Barometer Plus vs Smog Selfie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barometer Plus
This app measures air pressure and altitude using your device's built-in sensor. It helps predict weather changes, monitor health impacts of pressure fluctuations, and optimize activities like fishing. Customize its appearance and receive notifications about significant pressure shifts.
- Barometer and altimeter with analog display
- Temperature and humidity readings
- Pressure and altitude unit conversion
- GPS and airport data calibration
- Relative altitude measurement
- Pressure change notifications
- History tracking and graph
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Barometer Plus app measures air pressure and altitude using your device's built-in barometric pressure sensor. Because air pressure changes usually indicate a weather change, you can use this app to monitor and predict short-term weather variations. People suffering from migraine, headaches, or joint pain can monitor how barometric pressure impacts their mood. Fishermen can monitor the atmospheric pressure for right-time fishing. FEATURES: • The app contains a barometer and altimeter with a personalization graphic in classic analog style. It also displays the current temperature and humidity. • Display barometric pressure (sensor value) or mean sea level pressure (MSLP - value used in weather forecast services or stations). • Units support for pressure: mb, inHg, kPa, atm, Torr, psi, hPa, mmHg. Units for altitude: meter, feet. • Calibrate the barometer using altitude/location from the GPS. Calibrate the altimeter using the nearest airport information/METAR, or manually enter the QNH of the nearest airport. Offset sensor output value. • Measure the height (building/mountain/hiked/climbed) using the "Relative Altitude" feature (can be enabled in the app's Settings). • Notification about pressure change. "Notification custom rule" for you to define how and when the app sends notifications. Notify when air pressure changes indicate that extreme or worse weather may occur. • "Pressure Tracking" and "History Graph" require "Background App Refresh" or "Always Location Service" with "Exact update interval" (paid feature) enabled. • "My Area" allows you to define your frequent stay places, and the app tracks air pressure with location data. • Export history to CSV format and Today widget (paid features). • This app is the digital version compared with an aneroid or mercury barometer and can be adjusted to MSLP with additional features. CUSTOMIZABLE: You can change your barometer/altimeter appearance with: • Seven different housing colors. • Black, white or blue disk background. • Four different app backgrounds. • Three different types of needles. • Marker needle for easily monitor. • Dark or light Today widget theme. NOTES: • App only works on devices with a barometer sensor, such as iPhone 6/6s/7/8/X/11/12/13 (including Plus models), iPad Mini 4/Air 2/Pro, or later. • Weather icons on the dial: This only shows the air pressure trend like in an analog barometer. • Each time your device reboots, open the app for tracking with the "Exact update interval" feature work. • You may take the phone/tablet far away from computers, cables, and other magnetic sources to get accurate results. If you like this app, please support us - you can remove ads or unlock paid features from the menu: Shop. We welcome your ideas and suggestions - please email us at: support+barometer@pvdapps.com. Follow our official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/barometerplus/ or Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pvdapps.
Smog Selfie
This app uses your location to fetch current air quality data and applies augmented reality face filters that correspond to the pollution levels. It encourages users to be aware of and share the impact of air pollution.
- Real-time air quality index retrieval
- Location-based AR face filters
- Visualizes pollution impact
- Encourages awareness and sharing
- Privacy-focused face data handling
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Smog Selfie retrieves the "Air Quality Index" for your location and displays a set of corresponding AR face filters: Ready for a smog selfie. When we drive our gas guzzling cars, burn coal for electricity, or get on an airplane, we pollute the air. This makes it hard to stay healthy. It also contributes to climate change. Air pollution is getting worse everywhere. Check it. Face it. Share it. Any face data collected during the face tracking sessions is used only to position and display the selfie face filters. Face data is never stored or shared with any 3rd parties by the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smog Selfie at 5.0 against Barometer Plus's 4.0. Smog Selfie also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). Barometer Plus's advantage is ratings volume (420 vs 5) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Barometer Plus sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Smog Selfie asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smog Selfie holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barometer Plus has 420 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Barometer Plus ships an update every 6 weeks, Smog Selfie every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barometer Plus | Smog Selfie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (420 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 420 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ngo Na | Heiko Sacher |
Customer experience
Barometer Plus
Smog Selfie
Bugs and requests
Barometer Plus
Reported bugs
3 issues- Stops tracking pressure changes
- Incompatible with iOS 10 on iPads
- Freezes or crashes on launch
Requested features
4 requests- Pressure trend indicators
- Customizable graphs and data export
- Notifications for pressure changes
- Arthritis/migraine warning indicators
Smog Selfie
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Barometer Plus
- No Ads, Widget and Export$0.99
- Unlimited custom rules$0.99
- Exact update interval$1.99
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- Platinum Edition$3.99
Smog Selfie
No in-app purchases
Questions
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