Comparison

StormWatch vs Air Quality ◎

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

Head to head
About

StormWatch

Features
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StormWatch warns you of incoming storms based on sudden, rapid pressure drops, offering detailed pressure trends from 6 hours to 30 days. Whether you are a sailor, fisher, or weather enthusiast, know what's coming before it happens.

About

Air Quality ◎

Get real-time air quality information for your city, including the main pollutant and its cause. Receive alerts for air quality changes and customize notifications based on your sensitivity profile. A widget provides at-a-glance updates without opening the app.

Highlights
  • Real-time AQI and pollutant concentration
  • Supports multiple international AQI scales
  • Weather factors explained
  • Global pollution map and city ranking
  • Customizable alerts
  • Personalized sensitivity profiles
  • Home screen widget
Features
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What you are breathing, at a glance. An index with no explanation is useless. Air Quality shows your city's level in real time, the pollutant pushing it up, the weather behind it, and one clear call: go out now, or wait until this evening. No account, no sign-up, no email address to hand over. THE INDEX, IN REAL TIME Your city's level, updated continuously, with the pollutant responsible and its concentration: PM2.5 and PM10 particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide. When wildfire smoke drifts in, fine particles are what tell you first. YOUR COUNTRY'S OWN SCALE In the United States the app uses the AQI you already know, from 0 to 500. Travel, and it switches to the official scale of wherever you are: the European index, Canada's AQHI, the UK's DAQI, Korea's CAI, and the Japanese, Mexican, Australian and Brazilian scales. Nine scales in all, and you can force your own. THE WEATHER THAT EXPLAINS IT Wind disperses particles, heat manufactures ozone, rain washes the air. A discreet strip ties every move of the index to its cause, in one sentence. This is an air quality app, not a weather app: the weather is there to explain, never to take over the screen. MAP AND RANKING A pollution layer over the world map, monitoring stations where they exist, and a ranking of major cities so you can place your own. ALERTS THAT ACTUALLY WARN YOU A notification when the air degrades in one of your cities, and another when it is breathable again. You set the threshold, the app keeps watch. YOUR SENSITIVITY PROFILE Asthma, heart condition, young child, older adult, pregnancy, outdoor sport: tick what applies to you. The app then watches the pollutants that affect you first and warns you earlier, without ever altering the readings it shows. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN A widget shows your city's level without opening the app. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No account, no advertising profile built on your health. Your reading history is stored on your device. PREMIUM The free version gives you today's index, the map, the ranking, the widget and one tracked city. Premium adds: no ads, five-day forecasts, up to 50 cities, alerts, twelve months of history and CSV export of your readings. Monthly or yearly subscription — a seven-day free trial on the yearly plan — or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices for your country are shown inside the app. Payment is charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage and cancel them in your Apple account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ General terms: https://airquality.devolim.fr/en/terms.html Subscription terms: https://airquality.devolim.fr/en/subscription.html Privacy: https://airquality.devolim.fr/en/privacy.html Data: Copernicus / CAMS via Open-Meteo. Air Quality provides environmental information. It is not a medical device and does not replace the advice of a health professional.

Screenshots

StormWatch2 screens
Air Quality ◎4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: StormWatch at none against Air Quality ◎'s shown. StormWatch also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Air Quality ◎'s advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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

StormWatch ships an update every 3 days, Air Quality ◎ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
StormWatch versus Air Quality ◎: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStormWatchAir Quality ◎
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB75 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJohn Hatton-EdgeDevolim

In-app purchases

None

StormWatch

No in-app purchases

None

Air Quality ◎

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StormWatch free?
StormWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Air Quality ◎ free?
Air Quality ◎ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do StormWatch or Air Quality ◎ have ads?
Air Quality ◎ shows ads; StormWatch does not.
Which is updated more often, StormWatch or Air Quality ◎?
StormWatch ships an update every 3 days, and Air Quality ◎ every 2 months. Most recently, StormWatch was updated on October 24, 2026 and Air Quality ◎ on October 25, 2026.

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