Baya Resident vs NINAuth
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Baya Resident
This estate management solution simplifies communication and services for residents and facility managers. It allows for visitor booking, utility purchases, service charge payments, and access to estate announcements and emergency alerts.
- Visitor booking management
- Utility vending
- Service charge payment
- Election and survey polls
- Announcements and feed
- Push notifications
- Marketplace
- Emergency alerts
Read full descriptionHide full description
Do you live in a gated estate and always place a call to the security at the gate for your visitors to gain access to your apartment? Have you found yourself in a situation that you ran out of electricity credit at night, then you must sleep in the dark because you can’t buy electricity token at that time? Why do I have to place a long telephone call to the security, facility manager, etcetera for simple service request? With Baya, you don’t need to worry. Baya is an estate management solution that provides seamless management of an estate for the facility managers and the estate residents. Key features: • Visitor booking management • Utility vending • Service charge payment • Election polls • Survey polls • Announcement and feed • Push notifications • Market place • Emergency
NINAuth
Securely verify, manage, and protect your digital identity using your National Identity Number. This app offers a user-friendly and seamless experience for on-the-go identity management.
- Digital identity verification
- Identity management
- Secure identity protection
- National Identity Number integration
- User-friendly interface
Read full descriptionHide full description
NINAuth is your official digital companion for verifying, managing, and protecting your identity with ease. Designed to work with your National Identity Number (NIN), NINAuth provides a seamless, secure, and user-friendly way to handle digital identification on the go.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: NINAuth at 5.8K against Baya Resident's 42. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Baya Resident against 4.6 for NINAuth. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NINAuth has 5.8K ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Baya Resident ships an update every 2 weeks, NINAuth every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Baya Resident | NINAuth |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (42 ratings) | 4.6 (5.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 57.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 42 | 5.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Open Desk Consult Ltd | National Identity Management Commission |
Customer experience
Baya Resident
NINAuth
Bugs and requests
Baya Resident
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
NINAuth
Reported bugs
57 issues- Cannot download front and back of ID
- Verification complete but unable to create PIN
- Cannot take a selfie
- Face verification fails
- Unable to create PIN
Show 52 moreShow fewer
- Cannot link or delink phone number
- Old phone number not reflected after removal
- Names arranged wrong, cannot correct
- Verification is very difficult
- Facial authentication kept failing
- Cannot delink unauthorized number
- Cannot link a new number
- Face verification not working for months
- Cannot sign up for months
- Photo verification and lighting error message
- Cannot upload supporting documents to verify address
- Email confirmation code not sent
- App stops responding during sign up
- Facial recognition not working
- Cannot log in most times
- Cannot update phone number
- Phone number OTPs not being sent
- Address update not reflected
- Trust index cannot be updated
- Link ID option missing
- App goes straight to face verification which never works
- Login recognition fails after first use
- Forgot password using facial recognition fails
- Face verification error: 'NO ENROLLED USER FOUND'
- App requests well-lit room even in daylight
- Selfie capture not working
- App shows only NIN, no other options
- Cannot get past picture phase
- App not responding
- Signing up does not work
- Authentication does not get past error
- App malfunction
- New application is malfunction
- Virtual NIN not available
- Cannot use it and verify anything
- PIN creation fails
- Unable to update details
- Tax ID info no longer available
- Slip download no longer available
- Phone number starting with 0702 not recognized
- App has syntax errors
- App is a complete mess
- App is not working
- App is very rubbish
- App is not functional
- App is buggy
- App is not responding
- Signing up does not work
- App was created to be downloaded but not used
- Cannot upload supporting documents
- Email confirmation not sent
- Clueless developer
Requested features
10 requests- Allow users to update their details
- Make services available when needed
- Allow adding international phone numbers
- Option to correct names
- Add option to download E-ID card
Show 5 moreShow fewer
- Incorporate all NIMC services into one application
- Option to link address
- Option to add phone numbers
- Virtual NIN card functionality
- Provision for virtual NIN
In-app purchases
Baya Resident
No in-app purchases
NINAuth
No in-app purchases
