Comparison

Minut Smart Home Sensor vs Ask Aurelius

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

Ask Aurelius

Features
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Ask Aurelius is a calm, citation-grounded reflection companion sourced from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. Every answer points to the specific passage that shaped it — never an inference, never invention. Choose a question. Type what's troubling you, or pick a starting prompt: anger, fear, mortality, judgment, duty, anxiety, discipline. Aurelius answers in calm, direct prose grounded in passages from the Meditations (George Long, 1862, public domain). Each citation links to the source, so you can read the full passage in its original context. THE PRACTICE • Discourse — open chat with Aurelius. Cite at most 3 passages per answer. • Today — a single passage selected for daily reflection. • Library — browse the full Meditations by book or by theme. • Journal — record reflections, end-to-end encrypted. The server only sees ciphertext. • Saved Passages — bookmark the passages that speak to you. WHAT IT WON'T DO • Won't invent quotes or attributions • Won't speak on medical, legal, financial, or crisis decisions • Won't pretend to be the historical Marcus Aurelius — it's an AI inspired by him FREE • 5 reflections per day • Daily passage, library, journal, and saved passages MARCUS PREMIUM • Up to 100 reflections a day, 1,000 a month • Conversation export to Markdown • Early access to upcoming features — voice mode, search, multiple translations • $4.99/month or $39.99/year (33% saving) PRIVACY • Sign in with Apple — no email or password • Journal entries are end-to-end encrypted on your device with a key in your iCloud Keychain. Your reflections stay private. • No third-party trackers, no advertising Aurelius died in 180 CE. The Meditations is his private notebook — not advice for others, but lessons to himself, written in the field. This app is a way to read it slowly, in conversation with the question you carry today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Minut Smart Home Sensor4 screens
Ask Aurelius4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minut Smart Home Sensor at none against Ask Aurelius's 2. Minut Smart Home Sensor also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Ask Aurelius sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Minut Smart Home Sensor asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, Ask Aurelius every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Minut Smart Home Sensor versus Ask Aurelius: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinut Smart Home SensorAsk Aurelius
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinut, Inc.MATTHEW EARL ALVARO

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

Ask Aurelius

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minut Smart Home Sensor

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Ask Aurelius

Subscriptions2
  • Marcus Premium · Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Marcus Premium · Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Minut Smart Home Sensor free?
Minut Smart Home Sensor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ask Aurelius free?
Ask Aurelius is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Minut Smart Home Sensor or Ask Aurelius have ads?
Neither Minut Smart Home Sensor nor Ask Aurelius shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minut Smart Home Sensor or Ask Aurelius?
Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, and Ask Aurelius every 4 weeks. Most recently, Minut Smart Home Sensor was updated on October 16, 2026 and Ask Aurelius on October 18, 2026.

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