Launching the AirGradient Mobile App - Bringing Open, Transparent Air Quality Data to Everyone

Air quality has become one of the most important environmental and public health issues of our time. It shifts by the hour, varies street by street, and affects billions of people in ways that are often invisible until they become impossible to ignore. For years, our mission at AirGradient has been to make this invisible problem visible, understandable, and actionable.

Today, we are taking a meaningful step forward in that mission with the launch of the AirGradient mobile app for iPhone and Android.

These apps are more than a new interface for air quality data. They bring together years of open-source hardware development, global community involvement, and a commitment to transparency, accessibility, and open data. They are designed to serve anyone who wants to better understand the air they breathe, whether you are in New York or Delhi, Bangkok or Bogotá, or anywhere else where air pollution impacts daily life.

Watch the video for a quick overview:

What You Can Do With the App

1. Get real-time alerts when the air quality deteriorates. Air changes fast. The app monitors your bookmarked locations in the background and notifies you when conditions worsen.
2. Receive practical health guidance. Clear, everyday advice on how to reduce your exposure during high pollution events.
3. Bookmark the places that matter. Track your home, office, school, or any city worldwide with a single tap.
4. Discover global communities working for cleaner air / learn about local groups, researchers, and citizen scientists pushing for cleaner air, and get inspired by what others are doing around the world.

Why This App Is For You

With most of the free air quality apps in the App stores, YOU become the product. Either through aggressive invasion into your privacy, annoying ads, or a sales tool for affiliate products. AirGradient’s open-source nature, and us having our revenue stream based on hardware sales makes us independent of the need to monetize this app - thus we can provide a much better user experience.

• It is completely free. No ads, no subscriptions, and no in-app purchases. Everything is accessible to everyone.
• Privacy comes first. We do not track users or sell data. Only the absolute minimum data needed to operate the app is stored.
• Your AirGradient monitors integrate seamlessly. If you own AirGradient devices, you can log in to see them directly inside the app. Note: Users who normally log in with Google may need to set a password once. Details are at below.

AirGradient App displaying health information

Download the App

The apps are now live. Search for “AirGradient” in your app store or use the links below:

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/airgradient-map/id6752292182
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agmap.android.app&hl=en

Beautiful, human-centered design

Our designer Cid created our AirGradient mascot characters, which bring a bit of warmth and personality to a topic that is often technical and heavy. You will see them appear in educational content explaining the current air quality and mitigations you can do.

This is just Version 1

This is the first release of this app, and we have big plans to extend the functionality quickly. The next steps will focus on adding the core functionality of the dashboard to the app, so that people who deployed our open-source hardware monitors can see more details about their air quality and also configure their own monitors.

Join the Movement

From a small school project to a global community, the goal has always been the same: help people understand the air they breathe and empower them to demand cleaner air.

We will continue to feature communities, schools, activists, and citizen scientists inside the app. If your community would like to be included or collaborate, we would love to hear from you.

Notes and Bug Reports for App Users

• Google Login Users: Because we have not implemented OAuth yet, users who normally log in with Google on the website need to set a password before logging into the mobile app. Use the “forgot password” feature with your Google email. Your Google login will continue to work normally on the website.
• Bug Reports Welcome: If you find any issues, please report them here using the iOS or Android templates: https://github.com/airgradienthq/airgradient-map/issues