Comparison

Minut Smart Home Sensor vs Message in the Wind

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

Message in the Wind

Send messages that travel across a real map, carried by actual wind and weather data. Discover notes left by others nearby and keep those that resonate with you. It's a unique way to connect without traditional social media features.

Highlights
  • Send notes that drift on real wind
  • Catch notes carried by weather
  • View notes on a real map
  • Minimalist design
  • Sealed notes for long-distance travel
  • Keepsakes to save found notes
Features
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Promotional Text Notes drift on real wind. Catch one nearby if the weather carries it to you. Description Message in the Wind is a different kind of note app. Write something - a thought, a feeling, a fragment - and release it into the wind. It moves across a real map, carried by real weather data, until someone nearby catches it. You might catch something that started three towns away. You might release something that reaches someone else in a quiet moment. There’s no feed, no likes, and no follower counts - just notes moving through the world. HOW IT WORKS Write a note and release it. Your note drifts based on real wind speed and direction, moving when the weather moves. Open the map to see notes drifting nearby. Hold one to catch it. Read it. Keep it if it means something. Watch your own notes travel and see where the wind took them. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Notes drift using real Open-Meteo wind data, not random placement. Minimal by design. Seal a note so it can only be opened once it has traveled far enough. Leave a trace for the author - a quiet sign that someone found it. Keepsakes let you save notes that find you, like small things discovered and kept. WIND PATRON For those who want more, Wind Patron includes Brush Lab for drawn notes, postcard themes, unlimited reads, and map pin placement. Something may be drifting near you right now.

Screenshots

Minut Smart Home Sensor4 screens
Message in the Wind4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Message in the Wind at 5.0 against Minut Smart Home Sensor's 2.5. Message in the Wind also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Minut Smart Home Sensor's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 1). 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

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

Message in the Wind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minut Smart Home Sensor has 51 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Minut Smart Home Sensor versus Message in the Wind: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinut Smart Home SensorMessage in the Wind
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (51 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB8 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperMinut, Inc.cyk

Customer experience

Minut Smart Home Sensor

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

Message in the Wind

All ratings1 ratings
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

Message in the Wind

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minut Smart Home Sensor

No in-app purchases

None

Message in the Wind

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 Message in the Wind free?
Message in the Wind is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minut Smart Home Sensor or Message in the Wind?
Message in the Wind is rated higher. Minut Smart Home Sensor averages 2.5 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while Message in the Wind averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Minut Smart Home Sensor or Message in the Wind have ads?
Neither Minut Smart Home Sensor nor Message in the Wind shows ads.

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