Filtrete Smart vs The Boring Menu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Filtrete Smart
Manage your home's air quality with smart filter and purifier control. Receive personalized tips, alerts for filter replacement based on usage, and monitor outdoor air quality trends.
- Pair multiple smart air filters
- Real-time filter life tracking
- Smart air purifier control
- Remote device management
- Non-smart filter reminders
- Outdoor air quality monitoring
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Filtrete™ Smart pairs with your Filtrete™ Smart Air Filter and Filtrete™ Smart Air Purifier to help you understand and manage your home’s air quality. It provides useful tips and alerts customized to your home’s environment, and will notify you when it’s time to replace your filters based on air flow and usage – not just time. With this app, you can • Pair multiple Smart Air Filters to track their life, and receive filter change notifications based on real usage • Pair Smart Air Purifiers to manage your indoor air quality – monitor and clean your air while remotely controlling your device by turning power on/off, setting different fan speeds, etc. • Scan the barcode of your non-smart Air Filters, and set timers to receive filter replacement reminders • Remember your filter type and size, and easily order replacement filters • Monitor outdoor air quality in multiple places, and view short and long-term trends • Receive tips and alerts to improve air quality
The Boring Menu
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The Boring Menu is the app you open instead of the endless ones. It hands you one small, finished thing — a genuinely true fact, a slow breath, a tiny game, a rock that asks nothing of you — and then, on purpose, it stops. No feed. No autoplay. No reason to linger. That's the whole idea. Every session finishes. You put the phone down a little calmer than you picked it up, and you get on with your day. INSIDE, FREE • 10 tiny activities that all actually finish, and a calm daily menu that's a little different each day. • A rotating library of quietly interesting facts — each one checked and true. • An Anti-Streak that rewards using the app less, not more. It only goes up when you stay away. • A home-screen widget, and a one-breath pause before you open a tempting app. • Optional on-device Apple Intelligence that freshens some of the wording, marked wherever it's used. ONE OPTIONAL UNLOCK, ONCE Everything opens: 14 more small things (including all nine games), the full 500-fact library, a postcard you mail to your future self, and your pick of calm scene. Pay once — no subscription, ever. WHAT IT DOESN'T HAVE, ON PURPOSE • No accounts. No sign-up. No ads. No notifications. No tracking. No infinite anything. • Everything you do here stays on your phone. The app works offline; the one optional purchase goes through Apple and needs a connection just for that moment. It's a calm, finite, private little thing. Then it ends. That's allowed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Filtrete Smart at none against The Boring Menu's 1. Filtrete Smart also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). The Boring Menu's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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
Both are free to download. The Boring Menu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Filtrete Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Filtrete Smart | The Boring Menu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (53K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 38.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 53K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 3M Company | Webby Art S.R.L |
Bugs and requests
Filtrete Smart
Reported bugs
4 issues- Barcode scanning feature not working
- App crashes when trying to add new filters
- Bluetooth connection frequently lost
- Incorrect filter life displayed in app
Requested features
5 requests- Allow manual filter life input
- Provide more detailed air quality data
- Integrate with other smart home systems
- Add option to disable location tracking
- Improve app stability and reliability
The Boring Menu
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Filtrete Smart
No in-app purchases
The Boring Menu
- Unlock Everything$4.99
Questions
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