Scientific measurement apps
Turn phones, cameras and connected sensors into guided instruments with calibration, signal processing, quality controls and interpretable results.
Explore measurement appsPocket Science pioneered citizen science app development. We have since matured from building apps into scientific sensing, instrumentation, research data systems and machine learning. Bring us the method, sensor, observation or classification problem. We turn it into a system people can use.
For researchers worldwide · commissioned directly or as a consortium partner · approximately half of our work has come from the United States
Good citizen science technology starts with the scientific question and the people doing the work. We can design whichever layers the project needs—from one focused app to a larger research system—and make them work responsibly with the science.
Turn phones, cameras and connected sensors into guided instruments with calibration, signal processing, quality controls and interpretable results.
Explore measurement appsMobile and web applications for observations, classifications and community monitoring—designed for sustained participation and useful research data.
Explore citizen science softwareProduction backends, maps, dashboards, validation workflows, APIs and interoperable data services that remain useful after the launch campaign.
Explore research infrastructureChoose us when the difficult part is making the science work outside the laboratory.
Our portfolio is not a gallery of interfaces. It is evidence that we can translate unfamiliar scientific methods into technology used by real people.
Our flagship scientific-instrument lineage: apps, processing and international field deployment around smartphone spectropolarimetry.
A public classification platform connected to an active university research programme and robotic-telescope follow-up.
A guided mobile workflow for participatory observation of water colour and clarity, developed in Horizon 2020 MONOCLE.
A long-running example of turning consumer-phone camera data into a structured environmental measurement experience.
The subject is never “just content” for an app. We want to understand why a reflection on water matters, what hides in a flickering point of light, why the night is getting brighter, and what a participant can genuinely add. That enthusiasm is how we notice the technical detail that a detached supplier misses.
We love unfamiliar subjects, open instruments and the moment someone realises their phone can help investigate the world.
We learn deeply without pretending to replace the scientist, community or field expert. Their authority stays theirs. Our role is to become involved enough to translate the method faithfully, challenge the technology constructively and keep caring after launch.
Open source and open science are natural parts of that attitude: useful methods, tools and knowledge should travel further when project rights and participant responsibilities allow it.
You do not need a finished specification or a technology shopping list. We listen, learn enough of the domain to become genuinely involved, and shape a route we can responsibly deliver.
Start with what you are trying to achieve, who it matters to and what is persistently difficult.
We study the method, participants, evidence, systems and constraints until we can think alongside you.
Together we identify the smallest serious step, the wider opportunity and any direct, co-funded or funded route.
Before substantive design or development, we agree scope, responsibilities, rights, evidence boundaries and payment.
We deliver with domain experts, validate the system, and remain available for operation, maintenance or responsible transfer.
“People do not want to watch science. They want to do it.”
That conviction has guided our work from public astronomy to smartphone optics, water observation and research platforms: give people a meaningful scientific action and make difficult technology feel natural.
Every research system is different, so we do not pretend it has a one-click price. We do make the first commercial step explicit.
A focused conversation about the research method, participants, constraints, current systems and likely delivery route.
For projects that need method translation, architecture, risk reduction and an implementation plan before a responsible quote.
A direct assignment, co-funded development or funded technical work package with agreed milestones and responsibilities.
Tell us the goal, participants, method, current systems and desired timescale. We will respond with questions and a practical assessment.
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