Comparison

Aqara Home vs minee

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Aqara Home

Control and automate your smart home devices from anywhere. Manage accessories, monitor environmental conditions, and set up custom automations and scenes for a more convenient living space.

Highlights
  • Remote control of Aqara accessories
  • Create homes and rooms
  • Monitor appliance status and environmental data
  • Automate home functions with custom rules
  • Create scenes for multiple device control
  • Siri integration for HomeKit accessories
Features
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Aqara Home is an app for smart home automation and control. With Aqara Home, you can: 1. control Aqara accessories anywhere and anytime where there is Internet access; 2. create homes and rooms and assign accessories to the rooms; 3. control your Aqara accessories and check the status of connected appliances. For example: *adjust the brightness of lights and check the power consumption of home appliances; *monitor the temperature, humidity and air pressure; *detect water leak, and human movement; 4. create Automations to automate your home. For example: *set a timer to turn on or off an appliance connected to a smart plug; *use a Door and Window Sensor to trigger lights: turn on lights automatically when the door opens; 5. create Scenes to control multiple accessories. For example, add a Scene to turn on multiple lights and fans; 6. ask Siri to control HomeKit supported Aqara accessories and user defined Scenes; Aqara Home app supports following Aqara accessories: Aqara Hub, Smart Plug, Wireless Remote Switch, LED Light Bulb, Door and Window Sensor, Motion Sensor, Temperature and Humidity Sensor, Vibration Sensor, and Water Leak Sensor. Please see www.aqara.com for more details.

About

minee

This app offers a unique visual timer that uses colors to display elapsed and remaining time, helping users improve focus and achieve immersion. It allows for custom time additions and convenient social media logins for data synchronization across devices.

Highlights
  • Numberless visual timer
  • Color-coded time display
  • Customizable time intervals (1-1440 minutes)
  • SNS login (Kakao Talk, Naver, Facebook)
  • Cross-device data synchronization
  • Focus and immersion enhancement
Features
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-my time Check the pre-added time and the time you added, select the time you need and tag on the minee timer! -make time You can freely add the time you need within 1-1440 minutes. -SNS log in Conveniently log in with Kakao Talk, Naver, or Facebook account! Added time will be synched to the account so that the lists of time you use will remain the same even when you change your device ※ This application is only compatible with minee2 minee is a numberless visual timer showing past time and remaining time intuitively only with colors. minee helps you keep and improve concentration to experience immersion over concentration.

Screenshots

Aqara Home4 screens
minee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Aqara Home at 4.7 against minee's 3.0. Aqara Home also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 0%) and ratings volume (7.9K vs 4). minee's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.1). 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

Aqara Home holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aqara Home has 7.9K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Aqara Home's written reviews are positive against 0% of minee's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aqara Home ships an update fortnightly, minee monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Aqara Home versus minee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAqara Homeminee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7.9K ratings) — better3.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews41.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7.9K — better4
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.112.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size539 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAqara Software Service Co.,Ltd.melike .inc

Customer experience

Aqara Home

All ratings7,861 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.2%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews1,502 reviews
Positive41.4%
Neutral11.4%
Negative47.2%

minee

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Aqara Home

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes on opening
  • Devices disappearing from app
  • Incorrect temperature/humidity readings
  • Delayed or missing doorbell notifications
  • Inability to delete detection zones

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add sunset/sunrise automation
  • Improve camera timeline scrubbing
  • Enable 12-hour time format
  • Provide more customization options
  • Improve Alexa/Google Home integration

minee

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Aqara Home

No in-app purchases

None

minee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Aqara Home free?
Aqara Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is minee free?
minee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Aqara Home or minee?
Aqara Home is rated higher. Aqara Home averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7.9K ratings, while minee averages 3.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Aqara Home or minee have ads?
Neither Aqara Home nor minee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aqara Home or minee?
Aqara Home ships an update fortnightly, and minee monthly. Most recently, Aqara Home was updated on November 6, 2026 and minee on November 3, 2026.

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