🐾 PING PANTHER
Hears what your eyes can't.
Ping Panther is the device finder that hears everything and tells nobody. The big brands only find their own tags, and they find them through accounts and clouds that watch you back — Ping Panther listens for any Bluetooth device that pings, AirTag, SmartTag, Tile, earbuds, watch or car kit, walks you in with its sonar Squeeze, stands guard against trackers following you, and keeps every pin, photo and sighting on your phone and nowhere else: no account, no server, no crowd — it works in airplane mode, and being online only adds maps. Bands, not fake feet; evidence, not verdicts; your things, your phone, your business.
⬇ DOWNLOAD THE APKON BOARD
- Background Panther (new in 2.0.0) — start it in Settings or Watch and the Panther keeps listening with the app closed: real scans + GPS stamps, left-behind alerts, Place Watch events, and a notification the first time Guard evidence turns Strong. It runs as a visible service with a persistent "listening" notification — you start it, you can see it, you can stop it. No silent mode.
- Panther Memory (new in 2.0.0) — every PingTag tells its own story in plain words — first/last heard, how many times, at how many places, partings and reunions — written only from what's actually recorded on your phone.
- Guard evidence timeline (new in 2.0.0) — a tag's contacts laid out in time order, place by place, with windows, counts and separations. Evidence words only — never a verdict.
- Owner-entered links (new in 2.0.0) — devices that rotate their ID can appear twice; link the two PingTags as YOUR note that they may be one device (undo any time). The app never merges IDs on its own say-so, and exports label the link OWNER-ENTERED.
- Eyes-free cues (new in 2.0.0) — optional spoken band changes while hunting, a torch button for the last few feet, and a vibration language: two pulses = getting closer, one long = dropped out, three = heard again.
- The Wall — the best 4 pages live on one screen: Map, Hunt, Tags, Guard, each tile showing real live data. Tap to expand. The rest ride the bottom dock — page buttons pinned at the bottom of every screen.
- Real BLE scan — hears the pings devices already broadcast, strongest first, as device cards with human last-heard times ("just now", "Yesterday 3:12 PM").
- The Squeeze + BandDial (new) — focus one device and the hunt takes the screen over: a 270° signal dial, band-state tints, and at POUNCE the biggest MARK FOUND button in the app. Still bands, never fake feet.
- Map-first Atlas (new) — big layer chips (Grid / Street / Topo / Satellite), a device card rail under the map, tap-a-pin cards with FIND and NAVIGATE, and TOPO EXPLORER doors to Street View & 3D Earth.
- Safe Places (new) — mark home or the truck and left-behind alerts stay silent there; when you do part from a watched thing, its card remembers where, when, and the reunion.
- Tracker Guard — evidence-based following test with real place-clustering math.
- Sonar view — radar-style rings by signal strength (angles are display only — strength, not direction).
- Offline grid map + online layers — the app-drawn grid always works; Street / Topo / Satellite tiles join when you're online, pins floating on them, viewed areas cached for offline.
INSTALL
- Tap the download, open the APK, allow "install unknown apps" for your browser when Android asks.
- Nothing is asked at first launch — permissions come with plain reasons when you tap Start Scan.
- Everything stays on your phone. No account, no server, no uploads.
Honesty note (v2.0.0): Phase 2 is built and bench-verified — the new rule logic is unit-tested (45/45) and every earlier suite still passes (12/12 logic, 27/27 tiles, 23/23 format) — but the background service, spoken cues, torch and vibration language have not yet been run on a phone; they join the device test matrix with the 1.4.0 interface. About background listening, plainly: it is a user-started, visible foreground service — it only runs while its notification is on your screen, Android can still throttle or stop it, and a stopped Panther hears nothing. The scanning core underneath has run on the owner's phone and heard real devices (first live scan, 2026-11-10: strongest a named device at −65 dBm, Near band); your saved PingTags from earlier versions carry over — install over the old version, never uninstall first (that would erase them). The poster art up top is artwork — inside the app it appears only as a crop with its painted sample text removed, so art is never mistaken for a reading. Anything the app can't do is listed in its About, not hidden.
MD5: a94f131bec66555d76db591618f7f7cc