Plume Labs: Air Quality App

Plume Labs

About this app

What's the air quality forecast for today? When’s the best time to go for a run? Oh, and what are the pollution levels like in my next holiday destination?

Plume Labs gives you real-time pollution levels in your area, and around the globe. Get live street-by-street pollution maps for the world’s major urban areas, and detailed information about how air quality will evolve over the next 72 hours—just like a weather forecast.

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It’s air pollution information you can act on—73% of our surveyed users say Plume Labs helped them make changes in their daily habits to breathe cleaner air, no matter where they were!

The Plume Labs’ Air Quality App works all over the world. Our top team of data and atmospheric scientists has built a worldwide air quality forecasting system using a wide variety of data sources. This includes satellite imagery, atmospheric simulations, traffic and emissions datasets, all coming together to give you the most accurate air quality info out there.

We’ve got you covered wherever you go in the world.

KEY FEATURES

DETAILED MAPS: Live, street-by-street air quality maps give you detailed information about pollution levels on each street, in real time! Find the best route to work, pick the cleanest parks for a playdate—it’s all there in a stunning, easy-to-read map.

LIVE, HISTORICAL, AND FORECAST DATA: Plume Labs gives you real-time, city-by-city data for the most important pollutants - NO2, PM2.5, PM10, and O3. Look ahead with a 72 hour forecast. Analyze the past with up to 6 months of historical data!

HYPER-LOCAL INFO: Street-level pollution information is at your fingertips—pick your places, get the forecasts, drill into the maps! Studies have shown that access to this type of air pollution information can help you reduce your exposure by up to 50%.

CLEAN-AIR COACHING: Plume Labs gives you tips and tricks for finding clean air while running, cycling, having fun at the playground, and eating outdoors. Your clean-air coach will keep you up-to-date with just the right notifications.

Morning Report: 7AM overview of the current day
Evening Report: 7PM forecast of the day to come
Smart Notifications: Intelligent alerts warn you of pollution peaks and tell you when the air is clean.

OUR USERS LOVE IT!

Awesome app! A must have if you care about your health and city.

Great app one of a kind. Air quality monitoring app in a class of its own

It helps a lot to know when pollution is high. I always have medical breathing issues that I need to be careful of. Thanks for the help!

PLUME LABS’ APP IN THE PRESS

HuffingtonPost: "Beat the pollution with the Plume Air app."

Evening Standard: "This pollution app tells you when it's 'safest' to go outside."

TechCrunch: "A pragmatic approach to air pollution. Strikes the right balance between providing insightful information about air pollution and not being too complicated."

WHAT’S NEW


Plume Air Report went through a total overhaul. Beyond the name change, we added various new features to the app. What made the success of Air Report haven’t moved. Here is what’s new:

Check out the updated design and streamlined interface. Our team has pulled out all the stops to bring you a new look that adds new features and leaves room for more!
Slide along the beautiful new timeline to see historical data. Color-coding gives an at-a-glance overview of the situation.
Get pollutant breakdowns, hourly, daily, monthly info, annual averages, and worst day/best day comparisons.
Add cities to your feed and compare air quality around the world. Our universal Air Quality Index lets you quickly see how the air measures up. Prefer measurements in a local AQI? It’s easy to adjust your settings in-app.

Ratings and reviews

I can't attest to the accuracy, based on what I see published elsewhere, it's not "wrong". But is it spot on for the reading at my house? Dunno. What I can say is that it is easy to use! I like the layout and the hour by hour readings. When I wake up short of breath I can see that at 4am the air was really bad because of the smoke and is much better at 8am. If there is anything I don't like is the area map. The color only shows on the roads. Do it as an overlay so we can see the coast!

App seems to work well. Data appears to correlate reasonably well with Airnow.gov. I've tried other apps like Air Visual that don't appear to correlate with anything and give nonsensical readings. My only gripe is with the widget. Appears to waste a lot of space (may be different for someone with larger font setting on their phone, my font is set to extra small, so there's a lot of dead space). But seriously, what's with the big stupid ugly cartoon head taking up half the widget real estate?

This app is a fantastic free resource for learning about the local air quality and planning my day around it. The content is very useful and the ux design is fantastic. My only small piece of feedback is to make the tips by category in the daily forecast more specific - maybe it's evident to everyone else what they mean, but does "go for it later" mean "15 minutes is probably ok" or "you'd be risking immediate physical harm", for example?

What's new

Bug fixes