Sensorama displays sensor data from your device app for iPhone and iPad

There are literally hundreds of different Apps in the store each displaying different bits of sensor data from your phone, but Sensorama is the single app that combines the largest number of different sensors out of all of them. No other app combines so many different sensors simultaneously into one place. Its all here, including detailed reference links, live display screens, adjustments, and explanations.

SPECIAL NOTICE: Our terms do not allow you to use any of the data from this App for diagnostic purposes. This app contains a strict terms of use requirement. You MUST agree to the terms, including the prohibition of diagnostics, or you will not be allowed to use this app.

N.B: Information presented by this app IS FOR VIEWING AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY (not suitable nor to be used for diagnostic purposes.). It is accurate only to the capabilities of your device hardware in your environment, and to your chosen accuracy levels (if any), and is not necessarily calibrated, filtered, post-processed, or otherwise compensated. Some data reported (such as location information for non-GPS devices) is not sensor data, but is a software-assisted approximation. DO NOT RELY ON ANY DATA SHOWN FROM THIS APP.

Hundreds of millions of people carry their iOS devices everywhere they go. Each one is a massively capable, networked computer bristling with sensors. Use Sensorama to explore the boundaries of this pervasive new technology, and to help your mind invent, explore, and develop.

Accelerometer:

Provides acceleration-related data from the onboard hardware. This data detects both the current orientation of the device (relative to the ground) and any instantaneous changes to that orientation.


Compass:

Devices with a magnetometer can report the direction in which a device is pointing, also known as its heading. (iPhone 3GS+).
A magnetometer measures nearby magnetic fields emanating from the Earth and uses them to determine the precise orientation of the device. Heading values are reported both relative either to magnetic north, and true north.


Motion:

Uses device hardware that includes an accelerometer and, on some device models, a magnetometer and a gyroscope. Displays user acceleration, gravity, and rotation.


Teslameter:

Implements a Teslameter, a magnetic field detector. It displays the raw x, y, and z magnetometer values, a plotted history of those values, and a computed magnitude (size or strength) of the magnetic field. The units for all values are microteslas.


Locate Me:

The Core Location framework lets you locate the current position of the device. The framework uses information obtained from the built-in cellular, Wi-Fi, or GPS hardware to triangulate a location fix for the device. It reports that location with an accuracy level.


Audio Controls:

Presents the characteristics of the device it’s running on, like Ring/Silent switch state, current device audio volume as well as to changes in hardware capabilities initiated by the user: audio route change by docking or undocking a device, or by plugging in or unplugging a headset.


Telephony:

Obtain information about a user’s home cellular service provider.

Device Discovery:

Proves the ability to discover and browse for Bonjour network services on the current network.

OSC Test:

Allows you to send and receive messages using OSC protocol to other devices. Allows discovery of devices that publish a Bonjour service using "_osc._udp" name.


Battery:

Used to obtain information and notifications about changes to the battery’s charge state (plugged, unplugged & charging, discharging, full) and charge level (percentage of battery level).


Random:

A random number generator that allows access to environmental noise collected from device drivers and other sources.


Proximity:

Provides access to the proximity sensor state. The proximity sensor detects whether the user is holding the device close to their face.