Resistor Scanner

Resistor Scanner

com.mhdev.resistorscanner by MhTechDev
2.6 (2,420)
500K+
TOOLS
29.0 MB
Updated Jun 9, 2025
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About this app

Tired of looking up resistor color codes? Using this app, you can get the resistance using your phone camera!

Features:
- Automatic detection: No aligning of the resistor needed*, the app locates it automatically and analyses the rings
- Live detection
- Manual adjustment: Not the correct rings found? Tap and hold to correct them
- Manual mode: Choose the ring-colors and get the resistance
- Detect multiple resistors at once
- Brightness and zoom sliders
- Touch to focus
- Load image from gallery

If there are issues, please send me a mail (attach screenshots)

* in the free version, resistors need to be placed horizontally

What's New

Drastic rework of most aspects of the algorithm.
Improved UI.
Support for automatic direction detection
Pro version now supports freely oriented resistors
Various fixes and improvements.
Added faster performance mode
Further detection improvements are on the way!

App Information

Version Name
1.9.1
Version Code
18
File Size
29.0 MB
Min SDK
Android 15+
Target SDK
Android 23
Developer
MhTechDev
Contact
Website
Content Rating
Everyone
Package Name
com.mhdev.resistorscanner

Permissions Required

This app may request the following permissions:

  • read phone status and identity
  • read the contents of your USB storage
  • modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
  • take pictures and videos
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • reorder running apps
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • receive data from Internet

Recent Reviews

Sergei Bachilo
1.0★
No single correct answer. The program is nice, it is even trying to read many at once, and is trying to recognize the color bands. You can put a 10-pack, and it will start to show values for all. I tried with a few packs. Unfortunately, among those different values, and it can be "a choice" with as many as 3 to 4 values for a pack of identical 10 resistors, I never saw a correct result, tested on black, white, grey or brown background.
Dan Wilson
2.0★
Sorry man, I wanted to give this tool a real good try, but I could never get it to detect the correct value on any resistor. I tried various white balance settings, brightness, etc. Nothing worked. Most of the time, the main problem is that it never detects a brown band properly. It always reads it as black. I tried different backgrounds as well, and also tried both 5% resistors (beige body) and 1% resistors (blue body). Also tried manual specifying the number of rings. I love that you tried.
Ronnie D
5.0★
Liked the app. 8 out of 10 times it shows the correct resistance value from the colour codes. Helpful for those who are colourblind or sometimes even colours printed on some resistors have slightly different hues. I mainly liked the zoom and exposure sliders provided on the app screen. It would be nice if colour hue adjustment could be added for using under yellowish fluorescent light. Although the app is too big in bytes it's good enough.
Tony Tony01
2.0★
Was going to buy the pro version. The app continuously crashes. Works great makes identifying resistors easier until it crashes then you have to go back and set everything back up again :(
Megivesup
3.0★
I scanned a new pack of resisters with labels. It finds the color bands, but just can't seem to get it right. Back to the glasses. Response to developer: Yes I tried black background. If it had calibration I would give it another try.
A Google user
5.0★
This resistor scanner did a great job, it can even scan multiple resistors at once with high accuracy, wish I can post screenshots in this review. For those who haven't succeed using this app try to lessen the glare on the resistors and make sure you have a good focus, no need to take a big resistor foto, just take the best focus that you can. I never write app reviews unless they are really good or really worse. And this one is a great app.
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