Comparison

Airly vs Spin or Stay

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Spin or Stay

Features
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Spin or Stay helps cyclists decide when to roll out. Import a GPX or FIT route, choose road, gravel, MTB, or city commute, and set direction, start time, and pace. The app calculates weather for the time you are expected to reach each route point, with a 0–100 conditions score for rain, temperature, and wind. Key features: - GPX/FIT import and route-timed forecast points, - Road, Gravel, MTB, and City ride profiles, - route direction selection and wind balance comparison, - a map with critical segments and route replay, - outfit recommendations: what to wear, what to pack, and when to change a layer, - thermal preference and optional matching with a local LANC wardrobe, - a saved active route and latest forecast for offline reading, - a Lock Screen Live Activity and Dynamic Island on supported devices, - an Apple Watch app with plans, forecasts, outfit advice, and complications, - optional iPhone GPS with pause/end controls and upcoming-condition notifications, - a shareable PDF report, - Apple Weather through WeatherKit, Open-Meteo, and MET Norway. Keep your iPhone with you for live GPS progress. Watch can read a previously received plan offline. Forecast freshness is shown; alerts refer to route sections rather than minute-by-minute rain onset. No account is required and the app has no ads. Apple Watch is optional.

Screenshots

Airly4 screens
Spin or Stay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Airly at 14.0 against Spin or Stay's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Airly ships an update every 5 weeks, Spin or Stay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Airly versus Spin or Stay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAirlySpin or Stay
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (415 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings415 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAirlyLukasz Pociask

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
Show 4 more
  • 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
Show 5 more
  • 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

Spin or Stay

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Airly

No in-app purchases

None

Spin or Stay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Airly free?
Airly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spin or Stay free?
Spin or Stay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Airly or Spin or Stay have ads?
Neither Airly nor Spin or Stay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Airly or Spin or Stay?
Airly ships an update every 5 weeks, and Spin or Stay every 3 weeks. Most recently, Airly was updated on November 6, 2026 and Spin or Stay on October 31, 2026.

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