You're spot on. It's done on an iPad, converting an IR photodiode to the 3.5mm audio jack plug and then running an app called "Oscilloscope." Another really good one is "FFT Plot" by the same manufacturer.
Here's the app in action:
Here's the components:
and here it is put together to measure from a KGE instead of Lidar. (The mess of wires on the protoboard also includes other projects. You don't need nearly that many wires...)
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