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
Earliest archived version: 06 Jul 2025
License: GPL-3.0-only (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

11 Sept 2026

1.2.1

New spectroscopy experiment New stroboscope experiment Redesigned tone generator with up to three tones, waveforms and panning Replace old Excel export format "xls" with "xlsx", removing the old limit of 65535 lines New languages: Gujarati, Korean and Tamil Select data when clearing New setting to…

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03 / 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

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 1.2.0 (06 Jul 2025), latest 1.2.1 (11 Sept 2026).

Permissions changed between 1.2.0 and 1.2.1: added android.permission.ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK, android.permission.FLASHLIGHT; removed android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED.

05 / 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→

06 / 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.

07 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗