Comparison

Minut Smart Home Sensor vs InsideMaps Capture

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

Head to head
About

Minut Smart Home Sensor

This app helps manage rental properties by monitoring noise, occupancy, and environmental conditions. It enhances guest experience, secures your home, and automates communication, all while prioritizing guest privacy.

Highlights
  • Noise and occupancy monitoring
  • Outdoor environmental monitoring
  • Automated guest communication
  • Home security alarm
  • Fire alarm detection
  • Integrations with property management systems
  • Privacy-safe sound level tracking
Features
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Let Minut be your co-host and care for your home, guests and community. Prevent unauthorized parties in your rental property, secure your home and enhance guest experience. About this app Get your Minut sensor up and running in minutes. Monitor noise, occupancy, motion and temperature in your rental property while respecting guest privacy. Choose between indoor and outdoor modes, automate guest communication, add team members and explore integrations. About Minut Keep your home safe and your neighbors happy while respecting your guests' privacy. Only Minut gives you the full insight you need to protect your homes. • Noise and occupancy monitoring: Prevent parties, damage and neighbor complaints. Minut will alert you if it detects noise and/or crowding in your property. • Outdoor mode: Monitor outdoor noise, temperature and humidity. Our AudioID feature filters out wind noise, giving you data you can really trust. • Guest experience: Automate guest communication to make check-ins and check-outs easier. Track temperature and humidity to ensure your guests have a comfortable stay. • Home security: Arm a security alarm between bookings, get alerted when the fire alarm goes off and know when your guests arrive. • Automations and integrations: Win over new customers and protect your business while keeping operations lean. Our integrations include Airbnb, top property management systems, smart locks, Zapier and climate control systems. • 100% privacy-safe: Minut is built for privacy. It’s camera-free and it doesn’t record any sound or listen to what the guests say or do. It simply tracks sound levels in your property. *This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.

About

InsideMaps Capture

Easily create affordable HDR panorama walkthroughs and 3D floor plans of any space using your iPhone or iPad. This app automates photo capture with a companion rotor device and uses cloud technology to generate immersive visual experiences for real estate marketing.

Highlights
  • Create HDR panorama walkthroughs
  • Generate 3D floor plans automatically
  • Control motorized camera mount via Bluetooth
  • One-capture per room for quick scanning
  • Cloud-based processing for tours and models
  • Supports iPhone and iPad devices
Features
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The app to easily create affordable HDR panorama walkthroughs with your iPhone is finally here. InsideMaps Capture offers the world's simplest and smartest home-scanning solution that helps realtors create compelling and beautiful walkthroughs. InsideMaps Capture delivers vivid, HDR, wide-angle photos that do not require expensive equipment. The future of real estate visual marketing is in your pocket. InsideMaps Capture works in conjunction with a companion rotor device, a motorized camera mount, to capture full 360 degree panoramic views of any space. InsideMaps Capture works for capturing both indoor and outdoor environments. Using patent-pending computer vision software and the iPhone's powerful sensors, the floor plan layout of a home is also automatically created. With the easy-to-use app, the iPhone automatically takes the photos and InsideMaps’ cloud based technologies takes care of the rest to create 3D Tours, floor plans and 3D models. InsideMaps Capture is free to download and try. It currently works with iPhone 8 and newer and all iPad devices. There simply is no easier and more affordable way to create amazing walkthrough experiences that are like being in the actual home. Key Features: • The app automatically controls the rotor motorized camera mount directly from the iPhone using Bluetooth. • Only one-capture per room is required to quickly capture an entire house. • When connected to wifi, photos are automatically uploaded to your InsideMaps account where they are transformed into beautiful panorama walkthrough experiences. • 2D floor plans are automatically created for each walkthrough and used to intuitively navigate through a home. • Supports both iPhone and iPad devices with external 360 cameras

Screenshots

Minut Smart Home Sensor4 screens
InsideMaps Capture4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: InsideMaps Capture at 3.8 against Minut Smart Home Sensor's 2.5. Minut Smart Home Sensor's advantage is review sentiment (36% vs 20%) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

InsideMaps Capture holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 43 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Minut Smart Home Sensor's written reviews are positive against 20% of InsideMaps Capture's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, InsideMaps Capture fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Minut Smart Home Sensor versus InsideMaps Capture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinut Smart Home SensorInsideMaps Capture
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (51 ratings)3.8 (43 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings51 — better43
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinut, Inc.InsideMaps Inc.

Customer experience

Minut Smart Home Sensor

All ratings51 ratings
Positive35.3%
Neutral3.9%
Negative60.8%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive36.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative57.1%

InsideMaps Capture

All ratings43 ratings
Positive69.8%
Neutral4.7%
Negative25.6%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative70.0%

Bugs and requests

Minut Smart Home Sensor

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Device does not respond
  • Factory reset does not work
  • Water sensors cannot be paired
  • Pairing and installation problems
  • Device is not detected
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  • App tells to reactivate account, link is blank
  • App has several bugs
  • App is buggy and slow
  • Latest app update makes device unusable
  • App crashes unexpectedly
  • Automated SMS messages do not reach guests reliably
  • App does not show current times and is not updating
  • Subscription cancelled randomly
  • App requires left big toe size after update
  • Point device no longer appears online after update
  • App closes when trying to access important parts
  • Device loses WiFi connection regularly
  • Noise monitoring duration too long for alerts
  • Movement detection not sensitive after update
  • Point picks up cat as movement

Requested features

13 requests
  • Adjustable noise threshold per device
  • HomeKit support
  • IFTTT support
  • iPad adaptation
  • Dark mode option
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  • Instant alerts for excessively high sounds
  • Panic button option for alarm
  • Code override for alarm
  • Default display for single unit status
  • Reorder metrics displayed in app
  • More voice command integration
  • Free basic tier for simple monitoring
  • Ability to change temperature units to Fahrenheit

InsideMaps Capture

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minut Smart Home Sensor

No in-app purchases

None

InsideMaps Capture

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minut Smart Home Sensor free?
Minut Smart Home Sensor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is InsideMaps Capture free?
InsideMaps Capture is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minut Smart Home Sensor or InsideMaps Capture?
InsideMaps Capture is rated higher. Minut Smart Home Sensor averages 2.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while InsideMaps Capture averages 3.8 from 43 ratings.
Do Minut Smart Home Sensor or InsideMaps Capture have ads?
Neither Minut Smart Home Sensor nor InsideMaps Capture shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minut Smart Home Sensor or InsideMaps Capture?
Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, and InsideMaps Capture fortnightly. Most recently, Minut Smart Home Sensor was updated on October 20, 2026 and InsideMaps Capture on October 24, 2026.

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