How To Turn Your Smart Phone Into A Metal Detector & Best Apps To Use

As the name implies, a metal detector is used to detect the presence of a metal or metallic object.

Metal detectors are used for detecting the presence of metals, weapons and other dangerous objects made out of metal.

A metal detector makes use of the application of a magnetic field to detect the presence of metals. Like magnets attract metals, a metal detector would detect the presence of a metal and magnetic objects. The metal detector in your phone makes use of the magnetic sensor in the device to detect a metal.

This is one of the best ways to put your phones magnetometer to use. This ensures you put this sensor into judicious use.

According to Cnet, Metal Detector works by measuring the magnetic field around the location of your Android phone. It begins with a baseline measurement, then when it detects a metal, the measurement goes up and the color changes from green to red. 

The cool stuff is that there are many applications available for both android and iPhones that can serve as a metal detector for your phone.

One of the most popular among them is 'Metal Detector' available in the Playstore or App store.

To make use of the metal detector, go to Google Playstore if you are are on Android, or the Apple App store if you are on an iOS device and search for the application. Alternatively, you can download the application for android directly from the Playstore here.

The Metal Detector by Aleksandr Balyberdin in the Apple App store is also one of the most popular for iPhones that does the job according to ratings from users, as the application has a rating of 4.2 from over 8100 users as at the time of this post.

You can download Metal Detector directly from the app store if you are on an iOS device like iPhone or iPad here.

Other Metal Detectors for iPhones include: Metal Detector EMF, Metal Detector Pro, Metal Detector for iPhone, Magnetic Detector LITE, Hand Held Metal Detector, 

As mentioned above for the android platform, Metal Detector whose link is given above is the most popular for the platform.

As at the time of this post, this app is about the most popular and the most widely acclaimed as it had over 10 million installs and a rating of 4.2/5 from over 115 thousand users in Google Playstore.

Other best Metal Detectors according to Android Authority include: G-Detect, corespecs, Metal Detector by Town apps786, NECO Metal Detector, Smart Tools Metal Detector.

While some of these applications are free, others have both free and paid versions.