Comparison

Open Your Windows vs JustDew

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Clear Open/Maybe/Closed recommendation
  • Plain-English reasoning
  • Short-term outlook
  • Home screen widget
  • Pollen sensitivity toggle
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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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.

About

JustDew

This app provides a straightforward dew point reading to gauge air comfort. Access current conditions within the application, on your home screen, Mac desktop, or Apple Watch complication.

Highlights
  • Dew point display
  • Home Screen widget
  • Apple Watch complication
  • Mac desktop integration
  • Simple comfort reading
Features
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JustDew keeps the dew point front and center, giving you a simple read on how comfortable, muggy, or downright sticky the air feels. Check it in the app, on your Home Screen, on your Mac desktop, or from your Apple Watch complication.

Screenshots

Open Your Windows3 screens
JustDew2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: JustDew at 4 against Open Your Windows's 2. Open Your Windows's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Open Your Windows against 5.0 for JustDew. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Open Your Windows versus JustDew: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpen Your WindowsJustDew
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoeldco, LLCGeorge Babichev

Customer experience

Open Your Windows

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

JustDew

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Open Your Windows

No in-app purchases

None

JustDew

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Open Your Windows free?
Open Your Windows is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JustDew free?
JustDew is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Open Your Windows or JustDew?
Open Your Windows and JustDew are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Open Your Windows or JustDew have ads?
Neither Open Your Windows nor JustDew shows ads.

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