Windowpane vs Social*
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Windowpane
This app allows users to share their lives in real-time through spontaneous photos and live streams. Connect with others by sharing unfiltered moments, thoughts, and experiences as they happen.
- Live-streaming
- Spontaneous photos and videos
- Unfiltered sharing
- Connect with others
- Share thoughts and experiences
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WINDOWPANE is the live-streaming app for sharing your life as it happens, without filters, editing, or anything fake. Because you're already amazing. Connect with others, with spontaneous photos and videos, and random live-streaming. Post thoughts, events, experiences, and milestones, as you travel along the path that is uniquely yours. Share your world.
Social*
Organize events and activities with friends and family, keeping everyone updated on plans and schedules. Share moments and stay connected with your social circle.
- Plan events with friends and family
- Track schedules and updates
- Update plan status
- Invite and add people
- Share moments
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SOCIAL is where plans become real — and real plans become connections. Stop juggling group chats, screenshots, and "wait what time again?" texts. SOCIAL turns any idea into a live plan your people can join in one tap. PLAN ANYTHING Create a Public Plan and put it on the map for the world, or a Private Plan just for your circle. Add ticketing or a point of contact if you're organizing something bigger. ONE LINK. ZERO FRICTION. Share your plan's invite link. Whoever taps it gets signed in instantly, added to the plan, synced to their calendar, and connected to you as a friend — even if they've never opened the app before. That's it. That's the whole flow. DISCOVER WHAT'S HAPPENING Browse 1,000+ live public events already on SOCIAL — concerts, pop-ups, meetups, residencies — curated by Team SOCIAL from day one. Check the Top 30 Trending feed to see what's hot right now. FIND YOUR NEXT SPOT The Places section surfaces cafés, restaurants, hotels, cinemas, and attractions near you — daily utility even before your friends are on the app. NEVER MISS A PLAN Every plan syncs straight to your phone's native calendar. Get reminded 1 hour before and right when it starts. RELIVE IT, SHARE IT Post photos and videos inside every plan. Tag friends, like, comment, share. Your Personalized Track quietly logs every event you've ever attended — your own social history, built automatically. SIGN IN YOUR WAY Google, Apple, or Microsoft — pick one and you're in. SOCIAL isn't another events app you check once and forget. It's the layer that turns "we should do this sometime" into "see you at 8." Plan anything. Discover everything. #LetsBe-Social
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Social* at none against Windowpane's 3. Windowpane's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Windowpane sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Social* asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Windowpane against 5.0 for Social*. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Windowpane has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Windowpane ships an update fortnightly, Social* every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Windowpane | Social* |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Purple Inc | Social Mobile Application (SMC- Private) Limited |
Customer experience
Windowpane
Social*
In-app purchases
Windowpane
- 10 Hearts$0.99
- 100 Hearts$8.99
- 300 Hearts$24.99
Social*
No in-app purchases









