phyphox
phyphox gives you access to the sensors of your phone either directly or through ready-to-play experiments including data analysis and data export for further analysis. You can even define your own experiments on phyphox.org and share them with colleagues, students and friends.
Selected Features:
- A selection of pre-defined experiments. Just press play to start.
- Define your own experiments by selecting sensor inputs, defining analysis steps and creating views as an interface
- Export your data to a range of widely used formats
- Remote-control your experiment through a web interface from any PC on the same network as your phone. No need to install anything on those PCs
- all you need is a modern web browser.
- Set up your own complex data analysis, whether it is just adding two values or using advanced methods like Fourier transforms and crosscorrelation. We offer a whole toolbox of analysis functions.
Sensors supported:
- Accelerometer
- Magnetometer
- Gyroscope
- Light intensity
- Pressure
- Microphone*some sensors are not present on every phone.
Export formats
- CSV (Comma separated values)
- CSV (Tab-separated values)
- Excel(if you need other formats, please let us know)
This app has been developed at the 2nd Institute of Physics A at the RWTH Aachen University.
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Explanation for the permissions requested
If you have Android 6.0 or newer, some permissions will only be asked for when needed.
Internet: This grants phyphox network access, which is required to load experiments from online ressources or when using the remote access. Both are only done when requested by the user and no other data is transmitted.Bluetooth: Used to access external sensors.Read external storage: This is may be neccessary when opening an experiment stored on the device.Record audio: Required to use the microphone in experiments.
Category : Education
Reviews (26)
It is hard to believe that such a valuable, versatile, and well-organized app exists, never mind for free and without ads or other bloat. If I could suggest one improvement: I was very surprised that you can't view the spectra you've taken over time as "carpet"-style spectrograms. I'd really like to see that functionality.
This app was used for experiments in university. The engineering students had to measure the speed of sound using the app's ability to measure the time it takes to bounce sound waves. The problem is there is no control on how the app records the sound, what the graph means and what can be interpreted, and it doesn't properly control phones with dual mics and speakers leading to inaccuracies and issues with measurements. This app is poorly designed for real world applications.
It's a very useful and interesting tool. One of its advantages is ability to save data in Excel format, then you can do post processing on data easily!
Supercool app gives you access to all the raw sensor data and has designed in really cool, easy to perform Physics experiments.
I LOVE this software. Anyone looking for a sensor suite for Android 12 should buy this one. Oh wait, it's free. And awesome. And no ads.
Exceptional for classroom use - as a teacher (age groups 11-18) it's fantastic that I can set my phone up in place in an experiment & then control and display all the information in real time on a screen through a browser. Makes data-logging equipment for demonstrations look poor in comparison & the number of sensors it accesses is awesome.
Extremely useful for science addict like me. Although magnetometer seems to give quite noticeable inconsistent result no matter how many times I tried to 8-figure-calibrate. Although I recommend it and it deserves full 5 stars. +++ +++ +++ Edit: Kudos to the developer for respondng to this review. However, I don't understand German. GT only gives questionable translation accuracy...
Absolutely amazing app. Especially for non professionals who just want to play around with this stuff. Great job to all the developers who made this happen!
Great. It has very much features and looks optical nice. This app is also ad free and free of charge! Well, it depends on your phone, but this app shows me, how to discover new things about your environment. I also helped me to understand physics more because its in the reality and not only with formulas.
Ha! Every phone in my opinion, should come with this type of readouts... instead of bloatware that collects excess useless data that fills up your phone over time. Main sensors reads are nicely categorized into easily understood menus, and overall theme is clean and straightforward. Good job guys.
It great I've long awaited somthing like this it really is great to see. I only ask if there's away to increase the magnetic field or power of the sensor or expand the capabilitys of the magnometer please make it happen the metal detector apps are good for the field but I jus would think there be a way to increase the strength of it or use all magnet systems in the same way to achieve the desired level of strength I'm sure there's a way to do this without damaging the rest of phone too much
Even if you have zero use for this app, I recommend trying it if only to see some of the amazing capabilities of your mobile device's sensors, taken beyond raw readings, with both fundamental and advanced algorithmic processing. More advanced users might see the obvious functionality they desire for their projects.
Great app! Creates a website for other devices to connect to and browse an ongoing datacapture from an experiment. The data can be exported to a csv file, so it would be possible to further prosses it in Excel for example. Wonder if it would be possible to use it together with a ti nspire cas calculator somehow?
Almost everything I need in one package. Raw data filters would be great - threshold setting for accelerometer, for instance, could be extremely useful, since they are noisy as hell.
Incredible app. I would give it six stars it if were possible. It's like a mini laboratory inside your phone ! I use it everyday for my little experiments, and the ability to export data is amazing ! Thank you very much for creating this app :)
Pretty awesome. I would recommend adding some unit conversion though, like I was trying to look at the pressure in ATM but it only gave it in hPa so I had to throw it in my calculator to convert it. Seems like something that would be easy enough to program in.
Works amazingly well, so many options, so many features, with a very clear and understandable UI. It is simply amazing the amount of access to the different sensors on your phone this allows.
Wonderful. You can do a lot of things. Quite accurate and Easy to use
I used accoustic meter to calculate the speed by using the ∆t between 2 smartphones. But the result is so far from the reality. I make 20 experiment, and the result is from 200m/s to 580m/ s. I used the formula v= 2d/ ∆t. It is a horrible apps. The apps is very inaccurate. Sorry
Amazing app. It does way more than I'd ever need it to do, and accurately too.
Excellent app. I find the sensors very useful for simple experiments. Not lab equipment but you get the general idea with very good results. Love the export capability.
What a nifty ideas—physics experiments via the aid of a ubiquitous piece of technology that nearly everyone has, and even carries around on their person! #LoveIt!
Oh this is better than any game, using your phone for fun/interesting/eduational experiments Mind to keep the lid on the silly/stupid. eg. acceleration testing yr phone into concrete will probably destroy yr phone (as well as not giving a test result). There's good explanations for the uninitiated. The looks you'll get during your commute to work, priceless. Uninstall your Minecruft, Phyphox is here to activate your brain. Unleash your curiosity. Totally amesome! n.b. Phyphox is no toy.
Amazing, especially the magnetometer graph
The best application I can imagine. It can be used to diagnose your phone too, to find if any sensor is busted... also you can find any live wires in the walls before put any nails through. Or play cool experiments with your kids. The limit is your imagination.
I was using phyphox to record some barometric pressure data over several days on an old phone. The first time I did it, everything seemed to work, though the export process isn't straightforward. The second time I tried it, I couldn't export the data I needed before the app let me exit the experiment without prompting me to save any of my data and then crashed. I have no idea if the data is recorded anywhere or if it's even recoverable.