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phyphox

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.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • F-Droid
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  • experiments
  • physics

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phyphox information

  • Developed by

    DE flagRWTH Aachen University
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Czech
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish
    • Turkish
    • Vietnamese

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What is phyphox?

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)

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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