Turn Your Phone Into a Metal Detector
No expensive equipment needed. Use your smartphone's built-in magnetic sensor to find studs, wires, pipes, and lost metal items instantly. Join over 1 million users who trust this powerful detection tool.
One App, Endless Practical Uses
Safe Home Repairs
Find studs, electrical wires, and iron pipes before you drill. Hang pictures and shelves with confidence, knowing exactly where the support beams are. Skip the expensive stud finder and use the tool that's already in your pocket.
Recover Lost Items
Dropped your keys in the grass? Lost a tool in your yard? Metal objects hiding in trash bags? Simply open the app, move your phone around, and let the visual chart and sound alerts guide you straight to your missing items.
Simple and Intuitive
Just launch the app and start moving your phone. Colorful charts show magnetic field levels in real time, while vibration and sound effects alert you when metal is nearby. Adjust sensitivity settings to match your needs.
Always Available
Your phone goes everywhere you go, which means your metal detector does too. No need to buy, store, or carry separate equipment. When you need to find metal, your detection tool is already in your hand.
About Metal Detector
Metal Detector
Metal Detector is an Android application that detects the presence of metal nearby by measuring the magnetic field value. This useful tool uses the magnetic sensor built into your mobile device and shows the magnetic field level in μT (microtesla). The magnetic field level (EMF) in nature is about 49 μT (microtesla) or 490 mG (milligauss); 1 μT = 10 mG. If any metal is nearby, the value of the magnetic field will increase.
Metal Detector allows you to identify any metal object in the area because all metals generate a magnetic field whose strength can be measured with this tool.
The usage is simple: launch this app on your mobile device and move it around. You will see that the magnetic field level shown on the screen is constantly fluctuating. Colorful lines represent the three dimensions and the numbers on top show the value of the magnetic field level (EMF). The chart will increase, and the device will vibrate and make sounds, announcing that metal is close. You can change the sensitivity of vibration and sound effects in the settings.
You might use the Metal Detector to find electrical wires in walls (like a stud finder), iron pipes on the ground... or pretend it's a ghost detector and scare someone! You can also use this magnetometer as a scanner to find hidden devices – cameras, microphones or voice recorders!
Metal Detector is available in the language set on your phone – now also in Russian, Spanish, and Indonesian! You can also find it in Portuguese, Turkish, and French. Now the app also has its versions in Arabic and Farsi!
If you enjoy the app and want even more – you can get a pro version! Check it out in the application menu.
The accuracy of the tool depends entirely on the sensor in your mobile device. Please note that due to electromagnetic waves, the magnetic sensor is affected by electronic equipment.
Metal Detector cannot detect gold, silver, and coins made of copper. They are classified as non-ferrous, which has no magnetic field. But maybe you will find a metal box with some treasure inside!
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Attention! Not every model of a smartphone has a magnetic field sensor. If your device does not have one, the application will not work. Sorry for this inconvenience.
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Real People, Real Results
THIS ONE IS FOR REAL, FOLKS!! I am a real person who bought rare earth magnets to hot glue to the end of a large glue stick & spent over an hr randomly rubbing it back and forth along my textured ceiling in a vain attempt to find a joist 2 properly hang a plant... To NO avail! I was about 2 spend $ I don't have on a stud finder after installing & uninstalling 5 similar apps b4 I finally found this app! Within 2 mins of installing it, I found the joist I needed! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
One of the best app! During winters in - 18 to -20 Degrees Celsius our entire supply lines gets freeze and its difficult to figure out how to trace these pipes which are under snow/soil 2 to 3 feets down. . I downloaded this app and believe me it was mericale the way it is helping to trace these pipes...its really a Big relief and I would recommend this to everyone. Thank you very much. Zaffar Malik Jammu and Kashmir
I suspected I'd accidentally threw something away and rather than rip open bin bags, I decided to download this app, within 2 minutes I'd located the item, this app is actually excellent, saved me a lot of stress and cleaning up to do, brilliant!!!!!
Only used the free version but it worked and helped me find the tip of a "break off" Stanley knife in the grass out my back garden
we lost all of our softball base plugs and used this app to find all three within seconds. amazing, works perfect
This worked great to find the water shut-off valve in my front yard.
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