Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We send live atmosphere data from Android phones to scientists launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1LA
   Live atmosphere data crowdsourced with Android▲7

   2013 · pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca · its alternatives →

2. 2GO
   Graphs of millions of atmospheric measurements from Android phones▲10

   2013 · pndv.cumulonimbus.ca · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Vaavud▲80

   Wind meter for smartphones

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Bright▲83

   Bringing solar to the developing world

   2015 · thinkbright.mx · its alternatives →

5. 5OS
   Open source Android app building a network of barometers▲27

   2011 · market.android.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   I turned algae into a bio-altimeter and put it on a weather balloon▲142

   Hi HN - My name is Andrew, and I'm a high school student. This is a write-up on StratoSpore, a payload I designed and launched to the stratosphere. The goal was to test if we could estimate physical altitude based on algae fluorescence (using a lightweight ML model trained on the sensor data). The blog post covers the full engineering mess/process, including: - The Hardware: Designing PCBs for the AS7263 spectral sensor and Pi Zero 2 W. -The biological altimeter: How I tried to correlate biological stress (fluorescence) with altitude. - The Communications: A custom lossy compression…

   Nov 2025 · radi8.dev · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go▲127

   CO₂ & Temperature monitor. Contribute to larsp/co2monitor development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Ouranos API▲63

   Weather service and API specialized in astronomy

   2023 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Datastory▲118

   Turn the world's data into stories worth sharing

   24d ago · datastory.tech · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Somewhere▲101

    See how the world works.

    2014 · somewhere.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    ECharts▲74

    Bring your data to life

    2015 · ecomfe.github.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    PixelSpace▲68

    A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system

    2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Ambi Climate▲81

    Smart AC Remote

    2014 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Earth: A Primer▲76

    A science book/app for playful people

    2015 · earthprimer.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Domino Data Lab▲68

    Make data scientists more productive

    2015 · domino.ai · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Mesoloft▲61

    Taking ashes to the edge of space

    2014 · mesoloft.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Klyme▲60

    Weather for Humans!

    2014 · klyme.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Project Sunroof▲12

    Mapping the planet's solar energy potential

    2015 · sunroof.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →

19. 19PI
    pressureNET is a weather network running on Android phones▲6

    2012 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

20. 20EC
    Earth-clock – live WebGL planet with eclipses, weather, earthquakes▲5

    Jul 2026 · earth-clock.onemonkey.org · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Dream Lab▲6

    Power of your Smartphone to fast track cancer research

    2015 · vodafone.com.au · its alternatives →

22. 22TF
    The first automated weather watching service via SMS▲5

    2017 · smsforecast.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    TetraScience▲10

    Monitor & manage your experiments from the cloud

    2015 · tetrascience.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Astronomer▲6

    Ship user events to S3, for processing in Redshift and other

    2015 · astronomer.io · its alternatives →

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