Every sensor in your phone,
live and explained.

Accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, light, pressure and the rest. What's My Sensor? lists each one your device has, graphs what it is reading right now, tells you in one sentence what it is for, and puts the motion sensors to work as a spirit level and a compass.

Free. No ads, no permissions, no network. The app only reads sensors.

The sensor list, headed Sensors, with a Motion section holding cards for an accelerometer, a gyroscope, gravity and linear acceleration, each with live X, Y and Z values and their units. Tabs along the bottom read Sensors, Level and Compass.

Every sensor, one list

Every hardware sensor your phone reports, grouped into motion, position, environment and the rest. Sensors that only fire when something happens are listed too, waiting, and the ones apps are not allowed to read are gathered at the bottom with a note saying why.

Plain words

Tap a sensor for a screen of its own: what it measures in one sentence, and what your phone says about the part itself. Even a manufacturer's own sensors, like a Samsung's pocket detection or back tap, get a best guess at what they do.

Nothing leaves your phone

No permissions, no network access, no ads and no analytics. Readings are drawn on screen and never stored or sent anywhere. The app is a window into your hardware, and nothing else.

The accelerometer on its own screen: a large live reading of X, Y and Z, a graph of the last few seconds with one coloured line per axis, Pause and Reset buttons, and a table of the lowest and highest value of each axis.

The last few seconds, and the peaks

Every sensor gets a live graph, one line per axis, with the lowest and highest value it has reached. Pause it to read a peak off, or reset it and measure again: a knock on a table, a shake, the bump of a lift starting.

The Level tab: a large 2.0 degree reading above a round bubble level with the bubble just off centre, the tilt left to right and top to bottom, and a Set as level button. The Compass tab: 296 degrees north west in large figures above a compass dial with N, E, S and W, and a note that it points to magnetic north.

A level and a compass

Lay the phone on a shelf and a bubble shows which way it slopes. Stand it on an edge to hang a picture straight, or set any surface as your own level. The compass rides on the phone's own sensor fusion, the same source as the system compass, and points to magnetic north without asking for your location.