phyphox
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About phyphox
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 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.
Location: Used to access GPS for location-based experiments
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.
--
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.
Location: Used to access GPS for location-based experiments
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
Minor update with bugfixes:
- Fix wrong time axis of audio scope
- Allow unusual frequencies in tone generator but add a warning
- Rename centrifugal acceleration to centripetal
- Fix OK-button not accessible on startup (small screens with enlarged fonts)
- Fix rare crash in GPS module
- Combine wrong GPS status to "deactivated/active"
Minor update with bugfixes:
- Fix wrong time axis of audio scope
- Allow unusual frequencies in tone generator but add a warning
- Rename centrifugal acceleration to centripetal
- Fix OK-button not accessible on startup (small screens with enlarged fonts)
- Fix rare crash in GPS module
- Combine wrong GPS status to "deactivated/active"
Version update phyphox was updated to version 1.0.8
More downloads phyphox reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
What are users saying about phyphox
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Fantastic app
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I'd love to have the ability to log two sensors or more at once. Also why can't you log GPS? I'd like to log GPS and inclinometer data at the same time. I'd love to help if possible. I'm a programmer myself.
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Its soo much effective app for my phone...Thank u for making this app
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Just great for nerds
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Easy to use, gets out of your device what's in there. Nicely done, and apparently they are still pushing it a further bit by bit. Looking forward to the next update, thanks a lot ladies and gentlemen!
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Hi Aachen University! I love your app. However can you help me? I think i can snap 8 different notes altogether on both my hands, I would like to know the note each finger produces. But the frequency displayed disappears very fast and is not very consistent, can you make a delay to to frequency displayed, much like a guitar tuner where it dusplays the last significant note played for a few seconds? This is so i wont have to continuously snap to see the note lol, it gets tiring.
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Awesome!!! I absolutely love this :). I can't believe this isn't paid! Thank you, I'm not even a physics kind of person and still this is really really neat!
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Really really great app.... loved it so much that i am writing my first review just to give thumbs up and convey my thanks to the developer...
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About year ago, I told to teachers in school and university that "you can build lab for kids and even 1st-2nd year students arround smartphones, even with simple raw data reading". You did it!
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Fantastic app! It works unbelievably well and opens up some great potential for a mobile device to be used as tool for experimentation.
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Why didn't I get this as soon as I started teaching. Download this now.
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Interesting still discovering things to do useful and fun.
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Dream come true for basic physics enthusiasts
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Great app. Thanks for providing this.
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Holy guacamole that is just perfect
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Great app!
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An innovative idea
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It works fine
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Works great
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Cool!
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Love it!
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Excellent work
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Awesomeness
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Ein Tricorder. Wer schon immer mal wissen wollte, was man so alles sinnvolles mit den Sensoren einen smarten Gerätes machen kann,ist hier an der richtigen Stelle. Edutainment inklusive.
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Not work on Android 4.2.2/tab
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Really creative app!
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Amazing APP
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Exceptional!! Very well written app, with many useful & unique features to perform physical data delivery for almost any application. Flawless operation thus so far. However, some features may not be usable if your device lacks a compatible sensor requirement. WELL DONE!! Thank you very much
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Game changing! There always were apps that showed you data from your sensors, but this has csv export, an integrated web server to see the data in real time on any computer (allowing you to keep the phone strapped to your experiment), and quite a few clever experiments. You guys just opened a whole new world where smartphones can replace a lot of lab equipment. Still obviously need a high-end smart phone that has fast sensors. Can't blame the app for that. Kudos to you guys, seriously!
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1) Tone generator seems to have a bug and can´t go over 8000hz. The number resets to 8000.0 The 7000hz change the wave type. 2) Everyday life Suggestion: Acceleration sersor Y can track the hartbeats when you touch the phone over your chest. Sensor X too, in landscape position. Some tune needs to be done with the amplitude. And a b.p.m. should be awesome.
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Its a really useful app and I like to play with it. I would like for the graphs to be more interactive, at least the ability to make them bigger. And also to be able to record data and display it in the app, that would be awesome.
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Very creative. Developers are pushing the boundaries of what can be accomplished by this small handheld device which gets mostly used for taking selfies and watching cat videos.
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Extremely well made app with lots of useful tools and interesting experiments. Great for both education and entertainment.
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If you're a Science teacher this is fantastic ..., really excited to share this with colleagues.
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Fantastic and well made. Veritās. Thankful that you are willing to help a Layman such as I.
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Awesome app.
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Amazing, simple, easy to use experiments. Thank you for this app.
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Very well
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Incredible set of tools!
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Wonderful sensorial sandbox