Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Respiria
The coolest air quality app.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Respiria launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN! Some more info: I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pi-A (https://www.pi-a.io) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an app (iOS only for now) that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It hopefully has many aspects of interest to the HN community – real-time fluid, cloth and soft body sims running on the phone’s GPU. My background is as a junior surgical trainee and I started building Lungy in 2020 during the first COVID lockdown in London. During COVID, there were…
2023 · lungy.app · its alternatives →
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Monitor your world with Enviro and Enviro + Air Quality for Raspberry Pi!
2019 · shop.pimoroni.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’ve been working on an air quality measuring device called Air Lab for the past three years. It measures CO2, temperature, relative humidity, air pollutants (VOC, NOx), and atmospheric pressure. You can log and analyze the data directly on the device — no smartphone or laptop needed. To better show what the device can do and how it feels like, I spent the past week developing a web-based simulator using Emscripten. It runs the stock firmware with most features available except for networking. Check it out and let me know what you think! The firmware will be open-source and available…
2025 · networkedartifacts.com · its alternatives →
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Breathable▲73An air quality index widget for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
2021 · breathable.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m an NHS doctor and the founder of Pia (https://www.piahealth.co) which developed Lungy (https://www.lungy.app). Lungy is an iOS app that responds to breathing in real-time and was designed to make breathing exercises more engaging and beneficial to do. It’s been two years since Lungy launched (here’s the original ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34534615) and it's had a huge update and complete redesign. We rebuilt the whole app, and added a real-time 3D soft body solver which gives some really cool interactions like blobs /…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The smart air quality tracker to help you find clean air
2017 · plumelabs.com · its alternatives →
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Breathhh▲204Personal mental shield against stress and anxiety
2022 · breathhh.app · its alternatives →
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Sensio Air▲124Predict and prevent your allergies and asthma
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Respiray▲78Wearable air purifier that kills viruses with UV technology
2021 · respiray.com · its alternatives →
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Breather (iOS)▲125Peace & quiet, on-demand. Reserve a private space on the go.
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Get intelligent insights into your air quality
2018 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →
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An open-source collaborative ventilator project. 🚑
2020 · openlung.org · its alternatives →
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Lungy▲92Next-gen breathing exercises that respond to every breath
2022 · lungy.app · its alternatives →
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Pausa▲122Your space to breathe, reduce anxiety & stress, feel better
Oct 2025 · pausaapp.com · its alternatives →
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