MY API vs Air Quality Index
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MY API
Provides hourly air quality reports for Malaysia, displayed on a map with wind direction and hotspot locations. Receive notifications for hazy days and track air pollutant index trends with charts.
- Hourly API reports
- Air quality map
- Hotspot tracking
- Haze notifications
- Trend charts
- Favorite state bookmarking
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Malaysia Air quality report with hourly API (Air Pollutant Index) on Google Map and listing base on States and Towns. Daily Hotspot count in Sumatra, Kalimantan, west and East Malaysia. Features: - NOTIFICATION service hourly on hazy day base on API > 90 or Hotspot count>100 - index value with upward or downward ARROW to indicate the haze is getting better or getting worse. - Haze map with wind direction, hotspots location and haze coverage (Map update on evening everyday) - 24 hours hotspots display on map - bar charts with 24hrs API data and Hotspot Count. - bookmark favourite States.
Air Quality Index
This app provides 48-hour smoke prediction maps for the Continental US, utilizing data from NOAA. It can also display EPA AQI readings, offering a comprehensive view of air quality.
- 48-hour smoke prediction maps
- Near surface and vertically integrated smoke data
- Continental US coverage
- Optional EPA AQI readings
- NOAA data integration
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Air Quality shows you what is actually in the air — where the smoke is, where it is heading, and what the air is like at any point on Earth you tap. See the smoke before it arrives A 48-hour NOAA HRRR forecast for the continental US and Alaska, hour by hour, at ground level and through the whole air column. Scrub the timeline and watch a plume move. Outside the US, Copernicus CAMS gives you five days of global smoke, dust, and haze. Air quality across a whole country, not a scatter of dots The US air quality map draws the hourly AQI as a continuous field from EPA AirNow, with a second layer for tomorrow’s forecast. Monitor readings ride on top as pins you can tap. Community sensor readings from OpenAQ cover the rest of the world. A forecast anywhere, not just where a weather station is Tap or press and hold any point on the map for a five-day air quality forecast — a stretch of coastline, a trailhead, a valley with nobody in it. Layers you choose • Ground-level and column smoke, 48 hours (NOAA HRRR) • Global smoke, dust, haze, PM2.5 and aerosol, 5 days (Copernicus CAMS) • US air quality index, now and tomorrow (EPA AirNow) • EPA monitor readings and worldwide community sensors • Active wildfires and satellite heat detections (NASA EONET, NASA FIRMS) • Daily satellite photography (NASA GIBS) • Volcanoes (Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program) • Pollen forecasts for six species across Europe On every screen you own Widgets and complications for a glance. An Apple Watch app with the reading and a five-day chart. An interactive 3D globe on Apple Vision Pro. An ambient satellite flyover on Apple TV. Multiple windows, a sidebar and a menu bar item on Mac. Free and private No price, no subscriptions, no ads, no accounts. Your location is used to show you the air where you are and never leaves your device. Data from NOAA, Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, EPA AirNow, NASA, OpenAQ, Open-Meteo and the Smithsonian Institution. Air quality data is provided as published and is not a substitute for official public health guidance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Air Quality Index at 60% against MY API's 17%. Air Quality Index also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). MY API's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. MY API sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Air Quality Index asks for nothing beyond the download.
MY API holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Air Quality Index has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of MY API's written reviews are positive against 60% of Air Quality Index's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MY API ships an update every 9 months, Air Quality Index every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MY API | Air Quality Index |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sim Ruenn Kang | Apparent Logic, LLC |
Customer experience
MY API
Air Quality Index
In-app purchases
MY API
- Remove Banner$2.99
Air Quality Index
No in-app purchases
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