Comparison

Minut Smart Home Sensor vs in.touch 2 edition

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

in.touch 2 edition

Control and program your spa remotely from your smartphone or tablet. Receive push notifications about your spa's status, even when away from home. Manage water care, temperature, filtration, and accessories with ease.

Highlights
  • Wireless spa remote control
  • Remote programming of functions
  • Push notifications for spa status
  • Control water care settings
  • Adjust water temperature
  • Manage filtration cycles
  • Control accessories
Features
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in.touch 2 eliminates all the complexities of connecting your spa on the Internet and transforms your smartphone or tablet, into your ultimate wireless remote control. in.touch 2 streamlined application makes it very easy to control and program functions and features of your spa from your smartphone or your tablet, even when you’re away from home. Push notifications will always keep you informed on the status of your spa, even when your app is not open. Even when you’re away from home, you can get a full control of your water-care settings, filtration cycles, water temperature, economy modes, accessories and a lot more. Requirements: To use this app, you need the in.touch 2 transmitters from Gecko Alliance. There is no compatibility with the in.touch first generation.

Screenshots

Minut Smart Home Sensor4 screens
in.touch 2 edition3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Minut Smart Home Sensor at 2.5 against in.touch 2 edition's 1.7. Minut Smart Home Sensor also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (36% vs 12%). in.touch 2 edition's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Minut Smart Home Sensor holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 116 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Minut Smart Home Sensor's written reviews are positive against 12% of in.touch 2 edition's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, in.touch 2 edition every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Minut Smart Home Sensor versus in.touch 2 edition: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinut Smart Home Sensorin.touch 2 edition
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (51 ratings) — better1.7 (116 ratings)
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews — better12.2% of reviews
Number of ratings51116 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinut, Inc.Gecko Alliance

Customer experience

Minut Smart Home Sensor

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

in.touch 2 edition

All ratings115 ratings
Positive11.3%
Neutral7.8%
Negative80.9%
Written reviews386 reviews
Positive12.2%
Neutral7.8%
Negative80.1%

User reviews

Minut Smart Home Sensor

From 51 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and setup
  • 🏠 Essential for property management/Airbnb
  • 💡 Useful for preventing issues (parties, smoking)
  • 📈 Constantly improving features
  • ✅ Works well with sensor

Room to improve

  • 💸 Mandatory subscription model
  • 👎 False alerts
  • 👎 Unreliable and buggy
  • 👎 Poor customer service
  • 👎 Devices become useless without subscription

in.touch 2 edition

From 116 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Remote control of spa
  • 👍 Convenient app interface
  • ⏱️ Ability to schedule spa usage

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent connection issues
  • 🔌 Unreliable remote access
  • 🤯 Confusing and unintuitive controls
  • 🔍 Limited functionality compared to expectations

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
Show 15 more
  • 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

in.touch 2 edition

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Temperature slider not working
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Inability to edit schedules and settings
  • Inconsistent connectivity even on same network

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved temperature control and scheduling
  • Integration with smart home platforms
  • Notifications for maintenance reminders
  • Detailed usage and energy consumption tracking

In-app purchases

None

Minut Smart Home Sensor

No in-app purchases

None

in.touch 2 edition

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 in.touch 2 edition free?
in.touch 2 edition is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minut Smart Home Sensor or in.touch 2 edition?
Minut Smart Home Sensor is rated higher. Minut Smart Home Sensor averages 2.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while in.touch 2 edition averages 1.7 from 116 ratings.
Do Minut Smart Home Sensor or in.touch 2 edition have ads?
Neither Minut Smart Home Sensor nor in.touch 2 edition shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minut Smart Home Sensor or in.touch 2 edition?
Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, and in.touch 2 edition every 3 months. Most recently, Minut Smart Home Sensor was updated on October 20, 2026 and in.touch 2 edition on October 24, 2026.

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