Air quality has become an increasing concern for many people around the globe. While stressing about it constantly isn't necessarily helpful, the goal of Breathable is to provide a quick, glanceable answer to a new daily question: Is it safe to go outside?
Breathable is a free Air Quality Index (AQI) app and widgets for all of your devices, with support for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and macOS. Customize widgets, track and chart historical AQI data, visualize trends, and stay aware of the air pollution risks around you and your loved ones. Trends data is automatically synced between all of your devices using iCloud.
Breathable uses AQI data from multiple worldwide services—IQAir.com, PurpleAir, The World Air Quality Index Project—as well as AirNow.gov in the US. All of these services offer free accounts and API access for personal use. Configure multiple services or just one. Set your preference for highest reading, highest reading PM2.5 only, or prefer a specific service’s findings. Across all services, Breathable uses the United States Air Quality Index model for values and band descriptions, so you can always understand the reading regardless of its source.
Breathable can automatically fetch the air quality for your current location, or you can manually search for locations (postal code, place name, partial or full address) or select a point on the world map. Coordinates are only used to request AQI data and are NEVER shared with Karbon or any other third parties.
Customize how your widgets look by selecting from our large list of fonts, toggling visibility of various data points, and use Breathable's Emoji Scale for a friendlier look at conditions. Customize Emoji Scale using one of our provided sets or choose your own emoji for each scale value.
It’s easy to get started: Simply create your free API account(s), enable automatic location, customize your widgets, and add them to your device. API keys will automatically sync with iCloud, enabling a simple one-time API key setup across all of your devices.
We wish Breathable didn't need to exist. Climate change is real and devastating, and we don't have much time left to stop it from becoming irreversible. Read. Get involved. Let's protect our planet and ourselves. You can read more about how Breathable is trying to help make a difference in the global fight against climate change by visiting breathable.app/impact.
Great for anyone who wants to monitor AQ in a single location
amos_b_b
This is an ideal use of a widget: putting vital air quality information that’s available but not easily accessible and putting it just a swipe away. However, it doesn’t help people who need to follow air quality in multiple locations. I need to monitor AQ in three locations (vulnerable family members), and it defeats the purpose of having a widget to have to go into the app to change the location every time I want to check a different location. Would love to see an update with the option of multiple locations.
I feel like I should pay for this app
BBuehler
While initial setup (to get API keys) isn’t zero effort, it does allow several data sources for air quality. The app otherwise seems perfect and it really feels like I should at least give the devs some coffee money.
Developer Response
What a kind thing to say, and thank you! We're glad you like the app and we appreciate the sentiment so much, but would urge you instead to donate that coffee money to the various climate change initiatives linked in the Resources section of Help Center in the app. Thank you again for your review!
Quality Air Monitor
luxuryluke
The functions work very well once the api keys are entered, and the options for the design of this is a very nice touch, subtle animations and nice details added in makes it very complete and customizable. Well done, Karbon.
Well designed, works well
guybrush3pwd
This is such a cool app for monitoring AQI. I wish it had a menubar option as well for quickly glancing!
Developer Response
Good news, friend! In version 4.1, just released, we added support for a menu bar extra on macOS. We hope you like it, and thank you for the feature suggestion and kind review.
Breathable is ready for iPhone Duo! This release reworks the app around the fold, with a two-pane layout when the device is open, and brings a round of improvements to Trends, iPad, and Mac as well.
iPhone Duo
* Breathable now supports the new vertical tab bar style for iPhone Duo and every screen pose
* Open iPhone Duo and Breathable becomes two panes: AQI Trends on the left, always in view, with Coordinates and the other tabs on the right. An AQI color scale runs along the hinge between the panes, marking your current reading
* Support for Split View multitasking on iPhone Duo
Trends
* Trends options now open in a card over the chart instead of pushing to a new screen
* Simplified loading and processing of Trends data: a single progress bar is now displayed while processing and the iCloud sync indicator appears once per load instead of coming in and out
Mac
* Trends now keeps its place when you switch to another sidebar item and back instead of reloading
* With "Hide Breathable's Dock icon" on, the Dock icon no longer reappears when you open Breathable by clicking a widget
iPad
* Navigation bars now span the full window when content scrolls under them
* The Welcome and What's New sheets resize with the window and no longer break when the app goes full screen
Version 5.0
The developer, Karbon, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
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