Airly vs WeatherWX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Airly
Monitor real-time air quality in your location with a vast sensor network. Get reliable pollution data, forecasts, and notifications about exceeded standards. Plan your activities based on the air you breathe.
- Real-time air quality monitoring
- Largest sensor network in Poland
- WHO standard compliance
- Next-day air quality forecast
- Push notifications for pollution alerts
- Home and work place sensor favorites
- Widgets for quick access
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Airly - Breathe consciously! Airly gives you the ability to check the real-time air quality in your current location. Thanks to the largest network of sensors in Poland, the app presents reliable data on air pollution in a transparent and intuitive way, including data and calculations of exceeded standards in accordance with the latest guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO). Check what air you are breathing and plan activities for the next day thanks to the unique and only forecast in Poland that predicts the air quality for the next day with 96% efficiency. The Airly app allows you to: - air quality monitoring with 40 000 sensors and official stations located around the world, - real-time controlling of measurements: PM1, PM2.5, PM10, gases, temperature, pressure, air humidity and wind strength and direction, - adding sensors in locations important to the user to Favorites, in order to find important places like home or work place faster, - receiving "push" notifications about exceeded air pollution standards in accordance with the user's preferences, - quick access to information thanks to widgets to be installed on the phone. According to the WHO, 99% of the world's population breathes polluted air and 2.4 billion people are exposed to dangerous levels of household air pollution. Air pollution causes 7 million people to die prematurely every year due to exposure to pollution. Air quality is a topic that is worth being interested in and monitoring the level of pollution in the place of residence. Download the Airly app and check what you breathe! Follow us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/airlyorg/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/airlyorg/ Contact Us: https://airly.org/pl/contact/
WeatherWX
Get accurate weather forecasts, real-time radar, and current conditions for any location worldwide. Stay informed with local weather updates, warnings, and advisories. Includes a convenient home screen widget for quick access to weather information.
- Global weather forecasts
- Real-time radar
- Current conditions
- Weather warnings and advisories
- Home screen widget
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Weather forecasts, radar and current conditions for any place. Your best resource for local weather, weather radar, warnings and advisories with accuracy that you can count on. Handsome home screen widget. You will be able to see current conditions from bed by glancing at your phone no matter where in the world you are...
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Verdict
Airly and WeatherWX both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 60% of Airly's written reviews are positive against 50% of WeatherWX's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Airly against 4.6 for WeatherWX. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 415 and 310 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Airly's written reviews are positive against 50% of WeatherWX's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Airly | WeatherWX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (415 ratings) — better | 4.6 (310 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 415 — better | 310 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Airly | Richard Ferry |
Customer experience
Airly
WeatherWX
Bugs and requests
Airly
Reported bugs
9 issues- Complications on Apple Watch not showing AQI
- Widget provides no indication or incorrect data
- App requires location sharing always, even when zip code can be used for widgets
- Cannot find location
- Broken widget
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- No sensors for Moldova
- Widget shows no data if no sensors within 3km
- Notifications not received after last update
- In-app notification settings are ignored
Requested features
10 requests- Add Apple Watch complications for AQI
- Allow widget to show nearest sensor data
- Add Spanish language support
- Indicate data update time
- Allow viewing historical data beyond 2 days
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- Show hourly temperature
- Improve graphs with more information
- Add more active sensors
- Fix notification settings to respect user preferences
- Improve map quality and landscape support
WeatherWX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Airly
No in-app purchases
WeatherWX
No in-app purchases
