Airpocalypse - Air Quality

Nothing you can do about the air, really. But now you can see exactly how bad it is — in a very pretty way. Live AQI, pollutants, and tips you'll probably ignore.

The air is getting worse. We can't help with that. We can show you, in a really lovely way, exactly how worse it's getting.

Airpocalypse turns your local air quality into a tiny, hand-crafted world. Open the app and there it is: bright and breezy when the air is fine, hazy and softly smoldering when it absolutely is not, easing from day into night as the hours pass. The numbers are real. The vibe is, regrettably, accurate.

Beneath the slow-motion catastrophe is an air-quality app that genuinely works:

• LIVE AIR QUALITY INDEX — Your current AQI for exactly where you're standing, plus a plain reading of what that number means for you today. (Spoiler: it varies.)

• POLLUTANT BREAKDOWN — Meet the things you're inhaling — PM2.5, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and the rest of the gang — each with notes on where it came from and what it's doing to you. Riveting stuff.

• HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS — Sensible advice for the current air, which you are of course free to nod along to and then ignore.

• A SCENE THAT RESPONDS — A parallax world that shifts with your air and the time of day, drifting gently as you tilt your phone. The apocalypse has never been so pleasant to scroll.

• MAP VIEW — See where you are. See where the air is. They are, sadly, the same place.

No accounts. No clutter. No frantic push alerts at 6am. Just your air, honestly reported and rendered with a suspicious amount of love.

Air quality data provided by Google. Your location is used only to find the air near you, and is never tracked or sold — we have standards, even now.

Welcome to the Airpocalypse. You're going to be here a while. Might as well enjoy the view.