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phyphox v1.2.0

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Developer Description

Perform physics experiments with your phone. (by the RWTH Aachen University)

Did you know that you are carrying a 3D magnetometer? That you can use your phone as a pendulum to measure earth's local gravitational acceleration? That you can turn your phone into a sonar?

phyphox gives you access to the sensors of your phone either directly or through ready-to-play experiments which analyze your data and let you export raw data along with the results 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.
- 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.
- Define your own experiments by selecting sensor inputs, defining analysis steps and creating views as an interface using our web-editor (http://phyphox.org/editor). The analysis can consists of 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
- Proximity
- GPS
*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 resources 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 necessary when opening an experiment stored on the device.
Record audio: Required to use the microphone in experiments.
Location: Used to access GPS for location-based experiments.
Camera: Used to scan QR codes for external experiment configurations.

What's New

New camera-based sensors to measure luma, luminance, hue, saturation and value
New camera-related experiments: Brightness stopwatch, color stopwatch, brightness spectrum
New UI elements: Slider, Dropdown and Toggle
Redesign of export/save dialogs to offer an additional download to filesystem button
The deprecated Apache-based webserver has been replaced with jlhttp (big thanks to Amicha R.)

Full list of changes at https://phyphox.org/wiki/index.php/Version_history#1.2.0

Version Information

Version
1.2.0
Downloads
1M+
Updated on
Jul 2, 2025
Released
Sep 9, 2016
Requires
Android 5.0

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#69 in Top Free Education in France

#84 in Top Free Education in Germany

phyphox users say on Google Play

★★★★★
BShadow BShadow

This app is mindblowing I don't leave ratings. maybe 3 total and the other 2 were.... not good. I deliberately opened the CIA store... I mean Play Store just to leave this review. I felt like not doing so would be disrespectful to the ones who put this together. When big tech and our governments sell us out to AI completely, I hope the Machine Masters will be kind enough to let me keep one app. it would be this one without hesitation. 10/10

77 Sep 7, 2025
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Markus Dot dot dot Markus Dot dot dot

pretty cool but sometimes buggy. if your phone screen times out with the program open, certain sensors stop working until reboot.

16 Oct 22, 2025
★★★
Josh Vogler Josh Vogler

Graphs stopped working for my phone on latest update. Basically not usable any longer. They still work perfectly on my daughter's $100 dollar phone...but not mine.

23 Dec 2, 2025
★★
gideon ruwaard gideon ruwaard

The idea is pretty neat and I did try to use the software, but after a few experiments the app just becomes unresponsive to a point Android is letting me know. You cannot send information about your sensors to help out because it cannot connect to the external server.

4 Oct 22, 2025
Zachary Zachary

screw this app. crashes while saving data. I've lost hours of data multiple times because when you try to share it or save it it just crashes. seriously screw this. happened on multiple devices of mine too. just use physics toolbox suite

8 Oct 1, 2025

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