Chime Squirrel vs InGrid Rainbow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chime Squirrel
This app helps you stay productive by setting customizable recurring chimes for repetitive tasks, exercise routines, or study sessions. It runs in the background, providing timely audio reminders without requiring manual dismissal. Optimize your daily workflow with flexible interval settings and a user-friendly interface.
- Variable interval chimes
- Quick chime setup
- Multiple chime sounds
- Light and dark themes
- Runs in the background
- Repeating interval sequences
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Chime Squirrel is a flexible interval timer and chime app. Set up repeating chimes at any interval, run multiple chimes simultaneously, and stay on track without checking your phone. Whether you're timing meditation sessions, workout intervals, work sprints, pomodoro timer, or any repeating activity, Chime Squirrel keeps the screen active and sounds your chime right on schedule. FEATURES • Quick Chime — set up and start a simple interval chime in seconds • Interval Chimes — create and save custom chime sequences with multiple intervals • Multiple themes — choose from several color themes to match your style • Screen stays on — no need to unlock your phone between chimes • iPad support — works on iPhone and iPad with a shared layout Upgrade to Pro to unlock additional interval chimes beyond the free limit.
InGrid Rainbow
This app offers a comprehensive media editing suite, allowing users to create and transform various media types into unique artistic creations. It supports writing on videos, sketching on photos, applying effects, creating collages, and generating animations.
- Media creation and transformation
- Write on videos and sketch on photos
- Photo and video effects
- Collage creation
- Animation generation
- Vector and raster drawing tools
- Text and annotation features
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Do a billion beautiful creations with the most immersive media experience! No limits! Enhanced with Ingrid Omni-Media and Insite browser, this app replaces the utility of hundreds of different apps with just one! This incredible app creates and transforms all types of media on your device into unique beautiful creations within seconds. Write on videos, or sketch on photos, or create drawings and paintings. Apply amazing range of effects on live movies and pictures, and transform them into unique objects of art. Capture and blend videos with filters, annotate videos live, merge images into slide shows, add music and voice over, capture video with camera-in-shape, and a lot more! Edit photos and images using the full suite of tools. Change backgrounds, apply effects or write text. Create Photo Collages for your birthdays, travels or occasions using the beautiful photo frames. You just need to drag-and-drop photos from your device. Apply a wide variety of effects or combine as many effects as you like to create magical effects to photos or videos. Combine advanced text features such as camera-on-text, filters, and masks to create unique text quotes and annotations. Paint like a professional using a variety of brushes. Draw with vector lines and shapes, with unparalleled power. Doodle, or hand-write, if you prefer! Create a grid of photos or videos into various shapes. You can create a video-wall, picture-in-picture or your own photo collages. Record and edit videos and animations from scratch. Crop, add music, write annotations and apply effects. Merge multiple videos and images. Create animations. Create slideshows using multiple images, videos and text. Have fun with faces, glasses, masks, hair and other accessories. Powerful Ingrid Partitions feature helps you create beautiful patterns, designs, collages and art. Create animation gifs using the live recording and video merge features of the app. And here is something even more amazing: Whatever you do with the app can also be captured as a movie. This makes creating animations so simple! Unleash your creativity. Create something new every time! Features • Blend pictures and movies with a variety of modes • Text in beautiful fonts, with camera-in-text, and masking • Transform pictures and movies to unique creations • Write and sketch on photos and videos, with camera-in-shapes • Record video with effects and annotations • Draw and paint in vector and raster modes • Create animations • Create collages • Gradient color presets • Partitions in various modes • Save creations with editable info as jpg, gif, and png, and un-limit creativity to others • Share to your friends and groups • Share and network with Ingrid – with buddies, groups, communities and blogs • Full Ingrid experience • Powered with integrated browser, contact/phone management, and chat
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: InGrid Rainbow at 5.0 against Chime Squirrel's 4.0. InGrid Rainbow also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Chime Squirrel's advantage is ratings volume (94 vs 3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Chime Squirrel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and InGrid Rainbow sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
InGrid Rainbow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chime Squirrel has 94 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Chime Squirrel's written reviews are positive against 100% of InGrid Rainbow's.
Chime Squirrel ships an update monthly, InGrid Rainbow every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chime Squirrel | InGrid Rainbow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (94 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 94 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.2 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 258 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luke Ryan, LLC | Zcubes Inc. |
Customer experience
Chime Squirrel
InGrid Rainbow
Bugs and requests
Chime Squirrel
Reported bugs
8 issues- App stops working when in background
- Interval data lost after update
- Timer resets to start when app is not on screen
- App behaves erratically
- Edit page does not change settings
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- App freezes and hangs up
- Notifications announce chime finish instead of start
- Chiming constantly and getting multiple alerts after setup attempt
Requested features
11 requests- Apple Watch compatibility
- Ability to set different intervals within a timer
- Siri integration for speaking chime titles
- Option to have notifications announce chime start instead of finish
- More subtle and longer chime sounds (like a gong)
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- Custom ringtones
- Schedule timers for specific days/times (e.g., Mo-Fr 8-17h)
- Ability to save multiple timer configurations
- Ability to set timers to keep chiming until reset
- More sound options beyond basic chimes/beeps
- Ability to start timers automatically in the morning
InGrid Rainbow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chime Squirrel
- Upgrade To Pro$3.99
InGrid Rainbow
- InGrid PrismFree
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