Real Chimes vs Zexa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Zexa
This app empowers musicians to create and share live music and video content using AI. It simplifies performance, recording, and distribution for artists.
- AI-powered music and video creation
- Live performance tools
- Effortless recording
- Content sharing capabilities
- Musician empowerment
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Revolutionizing Live Music & Video Creation with AI Empowering Musicians to Perform, Record, and Share—Effortlessly
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zexa at none against Real Chimes's 4. Zexa also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Real Chimes's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. Zexa asks for nothing beyond the download.
Zexa 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real Chimes | Zexa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Riley Leal | Zexa Inc. |
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
Zexa
No in-app purchases









