Dinner Bell Lite vs Train Sounds Effects
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dinner Bell Lite
This app simulates a realistic dinner bell with a moving clanger. Users can customize the sound pitch and clanger bounciness to create personalized ringing effects. It's perfect for calling people to meals or for playful sound experiences.
- Shake to ring bell
- Moving clanger animation
- Adjustable sound pitch
- Customizable clanger bounciness
- Realistic bell sound
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Come and get it!!... This dinner bell is more than just a dining invitation. Shake your iPhone to ring the bell. The clanger moves just like a real bell each time you shake your phone, allowing you to control the speed of the ringing. This hand bell truly sounds like a real bell! What makes this app unique is that you can change the pitch of every sound and the bounciness of the clanger. So, you don't have to settle for the default sounds of other apps - YOU CAN MAKE THEM YOUR OWN PERSONALIZED SOUNDS! Where ever you go, you can call in the troops or just have fun with these sounds on your iPhone or iPod touch!
Train Sounds Effects
Enhance your model railway experience with a variety of realistic train sound effects. Control playback with switches for continuous loops or buttons for single plays, and adjust individual volumes. Import your own sounds to further personalize your setup.
- Expand model railway with sound effects
- Use iPad or external speakers
- Control playback with switches (loop) or buttons (once)
- Individually adjust volume for each element
- Import custom sound effects
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With Train-Sounds you expand your model railway with additional sound effects. Thus the joy deepens around your model railway. Use your iPad speakers or external speakers to listen these effects. The combination of switches and buttons allow you to determine how these effects are to be played. With switches, the effects are playing in a continuous loop and with buttons only once. At each switching element, you can adjust the volume individually. Buy through the in-app you add value to your version of Train-Sounds, you can bring your own sound effects into the program.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Train Sounds Effects at 4.1 against Dinner Bell Lite's 2.4. Train Sounds Effects also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 90 months) and review sentiment (73% vs 43%). Dinner Bell Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.3). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Train Sounds Effects sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dinner Bell Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Train Sounds Effects holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Dinner Bell Lite's written reviews are positive against 73% of Train Sounds Effects's.
Dinner Bell Lite ships an update every 90 months, Train Sounds Effects every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dinner Bell Lite | Train Sounds Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (25 ratings) | 4.1 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 90 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 3 Queen Software | Janko Enke |
Customer experience
Dinner Bell Lite
Train Sounds Effects
In-app purchases
Dinner Bell Lite
No in-app purchases
Train Sounds Effects
- Extra Package$0.99
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