Comparison

Pollen vs Anthos

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

Head to head
About

Pollen

Gain control over your allergies with intelligent insights and real-time forecasts. Track your symptoms to identify patterns and understand how environmental factors affect your well-being. Make informed decisions to feel better every day.

Highlights
  • Real-time pollen forecasts
  • Symptom logging
  • Allergy trends and insights
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Personalized health management
Features
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Breathe smarter with Pollen Sense. Pollen Sense helps you take control of your allergies with intelligent insights, real-time forecasts, and easy symptom tracking — all in one simple app. Whether you’re struggling with seasonal allergies or just want to understand how pollen impacts your day, Pollen Sense make sense of your environment and your health. Key Features: Real-Time Pollen Forecasts — Get live pollen levels in your area to plan your day and avoid high-exposure times. Symptom Tracking — Log your daily allergy symptoms and identify patterns over time. Trends & Insights — Visualize your allergy history and discover how weather and environment affect your well-being. Whether you’re at home, work, or outdoors, Pollen Sense helps you understand your allergies, make smarter decisions, and feel better every day.

About

Anthos

This app learns your personal allergy triggers and provides daily air quality and pollen forecasts. It offers personalized alerts, symptom tracking, and insights into how environmental factors affect your well-being.

Highlights
  • Personalized pollen thresholds
  • AI daily air quality briefing
  • Apple Health integration for symptom correlation
  • 7-day personal forecast
  • 15 tracked allergens and mold
  • Smart notifications for triggers
  • Symptom and medication logging
Features
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Try Anthos free for 7 days — no payment until you decide. Anthos doesn't just tell you the pollen count. It learns the exact pollen count where YOUR body starts reacting — then warns you when conditions cross your personal limit. WHAT MAKES ANTHOS DIFFERENT ◆ Your Personal Threshold — After a week of logging how you feel, Anthos calculates the precise pollen count where your symptoms begin. Today's count is shown next to your personal limit, so you know instantly if you're in safe territory or trouble. Confidence grows as you log more days. ◆ AI Daily Reading — A personalized morning briefing that explains how today's air affects your day, in plain language. ◆ Body Decoder — Connect Apple Health to see how your sleep, HRV, and resting heart rate line up with your symptom days (with your permission). ◆ Tomorrow's You — Your personal 7-day outlook, built from your own logged history. ◆ Anthos Score — One number (1–100) that combines pollen, air quality, and weather into a single glanceable metric. ◆ 15 Tracked Allergens — Oak, Birch, Grass, Ragweed, Cedar, Maple, Ash, Cottonwood, Alder, Olive, Hazel, Pine, Elm, Mugwort, and Mold. ◆ Safe to Open Windows? — A simple YES or NO with context and timing suggestions. ◆ Best Day This Week — Highlights the lowest pollen day in your 5-day forecast. ◆ Cross-Reactivity Alerts — When Birch pollen is high, get a heads-up about apples, cherries, and hazelnuts (oral allergy syndrome). ◆ Personal Triggers — After a week of logging, Anthos shows which allergens line up with your worst symptom days. ◆ Storm Surge — A heads-up when thunderstorm conditions can trigger sudden pollen-burst reactions. ◆ Pollutant Breakdown — See PM2.5, Ozone, NO₂, SO₂, and CO levels individually. ◆ Wildfire Smoke Detection — Alerts when particulate matter suggests smoke in the air. ◆ Smart Notifications — 9 alert types including per-allergen spikes, ozone warnings, thunderstorm pollen bursts, and barometric pressure drops. ◆ Symptom Logging — Track sneezing, itchy eyes, congestion, and fatigue daily. ◆ Medication Tracker — Log the medications you already take (personal log only). ◆ 30-Day Summary Export — One-tap symptom history to share with your healthcare provider. ◆ Shareable Daily Card — Branded card sized for Instagram Stories. ◆ Home Screen Widgets — Small, medium, and lock screen widgets. ◆ Siri Shortcut — "Hey Siri, how's my pollen today?" ◆ Season Countdown — Know when ragweed season starts and how many days are left in grass season. PRIVACY Your location is used only to fetch local pollen, air quality, and weather data. Your symptom logs and medication entries stay on your device. To write your AI Daily Reading, Anthos sends your allergen profile and local conditions to Anthropic's Claude. If you turn on Apple Health features, the health signals you choose (sleep, HRV, resting heart rate) and your symptom-based thresholds are included only with your explicit, separate consent — never used to train AI models, and deleted within 30 days. You can revoke consent anytime in Settings. Anthos is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. SUBSCRIPTION 7-day free trial, then $3.99/month or $29.99/year (save 37%). Payment is charged to your Apple Account after the free trial unless canceled at least 24 hours before it ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Terms: https://anthosair.com/terms Privacy: https://anthosair.com/privacy

Screenshots

Pollen3 screens
Anthos4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pollen at none against Anthos's 2. Anthos's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Anthos sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Pollen asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pollen against 5.0 for Anthos. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pollen versus Anthos: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPollenAnthos
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAnoop BansalChristopher Davidson

Customer experience

Pollen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Anthos

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pollen

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Anthos

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Pollen free?
Pollen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anthos free?
Anthos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pollen or Anthos?
Pollen and Anthos are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Pollen or Anthos have ads?
Neither Pollen nor Anthos shows ads.

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