My Pollen Forecast Reviews

I’m way beyond disappointed in this allergy index app. It keeps putting my area off the west coast of Africa. When I find my location, it’s the simplest of Google maps w/ color coded allergy severity. Not helpful at all. For all I know I may be using it incorrectly, but w/o a clear menu or instructions, who knows.🤷🏼‍♀️

Thank you for the reply on how to set the location. For some reason location services is not finding my location even when I give it permission. However, it did work fine on another phone. If I go into maps, it does show my correct location. So I am not sure why it is putting me off the coast of Africa.

I like having a simple app to check the pollen count; however, these things would really improve it: 1. Dewpoint reading. Knowing the heat/humidity is great, but the dewpoint is more useful for gauging comfort/breathe-ability outside. 2. Longer range predictions. Today is good; tomorrow’s better; 7-10 days ahead would be much better, for planning purposes.

I would really love to see a selection where I could tap every type of pollen that affects me, so I can see it all specifically laid out at the bottom with colors on a graph maybe? That way, I can see which one most relevant to me and my partner. Neither of us are allergic to Elm, or Juniper. So even though they’re common in my area I can see what’s gonna affect us. Also, maybe a little more from the diary section. I can record my symptoms on a 1-5 scale sure, but what if I experience a new symptom and I want to talk to my doctor about it? It would be nice to be able to just write a little blurb of up to 300 characters or something small so I could bullet point some stuff. Cosmetically it looks nice, but I just want like a profile with some more preferences for features like those. Otherwise a great, simple setup and accurate info!

It would be nice to be able to show how high the count for each pollen in the days that there are multiple types of pollen.

Also, through the whole Dec and January which are the season of Cedar pollen in Austin, I didn’t see the appearance of it in a single day which is very wrong...I am most allergic to cedar tree pollen(I believe most people in Austin have allergy are the same). So it is much less helpful without the data for it.

I use MyPollenForecast all the time especially when I start sneezing. I also like using the diary to record the days I have more symptoms. It would be really nice if we could have the pollens for that day recorded as well instead of just the severity of the symptoms. I like looking back and seeing when I had symptoms but sort of a bummer when I can’t see what pollen was on that day.

Very useful app. Although this update and the last few still have some bugs. On an iPhone 13 opening MyPollenForecast freezes the phone sometimes also MyPollenForecast will freeze and not respond to being dropped to the background or closed.

I saw a review where it said they wish they could select every type of thing they’re allergic to, that would be cool for a subscription option. With the subscription offer, we could also do away with the ads.

Additionally, a profile setup to access on other platforms would be cool.

I downloaded this because I thought it would be quite helpful to have a more clear understanding of which allergies produce which symptoms in me. I gave to agree with a previous reviewer that MyPollenForecast would be miles better, if it had space for quick note about symptoms, or even a multiple choice list to note symptoms. it would be incredibly helpful to be able to note for today it’s itchy eyes, yesterday was a scratchy throat and last week it was setting off my asthma.
all that being said, it is helpful and interesting to see which allergens are most prevalent on any given day.

The helped me to determine the types of pollen I was allergic to trees, grass, or ragweed. As someone who grew up without allergies suddenly getting runny noses out of no where and random itchy eyes I wanted to know what I was allergic to without the dr bill. Though I don’t know exactly what types of trees or grasses I’m allergic to it’s helpful to know that I’m allergic to certain tree and grass pollen.

I love MyPollenForecast and how you can track how you feel each day. The only thing that I would change is that the record for each month doesn’t really give you an average of how you feel. If you hit 3 just one time a month you’re stuck on 3.9 for the rest of the month…no matter how many times you hit 4. Could be a little more accurate on this part.

I really like MyPollenForecast. It tells me what the allergy forecast will look like in such a nice, empathetic way, which I really appreciate. It’s like hearing it from a friend instead of an app! :) I, like other reviewers, wish it had more local allergens. In Tucson, AZ we have Palo Verde trees which are a huge local allergen: they bloom, I cry. I also know that it would be really hard to find out local allergens from everywhere MyPollenForecast serves tho.

MyPollenForecast is rather straight forward and simple. It provides the basic details about pollen levels in your area and the three top sources. And a forecast for the next few days.
Does offer temp, wind and humidity. Albeit the graph utilized the same display affect for those. I probably would have had temp with blue red spectrum. 57^ is cold, not green good.
It does have a simple diary aspect to record. I don’t need it but is probably helpful to some.

This free app gives me the information I need. I have too many allergies: food, dust, fungus, molds, …, and POLLEN! Now I can easily check the area I live in and understand what is affecting me; then look at the forecast for the upcoming days. Thank you for the great service.

Ive been using MyPollenForecast for the past 2 years and I love it. Its cool to see the map of all the different pollen severities and it is really helpful when it gives me the notifications that there will be high pollen counts. I went back and looked at my pollen diary from the previous year and it is wild to see how the allergy pattern is so similar (I never really knew exactly when, just that i had bad allergies in the spring). If it wasnt for MyPollenForecast i never would have known exactly what im allergic to or when certain days are better or worse than others! im perfectly happy with the way MyPollenForecast functions and i honestly havent had any problems with it. thank you to whoever made this!!

I have enjoyed using MyPollenForecast, but in the past week or more, it has not been working like it did in the past. It does not show anything but whether the pollen count is low, medium, etc. In the past, I have received temperatures and more and 5 days of forecasts. As of this morning, I can only see for today and that is only green for low pollen. Is MyPollenForecast going away? As of 1/1, MyPollenForecast is back to working like it did when I first downloaded it. Thank you to the developer for reaching out to me. I hope that it will continue to work properly for me. I have been pleasantly pleased with MyPollenForecast in the past.

I find MyPollenForecast really useful. But it would be even better if there were a color coded widget that I could see first thing in the morning before I even open my phone so that I can mask up, if needed.

Thank you.

I looked for an app that would give air quality/pollen levels and found this one.
It works well and isn't yet ruined by full screen unstoppable video ads or an outrageously expensive subscription model, like nearly every app I have tried in the last year.
Good job. 👍🏻

I love knowing exactly which allergens are in bloom and the feature that shows me a picture of the culprit allergen if it’s available.
The diary feature that helps me to know which allergens I need to prepare for year after year.
The forecast is nice too.
I have had MyPollenForecast for a few years and it’s one of the better apps on my phone.

I originally downloaded the free version. I saw there was a pro version, I looked into it. I decided to pay for it because the description said there is a widget. As far as I can tell, there is not. Also, tapping on the pollen that’s present just shows a blank screen instead of information about that pollen. The free version works way better in just the few minutes that I used both.

Well it turns out I’ve had allergies all my life but they weren’t too bad till lately. Now with MyPollenForecast I can know if there’s a ton of pollen in the air influencing my ability to breathe through my nose. It is a relief! Even without meds.