Air Quality App - BreezoMeter Reviews

by Laszlo Panaflex

UPDATE: still dangerously inaccurate readings. We are adjacent to several wildfires and air quality is bad with a strong smoky odor and visible soot blocking the sun. AirNow, PurpleAir, and the county’s AQ monitoring agency are all saying the air is hazardous and not to go outside at all. The local authorities are saying not to be outside for more than a minute without a respirator. Meanwhile, Breezometer is is displaying a “green” status and telling me the air in my area is “Good” (67).

This is extremely dangerous and irresponsible. Users’ health could be put at risk by Breezeometer’s bad data. I’m going to have to uninstall and update my rating to 1 star.
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I want to like AirQualityApp, but the data sources for its air quality readings do not seem to be very accurate. It is literally raining ashes outside right now, yet but AirQualityApp says my area’s air quality as “moderate (55)”. All the other AQ readings (AirNow, Purple Air, BAAQMD, etc.) show the air as hazardous.

Also, it drives me nuts when the Breezometer app alerts me of an active fire just 4 miles away, but when I tap the “Learn More” button, nothin happens. AirQualityApp needs a lot of work, IMO.

by Funkldred

AirQualityApp uses some type of algorithm to predict what the air quality should be in your area, not what it actually is. It does not use air monitoring devices, for instance. It is so often radically wrong as to be useless. For instance, I've seen heavy rains for 12 hours straight and still had AirQualityApp tell me the air quality was poor with a heavy load of small particulate matter. Impossible! It has also told me the air was great, when it was in reality so clogged with acrid smoke from burning off the sugar cane fields that you needed to hold a cloth over your face to breathe. AirQualityApp is useless. Don't waste your time with it.

by Scrantonicity- Electric City

I’m hugely disappointed with AirQualityApp. It was always my go to and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to realize how bad and inaccurate it is. It is incredibly irresponsible especially in a time where wildfires are happening so often. It will literally be raining ash and AirQualityApp never leaves the “moderate” setting. People need apps like this to stay alert and really know how hazardous the air is at the time, but BreezoMeter is either broken or irresponsible. Save your time and money and look for a more accurate app!

by Pfed1

The need for hyper-local air quality data is obvious, but AirQualityApp provides misinformation. For example, during the recent California wildfires, AirQualityApp reported that my air home quality was “GOOD“ (76 - higher numbers indicate better air), when three Purple Air sensors within a few blocks of my home reported air quality was “UNHEALTHY” (150 or higher, using the US air quality index (AQI) where higher numbers indicate worse air). We could smell and see smoke in the air at the time.

by Willyouhelp?

When I tapped the little symbol on the base of the elephant, I was unpleasantly surprised to see that AirQualityApp included the entire contents of my iPhone photo app, and suggested that I pick a photo to personalize (I guess the gauge)! I immediately emailed AirQualityApp and asked why in the world they needed access to my pictures and how they got them since I’d never agree to allow that. It’s been over a week and I haven’t gotten a reply, so I just deleted AirQualityApp but still don’t know what they did with my photos and how and why they got them. Press that little thing on the elephant and see if they have yours !!!

by Amyxandra

I learned that I live almost one hundred miles from an EPA air monitor. So AirQualityApp is useless. It was giving me a reading from across the state that had nothing to do with my location. There should be some distance limit or AirQualityApp should say where the reading is coming from. The EPA site honestly tells me it cannot get a reading for my location because the closest monitor is so far away.

by Sunadance

Love how fun the elephant is and how easy it is to use. But like other reviewers are saying it is not accurate. It says we're in the red lower teens and it's breezy and so clear today! The last couple days we couldn't even see our neighboring mtns and it was in the yellow... I compared online and other sites that say we are almost in the green today. Keep trying BreezoMeter!

by Meechelle M

I love the layout of AirQualityApp. It gives a breakdown of what pollutants are in the air and recommends what actions you should take.

Unfortunately, for my area at least, it is extremely inaccurate. Right now it says the air quality in my area is moderate, while all other apps, websites, news reports, and my own eyes are telling me the air quality is very unhealthy. I wish they would fix it because I otherwise prefer AirQualityApp to others.

by Jasmyn Kelley

Originally I wrote a bad review about the accuracy but if you go to the very bottom of the screen that shows your air quality, there is a scale that shows you the AQI LEVEL. It’s different numbering than we use in the USA(this company is in Israel), the lower the number the worse the air quality. I do agree with the one review that AirQualityApp should adapt to each country’s AQI scoring.

by Petey55505

This is a very nice app. Easy to use and very understandable! However, I want people to know AirQualityApp may not display the most accurate air quality data (although is probably close enough for some personal decisions on outdoor activities) If your health depends on it, then you need to use the EPA's website - do not use AirQualityApp!!

Just read what the license agreement says: "information may appear in a delay and/or may be partial or inaccurate, and therefore we cannot and do not warrant that the content available on AirQualityApp is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free."...

by BlackShredGold

Downloaded AirQualityApp since the stock weather app sources its data from it. I like how everything is laid out, the map which shows air quality around the globe, and the details of what’s in the air. However, AirQualityApp is extremely slow to start, lags out a lot, and is generally unpleasant to use due to either loading or lack of optimization. I’m not on an old phone either (11 Pro Max), so it shouldn’t really perform this poorly.

I’ll come back to it when the performance issues are fixed.

by _h_g

The AQI number doesn’t match your local address number you see on the map view any longer. Also it doesn’t match other local AQI numbers anymore either. What happened? Where is this new misleading data coming from??? Change it back to how it was!

by IManyak

Great app but widget needs work. First of all, it doesn’t work if you set location settings to “while using AirQualityApp ” which you should absolutely do for privacy. Secondly, it uses BreezoMeter air quality index ignoring in-app settings. Thirdly, it’s an old iOS style widget that need to be modernized for new versions.
For now I’m using AirVisual widget instead.

by Cat Mommie

Initially this was a great app for tracking 2021 forest fires and smoke plumes. Then when my area began experiencing excellent air quality AirQualityApp began reporting very poor air quality. There is simply no way the numbers are correct now. Checked with several other sources and Breezometer is currently wrong. Deleting it.

by WillyB_CO

Huge fan of AirQualityApp. My wife and I are both outdoorsy people, often running or biking daily and camping on the weekends. AirQualityApp has given us a tool to make better decisions on whether we should exercising inside or out, and what areas of our home state of Colorado have the best air quality when making weekend travel plans.

by Moxieann

I used AirQualityApp in the East Bay to find better air to breath in California and to find evacuation routes when it seemed like the whole state was aflame within 48 hours. I have breathing issues and I would not be without it!

by Little Lights

I use AirQualityApp frequently and now purchasing has been fixed it’s even better!!! I’m so excited to be able to use AirQualityApp again! 10/10 highly recommend!

by AaronSky999

The „Map View“ is really awesome. Suggestion is to be able to move around the „cards“ and be able to launch AirQualityApp with this view to not have to click anything

by Ropendactalus

I never would have thought to download an ap like this one, it’s insanely helpful, a bit scary when the quality drops but honestly that’s good to know so I can take the precautions I need to stay safe.

by Elwood Bunek

The fires here in California have made the air quality very poor.
Only AirQualityApp properly reflected this fact, while many others that claimed to report air quality have not accurately done so.

by Danmuel Jackson

This was the only reason I used AirQualityApp, the fact it works and doesn't nag for location services now it defaults to Israel no matter what even if I have saved locations. It also nags you more than once about your location services. AirQualityApp is now garbage I've been using it for years and now I'm deleting it because of recent bad design changes.

by LaurenAPMT

It looks like the company who created AirQualityApp. is based out of Israel, so maybe the API is calculated differently, because the API result I was given is numerically the opposite of the result I was given from my state's government-maintained website. My state is showing an API of 175, whereas AirQualityApp is showing an API of 16. Both indicate poor air quality. I will be deleting AirQualityApp ., because I need to be able to check the air quality with values I can compare and understand.

by Koskiw

Your “current location” is pre-set and is usually not accurate. One my app. it’s miles off! You can set another location but you have to change it every time you open AirQualityApp . In this regard I liked the previous version better.

by Sloane K

wildly inaccurate. other apps/news sources say the air quality is extremely poor and i can see that the air quality is very poor but AirQualityApp tells me it’s “good” air quality, and the AQI is way off from what other apps tell me. I wanted it to work, but at least for now it does not.

by Morgan Douglas

I think this is a very good app although my only complaint is that when it accesses my location, it thinks I'm in one place when I'm somewhere else.

by Markhl2

Combines the levels of pollutants into one number. The reading seems to make sense. For example, the reading is higher (better) after rain and lower on a smoggy winter day in Salt Lake City

by Rsarazen

No matter how bad our air has been comparing it to Beijing is always uplifting and sad as hell for the planet.