Comparison

Minut Smart Home Sensor vs GoHavena

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

GoHavena

Features
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Havena is the private community app for HOAs and neighborhoods. Residents get notices, events, a neighbor feed, marketplace listings, amenity booking, and messages — scoped to their community. Community admins can publish notices, review members, manage amenities, and keep the neighborhood running from the same app. Havena is invite- or approval-based. It is not a public social network.

Screenshots

Minut Smart Home Sensor4 screens
GoHavena4 screens

Verdict

The call

Minut Smart Home Sensor and GoHavena are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, GoHavena every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Minut Smart Home Sensor versus GoHavena: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinut Smart Home SensorGoHavena
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (51 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinut, Inc.ZST

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

GoHavena

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minut Smart Home Sensor

No in-app purchases

None

GoHavena

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 GoHavena free?
GoHavena is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minut Smart Home Sensor or GoHavena have ads?
Neither Minut Smart Home Sensor nor GoHavena shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minut Smart Home Sensor or GoHavena?
Minut Smart Home Sensor ships an update every 9 days, and GoHavena every 8 days. Most recently, Minut Smart Home Sensor was updated on November 1, 2026 and GoHavena on November 6, 2026.

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