Is phyphox safe?

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…

Developer: RWTH Aachen University
Category: Science & Education
First release: 06 Jul 2025
License: Not documented

02 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDde.rwth_aachen.phyphox

Latest APK SHA-256a73edd3c770a771889ec74bc8ee56d9795ef93504ec63a69964c850c36e16a33

Signing certificateDE:21:41:76:00:30:16:4A:6E:2B:15:5F:91:84:3B:91:F0:60:CB:16:64:48:09:54:2A:DD:BB:04:CA:C2:F3:0C

MIN ANDROID21TARGET35ARCHITECTUREarm64-v8a · armeabi-v7a · x86 · x86_64

03 / History

Project timeline

06 Jul 2025

Package observed in source index

Metadata and versions observed from the fdroid repository index.

04 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

1.2.111 Sept 202621+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→1.2.006 Jul 202521+arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64→

05 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexReview the flags below before installing

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions19 declared · 6 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONCAMERAREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGERECORD_AUDIOWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION android.permission.ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE android.permission.BLUETOOTH android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.FLASHLIGHT android.permission.HIGH_SAMPLING_RATE_SENSORS android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO android.permission.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM android.permission.WAKE_LOCK android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE de.rwth_aachen.phyphox.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

06 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗