phyphox 4+
Physical Phone Experiments
RWTH Aachen University
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
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
- Pressure
- Microphone
- Proximity
- GPS
*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.
What’s New
Version 1.1.16
- New image support in experiment configurations. (Not yet used in default configurations, but can be implemented by external ones.)
- Improved acoustic stopwatch performance, allowing for minimum delay settings below the internal audio buffer size of the device.
- Extend fix for pressure sensor on iOS 17.4 to all iOS 17 versions >= 17.4.
- Fix: Raw data not shown or exported in audio autocorrelation
Ratings and Reviews
Hands down best iOS app to get sensor data
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.
One app to view all sensors, perfect!
An excellent app, allows you to visualize data from all sensors. Very fast, generally excellent! One feature request: allow other sensors to be plugged in via USB-C connection. I’d love to be able to use a spectrometer or collect data from a variety of sensors. Thanks for the excellent app!
Great App with some math
I am using accelerometer only so far for measuring and recording car acceleration.
With low pass filter (FIR) and coordination translation, it works very well.
My car has wireless phone charger, about 37 degree angle. To calculate lateral acceleration, the raw data (y-z) must be transformed by using sin() and cos().
You can use phone app to measure angle.
Developer Response ,
Thank you. :) Many of these operations could be done in phyphox itself with https://phyphox.org/wiki/index.php/Phyphox_file_format
App Privacy
The developer, RWTH Aachen University, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- RWTH Aachen University
- Size
- 17.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- 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
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English, Czech, Dutch, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016 RWTH Aachen University
- Price
- Free