Phyphox
Physics app in Learning
Free app that turns a phone's sensors into physics experiment tools, liked for classroom and hands-on use.
Free app that turns a phone's sensors into physics experiment tools, liked for classroom and hands-on use.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 16
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 16 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
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Phone sensors as experiment inputs
“you can use pretty much all of the phone's sensors as inputs for physical experiments”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics” “it turns the phone into a poor man's tricorder, and that's handy sometimes”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone” “The coolest thing I ever did with that was finding wires in a friends wall”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone” Thrilled secondary school physics teachers
“I showed the app to a bunch of secondary school physics teachers and they were thrilled.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone” “this is our go-to app. We've measured acceleration in an elevator”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone” Fun hands-on measurements at home
“I've had great fun using Phyphox to visualise my hand getting closer/farther from my phone”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone” “I used it just the other day.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone” Handy general-purpose measurement toolkit
“it turns the phone into a poor man's tricorder, and that's handy sometimes”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone” “Good toolkit to have around.”
Comment from 12 Apr 2026 in “Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone”
What people said
12 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you can use pretty much all of the phone's sensors as inputs for physical experiments”
“Damn that's very impressive”
“I get 500 Hz here on a Samsung from 2019 and make use of it regularly.”
“Seems like a more advanced version of Arduino Science Journal”
“I've had great fun using Phyphox to visualise my hand getting closer/farther from my phone”
“The coolest thing I ever did with that was finding wires in a friends wall”
“I used it just the other day.”
“this is our go-to app. We've measured acceleration in an elevator”
“I showed the app to a bunch of secondary school physics teachers and they were thrilled.”
“it turns the phone into a poor man's tricorder, and that's handy sometimes”
“on android the sampling rate of the acceleration sensor is limited to 50/s”
“Good toolkit to have around.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.