Visual timer vs Rainfall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Visual timer
A gentle countdown tool designed to help children self-regulate and find moments of calm. It features peaceful animated glitter to visually represent time passing, ensuring a distraction-free experience with a simple, kid-friendly interface.
- Peaceful animated glitter for time visualization
- Ad-free experience
- Distraction-free design
- Simple, kid-friendly interface
- Aids self-regulation and calm
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Visual timer: Calm Jar A gentle countdown tool to help kids self-regulate and find calm. Features: - Peaceful animated glitter to show time passing - No ads, no distractions - Simple, kid-friendly design
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.
- One-tap start
- Adjustable weather dial
- Background playback
- Sleep timer with fade-out
- Offline functionality
- No ads or tracking
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rainfall at 100% against Visual timer's 0%. Rainfall also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Visual timer's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Visual timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Rainfall asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rainfall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Visual timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rainfall's.
| Parameter | Visual timer | Rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nathan Schmidt | Sky Foundry Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Visual timer
Rainfall
In-app purchases
Visual timer
- Lifetime Premium (Promo)$1.49
- Lifetime Premium$2.49
Rainfall
No in-app purchases
