Air Matters Reviews

I don't write app reviews. This won't be a particularly *detailed* app review either - no feature list / analysis or anything. I'm really tired and I'm having a bad pollen day, but I was using AirMatters to plan my schedule for tomorrow, and thought to myself "Man, these people actually deserve 99 cents. I wish I could tip them. This is meaningfully improving my life a little bit. (nothing life-changing ofc, but I mean, it's a tool and it helps)."

5/5 stars. [Insert glowing technical review here]

Is AirMatters broken in Beijing China? I am in Beijing right now, AirMatters is telling me the air quality score is 345 (which is really, really polluted), however the air is super clean right now. I’m near the center of the city, where the pollution can be awful. I’ve been outside on days where the pollution is 200+ and it’s living hell, the air quality right now is nowhere near 200 or even 100, in fact I rarely experience days in Beijing where the air as clean as it is today!

Another note: Currently AirMatters says the air in Tianjin (天津市), a small city near Beijing, has an air quality score of 700+. With the air being super clean in Beijing right now the possibility of Tianjin having air quality scores that bad are very unlikely. If you live in California and remember the massive wildfire that happened recently, the smoke from that fire caused a score of about 450.

I don’t usually write a review, AirMatters made me feel that I should share. It is really good application, not only showing your air quality, it also detect your location and show air in your area. It also have a recommendation whether it’s safe to do activity outside, open window etc, and even a forecast for the next 5 days.

The control of the Philips air purifier is also very good, I can track air quality at home, control the machine getting the air ready for my arrival.

I have 5 apps installed, which i’ve been using daily to compare for about a month now. This one is performing well above all other (also very reputable) ones. The major distinguishing aspect of it is that it collects data from many mobile stations in my area, and not only from the (very few) ones that are constant in their local positions.
That enhances Air Matters’ accuracy and granularity of data, by far!
Haven’t come across any of the other apps to be anywhere near the level of this one.

To improve: I would love to see some more pollen data in AirMatters in my current area (Israel), which seems to be incomplete.

THANKS A BUNCH, keep on the great helpful work please!

When I bought my philips air scrubber, little did I know that AirMatters was the only chance to interact with the overpriced and underperforming appliance. After setting it up, the philips device joins my network and can be used with third party open source COAP commandline tools but not with this sorry excuse of an app. To add insult to injury I am forced to pay on top of the price of the already overpriced philips cleaner to remove ads. Seriously... this is 2021... you still do ad stuff and sell broken iot devices? Not amused... (my home network is using aruba access points, if you’re interested to fix this)

AirMatters is great for knowing how bad the air is.

One suggestion I have for the Apple Watch version of AirMatters , is to make the statistics on pollen, O3, PM2.5, NO2, CO, etc show up at the top of the watch’s screen.

This is because while pollen may make me feel miserable, the man-made pollutants are actually dangerous to my health, so I’d like to see those up top.

Something changed on AirMatters within the last six weeks or so. Used to be able to see readings for my small town and many others around me. AQI’s used to be in small squares and literally covered my state (and others) with readings. Now the AQI readings are in circles, and there are only a few in my state, and they are in the same locations as US government / EPA sensors and they’re giving the same numbers as the EPA sensors. Did this app switch to using government sensor data (???), which I’ve found to be much less accurate.

I have been using AirMatters for more than three years to detect the air quality in my home, and it has always been good to use!
But after a recent update, I failed to get the data for my air quality monitor laser egg 1, hope the developer will fix the bug!(while get the data from laser egg original app successfullly)

Awesome app, appears very accurate based on other sources, and love the widget. My only complaint is that when it's running on my phone, everything is very (very) laggy. Not just AirMatters but everything on my phone. It's fixed when I close AirMatters out of multitasking, but it'd be nice to be able to have it run in the background.

Its been a great app, it always be! But...actually it got crashed on my apple watch 1st-gen. I did reinstall AirMatters both on iPhone & watch... Still get crashed...sad face...

But i'll give it 5stars consider the experience it has providing to me, and hope the developer could fix this bug as soon as possible.

Every couple of month appears bug on the application that can’t make you connect the air purifier to the application and even when I remove device and re-paird it again it’s the same problem, conclusion with the updates they bugged the pairing, right now there’s problem that you can’t pair your device with wifi please developer solve it as soon as possible

I downloaded AirMatters for the pollen complications which worked for a few days than disappeared. What happened ? I would like an option too have a complication specifically for pollen because it seems like no one else does that and AirMatters was recommended for Apple Watch users looking for that complication not just overall air data that factors that in. Also your current city location feature is broken, it does not update from location to location and sometimes it shows no data on the watch at all.

Since I live in Salem Oregon where the wildfires have polluted the air, I have been regularly checking the air quality. When I look outside and see/smell smoke and then check AirMatters , it has said the air quality is good, down to six. I wish! And then a few minutes later it’ll jump to 179, or even above 400. It’s kind of all over the place, which is too bad. Hope it’s fixed soon because I do like AirMatters otherwise.

It has all the info you need presented in a pleasant and simple fashion. It does what it says and does it well.

I do wish the map would start more zoomed in to your current location, instead of showing a whole country. That would probably save the developer a ton of money in API requests as well ;)

It seems that for some countries the source of data was changed or started to be adjusted in line with public data provided by local state weather control, which sometimes shows levels of contamination 3-6 times lower from the real ones. Do double check with other sources (not just other applications that may use shares same sources of air quality) and always consider visual check as minimal steps for the educated guess of what’s in the air outside.

I use it to control my Philips air-purifier. I love AirMatters and the controls are intuitive and responsive. One problem I have with it is the filter replacement reminder, why is it in hours? It’s so confusing. I’m to change my filter in 2400 hours? Why HOURS! How many days is that? Now I have to get a calculator! An option to change the unit to days would be most welcome!

AirMatters used to be great, but lately the results are completely incorrect. With the fires in California I’ve been using AirMatters for some time to know the air quality with the smoke, but I just can’t trust it anymore. For example right now it shows my level is a 7, very good air quality in my area, but I can physically see the smoke, and competing apps show my air quality as an unhealthy 123. Some variation could be expected, but that’s just nuts. If I can’t trust the readings AirMatters is of no value to me.

There is a big problem and it has been around for a long time. The amounts of city ranking at most only 100, but there are 370 cities in mainland China, so no matter whether it is the best or worst query, only 200 cities can be found, and 170 can't find it. For example, AirMatters cannot find the average annual PM2.5 in Shanghai.

I have asthma and I looked around a lot on AirMatters Store, Nothing else had all of the information that I needed. I would recommend it to anyone who has sensitive lungs. I know when I should limit outdoor activities and when I can do a little bit more outdoor activities.

AirMatters sent me a notification saying air quality where I am has improved to 17. This seems strange because we're surrounded by major wildfires. I open AirMatters , and it says AQI 17. I view the map in AirMatters , and my area is over 100. I visit the EPA web site, and it says the AQI is over 100. I look out the window and I can see the smoke in the air.

AirMatters wildly contradicts itself, which makes its fake data useless. Subscription cancelled. Do not use AirMatters, it's just using fake data to sell ads.

I use AirMatters mainly because I am live in China and the air pollution there is horrible! There is one problem though, air matters keeps crashing on my Apple Watch series 2, wonder if they can fix this. Other than that, a great app!

We live in China and rely on this for easy-access, AirMatters overall is very good but the Apple Watch complication sometimes doesn’t update. The complication will show a different number than the actual reading (shown in the same app) for the particular monitoring site selected.

They really need to fix the search function. It needs to let you type in a city and then provide the nearest results. Right now, you have to type in the city, spell it correctly, and if the city isn’t in its database, the window stays empty without providing any indication if it’s still searching, or just crashes and got hung up. Clunky interface.

This apps aqi data is generally much better than other sources. Could be because govt controls what can be posted. Just be aware.
I’ve seen the Shenzhen 2.5pm metric half of what other sources show. And sometimes when the numbers are actually the same, AirMatters says green/very good when other sources say yellow/unhealthy.