Comparison

Sleep Fan vs Rainfall

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

Head to head
About

Sleep Fan

This app provides a simple and effective way to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. It offers various calming sounds and customizable timers, with premium features like sleep tracking and additional audio options.

Highlights
  • White noise and calm sleep sounds
  • Customizable timer
  • Alarm clock with snooze
  • Sleep tracking (premium)
  • Additional sounds (premium)
  • Binaural beats (premium)
Features
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Welcome to Sleep Fan! The ORIGINAL sleep aid app! Sleep Fan has helped countless satisfied users get to bed on time and stay asleep longer. We all know we should be getting more sleep. Studies have shown that a full night's sleep can significantly reduce all-cause mortality. Don’t sacrifice your health and well being. Download Sleep Fan tonight and wake up refreshed in the morning. • Sleep fan is simple and easy to use. • No signup, no hassle. • Listen within seconds. • Choose from an expanded library of sounds: original fan noises, plus Rain, Nighttime crickets, Relaxing meditation, Crashing Waves, and the River. • Single-Day Sleep Tracking: Monitor your sleep cycles, blood oxygen, and heart data to get a personalized Custom Sleep Score. • Apple Health Integration: Syncs seamlessly with Apple Watch and other compatible sleep trackers. • Set a timer for your sleep sounds. • Set the alarm clock to wake you up or hit snooze to get a little more sleep. Sleep Fan is a perfect and simple tool that will reliably aid in the ease of falling asleep. Join the millions of satisfied users that proudly use Sleep Fan every night. **PREMIUM FEATURES** • Long-Term Sleep Trends: Full access to comprehensive Week and Month sleep tracking views. • Ability to overlay binaural beats on top of sleep sounds. • Listen to mind enhancing binaural beats by themselves. • No advertisements. Subscription pricing and terms: Sleep Fan offers an auto-renewing monthly subscription at $1.99/month and an auto-renewing annual subscription at $14.99/year to provide you with unlimited access to the above features while you maintain an active subscription. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. Read more about our terms and conditions here: Terms of service: https://www.yappyapps.com/sleepfan/tos.html Privacy policy: https://www.yappyapps.com/sleepfan/privacypolicy.html

About

Rainfall

This app provides a simple, immersive rain sound experience to help you fall asleep. Adjust a single dial to control the intensity of the rain and accompanying visuals. It offers background playback and a sleep timer for uninterrupted rest.

Highlights
  • One-tap start
  • Adjustable weather dial
  • Background playback
  • Sleep timer with fade-out
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Rainfall is a quiet rain player built for bedtime. Tap once to begin. Move one weather dial from a soft drizzle through steady rain and storm to thunder. The sound, sky, falling rain, and lightning change together, so what you see is what you hear. Set the phone down and let Rainfall keep playing while the screen is locked. Choose a sleep timer for a gentle fade-out, or leave it running through the night. • One tap to start • One weather dial — no sound library or mixer • Drizzle, steady rain, steady storm, and thunder • Background and lock-screen playback • Sleep timer with a gentle fade • Works offline • No account, advertising, tracking, or purchases Rainfall is free and made for iPhone.

Screenshots

Sleep Fan4 screens
Rainfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rainfall at none against Sleep Fan's 2. Rainfall also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Sleep Fan's advantage is ratings volume (36K vs 12) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sleep Fan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Rainfall asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Sleep Fan against 4.7 for Rainfall. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sleep Fan has 36K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Sleep Fan's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rainfall's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleep Fan ships an update every 6 weeks, Rainfall monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Sleep Fan versus Rainfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleep FanRainfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (36K ratings) — better4.7 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews72.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings36K — better12
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size191 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTattlebeeSky Foundry Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Sleep Fan

All ratings36,460 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews246 reviews
Positive72.4%
Neutral6.1%
Negative21.5%

Rainfall

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Sleep Fan

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App stops playing randomly
  • Overheating issues with prolonged use

Requested features

2 requests
  • No timer option for continuous playback
  • Ability to play in background even with phone locked

Rainfall

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sleep Fan

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Account3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium Account$14.991 Year
None

Rainfall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleep Fan free?
Sleep Fan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rainfall free?
Rainfall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sleep Fan or Rainfall?
Sleep Fan is rated higher. Sleep Fan averages 4.8 out of 5 from 36K ratings, while Rainfall averages 4.7 from 12 ratings.
Do Sleep Fan or Rainfall have ads?
Sleep Fan shows ads; Rainfall does not.
Which is updated more often, Sleep Fan or Rainfall?
Sleep Fan ships an update every 6 weeks, and Rainfall monthly. Most recently, Sleep Fan was updated on November 1, 2026 and Rainfall on October 24, 2026.

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