# phyphox (open-source education app)

> phyphox is a free, open-source education app for Android. Perform physics experiments with your phone. It has 650 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/phyphox/phyphox-android |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Other |
| GitHub stars | 650 |
| License | GPL-3.0-only (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/de.rwth_aachen.phyphox/ (package de.rwth_aachen.phyphox) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.rwth_aachen.phyphox |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://phyphox.org |
| Official | no |
| Category | Education & language |
| Latest release | v1.2.1 (Sep 4, 2026) |
| Last commit | Sep 4, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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