Comparison

Window Season vs Open/Shut

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

Head to head
About

Window Season

Features
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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

About

Open/Shut

Features
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Open or shut? During a heatwave, everyone answers this question with instinct, and instinct is wrong. We open the windows when the weather feels nice, while the air outside is hotter than inside. We let in air that feels dry, while it actually carries more water. Open/Shut ends the guessing. ONE GLANCE, ONE ANSWER A full-screen verdict, updated in real time: OPEN or SHUT, with the reason in one sentence. No charts to interpret, no thresholds to configure. PHYSICS THAT IS ACTUALLY RIGHT Relative humidity is misleading: hot afternoon air can show a low percentage while holding more water than your living room. Open/Shut compares absolute humidity, the grams of water per cubic metre, indoors and out. Airing never trades a cool room for a damp one. IT KNOWS YOUR HOME Describe your windows once: "garden side", "bedroom skylight". When the verdict is OPEN, the app crosses the wind direction with your façades and tells you which openings to use for cross-ventilation, in your own words. It also learns your building's thermal inertia and estimates the indoor temperature between your readings. IT PLANS AHEAD An hourly timeline shows the next favorable window over the coming hours, and a notification arrives at the exact moment conditions flip. Open at the right time, not when you happen to think about it. SUMMER AND WINTER In summer, flush out the heat as soon as the evening air turns cooler. In winter, air strategically to fight condensation and mould without throwing your heating out the window. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no backend, no tracking. Your location is only used to fetch your local forecast. Free, with no subscription. Open/Shut. An open-and-shut case.

Screenshots

Window Season4 screens
Open/Shut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Open/Shut at daily against Window Season's every 2 days. Open/Shut also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Window Season ships an update every 2 days, Open/Shut daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Window Season versus Open/Shut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWindow SeasonOpen/Shut
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZachary ColemanBerenger.dev

In-app purchases

None

Window Season

No in-app purchases

None

Open/Shut

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Window Season free?
Window Season is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Open/Shut free?
Open/Shut is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Window Season or Open/Shut have ads?
Neither Window Season nor Open/Shut shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Window Season or Open/Shut?
Window Season ships an update every 2 days, and Open/Shut daily. Most recently, Window Season was updated on October 7, 2026 and Open/Shut on October 10, 2026.

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