Comparison

Meghdoot vs skymetAQI

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

Head to head
About

Meghdoot

This app provides farmers with critical weather information and crop advisories. It aggregates district and crop-specific advice, forecasts, and historical weather data, making it accessible and easy to use. Advisories are also available in local languages.

Highlights
  • District and crop-wise advisories
  • Weather forecasts
  • Historic weather information
  • Vernacular language support
  • Easy-to-use interface
Features
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Meghdoot, a joint initiative of India Meteorological Department (IMD), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and Indian Council OF Agricultural Research (ICAR) aims to deliver critical information to farmers through a simple and easy to use mobile application. The mobile application was developed by the Digital Agriculture research theme at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad in collaboration with IITM, Pune and IMD, Delhi. The app seamlessly aggregates contextualized district and crop wise advisories issued by Agro Met Field Units (AMFU) every Tuesday and Friday with the forecast and historic weather information to the fingertips of the farmers. The advisories are also issued in vernacular wherever available.

About

skymetAQI

Get real-time, street-level air quality data to plan your outdoor activities. This app helps you make informed decisions about your health and safety by providing detailed pollution information for specific locations and routes.

Highlights
  • Street-level AQI monitoring
  • Real-time route planning
  • Pollution-based decision making
  • Past week/24-hour AQI data
  • Interactive AQI heatmap
  • Traffic and AQI map layers
Features
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Plan your route, plan your outside time, plan your children playing time, and take care of your elders using Skymet AQI app. This is not just another AQI app to display the Air Quality Index of few locations of the city, Skymet AQI app is providing the AQI at street level. Air pollution levels is the biggest threat in Delhi NCR. Skymet AQI app will help you in: * Planning of running time and location * Real time route planning based on traffic and air pollution * Plan for whether children should go out or not and many other use cases are there. On the Homepage, the user can know: * the exact location of the person, * AQI of the location * AQI at the street level * PM2.5 and PM10 values * PM2.5 and PM10 values of the past week and past 24 hours On the map page, the user can: * See the different layers of the maps - stations, traffic, street AQI, and AQI Heatmap * AQI bubble is an interesting feature which user can drag it anywhere in the map the AQI will change immediately as per the AQI of that locations. * Search the route and AQI level at the suggested route. This will help the user in decision making of choosing the route based on air pollution and traffic.

Screenshots

Meghdoot4 screens
skymetAQI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: skymetAQI at 100% against Meghdoot's 7%. skymetAQI also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

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

Meghdoot ships an update every 3 months, skymetAQI every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Meghdoot versus skymetAQI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeghdootskymetAQI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews6.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIMD - AASSkymet Weather Services Pvt. Ltd.

Customer experience

Meghdoot

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive6.9%
Neutral13.8%
Negative79.3%

skymetAQI

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Meghdoot

No in-app purchases

None

skymetAQI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Meghdoot free?
Meghdoot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is skymetAQI free?
skymetAQI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Meghdoot or skymetAQI have ads?
Neither Meghdoot nor skymetAQI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meghdoot or skymetAQI?
Meghdoot ships an update every 3 months, and skymetAQI every 2 weeks. Most recently, Meghdoot was updated on October 17, 2026 and skymetAQI on October 10, 2026.

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