EPA AIRNow App Reviews

How about adding an iOS Notification Center widget to display the AQI?

Update rate isn’t quite as fast as I would like, but once an hour is usually enough. My only complaint point is they include stations that provide incomplete measurements. We have one station that reports “green” because they’re only measuring ozone.

Easy to use but I wish there would be an option to get notification alerts for when the AQ is bad

This is a very helpful app that includes forecasts for air quality. It updates every hour and is specific to your location.

This app is helpful for checking air quality. The only problem is, at least for Minnesota, is that the narrated description of the forecast included from MPCA doesn’t include the date it was written. It gets confusing to figure out what day is “today” and “tomorrow” in the forecast. (It’s not updated every day, so “today” sometimes is 2 or 3 days ago.) other than that, it’s a helpful app.

I recently became very sensitive to poor air quality and can’t find any apps that will push a real time alert to my phone when the AQI gets unhealthy. I wish this app had that feature. My respiratory problem is new and I often forget to look up the AQI before going out.

The government should put more money into this program to improve it! If more sensors were deployed, if the sensors could be read every 30 minutes (versus hourly) , and if the app could add the trends that are listed in the website version, that would be a significant improvement!

The display should show the concentration (in ug/m3, the standard unit) as well as the AQI. IQAir does it automatically and it makes it easier to interpret the data.

"Air good (32) in Sonoma" Um, not even close. Heavy smoke smell, other apps say 90-100+. Used to work well.

With the new version 4 update, the smoke map is broken. It lo longer shows the smoke layers.

I’ve referred to this app a lot with the wildfire smoke blowing over my region this summer, and for quite a while, I used the map in it as well. Now, the map is worthless. It just loads, and the regional air quality (with the blobs of color) hasn’t changed in months. The air rating on the “home page“ of the app seems accurate, but I wonder when other parts seem frozen.