PowerView vs Living Forward
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PowerView
Control motorized window coverings from your mobile device. Adjust light and energy usage with a tap or automated schedules. Integrates with your connected home for ultimate convenience.
- Control motorized window coverings
- Group control of shades
- Customizable Scenes
- Automated Schedules
- Sunrise/Sunset scheduling
- Remote access with Gateway
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Control your home's window coverings from the convenience of your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. The PowerView® App provides intelligent operation of popular Hunter Douglas window coverings. Adjust your window coverings to manage incoming light and energy usage throughout your home with the tap of a button or through automated operation. The app merges seamlessly with your connected lifestyle to provide a level of convenience and ease for your automated window coverings. Features: • Control Hunter Douglas motorized window coverings, individually or in groups, throughout your entire home. • Quickly and easily navigate the app using built-in tabs: Dashboard, Rooms, Scenes, and Schedules. • Add favorite Scenes, Shades, and Schedules to your Dashboard, so they appear first whenever you open the app. • Create customized shade position settings called "Scenes" for convenience, or to manage your natural lighting and privacy needs throughout the day. • Put your Scenes in motion using Schedules. Easily program your Scenes to activate automatically at different times of day to deliver the look and comfort you want, without you having to press a button. Configure Schedules to occur at a specific time, or based on unique Sunrise and Sunset times in your specific location. • Easily enable or disable Schedules, so that your blinds take the day off when you do. • Manage your Home from anywhere with RemoteConnect™. This requires a PowerView® Gateway, an Internet connection, and initial in-home setup. If you need help or have a question, email us at PowerView@hunterdouglas.com or call 1-844-PWR-VIEW (US), 1-800-265-8000 (Canada).
Living Forward
Discover the vibrant energy and natural beauty of Willow Valley Communities. This app serves as your personal guide to pursuing passions, making friends, and enjoying a healthy, active lifestyle within a captivating neighborhood.
- Experience community energy and friendliness
- Explore natural beauty and architectural elegance
- Pursue passions and make new friends
- Grow, learn, and engage
- Enjoy a healthy, vibrant lifestyle
- Create memories with family
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Living Forward is your personal guide to experiencing life at Willow Valley Communities. You’ll feel it the moment you arrive. It’s the energy and friendliness of the people who live and work here. The natural beauty of the landscaping and the architectural elegance of the buildings. The sense that you’re part of a diverse and captivating neighbourhood. It’s that simple, wonderful sense that, yes, this is the place. Willow Valley is a place where you can pursue your passions, make new friends, grow, learn, engage, and pursue a healthy, vibrant lifestyle. It’s also an ideal place for you and family to enjoy special times together and create new memories. Welcome to Willow Valley Communities.
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Verdict
PowerView and Living Forward both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Living Forward's written reviews are positive against 28% of PowerView's. PowerView's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 13). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for PowerView against 4.3 for Living Forward. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PowerView has 2.4K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of PowerView's written reviews are positive against 100% of Living Forward's.
PowerView ships an update every 5 weeks, Living Forward every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PowerView | Living Forward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (2.4K ratings) — better | 4.3 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hunter Douglas Window Fashions, Inc. | Alosant |
Customer experience
PowerView
Living Forward
Bugs and requests
PowerView
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes on launch
- Scenes not working as expected
- Inability to discover/connect to shades
- Inconsistent remote control functionality
- Automation schedules not triggering properly
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- Sync issues between app and physical shades
Requested features
6 requests- Dark mode option
- Battery level indicators
- Conditional scenes based on weather
- Ability to adjust upper/lower limits
- Improved group scene management
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- Remote access without connectivity issues
Living Forward
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PowerView
No in-app purchases
Living Forward
No in-app purchases
Questions
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