Comparison

Minut Smart Home Sensor vs NEX Smart

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

NEX Smart

Control and monitor your NEXhome intercom devices remotely. Engage in video intercoms, unlock doors, and manage multiple residents from anywhere. Access call and unlocking history for enhanced security and convenience.

Highlights
  • Remote video intercom
  • Remote unlocking
  • Calling and unlocking record query
  • Multi-resident management
  • Works with NEX Smart Cloud Platform
Features
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NEX Smart is a mobile application that is used in conjunction with NEX Smart Cloud Platform, indoor monitor, door phone, doorbell, and other intercom devices of NEXhome. Enable you to achieve remote video intercom with access control devices, remote unlocking, query of calling and unlocking records, and multi residents management anytime and anywhere.

Screenshots

Minut Smart Home Sensor4 screens
NEX Smart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: NEX Smart at 100% against Minut Smart Home Sensor's 36%. NEX Smart also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.5) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Minut Smart Home Sensor's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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

NEX Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minut Smart Home Sensor has 51 ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of NEX Smart's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, NEX Smart every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Minut Smart Home Sensor versus NEX Smart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinut Smart Home SensorNEX Smart
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (51 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings51 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB227 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinut, Inc.Nex Cloud Tech LLC

Customer experience

Minut Smart Home Sensor

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

NEX Smart

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
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

NEX Smart

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minut Smart Home Sensor

No in-app purchases

None

NEX Smart

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 NEX Smart free?
NEX Smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minut Smart Home Sensor or NEX Smart?
NEX Smart is rated higher. Minut Smart Home Sensor averages 2.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while NEX Smart averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Minut Smart Home Sensor or NEX Smart have ads?
Neither Minut Smart Home Sensor nor NEX Smart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minut Smart Home Sensor or NEX Smart?
Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, and NEX Smart every 2 weeks. Most recently, Minut Smart Home Sensor was updated on October 29, 2026 and NEX Smart on October 25, 2026.

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