Mobile phones come with different motion, pressure, location sensors and if any of these sensors help you measure, calculate and weigh with the mobile phone as if it were a scale. Let's see if there are applications that help you weigh.
Can a mobile phone be used as a scale?
The answer is no, there are no applications to weigh with your mobile phone. Mainly for one reason. It does not have sensors dedicated to this operation.
Android devices lack sensors specifically designed to measure weight. Yes it is true that Through changes in the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors, the mobile phone can intuit a weight calculation but it is not reliable..
Even if they had the right sensors and software, it would not be practical to use an Android device to weigh food or other things, since it would be more convenient to use a dedicated scale.
The technological limitations of mobile devices in this matter make using the mobile phone as a scale to measure the weight of objects almost impossible. So, if you find an app to download that says it can weigh objects, it may be a scam.
Despite this, The digital scales that you can find in the app are generally joke applications and not scams but let's look at these apps that advertise themselves as reliable scales, balances and weights.
What applications exist to weigh with your phone?
In addition to fake apps that offer nothing but a scam, There are other applications that help you weigh, but they require other devices such as scales with Bluetooth or as an independent weight calculation.. Let's look at a couple of them that can help you weigh.
Digital scale
It is an app that does not allow weighing with mobile sensors but rather allows you to manually enter weights to make percentage and price calculations.
Requires a real scale to record the weights efficiently.
BT 2.0 scale terminal
This app works connected to a scale with Bluetooth. Thanks to this connection you can see the real-time data of the different weight calculations on your mobile.
I don't think it's much more functional than a traditional scale, but if you need it, I'll leave it here.
What function do these applications have?
Joke
These apps are perfect for playing pranks on your friends when weighing with your cell phone. There are some that They work like magic tricks.» that you have to prepare in advance and thus try to impress your friends with the illusion that your cell phone is capable of measuring the weight of an apple, for example.
Fraud
Some of these apps have been removed from the platform because they have been involved in scams in different ways. They are applications that They try to directly deceive the user and that is why they have retired.
Despite this, you have to be careful because new apps may emerge that have this malicious intention.
Make money with advertising
And of course, generate money through ads and downloads. Many of these apps just want you to try their app once. When you see that it doesn't work, uninstall it, but along the way you've seen a video and that's what they take.
That's why I recommend, if you need to calculate weights on a regular basis, buy a scale or weight that adjusts to what you want to weigh and do not try to download applications from strange developers, with strange or fake profiles.