Window Seat Pro vs Window View
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Window Seat Pro
Identify cities, states, countries, and geographical features directly from your airplane window using your phone's camera and GPS. Explore the world from above, plan routes, and even record your journeys.
- Real-time geographical identification
- Offline functionality
- Customizable flight plans
- Flight recording and playback
- User-added sites
- Multi-activity recording
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Window Seat lets you see geographical information from your airplane window. Looking down and seeing a small town? Window Seat will label it for you. Wondering what's beyond the horizon? Window Seat will show you that too. Window Seat labels cities, states, and country boundaries, and more. Window Seat's database covers the whole planet, with 43000+ cities and sites, countries, territories, islands, states/provinces, rivers, lakes, major roads, mountains, and airports. Features will be drawn directly on the picture from your phone's camera. When you point the camera in a new direction, the labels and boundaries move and change with the picture. Window Seat is completely self-contained, and runs even in airplane mode. You do not need data. You do not need wi-fi. All you need is your phone's GPS and compass. (Although, your GPS will work better if you are next to a window.) Other features include: + View from other vantage points, not just your camera. You can see a perspective as if you were viewing from different altitudes or anywhere in the world. + Use the "curl up" feature to move labels and borders from below the horizon to up in the sky. So even if your destination is half way around the world, you can see it. + Create or import a flight plan, and see your route drawn in the sky. + Preview your flight plan with "play mode". Fast forward and rewind to see your future/past views. + Record your flight, and see your actual flight path drawn in the sky. + Turn your flight recordings into detailed flight plans for your next trip. + Add you own favorite sites to the database, and see your sites from the sky. + Use Window Seat's recorder for hiking, biking and car trips. Look back and see the path you've followed. + Share your flight plans and favorite sites with your friends or on the openingapps website. Window Seat is now completely free. There are no ads and no in-app purchases. Window seat requires GPS in order to work properly on a plane. While 100% of iPhones have GPS units, 99% of iPads do not have GPS units. As a result, this app is not supported on iPads. This app is for entertainment purposes only. Do not use it for actual navigation. All of the data is from public sources, and is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.
Window View
Discover and learn about landmarks and points of interest as you fly. This travel app identifies over 200,000 locations offline, providing details about your flight's path, speed, and current location. Save and share your favorite discoveries, and view photos of places on the map.
- Identify over 200,000 points of interest
- Offline identification
- View flight plan ahead of time
- Track plane's speed, orientation, and location
- Find current city overhead
- Save and share favorite locations
- View photos of places on map
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Have you ever looked out the window and wondered what you were seeing? Well, look no further. Window View is a travel app that helps you identify points of interest while you fly. Identify over 200,000 airports, natural landmarks, and points of interest, all completely offline. Look up your flight plan to see where you'll be flying ahead of time. See your plane's speed, orientation, and location. Find what city you're flying over. Save and share your favorite points of interest. See photographs of places on the map. Customize your profile on the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Window View at 100% against Window Seat Pro's 50%. Window View also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Window Seat Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. Window Seat Pro sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Window View asks for nothing beyond the download.
Window View holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Window Seat Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Window View's.
Window Seat Pro ships an update every 8 months, Window View every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Window Seat Pro | Window View |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 177 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Russell Segal | Jeffrey Szekeres |
Customer experience
Window Seat Pro
Window View
In-app purchases
Window Seat Pro
- 30 day free trial2 variantsFree
- Test1Free
- Unlock for unlimited use$0.99
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- Activate for 30 days3 variants$0.99
- Unlock for unlimited use$1.99
- Unlock for unlimited use$2.99
- Unlock for unlimited use$3.99
Window View
No in-app purchases









