Horns and Sirens vs Real Chimes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Horns and Sirens
This app provides a collection of high-quality horn and siren sounds. Tap buttons to play various sounds like police sirens, air horns, and DJ horns. It's a fun way to prank friends or add sound effects to events.
- High-quality horn and siren sounds
- Tap to play sounds
- Scare friends
- Connect to external speakers
- Variety of sound types (police, DJ, boat, truck)
- Includes car alarms and reggae horns
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Horns and Sirens features actual high quality Horn and Siren sounds. Simply tap a button to play it's corresponding horn or siren sound. Scare your friends with these loud horns and siren sounds. Hook up to an external speaker for an even more loud experience. Police sounds and sirens, DJ sounds and sirens, funny sounds and scary horns. Sounds include: - Police Sirens - Air Horns - Boat Horns - Truck Horns - Fire Sirens - Car Alarms - Reggae Horn - DJ Horn - and much more Horns and Sirens is a free ad supported app, so what are you waiting for, make some noise!
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!
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Verdict
Horns and Sirens and Real Chimes both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Real Chimes's written reviews are positive against 43% of Horns and Sirens's. Horns and Sirens's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (4.2K vs 7). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Horns and Sirens asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Horns and Sirens against 4.4 for Real Chimes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Horns and Sirens has 4.2K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Horns and Sirens's written reviews are positive against 100% of Real Chimes's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Horns and Sirens | Real Chimes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4.2K ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.2K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Magi Ent | Riley Leal |
Customer experience
Horns and Sirens
Real Chimes
Bugs and requests
Horns and Sirens
Reported bugs
4 issues- No sound on certain devices
- Buttons don't work
- Can't stop/pause sounds
- Glitchy on ads
Requested features
4 requests- Add car horn sounds
- Add more sounds like thunderbolt tornado siren
- Provide a pro version without ads
- Allow using sounds as notification tones and ringtones
Real Chimes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Horns and Sirens
No 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
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