Comparison

HUUM vs Minut Smart Home Sensor

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

Head to head
About

HUUM

Control your sauna remotely with this app. Schedule heating times and receive notifications when your sauna reaches the desired temperature, ensuring a perfectly heated experience upon arrival.

Highlights
  • Remote sauna heating
  • Scheduled heating times
  • Calendar bookings
  • Temperature notifications
  • Mobile control
Features
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Your sauna, ready when you are. The HUUM app puts full control of your sauna in your pocket. Heat it up on your way home, fine-tune the temperature from the bench, and keep an eye on every session wherever you are. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Start, stop, and adjust your sauna remotely • Set the exact target temperature and session duration • Schedule sessions by day, time, and temperature, including recurring bookings • Watch live status, current and target temperature, and heating progress • Manage multiple saunas from a single view • Track your sauna hours and browse your full session history • Get clear, real-time alerts for doors, connection, and safety BUILT FOR SAFETY Remote start is enabled only when your sauna's safety is confirmed through the UKU control panel, so you stay in control at all times. Works with HUUM saunas equipped with the UKU controller and a Wi-Fi connection. Less fiddling. More leil.

About

Minut Smart Home Sensor

This app helps manage rental properties by monitoring noise, occupancy, and environmental conditions. It enhances guest experience, secures your home, and automates communication, all while prioritizing guest privacy.

Highlights
  • Noise and occupancy monitoring
  • Outdoor environmental monitoring
  • Automated guest communication
  • Home security alarm
  • Fire alarm detection
  • Integrations with property management systems
  • Privacy-safe sound level tracking
Features
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Let Minut be your co-host and care for your home, guests and community. Prevent unauthorized parties in your rental property, secure your home and enhance guest experience. About this app Get your Minut sensor up and running in minutes. Monitor noise, occupancy, motion and temperature in your rental property while respecting guest privacy. Choose between indoor and outdoor modes, automate guest communication, add team members and explore integrations. About Minut Keep your home safe and your neighbors happy while respecting your guests' privacy. Only Minut gives you the full insight you need to protect your homes. • Noise and occupancy monitoring: Prevent parties, damage and neighbor complaints. Minut will alert you if it detects noise and/or crowding in your property. • Outdoor mode: Monitor outdoor noise, temperature and humidity. Our AudioID feature filters out wind noise, giving you data you can really trust. • Guest experience: Automate guest communication to make check-ins and check-outs easier. Track temperature and humidity to ensure your guests have a comfortable stay. • Home security: Arm a security alarm between bookings, get alerted when the fire alarm goes off and know when your guests arrive. • Automations and integrations: Win over new customers and protect your business while keeping operations lean. Our integrations include Airbnb, top property management systems, smart locks, Zapier and climate control systems. • 100% privacy-safe: Minut is built for privacy. It’s camera-free and it doesn’t record any sound or listen to what the guests say or do. It simply tracks sound levels in your property. *This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.

Screenshots

HUUM4 screens
Minut Smart Home Sensor4 screens

Verdict

The call

HUUM and Minut Smart Home Sensor both sit at 2.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 36% of Minut Smart Home Sensor's written reviews are positive against 11% of HUUM's. Minut Smart Home Sensor also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Minut Smart Home Sensor holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 51 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of HUUM's written reviews are positive against 36% of Minut Smart Home Sensor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HUUM ships an update monthly, Minut Smart Home Sensor every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HUUM versus Minut Smart Home Sensor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHUUMMinut Smart Home Sensor
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (30 ratings)2.5 (51 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.6% of reviews36.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3051 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB60 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHUUMMinut, Inc.

Customer experience

HUUM

All ratings29 ratings
Positive31.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative62.1%
Written reviews207 reviews
Positive10.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative85.0%

Minut Smart Home Sensor

All ratings51 ratings
Positive35.3%
Neutral3.9%
Negative60.8%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive36.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative57.1%

User reviews

HUUM

From 30 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✅ Basic functionality works when stable
  • 🎯 Simple on/off controls
  • 📱 Remote control capability (when functioning)
  • ⏱️ Scheduling feature available
  • 🌡️ Temperature adjustment possible

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Extremely unreliable and buggy
  • ❌ Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • 🔌 Constant WiFi connectivity issues
  • ⏱️ Long response delays (2-3 minutes)
  • 🌍 Random language switching problems

Minut Smart Home Sensor

From 51 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and setup
  • 🏠 Essential for property management/Airbnb
  • 💡 Useful for preventing issues (parties, smoking)
  • 📈 Constantly improving features
  • ✅ Works well with sensor

Room to improve

  • 💸 Mandatory subscription model
  • 👎 False alerts
  • 👎 Unreliable and buggy
  • 👎 Poor customer service
  • 👎 Devices become useless without subscription

Bugs and requests

HUUM

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • App randomly switches to Estonian/Finnish/Swedish
  • Temperature control stops working after updates
  • Scheduler/timer functionality broken
  • Remote start feature randomly disables
  • App won't open or becomes unresponsive
Show 16 more
  • Login loops and credential rejection
  • Door sensor falsely reports 'door open'
  • Sauna turns off mid-heating without reason
  • Light controls unresponsive or delayed
  • Calendar/scheduling closes app
  • Password reset emails don't work
  • App incompatible with latest iOS versions
  • Notifications not working on newer phones
  • Sauna ID retrieval issues
  • Temperature scroll functionality broken
  • Auto-start toggle disabled but still visible
  • Unexpected €420-500 charges during setup
  • App logs out on every action
  • Duplicate commands cause unexpected behavior
  • Modal pages get stuck and freeze app
  • Repeat scheduling function inaccurate

Requested features

12 requests
  • Apple Watch app support
  • Dynamic Island integration
  • Temperature reached notifications
  • Ability to cancel/edit bookings
  • Google Home/Alexa integration
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  • Better visual feedback for on/off status
  • In-app help documentation and instructions
  • Language selection button always visible
  • Advanced statistics and analytics
  • User community map feature
  • Persistent language preference storage
  • Confirmation dialogs for critical actions

Minut Smart Home Sensor

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Device does not respond
  • Factory reset does not work
  • Water sensors cannot be paired
  • Pairing and installation problems
  • Device is not detected
Show 15 more
  • App tells to reactivate account, link is blank
  • App has several bugs
  • App is buggy and slow
  • Latest app update makes device unusable
  • App crashes unexpectedly
  • Automated SMS messages do not reach guests reliably
  • App does not show current times and is not updating
  • Subscription cancelled randomly
  • App requires left big toe size after update
  • Point device no longer appears online after update
  • App closes when trying to access important parts
  • Device loses WiFi connection regularly
  • Noise monitoring duration too long for alerts
  • Movement detection not sensitive after update
  • Point picks up cat as movement

Requested features

13 requests
  • Adjustable noise threshold per device
  • HomeKit support
  • IFTTT support
  • iPad adaptation
  • Dark mode option
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  • Instant alerts for excessively high sounds
  • Panic button option for alarm
  • Code override for alarm
  • Default display for single unit status
  • Reorder metrics displayed in app
  • More voice command integration
  • Free basic tier for simple monitoring
  • Ability to change temperature units to Fahrenheit

In-app purchases

None

HUUM

No in-app purchases

None

Minut Smart Home Sensor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HUUM free?
HUUM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Minut Smart Home Sensor free?
Minut Smart Home Sensor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HUUM or Minut Smart Home Sensor?
Minut Smart Home Sensor is rated higher. HUUM averages 2.3 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Minut Smart Home Sensor averages 2.5 from 51 ratings.
Do HUUM or Minut Smart Home Sensor have ads?
Neither HUUM nor Minut Smart Home Sensor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HUUM or Minut Smart Home Sensor?
HUUM ships an update monthly, and Minut Smart Home Sensor every 9 days. Most recently, HUUM was updated on November 1, 2026 and Minut Smart Home Sensor on November 1, 2026.

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