Breathable is a free AQI app and widgets for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro and Mac. Multiple data sources, customizable widgets, and complete air quality history synced seamlessly across every one of your devices through iCloud.
Version 4.0.2 is here! Trends, automatic location fetching, native Apple Vision Pro support, Siri and Shortcuts, and a ground-up rewrite on every platform.
Read the changelogBreathable stores each AQI reading and syncs it across your devices via iCloud. Your historical data is available everywhere, charted and detailed. Observe trends, compare sources, and see how your air quality changes over time.
Turn on automatic location and your widgets follow you. Or, drop a pin, search an address, or type a postal code to get readings from anywhere in the world.
Desktop, Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, on your Watch and now on your walls. Customizable, configurable, and always showing the most recent reading.
We've brought Breathable to Apple Vision Pro, and added some special spatial features just for this platform. Sky Window hangs on your wall and shows current air conditions through a simulated window with real sun position, moon phase, time of day and volumetric light. Trophy is a fully interactive 3D object with day and night effects.
Siri answers from the most recent reading and offers to fetch fresh data if necessary. On devices with a screen you get a full rendering of the AQI.
Coordinates are sent directly to AQI services to request readings and nowhere else—never to Karbon or anyone else. Breathable requires data sharing, has no analytics, and there is no service or server of ours anywhere in the path. You don't even have to use your real location if you don't want to.
| Service | Coverage | Info |
|---|---|---|
| IQAir | Worldwide | Aggregates government monitoring stations and validated low-cost sensors into a single global index. |
| PurpleAir | Worldwide | A community network of privately-owned sensors, often far denser than official stations in residential areas. |
| World Air Quality Index | Worldwide | A long-running open project publishing readings from thousands of government stations in over 100 countries. |
| AirNow.gov | US Only | The EPA's official index, combining federal, state, tribal and local monitoring across the US. |
All four of these supported services offer completely free accounts with free API access for personal use. Configure one service—or as many as you'd like—then choose whether Breathable reports the highest reading found, the highest PM2.5-only reading, or prefer the service you trust most. Every source is normalized to the US AQI model, so the number always means the same thing.