South Coast AQMD User Reviews

South Coast AQMD
South Coast AQMD
South Coast Air Quality Management District

Customer Experience

Positive experience66.1% of reviews
Neutral8.5% of reviews
Negative experience25.4% of reviews

~ Based on 59 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is South Coast AQMD Safe?

South Coast AQMD appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for South Coast AQMD is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 82 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

87.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 82 App Store ratings for South Coast AQMD.

Is South Coast AQMD Legit?

South Coast AQMD appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for South Coast AQMD is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Apple Watch

Unable to connect with my Apple Watch Series 4.

In Los Angeles fire area and it says the air quality is good.

While health officials saying we have to stay inside because it’s so bad 😣

Best air quality app in SoCal

This app needs to be broadcasted IMMEDIATELY across the regions impacted by these horrific fires. It’s the best data source for air quality and air pollution—including custom notifications, forecasting, and detailed breakdowns of each pollutant’s levels. Why are the local agencies not including this in the list of resources for their communities?!
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Exceptional, accurate, and up to the minute

Puts other air quality apps to shame. When there is an ongoing fire or smoke situation this is the app!

Best and most reliable air quality app

I rely on this tremendously daily. Especially now that there are 4 live fires going on around us. This app gives us live update of air quality and e-mail or text alerts when there is known air dust. It also warns you and predicts ahead. It tells you what groups of people may be harmed based on color coded index of air particles and pollution. I am surprised not many people know about this app, and not a lot of reviews. But we live by this app and check it almost hourly sometimes for years!
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South Coast?

South coast but it doesn’t cover San Diego

Notifications don’t work

Notifications are so unreliable as to be useless. It doesn’t seem to matter how you set it up, you can give it all the permissions and prioritize its alerts and still not get anything.

Good app but doesn’t seem to be maintained

This app hasn’t updated in a year and my iPhone has updated several times. Something in there seems to have broken notifications, which are one of the best features. Hopefully someone is looking into this and will get it updated to be fully compatible again.

Response from developer

Hello MMaschine, we would love to troubleshoot with you and see why you aren't getting notifications. So if possible, we want to put you in direct contact with our software developers to resolve these issues. Would it be possible for you to send us an email at mobileinquiry@aqmd.gov with your contact information? Please mention it is regarding the notification issue. We’ll have someone contact you and hopefully assist in resolving the problem. We look forward to speaking with you soon.

Great App!

So accurate and the interface is so easy to see

Not reliable for accuracy

This app’s data is updated hourly. It is a very attractive app and seems to be accurate. Five Stars!

Data is frequently old

As I write this at 8:14 PM, the app still has the conditions as of 7 PM. I tried refreshing it. I closed the app and re-opened it. It still says the AQI as of 7 PM.

However, when I go to the weather app that came with my iPhone or I go to Apple Maps, it has the correct AQI that was refreshed more recently (probably 8 PM).

This has been happening consistently for a while now. Sometimes the updates are over an hour late.

I guess I’ll stick with the apps that came with my phone.
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buggiest app ever; great info

update:
if i add more than one city to the app, it ALWAYS breaks when i swipe between them. if i have laguna and la cañada added, for example, and try to swipe from la cañada to laguna, only some of the info updates. it continues to say “west san gabriel valley” and shows the map for west sgv even though im supposedly looking at laguna. sometimes the name doesn’t update when swiping between them. sometimes the air quality thats being reported is for the other city.

this doesnt seem to be an issue if i have only one city added.

it will also freeze and crash periodically.

i appreciate the notifications, but id also like the option to be notified when the air quality IMPROVES, not just when it worsens.

thanks for the app. its been a major help since the fires started.
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fix the bugs!!!
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Very helpful app

Easy to use checking it several times a day with all the smoke out here

Great App, Excellent Info

It’s hard to not be impressed with this app, how easy it is to use, and how useful the information is. Really great job on building this app and maximizing the “use-ability” of the air quality information it gives us. If you live in the area that this app covers, get this and use only this for your air quality readings. And if you’re a city official somewhere outside this region (looking at you San Diego!), get in touch with these app makers to have them make this for your jurisdiction. Thank you so much!
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Alebooobooo

Hello

Good but the hourly map doesn’t work

I really like this app, with one exception. When you click on the hourly map you get a blank graph. Developers, please fix this!

very helpful App for my health

The air quality has been bad with fire and I used this App to find detail information for my area including PM2.5 numbers. I appreciate the updates of the air quality. Thank you for your hard work.

I strongly recommend

With all the fires affecting the air quality in California, I’ve been able to use this app to get information on what is happening in the City of Orange. I’ve been looking for a resource to find daily AQI. I googled my city and could not find a way to get to what I thought should be easy information to obtain. I easily found this information along with other interesting bits. Thank you to the creators of this app!
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Prefer this app over Air Vusual, but...

Lately, especially since July 4, frustrated that, area 16, 17, and 18 AQI’s are nearly identical. From the beach to Fullerton. Please communicate it to us, SCAQMD, if you are having problems with your equipment instead of treating all this area as the same, I (and a lot of others) need accurate info. Thank you for the app! I usually like it better than this past week. Update: I guess this never got sent, but the same thing is stll happening end of August.
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Amazing App for my Real Estate service

Such a great tool to help my clients choosing their new home in a good air quality area.