phyphox

Name: phyphox
Rating: 4.6 (276 reviews)
Author: RWTH Aachen University

Physical Phone Experiments

Free · Designed for iPad

276 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

RWTH Aachen University
Language

EN
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Size

20.4
MB

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 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 • Pressure • Microphone • Proximity • GPS • Camera • LiDAR/ToF *some sensors are not present on every phone. Export formats • CSV (Comma separated values) • TSV (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.

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

276 Ratings

Hands down best iOS app to get sensor data
05/24/2023
JeERR
This is hands down best iOS app to get sensor data. I am using it for the accelerometer and even does the FFT and generates the spectra for you. At least up until now it is free with and ads free. I wish this was available back when I was in high school or even college. Teachers and U. professors should make use of this app and the ecosystem these guys/gals are creating.
Hands down best iOS app to get sensor data
05/24/2023
JeERR

This is hands down best iOS app to get sensor data. I am using it for the accelerometer and even does the FFT and generates the spectra for you. At least up until now it is free with and ads free. I wish this was available back when I was in high school or even college. Teachers and U. professors should make use of this app and the ecosystem these guys/gals are creating.
Its ok, but camera features don’t work
Jul 17
WhatsUp314
I have iphone SE, original. The apps camera functions don’t work. Get a quick blip of camera view then nothing, it freezes. Updated app to try this. And sonar has never made sense. Just blobs across the screen. Clearly not random but doesn’t make any sense. Do I hold phone away, point flat, hold upright turn around, bottom, top, etc. would be nice to know what I need to do. What is it showing me? It would be nice if after starting the “experiment “ the graph had the option to scroll with the data on a fixed time window, not keep compressing the data.
Its ok, but camera features don’t work
Jul 17
WhatsUp314

I have iphone SE, original. The apps camera functions don’t work. Get a quick blip of camera view then nothing, it freezes. Updated app to try this. And sonar has never made sense. Just blobs across the screen. Clearly not random but doesn’t make any sense. Do I hold phone away, point flat, hold upright turn around, bottom, top, etc. would be nice to know what I need to do. What is it showing me? It would be nice if after starting the “experiment “ the graph had the option to scroll with the data on a fixed time window, not keep compressing the data.
Pocket Sensor Suite Saved My Wife’s Sleep
Jun 2
sam-myers
My wife was hearing an annoying high pitched noise and couldn’t figure out what caused it. After a few minutes of unplugging things, I remembered this app existed. Within seconds I had the Audio Spectrum tool open and isolated the frequency. I spent a few minutes playing hot / cold and found the culprit, thanks to this amazing free app. 100% worth sticking on your phone just in case.
Pocket Sensor Suite Saved My Wife’s Sleep
Jun 2
sam-myers

My wife was hearing an annoying high pitched noise and couldn’t figure out what caused it. After a few minutes of unplugging things, I remembered this app existed. Within seconds I had the Audio Spectrum tool open and isolated the frequency. I spent a few minutes playing hot / cold and found the culprit, thanks to this amazing free app. 100% worth sticking on your phone just in case.
Combine with an LLM!
Aug 1
Photon1337
Guys! ChatGPT 5.6 Sol and Claude Fable can accurately and intelligently deconstruct exported .CSV data from Phyphox. They can generate a ton of charts highlighting the most useful observations. Just make sure you use high / extended reasoning modes, but you’ll genuinely receive mindblowing, high quality analysis of your data and is the perfect way to have fun with PhyPjox. Analyze your driving using this combo! It’s soooo cool.
Combine with an LLM!
Aug 1
Photon1337

Guys! ChatGPT 5.6 Sol and Claude Fable can accurately and intelligently deconstruct exported .CSV data from Phyphox. They can generate a ton of charts highlighting the most useful observations. Just make sure you use high / extended reasoning modes, but you’ll genuinely receive mindblowing, high quality analysis of your data and is the perfect way to have fun with PhyPjox. Analyze your driving using this combo! It’s soooo cool.

New spectroscopy experiment New stroboscope experiment Redesigned tone generator with up to three tones, waveforms and panning Replace old Excel export format "xls" with "xlsx", removing the old limit of 65535 lines New languages: Gujarati, Korean and Tamil Select data when clearing New setting to change the default filename Full screen views of graphs and camera previews move controls to the right when in landscape Improved edit boxes Full changelog at https://phyphpox.org/changelog

Version 1.2.1 Sep 7

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Seller: RWTH Aachen University
Size: 20.4 MB
Category: Education
Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages: English and 21 more

English, Czech, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Tamil, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
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