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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Minut Smart Home Sensor | in.touch 2 edition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (51 ratings) — better | 1.7 (116 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews — better | 12.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 | 116 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minut, Inc. | Gecko Alliance |
Customer experience
Minut Smart Home Sensor
in.touch 2 edition
User reviews
Minut Smart Home Sensor
From 51 App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
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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
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
Minut Smart Home Sensor
No in-app purchases
in.touch 2 edition
No in-app purchases
Questions
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