Minut Smart Home Sensor vs Party Squasher
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.
Party Squasher
This app helps property owners monitor occupancy by counting mobile phones on their premises. It alerts you via text or email if an unusually high number of devices are detected, preventing unexpected parties at your rental. The system is privacy-friendly, not collecting personal data.
- Counts mobile phones to estimate occupancy
- Alerts for unexpected parties
- Privacy-friendly, no personal data collection
- SMS or email alert options
- Customizable alert thresholds
- Supports detached homes with calibration
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Welcome Guests; Prevent Parties Party Squasher, the first occupancy people-counter for homes, is a simple solution designed for smart rental owners who care about their properties and want to be alerted to unexpected party disasters. Party Squasher counts the number of people at your house by counting the mobile phones in/around a house. Ideal for detached homes, where our calibration (small, medium or large homes) lets you distinguish between mobile phones on your property and those nearby. Finally, no more guesswork if there’s a WILD party at your vacation rental! The sensor (purchased separately) is compact and discreet. It simply hooks up to your router and counts mobile devices, even if they aren’t connected to your Wi-Fi network. Our solution is PRIVACY-FRIENDLY with no intrusive microphones or cameras. Party Squasher doesn’t collect or store personal data or track phone numbers, it’s GDPR-compliant. In case of a party, our sensor will detect a spike in the number of nearby mobile phones. Then, our cloud service will immediately send you a text message or email, so you can decide what to do next. Yes, it is that simple. Party Squasher is easy to use: - Download the mobile app - Scan the QR code on the device to link it to your phone - Choose small, medium, or large house - Set the alert threshold (# of mobile devices detected) - Choose to receive either SMS or email alerts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Party Squasher at 89% against Minut Smart Home Sensor's 36%. Party Squasher also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.5) and device support (3 vs 1). Minut Smart Home Sensor's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (51 vs 8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Party Squasher holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minut Smart Home Sensor has 51 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Minut Smart Home Sensor's written reviews are positive against 89% of Party Squasher's.
Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, Party Squasher every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minut Smart Home Sensor | Party Squasher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (51 ratings) | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minut, Inc. | BlueZoo Inc. |
Customer experience
Minut Smart Home Sensor
Party Squasher
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
Party Squasher
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Minut Smart Home Sensor
No in-app purchases
Party Squasher
No in-app purchases
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