "Apple AirTag",
      "matchedOn": "Apple company ID 0x004C plus Find My payload",
      "canDetect": true,
      "canPlaySound": true,
      "playSoundConditions": "Only when the AirTag is separated from its owner's iPhone. Blocked while the owner is nearby or the tag is in pairing/reset mode. Auto-stops after about 15 seconds. Three plays are free, then Pro.",
      "canShowDistanceBand": true,
      "canIdentifyOwner": false,
      "notes": "Owner-present AirTags are nearly invisible by Apple's design. A separated AirTag rebroadcasts roughly every 15 minutes."
    },
    {
      "family": "Samsung SmartTag / SmartTag+",
      "matchedOn": "BLE service UUID fd59 (unregistered) or fd5a (registered)",
      "canDetect": true,
      "canPlaySound": false,
      "playSoundConditions": "Not possible. SmartTag does not expose a sound command over Bluetooth.",
      "canShowDistanceBand": true,
      "canIdentifyOwner": false,
      "notes": "No Galaxy phone and no Samsung account required."
    },
    {
      "family": "Tile",
      "matchedOn": "BLE service UUID feec or feed",
      "canDetect": true,
      "canPlaySound": false,
      "playSoundConditions": "Not possible. Ringing a Tile needs Tile's private protocol and an account sign-in.",
      "canShowDistanceBand": true,
      "canIdentifyOwner": false,
      "notes": "No Tile account, subscription or Tile app required."
    }
  ],
  "notDetected": [
    { "name": "Google Find Hub network tags", "reason": "Advertises a format TFind's parser does not read. Produces nothing, not a partial result." },
    { "name": "Chipolo", "reason": "Outside the three supported formats." },
    { "name": "Pebblebee", "reason": "Outside the three supported formats." },
    { "name": "iTag and other no-brand keyring tags", "reason": "Outside the three supported formats." },
    { "name": "Generic Find My clones", "reason": "Outside the three supported formats." },
    { "name": "AirPods", "reason": "Not a Find My tag broadcast. A different DreamTeam app, AFind, targets AirPods." },
    { "name": "Hidden cameras", "reason": "Not a Bluetooth tracker problem. A different DreamTeam app, CFind, scans for cameras over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IR." },
    { "name": "Any Bluetooth device that is not one of the three tracker families", "reason": "TFind has no generic-BLE bucket by design. UFind and UFind Lite list every Bluetooth device instead." }
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Bluetooth LE range is roughly 5 to 10 metres and walls block it.",
    "There is no ultra-wideband precision finding, so distance is an estimate from signal strength in qualitative bands, not a direction.",
    "A tracker that is not actively broadcasting cannot be found at all.",
    "TFind cannot identify who owns a tracker; a Bluetooth advertisement carries no owner.",
    "An unknown-tracker alert requires at least two sightings, at least 15 minutes and at least 200 metres apart.",
    "Background scanning is a user-started foreground service with a visible notification, not autonomous scheduling.",
    "Location permission is mandatory to scan for Bluetooth devices, because Android requires it.",
    "The app interface is English-only."
  ],
  "siblingApps": [
    { "name": "UFind Find My Bluetooth Device", "package": "com.dreamteammobile.ufind", "job": "Lists any Bluetooth device nearby, not just tracker families" },
    { "name": "Bluetooth Finder: Find & Track (UFind Lite)", "package": "com.dreamteammobile.ufindlite", "job": "Same job as UFind, built for speed, no ads and no sign-up" },
    { "name": "AFind: AirPod Tracker & Finder", "package": "com.dreamteammobile.find.my.airpods", "job": "AirPods and AirPods Pro, including the case" },
    { "name": "Spy Camera Scanner — CFind", "package": "com.dreamteammobile.hidden.camera.detector.spy.scanner", "job": "Hidden cameras via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IR" }
  ]
}