Lumea vs Window
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lumea
This app combines a focus timer with a virtual pet that goes on adventures while you concentrate. Track your focus history, earn rewards, and customize your pet's appearance. It offers optional features to help you set daily goals and integrate with health data.
- Customizable focus timer (5-120 min)
- Virtual pet with adventures and rewards
- Focus history and category tracking
- Daily goal setting with app blocking
- Pet customization with outfits and tools
- Optional Apple Health integration
- Collectable watercolor pets
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While you focus, it adventures. Lumea is an iPhone app that combines a focus timer, focus history, and pet raising. For study, work, and reading: focus on your task while your pet explores, then see what this time brings. ◆ Start focusing at your own pace • Set a 5–120 minute countdown in 5-minute steps, or start counting up without a preset duration • End a count-up session when you’re done; it ends automatically 12 hours after starting. Pausing does not extend that deadline • When leaving Lumea or locking your screen, choose to keep timing or auto-pause. After auto-pausing, return to the app and tap Resume • Track study, work, reading, exercise, or your own custom focus categories • If you end early, completed full focus minutes still count toward stats and base rewards ◆ Every return may bring a new discovery After an adventure, it may return with Outfits, Tools, or Melodies—a small surprise for the journey. Finish a full session to create a saveable, shareable watercolor Moment. ◆ It remembers every focus session A session is recorded after at least one full focus minute. Revisit each record in the Footprints timeline, and use weekly category totals to see where your focused time went. ◆ Make room for focus today Daily Promise is optional. Set a daily goal of 5–120 minutes; after granting access, choose apps or categories to set aside on this device. Selected apps unlock automatically when you reach your goal. • Valid on-device focus minutes from both count-up and countdown sessions count—no need to finish in one sitting • Unlock temporarily when needed, or turn Daily Promise off anytime; no membership required • Your goal and selected apps stay on this device and are never synced Reach your goal at your own pace. ◆ Let focus hatch new pets Completed sessions give your pet XP and add hatching progress to the current egg. Hatch and collect 24 watercolor pets; hatching a pet you already own gives Gleam instead. Steady focus also advances pets, places, collections, and milestones. ◆ Style its adventures, your way Mix keepsakes, outfits, tools, and available badges in any slot—up to 3 per pet for free users or 6 with Membership—and adjust each item's position, size, rotation, and layer order. Lumea has no hunger meter, energy limit, or required daily chores. Taking time away from the app never makes your pet worse or removes progress you already earned. ◆ Apple Health boosts (optional) You can choose to connect Apple Health. If yesterday's steps or last night's sleep meet the goals, the current session receives a boost to pet XP and the current egg's hatching progress. Not granting access does not affect core features or base rewards. ◆ Free features and optional membership Start immediately in Guest mode. Free users can access every core feature. Lumea Membership is an optional monthly auto-renewable subscription that adds 50% to pet XP and hatching progress earned from focus time, a one-time Starisle Cloak welcome outfit per Lumea account, and a member badge. Fixed hatching bonuses are not multiplied. Membership does not change drop rates, pity counters, or the range of free features. Eligible Apple accounts can receive one 7-day free trial. Unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, the subscription renews automatically. Your Apple account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. A free trial converts to a paid subscription when it ends; cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends to avoid a charge. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. Terms of Service: https://getlumea.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://getlumea.app/privacy
Window
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Somewhere it is raining right now. Window is a small painted view onto a real place. Not a photo and not a video loop, but an illustrated window that runs on that place's actual weather and its actual time of day. When it rains there, rain runs down your glass. Beads gather, cling, then break and race down the wet channels. When the sun sets there, your window goes gold and then deep blue, on that place's clock, not yours. Snow settles. Fog softens the distance. Cloud flattens the light. You do not do anything with it. That is the point. Open it while the kettle boils, leave it on the desk beside your work, put it on the counter while you cook. It is somewhere else, carrying on without you. What makes it different Most calm apps give you a video that plays the same way every time. Window is drawing what is happening in a real place at this moment. Open it twice in a day and you get two different views, because the place moved on. What is inside Six windows onto six places, each with its own light and its own weather. Live conditions: clear, cloud, rain, snow and fog, each rendered its own way. True day and night, from that place's real sunrise and sunset. Optional ambient sound, off unless you want it. Built for quiet. Dark, uncluttered, nothing that beeps at you. Window Pro Two windows are free, forever. Pro opens the full set and adds a new window every month. Weather data by WeatherAPI.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Lumea and Window are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Lumea sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Window sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Lumea | Window |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 214 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | You Lu | Rico van Zyl |
In-app purchases
Lumea
- Lumea Membership7 Days trial$1.991 Month
Window
- Window Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Window Pro Yearly$19.991 Year









