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Sensor Play - Data Recorder

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Sensor Play - Data Recorder is an iOS app from Philip Broder in the Utilities category, currently rated 4.7★ across 59 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.

Our BU Score puts it at 66: Solid (established niche player). For a Utilities app, that means established niche player.

Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.

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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo

MODEL
Revenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
Paid app ($0.00)METRIC
+$2,800
Excellent rating (4.7★)METRIC
+$2,200
5 starREVIEW
+$1,800
Mature app (11y old)METRIC
+$1,500
Single-language (English only)METRIC
−$400
Pre-traction phase (59 ratings)METRIC
−$300
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)

📈 Reviews Growth

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⭐ Rating Trend

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🗓️ Snapshot Timeline

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App Specs
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💾 16 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 11.0+🔖 v5.5🔄 updated 2y ago🌐 EN📂 Utilities💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)

📝 About this app

Sensor Play - the iPhone Sensor Playground, and the best app for serious scientific research and data recording.

Used by engineers, scientists, teachers, and enthusiasts all around the world.

The sensors built into all iPhones are amazing examples of the power in your pocket. To have a GPS receiver, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, even a Barometer with you at all times is a marvel of miniature engineering. It's simply fun to see the output from all these sensors, play with each interactively, or just view the raw data.

Record Accelerometer, Gyroscope, GPS, Barometer, Magnetometer sensor data and share by email for further analysis, or review using the in app viewer.

However Sensor Play is not just a toy.

Beyond the obvious fun of watching the accelerometer and gyroscope graphs bounce around you can now record multi-sensor data all at the same time, even in the background, for a full external analysis of your, or your iPhone's, motion through time and space however you so desire.

And now with Automation you can trigger your recordings to start either after a simple delay, when you enter or leave a preset GPS Region, or when the iPhone is nudged above a selected gForce.
Then end your recordings either after a set duration, or when you enter or leave a preset GPS Region.

Automation makes getting the data you want so much easier, and eliminates lots of unnecessary recorded data. Set up the triggers as required, close the phone and go.
Set and Forget! Later when you open SensorPlay the data you were after will have been automatically recorded and saved for you.

The following data is recorded to a csv file for sharing through the standard iPhone share sheet.
Timestamp
Accelerometer: X, Y, Z
Gyroscope: X, Y, Z
Attitude: Roll, Pitch, Yaw
Location: Longitude, Latitude, Speed, TrueHeading, Altitude
Motion Activity: Type & Confidence
Barometer: Pressure, Relative Altitude
Magnetometer: µT X, Y, Z, calibrated x,y,z, rotation matrix, and quaternion

Visual graphs of sensor recordings in one place, as long as they're not too large anyway.

Background mode is supported for all recordings, accelerometer, gyro, and multi-sensor export, lock your screen and keep recording all sensor data for up to six hours.

A serious engineering, scientific, and educational analysis tool.

Sharing of all recordings is now through the built in share options which includes, Airdrop, mail, message, notes, dropbox (if installed), etc.

Sensors currently supported:

Barometer (iPhone 6 and above only)
- see the atmospheric pressure in a choice of 7 units, see your relative altitude plotted over time.
- Widget available to display the atmospheric pressure in the notification centre.
Accelerometer
- See the g-forces on the X,Y,Z axis and see them traced over time.
- Widget available to show gMax in X,Y,Z axis on notification screen.
- Record the data and share for further analysis
Gyroscope
- Watch the rate of rotation over the X,Y,Z axis plotted over time.
- Record the data and share for further analysis
GPS/Location Services
- See your exact location mapped on screen and share your Lat/Long coordinates by text or email.
Magnetometer/Compass
- See the magnetic field acting on the X, Y, Z, axis along with an interactive compass.
3D/Force Touch (6S ->11 only)

Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

🆕 What's New · v5.5

This release is primarily cosmetic to ensure compatibility with latest SDK and devices.

Profile & Insights

Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.

Identification

App name
Sensor Play - Data Recorder
Developer
Philip Broder
Bundle ID
com.philipbroder.Senso
App Store URL
Open in App Store
Category
Utilities
Content rating
4+
Languages
EN

Company

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Today
Description
Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
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Revenue

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ML model estimate / mo
$10.4K/mo
Top-grossing rank
Outside top 100 in US Utilities
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Recent App Store Reviews23 latest · avg 4.3★ · 60.9% 5★ · 8.7% 1★
5★
14 (61%)
4★
6 (26%)
3★
1 (4%)
2★
0 (0%)
1★
2 (9%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×5 favorite ×2 perfect ×2 awesome ×2 best ×2Complaints: crash ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Fun app!!
This is a fun app to play with! I really like using it when I'm skiing down a mountain, to track my speed and things! :)…
★★★★★ Very nice
For my iPhone 6+ I wanted to see what barometer apps were available, to try out the new barometer sensor. So I downloaded a few free apps and tried them out. While looking for such apps there was Sensor Play for 99 cents. Hmmm ... it can sh…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Not working
Every time I try to view a file, the app quits.…
★☆☆☆☆ Crashes on iPad
When I stop recording the app crashes on my iPad Air 1.…
📈Ratings growth59 ratings+5800% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾Oct 2014Jan 2024May 2026
Tracked (25 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.

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