Pocket Optics

4.3
272 reviews
50K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Pocket Optics provides an interactive demonstration of basic principles of geometric (ray) optics. Optics professionals can use it for basic ray and image tracing.

Features:

1. Fully interactive touch interface (stylus or compatible mouse is recommended for precision).
2. Supports various screen resolutions - from small phones to large tablets and Android TVs.
3. Point light sources with variable opening angles and optical beams with variable width. The ray density can be adjusted for each source.
4. Adjustable focal lengths for Lenses and Mirrors.
5. Apertures with adjustable openings.
6. Traces images of an Object throughout the optical system.
7. Scrollable screen.
8. Bench configurations can be saved on device for future use.
9. Coordinate grid (can be turned off in Settings).
10. Optic components can be snapped to a smaller grid.
11. Visual Help illustrates all interactive features.
12. Lens focus can be adjusted by dragging focal points or by modifying lens curvature
13. Elements can be grouped in assembly and moved as a unit
14. Spherical and chromatic aberrations can be added to a lens
Updated on
Aug 7, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.4
249 reviews
seperhappyyeah
October 8, 2025
would be nice if the app gives more plenty features like customize type rays: parallel, unparallel, converging, and diverging. lens variations, precise measurement, multiple stack of lens. just like super simulator app that can learning by experiment or play with it
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A Google user
November 30, 2019
Nicely done. I'd pay real money for a third dimension. The ability to visualize non-uniform lenses would be nice. Wavelength dependent refraction and a prism object couldn't hurt. It's a good start, both for the developer and whoever has the nerdacity to engage this offering.
36 people found this review helpful
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Hunar Omar
May 24, 2020
Perfect, although i prefer having an option to choose values by entering numbers instead of pixel perfect dragging. Along with some other information as text, as a mode that you activate in the settings
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About the developer
Alexei A Pakhomov
pocketoptics@gmail.com
United States

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