Minut Smart Home Sensor vs Vilo
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.
Vilo
Easily set up and manage your home Wi-Fi system from your phone. Features include parental controls, guest network creation, device blocking, and data usage monitoring.
- Set up Wi-Fi system
- Manage network remotely
- Parental controls
- Create guest Wi-Fi
- Block unwanted devices
- View data usage
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The Vilo app allows you to set up your Vilo Wi-Fi system in minutes and manage your network from anywhere. You will have access to features including: - Set parental controls to monitor your children’s online activities - Create guest Wi-Fi so you have better protection over your privacy - Block unwanted devices from connecting to your home Wi-Fi - View data usage report for all devices - Use system diagnostics tool to optimize your network performance
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Minut Smart Home Sensor at every 9 days against Vilo's every 6 weeks. Minut Smart Home Sensor also leads on review sentiment (36% vs 21%). Vilo's advantage is rating (2.7 vs 2.5) and iOS requirement (9.0 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.
Vilo holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 30 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Minut Smart Home Sensor's written reviews are positive against 21% of Vilo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, Vilo every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minut Smart Home Sensor | Vilo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (51 ratings) | 2.7 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews — better | 21.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minut, Inc. | Kivo Technology, Inc. |
Customer experience
Minut Smart Home Sensor
Vilo
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
Vilo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Minut Smart Home Sensor
No in-app purchases
Vilo
No in-app purchases
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