Freyr Sunset vs Open Your Windows
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Freyr Sunset
This app helps you find the best times to watch sunsets. It uses forecasts to predict when a sunset will be particularly beautiful, encouraging you to experience the moment.
- Sunset prediction forecasts
- Encourages outdoor viewing
- Empirically tested accuracy
- Focuses on the feeling of awe
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Around 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth started orbiting the sun. Since then, there have been trillions of sunsets, but humans have only been around to see about 73 million of them. For each of those sunsets, there were people watching, awed by the colors, thinking deep thoughts. We made this app because we love that feeling so much. After testing our forecasts empirically for years, we finally feel we’re accurate enough to help you decide when a sunset will be worth watching. But regardless of what we say, you’ll never regret going out to see a sunset. When in doubt, check it out.
Open Your Windows
This app provides a single, clear recommendation on whether to open your windows for fresh air. It analyzes temperature, humidity, air quality, pollen, and wind to give you a simple 'Open,' 'Maybe,' or 'Keep Closed' answer with a plain-English reason.
- Clear Open/Maybe/Closed recommendation
- Plain-English reasoning
- Short-term outlook
- Home screen widget
- Pollen sensitivity toggle
- Privacy-focused design
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Fresh air, without the guesswork. Open Your Windows gives you one simple answer: is right now a good time to open the windows? Most days you want fresh air. But checking a weather app, an AQI app, and a pollen app to decide takes five minutes and three different recommendations. Too long if you'd like to check several times a day, and if it's important to you to get fresh air. This app looks at all of it — temperature, humidity, dewpoint, air quality, pollen, wind gusts, and rain forecasts — and gives you one clear recommendation with a plain-English reason. What you see — Open, Maybe, or Keep Closed. One answer, right now. — Plain-language reason ("It's a comfortable 72° and AQI is 42 — in the good range.") — Short-term outlook so you know how long conditions will hold. — Home screen widget in two sizes for glance-and-go checks. — Parameter detail when you want to see the why. — Pollen sensitivity toggle for allergy-prone households. How it decides It's not AI. It's a deterministic rule engine with thresholds tuned for real household comfort. Hard vetoes for unsafe air. Soft modifiers for things that affect how pleasant it'll feel. Short-term forecast awareness so you're not told to open right before a storm. Hysteresis so the answer doesn't flip every two minutes on borderline days. If conditions are genuinely borderline, it says Maybe and tells you why. If something upstream breaks or good weather data are not available, it says so instead of guessing. Trust comes from predictability. Privacy, seriously — No account. No login. No tracking. — Your location is used to fetch weather for your spot, then discarded. Never stored on our servers. — Analytics are anonymous. No device IDs. No IP addresses. No location. — API keys for weather, AQI, and pollen providers stay on our backend. Your phone never talks to them directly. Who it's for Anyone who loves fresh air and doesn't love checking three apps to decide. Parents of kids with allergies. People with asthma. Anyone who's opened the windows on a day the pollen count was secretly brutal and paid for it the next morning. Not a medical device. This is a household comfort tool, not allergy advice. If you have serious respiratory conditions, talk to your doctor — but let this app take "is today a good day?" off your list. Built in the spring in the Midwest by one person with allergies and asthma who wanted an app that just gives him the answer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Open Your Windows at every 5 days against Freyr Sunset's every 6 weeks. Open Your Windows also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Open Your Windows holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Freyr Sunset's written reviews are positive against 100% of Open Your Windows's.
Freyr Sunset ships an update every 6 weeks, Open Your Windows every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Freyr Sunset | Open Your Windows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Davids | Joeldco, LLC |
Customer experience
Freyr Sunset
Open Your Windows
In-app purchases
Freyr Sunset
No in-app purchases
Open Your Windows
No in-app purchases









