Comparison

Sleep Maker Rain vs Sleep Sounds

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

Head to head
About

Sleep Maker Rain

This app offers a selection of eight nature and rain sounds to aid sleep, relaxation, and focus. It features a customizable sleep timer with a fade-out function and allows playback with the screen off. Users can personalize the visual theme and enjoy offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Eight nature and rain soundscapes
  • Customizable sleep timer with fade-out
  • Background playback with screen off
  • Offline functionality
  • Three customizable artwork themes
  • Independent volume control
Features
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Rain and nature sounds to help you fall asleep, relax and focus. Sleep Maker Rain is a quiet, single-purpose sound app. Open it, press play, and one of eight recordings loops seamlessly for as long as you need it — no sign-up, no paywall, no ads, nothing between you and the sound. EIGHT SOUNDS • Rainy Street — steady rain on pavement • Heavy Rain — a full downpour • Rain on a Tin Roof — close, sheltered rain • Thunderstorm — rain with distant thunder • Ocean Waves — surf rolling in and out • Mountain Stream — running water over stones • Waterfall — deep, constant white noise • Birdsong — a calm morning outdoors SLEEP TIMER THAT FADES Choose how long you want to listen, from a few minutes up to two hours. The volume fades down over the last 30 seconds and playback stops on its own, so nothing ever cuts off mid-sleep and wakes you. PLAYS WITH THE SCREEN OFF Playback keeps going when you lock your phone or switch apps. Play, pause and change sounds from the Lock Screen, Control Center or your headphones — the current sound and its artwork show up there too. THREE ARTWORK THEMES Every sound has its own cover art in three different styles: Vivid, Paintings and Classic. Pick the one you like and the whole app follows it. MADE TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY • Works completely offline — every sound is inside the app • No accounts, no subscriptions • Light, dark or system appearance • iPhone and iPad • A separate in-app volume slider, so ambience level and device volume stay independent PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No analytics, no trackers, no data collection of any kind. Your preferences are stored on your device and deleted with the app. Good for falling asleep, napping, calming a restless night, masking traffic and neighbours, reading, studying, working, meditating or simply slowing down.

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Sleep Sounds

Features
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Sounds to fall asleep to. Nothing else. No guided meditation. No bedtime stories. No sleep tracking. No coaching, no streaks, no score in the morning. You pick sounds, you say how long, and the app gets out of the way. LAYER WHAT YOU LIKE Twenty looping sounds — brown, pink and white noise, four kinds of rain, a wood fire, crickets, waves, a night train, a purring cat, a fan, the murmur of a café. Stack up to six of them and drag each one to the level you want. Rain under a fire. A fan under distant thunder. Whatever puts you out. A TIMER THAT ENDS PROPERLY Thirty minutes, an hour, or all night. With fade-out on, the last five minutes slide down to silence while the screen goes to black — so nothing wakes you to stop it. IT KEEPS PLAYING Lock the phone and the sound stays. Pause it, add fifteen minutes, or cut it from the lock screen without opening anything. Home-screen and lock-screen widgets do the same. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No email. No sign-up. Your mixes are yours and they stay on the device. FREE, AND THE REST ONCE Four sounds and one saved mix, free, with no ads and no trial that turns into a subscription. One payment unlocks the other sixteen sounds, unlimited saved mixes, and an equaliser to shape the mix to your room. Once. Not every month.

Screenshots

Sleep Maker Rain4 screens
Sleep Sounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sleep Maker Rain and Sleep Sounds are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sleep Maker Rain versus Sleep Sounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep Maker RainSleep Sounds
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 18 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB131 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBahtiyar PolatThomas Coutard

In-app purchases

None

Sleep Maker Rain

No in-app purchases

None

Sleep Sounds

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleep Maker Rain free?
Sleep Maker Rain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sleep Sounds free?
Sleep Sounds is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sleep Maker Rain or Sleep Sounds have ads?
Neither Sleep Maker Rain nor Sleep Sounds shows ads.

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