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Helix Helper / iPhone and iPad

The phone is the antenna. Helix is the workbench.

Helix Helper pulls raw BLE, NFC, MFi, barcode, and local network data off your iPhone or iPad and streams it to the Helix desktop over your local network. Captures raw. Decoding stays on the desktop.

Coming soon to theApp Store
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Capture
Capture
Live streaming to Helix Studio
Captures stream to the desktop automatically.
Scan BLE
Read NFC Tag
Refresh MFi Accessories
No compatible MFi accessories visible. The accessory must be connected and advertise one of this app's supported ExternalAccessory protocols.
Scan Barcode / QR
Snapshot Network
Enrich BLE with GATT reads
Connects to connectable devices during scan and records services, characteristics and readable values.
Streamed 1 record(s) to Helix Studio (demo).
Stores
Captures stream to the desktop live. Nothing is held on device.
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Helix Studio
Server
Status
Connected
ProjectOpen
Hosthelix-studio.local
Port51234
Last Checked16 secs
Capture & Stores
No stores yet
Send a File to Helix
Recent TransfersClear
session-capture.pcap
1,284 rows imported2 min, 0 secs
api-traffic.har
342 rows imported30 min, 30 secs
notes.json
Saved to files2 hrs, 0 min

/ 01 / Capture surfaces

Five radios. One tap each.

Helix Helper exposes the capture hardware iOS already carries. Each button uses a real Apple framework, writes raw records into the active store, and forwards them to the desktop. Nothing is decoded on the phone.

Scan BLECoreBluetooth

Live peripheral scan, dedup-imports every observed advertisement into the active store.

Read NFC TagCoreNFC

ISO 14443-A/B, ISO 15693, ISO 18092/FeliCa. MiFare, ISO-7816, NDEF. iPhone hardware only.

Refresh MFi AccessoriesExternalAccessory

EAAccessoryManager enumeration of connected accessories advertising supported protocols.

Scan Barcode / QRAVFoundation + Vision

QR, EAN-13/8, Code128/39/93, UPC-E, PDF417, Aztec, DataMatrix, ITF-14.

Snapshot NetworkNetwork + NetworkExtension

Bonjour/mDNS browse across 12 declared service types, plus current Wi-Fi SSID/BSSID.

09:41
Capture
Capture
Live streaming to Helix Studio
Captures stream to the desktop automatically.
Scan BLE
Read NFC Tag
Refresh MFi Accessories
No compatible MFi accessories visible. The accessory must be connected and advertise one of this app's supported ExternalAccessory protocols.
Scan Barcode / QR
Snapshot Network
Enrich BLE with GATT reads
Connects to connectable devices during scan and records services, characteristics and readable values.
Streamed 1 record(s) to Helix Studio (demo).
Stores
Captures stream to the desktop live. Nothing is held on device.
09:41
Helix Studio
Server
Status
Connected
ProjectOpen
Hosthelix-studio.local
Port51234
Last Checked16 secs
Capture & Stores
No stores yet
Send a File to Helix
Recent TransfersClear
session-capture.pcap
1,284 rows imported2 min, 0 secs
api-traffic.har
342 rows imported30 min, 30 secs
notes.json
Saved to files2 hrs, 0 min

/ 02 / Pair and stream

One PIN. Then it streams.

01

Open Helix System Settings on your Mac.

Turn on the companion server. A 6-digit PIN appears. This is the only credential exchange.

02

Enter the PIN on your iPhone or iPad.

Helix Helper discovers the server over Bonjour on your local network and pairs immediately. No account, no cloud.

03

Captures stream live.

While paired, each capture appends on a 1.5 second debounce and auto-offloads to the desktop. The on-device buffer empties after each batch.

04

Offline mode accumulates in stores.

No Mac in range? Captures accumulate locally. Tap Offload on any store when you reconnect and the desktop imports the batch.

/ 03 / Flipper Zero

Pull Flipper captures over BLE, straight into Helix.

Connect a Flipper Zero over Bluetooth. Pick files from /ext on the Flipper. Parsed NFC files drop into the active capture store. Everything else lands in Pending Files for a manual send. Read-only: the phone never transmits or emulates.

Connection / Status
Idle
Scanning
Connecting
Pairing
Discovering
ConnectedACTIVE
Pulling files
File Pull Actions
Choose Files to Pull
Browse /ext on the Flipper filesystem
Pull Selected
Transfers chosen files over BLE GATT serial RPC
Send N Pending to Helix
Manually import raw files that could not be auto-parsed

Read-only pull from the Flipper. The phone does not transmit, emulate, or replay anything to the target. The Flipper itself is the radio; the app is the courier.

iPhone and iPad

Free on the App Store.

Download Helix Helper, then pair with Helix on your Mac to start streaming captures.

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Get started

The phone captures. The workbench decodes.

Download Helix Helper free on your iPhone or iPad. Open Helix on your Mac, pair with a PIN, and your captures start arriving on the desktop.