phyphox
Turn your smartphone into a pocket physics laboratory
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Details
- External ID
- 1269110
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- phyphox
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7689975364790601
- Tags
- Android, Open Source, Education, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Download for free: Follow us: Features Sensors Phyphox allows you to use the sensors in your phone for your experiments. For example, detect the frequency of a pendulum using the accelerometer or measure the Doppler effect using its microphone. Data Export Export your data i
Enrichment
- Niche
- ambient audio and relaxation tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- physics experiment lab using smartphone sensors
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic UI reading device sensors is straightforward, but the real app requires precision digital signal processing algorithms and microsecond hardware calibration across hundreds of Android/iOS device models.
What it would actually take: Phyphox relies on native C++/NDK sensor pipelines running high-frequency real-time DSP (Fast Fourier Transforms, cross-correlation, Doppler frequency shifts, acoustic resonance analysis). The challenging aspect is cross-device hardware variance, non-standard sensor sampling rates, and low-latency audio processing pipelines that an LLM assistant cannot autonomously calibrate without specialized physics laboratory benchmarks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 40 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 262 days after the earliest competitor.
- lerobot_android · github · 2026-09-25 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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- FindMy Device: Bluetooth Tracker · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- SafeWalk Mirror · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Lullabox · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Airdrum · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- TiltMaze · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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