Rainy Mood vs Noisli
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rainy Mood
Experience the internet's most popular rain sounds to aid sleep, focus, and relaxation. Enjoy customizable rain scenes with stunning 3D audio and a vast sound library for a unique, never-repeating experience.
- Customizable rain scenes
- HD/48kHz 3D audio
- Algorithmic randomizer
- Massive sound library
- Sound mixer
- Sleep timer
- Play music simultaneously
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Rainy Mood is the internet's most popular rain experience. Join millions of people who use Rainy Mood to help them sleep, study, and relax. The new Rainy Mood app has four fully-customizable rain scenes -- Classic, Ocean, Countryside, and Café. The world's #1 leader in rain sounds has painstakingly composed each rain soundscape. With stunning HD/48kHz 3D audio and algorithmic randomizer, your brain will naturally relax and focus. Our massive sample library includes 400+ unique thunder claps, cricket chirps, ocean waves, and special effects. Individual rain impact textures include rain on grass, dirt, wood, tin roof, ocean, leaves, and rocks. FEATURES + 3D audio, works with standard headphones + Algorithmic randomizer and massive sound library for always-fresh sound that never repeats + Sound mixer + Sleep timer + Energy efficient + Play your music simultaneously. Works with your music apps. + AirPlay (NEW!) + Includes free lifetime updates.
Noisli
Create personalized soundscapes with a variety of ambient noises to enhance focus, relaxation, or sleep. Mix and match sounds to build your perfect audio environment, available offline.
- Mixable ambient sounds
- Customizable soundscapes
- Offline sound playback
- Save favorite sound combos
- Timer with fade out
- Sync combos across devices
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The Official app of Noisli.com - The background noise and color generator for working and relaxing. High quality ambient sounds to help you focus while working, relieve anxiety, help during your meditation or yoga classes, or just to relax while reading or before going to sleep. Noisli is mainly used to drown out annoying noises in order to better concentrate and to enhance productivity, or to create a pleasant audio environment for relaxing or sleeping. You’re working from an open office, have loud co workers and can’t focus? You’re working or studying from home or in a library and nothing gets you motivated? You’re continuous travelling on plane or train and need a quick power nap? Noisli makes your life a little easier and keeps you sane during long office hours or intense study sessions. PRESS & MEDIA QUOTES The Next Web – “The perfect tool to help get you more productive in the comfort of your own home” Time – “Noisli helps you tackle busywork” FastCompany – “12 Tech Tools Productivity Experts Can’t Live Without” Cnet – “Relax during your stressful workday with Noisli. It is pure simplicity” LifeHacker – “Noisli Generates Background Sounds to Keep You Creative and Relaxed” The app is also useful in many other situations, such as helping with insomnia, relaxing while reading, reduce stress, soothe headaches and migraines or at the spa, during massaging sessions and for parents to help your baby fall asleep. Noisli is also used to mask Tinnitus and to help with ADD and ADHD. With Noisli you can improve your health and feel better. The service is already being used all over the world by coders, programmers, bloggers, writers, students and translators during work or by teachers during creative writing classes. HOW IT WORKS Mix different sounds and create your perfect sound ambience tailored to your personal need and taste. Activate one or more sounds and adjust the volume slider to create an always different and pleasing sound environment. With Noisli you can boost your focus and enhance your productivity or just lay back, listen, and enjoy falling asleep. SOUNDS Rain, Thunderstorm, Wind, Forest with Birds, Leaves, Water stream, Seaside with seagulls and relaxing waves, Water, Fireplace, Summer night with owls and crickets, Fan, rumbling Train, Coffee Shop, White Noise, Pink Noise, Brown Noise. ALWAYS WITH YOU - OFFLINE SOUNDS The Noisli app lets you play all of the sounds offline and therefore you can always enjoy its features and benefits also while travelling on a plane or commuting on a train, or during any other activity with no need for an internet connection. CREATE AND SAVE YOUR WONDERFUL COMBOS Play and Mix the Sounds together and find your Favourite Combos - Save and Replay them whenever you like. SYNC Now you can sign up for a free Noisli account and have your wonderful Combos always in sync on all your devices. A network connection is required to synchronise. TIMER WITH FADE OUT FUNCTION With the Timer function you can take advantage of efficient time management methods, such as the Pomodoro Technique, to be more efficient and productive while cutting out distractions and prevent burnouts. Use the built-in countdown timer function during work, study or creativity sessions or simply use it as a sleeping timer for taking a relaxed nap or while falling asleep. BACKGROUND AUDIO SUPPORT You can enjoy the wonderful sounds also while using other apps or while surfing the web. FOLLOW US Like it: https://facebook.com/Noisli Follow: https://twitter.com/Noisli Website: https://www.noisli.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rainy Mood at 4.7 against Noisli's 4.2. Rainy Mood also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 61%) and chart position (#77 vs unranked). Noisli's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 26.1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Rainy Mood costs $4.99 and Noisli $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Rainy Mood holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1K and 255 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Rainy Mood's written reviews are positive against 61% of Noisli's.
Rainy Mood ships an update every 8 months, Noisli every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rainy Mood | Noisli |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (1K ratings) — better | 4.2 (255 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.7% of reviews — better | 61.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 255 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #77 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 254 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plain Theory, Inc. | Noisli Labs UG (haftungsbeschraenkt) |
Customer experience
Rainy Mood
Noisli
Bugs and requests
Rainy Mood
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Noisli
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch for some users
- Volume sliders not working properly
- Sounds not resuming after interruptions
- Compatibility issues with iOS 14.2 and newer
Requested features
5 requests- Add more sound options like ocean, wind chimes, etc.
- Implement a dark mode
- Allow setting custom timer durations
- Add alarm/wake up functionality
- Improve compatibility with Bluetooth/smart speakers
In-app purchases
Rainy Mood
No in-app purchases
Noisli
No in-app purchases
Questions
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