phyphox

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Turn your phone's sensors into physics lab instruments. phyphox reads accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, light, pressure, microphone, GPS and more, now with camera-based color and brightness measurements. Export data as CSV, TSV or Excel. Open source from RWTH Aachen University.

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Note: This version is from F-Droid

phyphox: Android Phyphox is an app that uses the sensors in a smartphone for physics experiments. You can find additional details and examples on https://phyphox.org.

Copyright 2016 Dr. Sebastian Staacks, 2nd Institute of Physics, RWTH Aachen University.

This project has been created at the RWTH Aachen University and is released under the GNU General Public Licence (see licence file) since version 1.1.0.

The names "phyphox" and "RWTH Aachen University" as well as the RWTH Aachen logo are registered trademarks.

Supported sensors: - Accelerometer. - Magnetometer. - Gyroscope. - Light meter. - Pressure gauge. - Microphone. - Distance sensor. - GPS. * Not every phone has all the sensors.

Output Format: - CSV (Comma Separated Value). - TSV (tab-delimited values). - Excel.

Description of required permissions:

If you are using Android 6.0 or later, some permissions will only be requested when needed.

Network: Allows phyphox to connect to the network, which is required when downloading online experiments or using remote connections. Both are performed only when requested by the user and no other data is transferred. Bluetooth: Used to connect external sensors. Read external storage: May be necessary when opening an experiment stored on a device. Recording: When the experiment requires the use of a microphone. Location information: Experiments related to positioning, used to connect GPS.

What's new

v1.2.0Jan 20, 2026
  • 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

About this version

Version
1.2.0 (1020009)
Size
11.92 MB
Requires Android
5.0
Target SDK
21
Architecture
arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64
Downloads
172
Updated
Jan 20, 2026
Package
de.rwth_aachen.phyphox

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