Real Chimes vs Rainstick
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!
Rainstick
Turn your phone into a virtual rainstick. Simply flip your device to initiate a rain sound effect. Adjust the tilt to control the speed and intensity of the falling rain.
- Virtual rainstick simulation
- Flip device to activate rain
- Tilt control for speed
- Realistic sound effects
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Volume up! Your phone is now a rainstick. Flip it to make the rain fall. Change the tilt to speed it up or slow it down
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rainstick at none against Real Chimes's 4. Rainstick 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 12 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Real Chimes sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Rainstick asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rainstick 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.
Real Chimes ships an update every 2 months, Rainstick every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Real Chimes | Rainstick |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 12 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 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Riley Leal | Paul Millerd |
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
Rainstick
No in-app purchases
