Comparison

Rain Sounds App vs Duskvale

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

Head to head
About

Rain Sounds App

This app provides a curated collection of high-quality ambient sounds to help users relax, reduce stress, and improve sleep quality. It offers a variety of sound categories, custom mixing options, and a smart fade-out timer for a personalized calming experience.

Highlights
  • Over 200 premium sleep sounds
  • Custom sound mixing
  • Smart fade-out sleep timer
  • High-quality, lab-tested audio
  • Nature, water, and ambient sounds
  • White noise and ASMR options
Features
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Sleep better every night with our Sleep Sounds App: Sleeping Owl — your all-in-one sleep companion designed to help you relax, unwind, and fall into deep, restorative sleep. Whether you struggle with insomnia, anxiety, racing thoughts, or noisy environments, Sleeping Owl creates the perfect calming atmosphere to help your mind and body switch off. All sounds are high-quality, handcrafted, and scientifically tested in a controlled audio environment to ensure maximum relaxation and effectiveness. Just choose your favourite sounds, mix them together, and let Sleeping Owl guide you into a peaceful night’s rest. Benefits of Sleep Sounds App: Sleeping Owl • Fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer • Reduce stress, anxiety, and nighttime overthinking • Block out background noise, snoring, and traffic • Improve focus with calming ambient sounds • Boost sleep quality and wake up refreshed • Create a consistent bedtime routine for better long-term sleep Our intelligent audio engine blends and balances sounds automatically, ensuring smooth, seamless audio that never jars you out of relaxation. Features Included • Over 200 premium sleep sounds • Nature sounds • Water and rain sounds • Animal ambience • Urban background sounds • Instrumental & ambient music • ASMR • Meditation & mindfulness sounds • White noise & fan noise • Isochronic tones • Solfeggio frequencies • Binaural beats • Build your own custom sound mixes • Smart fade-out sleep timer • High-quality, lab-tested audio Designed to Improve Your Sleep & Wellbeing Sleeping Owl helps with: • Insomnia • Stress & anxiety • Difficulty focusing • Noisy environments • Nighttime restlessness • Relaxation during meditation, study, or work Wherever you are at home, travelling, or trying to sleep with noise, Our Sleep Sounds App: Sleeping Owl gives you the sound environment your mind needs. Download Sleeping Owl Today Experience deeper, calmer, higher-quality sleep tonight. It’s completely free to get started. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Sleeping Owl subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off in your iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime through your iTunes Account Settings. Refunds are not provided for unused portions of a subscription. Terms of Use: https://sleepingowl.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://sleepingowl.app/privacy

About

Duskvale

Features
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Duskvale turns a handful of quiet sounds into one long dusk. Pick a layer — rain on a window, wind moving through a valley, water, fire, a night forest, a low resonant hum — and set how loud it sits in the mix. Add another. Each family plays one sound at a time, so the result stays clean instead of turning to mud, and every change crossfades rather than cutting. SOUND • 6 families: Rain, Wind, Water, Fire, Night Nature, Resonance • 28 recordings in total, 8 of them rain alone • An independent volume slider for every layer • Smooth crossfades when you switch between variations • Keeps playing in the background and on the lock screen • Everything is bundled with the app: no streaming, no buffering, no account FAVORITES Found a mix you like? Save it with one tap — every layer along with its volume. Your favorites sit at the top of the sound panel, ready to bring the whole mix back in a single tap. COLOR Duskvale is not only something to listen to. Switch to the color panel, pick shades from the wheel, and build a palette of your own. Tap Visualize and those colors become a slow drifting field of light — bleeding into each other, pulling apart, never repeating the same pattern twice. It is drawn live on your device, not a looping video. MADE TO GET OUT OF THE WAY • Dark by design, easy on the eyes at night • Available in English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic • Works fully offline, in airplane mode, anywhere • No account, no sign-up, nothing to subscribe to • Respects the system Reduce Motion setting • Free, supported by ads

Screenshots

Rain Sounds App4 screens
Duskvale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Duskvale at none against Rain Sounds App's 3. Rain Sounds App's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Rain Sounds App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Duskvale asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rain Sounds App ships an update monthly, Duskvale every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Rain Sounds App versus Duskvale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRain Sounds AppDuskvale
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApp Studio Pty LtdMehmet Nusret Odaba

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Rain Sounds App

Subscriptions3
  • 1 Month Subscription$7.991 Month
  • 6 Month Subscription$29.996 Months
  • 12 Month Subscription7 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

Duskvale

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rain Sounds App free?
Rain Sounds App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Duskvale free?
Duskvale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rain Sounds App or Duskvale have ads?
Duskvale shows ads; Rain Sounds App does not.
Which is updated more often, Rain Sounds App or Duskvale?
Rain Sounds App ships an update monthly, and Duskvale every 3 weeks. Most recently, Rain Sounds App was updated on November 3, 2026 and Duskvale on October 31, 2026.

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