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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-09 at 18:13

In light of the awful fires and air quality in Los Angeles, I've made Breathable free and app will remain free permanently. I charged for the app prior only so I could donate the proceeds to climate change charities, but paying Apple 15% for that privilege is silly. https://breathable.app

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-09 at 18:13

If you paid for the app in the past, thank you so much—your money was not wasted! It was donated to the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Clean Air Task Force and the Climate Change Emergency Fund. I took great pride in donating to these terrific causes in Breathable's name.

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-09 at 18:13

This little app has never made much income—it was really a passion project and something I wanted for myself—but every dime it did make had an impact by going to these charities, so I'm grateful for all the folks who purchased it.

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Written by Monica Rooney on 2025-01-09 at 19:51

@garrettmurray I paid! Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

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Written by Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: on 2025-01-09 at 18:29

@garrettmurray rockstar.

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Written by Brent on 2025-01-09 at 20:23

@garrettmurray Thanks for mentioning the charities you supported so we can do it also 👍

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Written by Jeff C. 🇺🇦 on 2025-01-09 at 20:28

@garrettmurray @siracusa As a Pasadena resident who feels like he just smoked a pack of cigarettes after having forgotten to bring his mask on a walk, thank you!

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Written by Laced Salmon Enjoyer on 2025-01-09 at 20:59

@garrettmurray Thank you for your work and contributions, Mr. Murray. Just one quick question: Do you plan on porting the app to Android?

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-09 at 21:08

@StonedKodiak Apologies, but no. I myself do not make Android apps. Wish I could, but it's not in my side-project wheelhouse.

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Written by 🎀 Séléna 🌺 on 2025-01-09 at 21:07

@garrettmurray is it US only ?

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-09 at 21:20

@selena Due to awful EU trader requirements, I removed the app from EU nations back in the summer. But now that it's free, I can bring it back. Will take a few hours to propagate.

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Written by 🎀 Séléna 🌺 on 2025-01-09 at 21:21

@garrettmurray thank you very much :)

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Written by Mike Sax on 2025-01-10 at 00:37

@garrettmurray fwiw, the App Store Guidelines let you link out to accept donations to charitable org, directly from your app.

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-10 at 01:11

@mikesax The app does link out to charitable donations in its onboarding. Prior to this, I was charing for the app itself as well, and personally donating the revenue from the sales. But that meant I was giving Apple 15% and also paying tax on the income as it came in, which all takes away from the donation total. I would just rather people use the app if it's helpful, and they donate directly which would be more impactful, long-term.

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Written by Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 on 2025-01-10 at 02:00

@garrettmurray

Thank you Garrett. I downloaded, followed the instruction for the keys, and got it all set up.

One glitch I experienced, and forgive me for explaing this poorly, I’m not a tech guy, is I downloaded the app and couldn’t figure out why no data was displayed. I didn’t understand the icon for the app wasn’t the working widget. I kind of stumbled into it and all is well now. Thx again.

ps: not an LA fire sufferer, but an asthmatic UT temperature inversion sufferer.

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-10 at 02:12

@Joe_Hill Completely understand the confusion, Joe, and very much agree that an app that is simply the configuration method for a widget is odd. There are certainly other apps like this, but not everyone has used one so I understand. The onboarding tries to address this a bit, but it's certainly a weird user experience. Glad you got it working, and thank you for sending the feedback!

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Written by Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 on 2025-01-10 at 20:48

@garrettmurray

Just left you a 5 Star review. App of the Year!

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-10 at 21:01

@Joe_Hill Hah, don’t know about that, but thanks for the support!

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Written by Julian (ate hardtack & died💔) on 2025-01-10 at 04:12

@garrettmurray is this for android too?

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-10 at 04:36

@miqokin This is for iOS, Apple Watch and macOS.

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Written by Ko Simon C. Hulse toku ingoa on 2025-01-10 at 05:12

@garrettmurray I live in a country where Apple does not have any AQI data in the weather app- is this because it’s not something I need to worry about here (I presume so as I’ve never struggled to breathe outside), or a lack of data?

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-10 at 08:40

@SimonCHulse Certainly a lack of data from their provider. You’d be surprised (sadly) at how air quality can be poorer than you’d imagine even when you don’t struggle to breathe. IQAir has data for NZ, so feel free to give Breathable a try if you want a simple widget to check AQI. But also, you all do have amazing air quality most of the time, which is awesome!

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Written by Ko Simon C. Hulse toku ingoa on 2025-01-10 at 08:46

@garrettmurray yeah, it is a blessing, and not one I take for granted!

There was a minor bushfire right by my house in late 2021 so I imagine it wasn’t that good that day.

(Video from my driveway attached- shot on iPhone 13 Pro 3x zoom lens)

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Written by Rudolph's Shiny New Fuzz on 2025-01-10 at 11:50

@garrettmurray Thank you Garrett!

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Written by StickMAN on 2025-01-11 at 03:54

@garrettmurray thank you for this. I see it uses the api key to access the data, can I suggest adding aqicn.org as an alternate data source. They have a pretty good api.

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Written by Garrett Murray on 2025-01-11 at 04:21

@twiglet Interesting! I wasn’t aware of that source. I’ll take a look. Thank you!

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