Window Season vs OpenWindow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Window Season
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Know when to open your windows. Window Season is a tool for helping decide when to open your windows for passive cooling. It watches the temperature, air quality, and rain for the places you care about and gives you one clear call: open up, or keep them closed. Set your comfort range once and it tracks the rest, hour by hour. • Open now or closed now, at a glance • What's next, like "Close at 8 PM" • Whether you should open overnight • Air quality and rain handled automatically • Adjustable comfort settings • Home & Lock Screen widgets on iOS • Apple Watch app, complications, and widgets
OpenWindow
This app provides clear, practical recommendations on whether to open windows or go outside based on local weather and air quality. It simplifies complex data into easy-to-understand guidance for everyday decisions.
- Window opening recommendations
- Outdoor activity guidance
- Hourly weather outlooks
- Air quality data integration
- Current and manual location search
- Customizable units
- Light and dark mode
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OpenWindow helps you decide when the air outside is worth letting in. Check whether it is a good time to open your windows or go outside using local weather and air-quality conditions. OpenWindow combines temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind, visibility, UV, and air-quality data into clear, practical recommendations. Instead of making you interpret every weather metric yourself, OpenWindow gives you simple guidance for two everyday questions: - Is it a good time to open the windows? - Is it a good time to go outside? Features: - Current recommendations for windows and outdoor activity - Hourly outlooks so you can plan around better conditions - Weather and air-quality data powered by Open-Meteo - Current-location lookup with optional location permission - Manual location search if you prefer not to use device location - Saved default location for quick checks - Unit preferences for temperature, wind, visibility, and more - Light and dark mode support - No account required OpenWindow is built for quick, low-friction decisions: checking the room before opening a window, planning a walk, timing errands, or seeing whether air quality makes staying inside the better call. Location access is optional and used only to fetch local weather and air-quality data. You can always search for a location manually instead.
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Verdict
Window Season and OpenWindow are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Window Season ships an update every 2 days, OpenWindow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Window Season | OpenWindow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Coleman | South Bay Compute, LLC |
In-app purchases
Window Season
No in-app purchases
OpenWindow
No in-app purchases







