How To Measure Anything With Your Smartphone

A smartphone can do just about anything, from being a music player, a camera, to a calculator. However, not many people know that it can also replace the measuring tape.

As long as you have the right apps and sensors on your phone, you can measure anything with it. Here is how:

Measure Altitude With Your Phone

Figuring out altitude is possible if your phone has a built-in barometer (which many do), GPS, and maps. These are also the needed tools, to translate the information into altitude, you need an app to analyze the data and display the result.

For those who use iOS, the best-rated options are My Altitude and Elevation GPS, and My Altitude. Those who have an Android phone can choose between Altimeter Ler and My Elevation. If you need absolute accuracy, you can install a few and test beforehand to see which one is the most accurate. All of these recommended apps are freemium or free.

Many cycling, running, and skiing apps have this feature too so you might want to consider them if you want many features in one app.

Measure Humidity With Your Phone

Our smartphones have not yet had humidity sensors, or you may know them under the name hygrometers. So if you want to know how humid it is outside, there are two choices. One, you install an app on your device. What it does is to look up the information online and then present what it finds to you. The other choice is to invest in some equipment and set them up to send needed data to your smartphone.

For a humidity app, good options are iOS’ Hygrometer or Android’s Thermometer-Hygrometer. Several weather apps provide information on humidity too.

If you want to splurge on equipment to actually collect the data by yourself, the Rs. 12.819 Netatmo Weather Station is among the best. The Rs. 3.916 Govee Thermo-Hygrometer.

Measure Distance With Your Phone

If what you want is the distance you have traveled, the best options are apps like Apple Health or Google Fit. However, measuring the distance from one point to another requires something else.

One of the best choices is Strava for both iOS and Android. What it does is not only log the distance but also plot the journey out on the map for you.

For more specific needs, here are the recommended options, Polarsteps for the distance across air, land, and sea; MileIQ is for car mileage; Google Maps is for distance without you actually need to move.

Measure Speed With Your Phone

Our phones have an accelerometer onboard so you can rely on it to measure speed. Google Maps is a free and easy-to-use app to know how fast you are going; it works on both Android and iOS. Cyclists can rely on Cyclemeter, it keeps track of several real-time stats, including speed of course.

If what you want is just speed and you have an Android phone, SpeedView is an excellent option. Those who use iOS can install the Speedometer Speed Box App. These two apps store speed information over time and SpeedView allows you to export the data too.

Measure Air Quality With Your Phone

Smartphones do not have the needed sensors to measure air quality so, just as with humidity, you can either get an app that fetches data online for you or invest in an indoor air-quality monitor.

For apps, the best ones on the market now are AirVisual and Air Matters. Both of them provide you with real-time data and several statistics.

An indoor air quality monitor can do all the analyzing work and then send the data to your phone. The monitor also has its own display to show you the information.

The best choices here are Rs. 13.175 Airthings Wave Plus and Rs. 12.106 Awair box, both of which have support for Google Assistant and Alexa.

Measure Length And Space With Your Phone

Apple and Google have both introduced Measure, augmented reality app for measuring floor space, length, and objects. While their accuracy cannot rival that of professional equipment, it still can help if you want to know roughly how much space you have or how large an object is.

Another handy app for the job is Ruler for Android, which displays a ruler on the screen so that you can measure anything with it. Another option is Measure, a virtual tape measure that comes with lots of other features. iOS also has an app called Ruler, offering users AR as well as non-AR tools.

Measure Weight With Your Phone

Your phone cannot exactly measure weight but there are some workarounds. Working Scale works on Android and it uses a wide variety of sensors on the phone to estimate how much an object weighs. However, the limit is between 2 and 100 grams.

To have more accurate data, you might need to invest in a real scale and set it up to send information to your phone. We recommend Rs. 9.258 Fitbit Aria can not only keep track of your weight but also help you meet your target. For the weight of other objects, a solid substitute is the Rs. 2.136 Etekcity Scale for the kitchen.

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