Comparison

Trane® Home vs The Boring Menu

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

Head to head
About

Trane® Home

Manage your home's essential systems remotely. Control thermostats, locks, lights, and cameras from your smartphone. Create custom automations and device groups for simplified home management.

Highlights
  • Remote HVAC control and scheduling
  • Manage locks, lights, and Z-Wave devices
  • Create custom device groups
  • Automate home functions
  • Find local HVAC dealers
Features
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Take care of your home and the people in it from anywhere with Trane® Home (previously Nexia™). Trane Home is home automation made simple because now you stay connected everywhere you go. Run the most important systems in your home - thermostats, locks, lights and cameras - from your iPhone. Key Features Include: - Control, monitor and schedule your home's heating and cooling system from anywhere - Find and contact a Trane HVAC dealer in your area - Control locks, lights, and many other supported Z-Wave devices with an easy to use interface - Create and edit automations - Create custom device groups for better access and visibility

About

The Boring Menu

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Trane® Home4 screens
The Boring Menu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trane® Home at none against The Boring Menu's 1. Trane® Home also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Boring Menu sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Trane® Home asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Trane® Home versus The Boring Menu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrane® HomeThe Boring Menu
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (154K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews35.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings154K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTRANE U.S. INCWebby Art S.R.L

Bugs and requests

Trane® Home

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App freezes when changing fan mode
  • Geofencing feature not working reliably
  • Thermostat not syncing with app data
  • Frequent app crashes and disconnections

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add Apple Watch app support
  • Improve scheduling and programming options
  • Provide more detailed usage history and analytics
  • Integrate with smart home platforms (e.g. HomeKit)
  • Allow customizable temperature ranges and settings

The Boring Menu

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Trane® Home

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

The Boring Menu

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$4.99

Questions

Is Trane® Home free?
Trane® Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Boring Menu free?
The Boring Menu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trane® Home or The Boring Menu have ads?
Neither Trane® Home nor The Boring Menu shows ads.

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