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phyphox on Windows Pc

Developed By: RWTH Aachen University

License: Free

Rating: 4,6/5 - 6.408 votes

Last Updated: April 16, 2024

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version	1.2.0-beta1
Size	18.8 MB
Release Date	June 26, 24
Category	Education Apps
App Permissions: Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (8)]
What's New: Bugfixes and improvements. Most noticable by most users:- Make three-dot menu on main screen easier to hit- Prevent line-breaks in title and prefer scaling and... [see more]
Description from Developer: 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 phon... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download phyphox and install on Windows PC. phyphox is free Education app, developed by RWTH Aachen University. Latest version of phyphox is 1.2.0-beta1, was released on 2024-06-26 (updated on 2024-04-16). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000,000. Overall rating of phyphox is 4,6. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 6,408 users, 316 users had rated it 5*, 5,373 users had rated it 1*.

How to install phyphox on Windows?

Instruction on how to install phyphox on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install phyphox on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Install using BlueStacks
Install using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Install phyphox using BlueStacks

Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
Once installed, click "phyphox" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install phyphox on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "phyphox" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 1.2.0-beta1 , 1.1.16 , 1.1.13 , 1.1.12 , 1.1.11 , 1.1.9 , 1.1.8 , 1.1.7 , 1.1.6 , 1.1.5 , 1.1.3.

Download phyphox 1.2.0-beta1 on Windows PC – 18.8 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.16 on Windows PC – 8.6 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.13 on Windows PC – 20.5 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.12 on Windows PC – 8.5 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.11 on Windows PC – 7.9 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.9 on Windows PC – 5.4 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.8 on Windows PC – 5.3 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.7 on Windows PC – 4.9 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.6 on Windows PC – 7.2 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.5 on Windows PC – 7.1 MB

Download phyphox 1.1.3 on Windows PC – 6.7 MB

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.
- 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)

This app has been developed at the 2nd Institute of Physics A at the RWTH Aachen University.

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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 resources 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 necessary 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.
Camera: Used to scan QR codes for external experiment configurations.

Bugfixes and improvements. Most noticable by most users:
- Make three-dot menu on main screen easier to hit
- Prevent line-breaks in title and prefer scaling and truncating instead
- Fix: Switch to uncalibrated magnetometer has no effect
- Fix: Audio experiments not working on Xiaomi devices while Google Assistant voice command is enabled in the system
Full list at https://phyphox.org/wiki/index.php/Version_history

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to record audio.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.