AWTRIX 3 vs NestSense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AWTRIX 3
Manage your AWTRIX 3 device with ease from your smartphone. Adjust settings, screen mirror, and access an exclusive icon database to create custom static or animated icons. View your icons and access your AppLoop directly.
- Adjust device settings
- Screen mirroring
- Exclusive icon database access
- Create static and animated icons
- Access AppLoop
- View icons
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By purchasing this app, you play a crucial role in supporting the development of Awtrix Light! Manage your Awtrix with unparalleled ease straight from your smartphone. With this intuitive app, get complete control over your device's features: - Adjust settings such as text color, app transitions and much more. - Screenmirror - Exclusive access to the AWTRIX light icon database - Create static or animated icons - Access your AppLoop - View your icons
NestSense
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Choosing which room becomes the office, the nursery, or the bedroom shouldn't be guesswork. NestSense turns your iPhone into a room surveyor. Walk room to room and run a two-minute survey in each: it measures the noise floor through the microphone, estimates light in lux through the camera's exposure metadata, tests your real network speed where you actually stand, and reads the barometer for the tiny pressure flutter that gives away drafty windows. Then it tells you straight: • "Best office: Back bedroom — quietest floor, strongest network." • "Worst nursery: Street-side room — 3× more night-noise events." WHAT NESTSENSE MEASURES • Noise — the room's noise floor in dB, peaks, and overnight noise events • Light — estimated lux through the day (morning, midday, evening) • Network — real latency, jitter and throughput where you actually sit, not just bars • Drafts — barometric micro-fluctuations that give away leaky windows and doors NIGHT WATCH Leave the phone in a candidate nursery or bedroom overnight, plugged in. NestSense counts discrete noise events — passing cars, door slams, sirens — hour by hour, and gives you a morning summary. The screen stays true black, and no audio is ever recorded. SCORES THAT KNOW THEIR LIMITS Each room is scored 0–100 for Office, Nursery and Bedroom against comfort guidelines (like WHO night-noise levels). Scores are marked provisional until you've added the data that matters — light at different times of day, a full night of noise data. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is measured, scored and stored on your device. No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. Audio is analyzed as loudness numbers in memory and never recorded; the camera reads exposure metadata and never takes a photo. Perfect for moving into a new home, setting up a work-from-home desk, or choosing where the baby sleeps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NestSense at Free against AWTRIX 3's $3.99. AWTRIX 3's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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
NestSense is free to download; AWTRIX 3 costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | AWTRIX 3 | NestSense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephan Muehl | Anand Sengupta |
In-app purchases
AWTRIX 3
No in-app purchases
NestSense
No in-app purchases









