MetalWater vs Real Chimes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MetalWater
Experience calming water animations paired with soothing music. Ideal for meditation, relaxation, and creating a peaceful atmosphere.
- Calming water animations
- Relaxing music
- Meditation aid
- Stress relief
- Peaceful atmosphere
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Relaxing music with water on your screen. Usable for meditation and relaxation.
Real Chimes
Create personalized ambient soundscapes for meditation, relaxation, or sleep. Customize chimes with various scales, keys, and octaves, and select from immersive environments. Save your favorite settings as presets for quick access.
- Physically simulated chimes
- Customizable scales, keys, and octaves
- Ambient environment selection
- Saveable presets
- Dynamic note generation
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These physically simulated chimes will serve you well, whether you need to meditate, relax and unwind, or sleep! You can pick virtually any scale, key, and octave and the chimes will dynamically assume the proper notes, giving you a huge number of possibilities that are tailored exactly to your liking! You can also select one of several ambient environments to enhance and deepen your immersion, or help you sleep! After you finish tailoring the chimes and their environment to your liking, you can save your settings as a preset for easy recall whenever you need, at a moment's notice! More updates with even cooler features to come in the future, if you like this product and want to help improve it, please purchase it so I can continue to improve your experience!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MetalWater at none against Real Chimes's 4. MetalWater also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Real Chimes's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). 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. Real Chimes sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. MetalWater asks for nothing beyond the download.
MetalWater holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Real Chimes has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MetalWater ships an update every 21 months, Real Chimes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MetalWater | Real Chimes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leo Mesentsev | Riley Leal |
Customer experience
MetalWater
Real Chimes
In-app purchases
MetalWater
No in-app purchases
Real Chimes
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Remove ads - $5$4.99
- Remove ads - $15$14.99
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- Remove ads - $25$24.99
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