Comparison

Blue Map vs 风晴

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

Head to head
About

Blue Map

Access global environmental data, including air and water quality, corporate emissions, and ecological information. Participate in environmental protection by reporting pollution, sharing data, and tracking your low-carbon actions. Visualize environmental conditions with interactive maps and receive AI-driven insights and health alerts.

Highlights
  • Real-time environmental quality data
  • Corporate emissions and performance tracking
  • Public pollution reporting and action
  • Interactive environmental maps
  • AI-powered data insights
  • Personalized health and environmental alerts
Features
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Blue Map: Your Mobile Portal for Environmental Transparency, Oversight, and Participation We aggregate corporate environmental data, emissions, air/water quality, and ecological info to build a platform where everyone can participate in protecting our planet. 【Data at Your Fingertips】 • Environmental Quality: Real-time air quality in 380 cities & water quality from 1,900+ stations. • Corporate Emissions: Track real-time discharges of 9,000+ air/water polluters. • Corporate Performance: Monitor 6.6M+ enterprises with 1.7M+ violation records. • Carbon Data: Access corporate and regional emissions data for low-carbon action. 【Public Participation】 • Micro-Reporting: Submit pollution leads and track progress, driving thousands of industrial firms to respond and reduce emissions. • One-Key Sharing: Instantly share data on social media, @ authorities to drive action. • Fingertip Environmentalism: Report issues, observe waste sorting, join eco-surveys, log low-carbon acts, and check product footprints with "Carbon-EZ-Check." 【Visual & Interactive Maps】 • 48-Hr Minute-Level Maps: Hourly forecasts for air quality, wind, rain, and typhoons. • Multi-Dimensional Maps: View air/water quality, emissions, corporate records, species distribution, and global solar data in layered visuals. 【AI & Health Features】 • AI Insights: Get plain-English explanations of complex environmental data. • Health Care: Receive alerts for masks, ventilation, air quality, pollen, and outdoor exercise, with personalized risk assessments. Blue Map makes the environment visible and turns your actions into a force for change. 【Honors】 The Blue Map App is developed by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), a Beijing-based non-profit. Since 2006, IPE has built open environmental data platforms to drive corporate green transformation and improve governance. Awards include: • 2012: Goldman Environmental Prize; 3rd China Soft Science Award. • 2014: Selected for Beijing's first "Green Environmental Protection Theme App." • 2016: Public Participation & Innovation Award (IFCE). • 2017: Founding Member & Vice Chair, Green Consumption and Supply Chain Alliance. • 2018: Vice Chair, China Green Supply Chain Alliance. • 2020: Founding Member, Green Finance Committee (MIIT). • Mar 2023: National award for COVID-19 community guideline research. • Jul 2023: Outstanding Partner, "Whole Value Chain Model for Plastic Pollution Governance" (All-China Environment Federation). • Mar 2024: Council Member, All-China Environment Federation (5-year term). • Jul 2024: Partner, "Swift Action" Tech Initiative (Chaoyang District). 【Contact】 • Website: https://www.ipe.org.cn • Weibo: http://weibo.com/u/5042247906 • Tel: 010-67189470 ext. 8001 【Thanks】 To everyone tracking pollution, monitoring haze, and sharing forecasts—thank you!

About

风晴

An elegant, poetic weather app with a Chinese aesthetic. It offers accurate forecasts, extensive city data, and useful indices like rain and clothing recommendations. Enjoy daily unique poems and customizable widgets.

Highlights
  • Daily unique poems
  • Location-based weather widgets
  • Spotlight search integration
  • 10,000+ city and scenic spot weather
  • Air quality index with nearby station data
  • 24-hour temperature forecast
  • Extreme weather alerts
  • 60-day weather calendar
Features
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如果你想寻找一款安静,优雅,充满诗意的中国风天气预报app,风晴也许会是你最好的选择。 没有多余的复杂的功能,风晴只做应该做的事情: 1.基于强大且健壮的搜索算法,你所看到的诗词几乎一年365天都不会重样。 2.支持多个widget,其中widget-"风情-当下",以当前所在的坐标位置来显示天气,信息更加精准。 3.支持SpotLight搜索。 4.提供10000+国内各城市景区天气。 5.提供各种空气质量指数查询,甚至能选择离你最近的检测点查看数据(针对有检测点的城市)。 6.提供24小时的温度预测 7.提供极端天气预警,寒冷/高温/大风/森林火险等。 8.提供前后60天天气日历。 9.提供雨伞指数/穿衣指数的各种指数,助你做出合适选择。 10.提供新版的天气和穿衣指数桌面小组件

Screenshots

Blue Map4 screens
风晴4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blue Map at Free against 风晴's $0.99. Blue Map also leads on iOS requirement (15 vs 18.0). 风晴's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 64%). On update cadence, ads, 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

Blue Map is free to download; 风晴 costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blue Map ships an update every 2 weeks, 风晴 monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Blue Map versus 风晴: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlue Map风晴
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.5% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer北京市朝阳区公众环境研究中心振钊 卢

Customer experience

Blue Map

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive64.5%
Neutral13.2%
Negative22.4%

风晴

Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Blue Map

No in-app purchases

None

风晴

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blue Map free?
Blue Map is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 风晴 free?
风晴 costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Blue Map or 风晴 have ads?
Neither Blue Map nor 风晴 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blue Map or 风晴?
Blue Map ships an update every 2 weeks, and 风晴 monthly. Most recently, Blue Map was updated on November 11, 2026 and 风晴 on November 6, 2026.

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