Custom Rings vs Rainfall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Rings
Create and track custom daily goals beyond standard activity metrics. Organize them into sets, sync with Apple Health, and compete with friends. Offers reminders, history, and streaks for motivation.
- Customizable goal rings
- Auto-tracking from Apple Health
- Session clusters for manual counters
- Scheduled rings for specific days
- Social sharing and challenges
- Apple Watch support
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Make progress on what matters to you. Custom Rings turns your habits and goals into personal rings: reading, water, movement, focus, practice, and more. Choose a name, unit, target, schedule, and color, then check in with a simple +. A SIMPLE DAILY CHECK-IN See your rings together on Today. Use your preferred quick amount, open a ring to enter a custom amount, and undo an accidental entry. Starter templates make it easy to begin. A CLEARER VIEW OF YOUR PROGRESS Your free seven-day overview shows completed goals and a daily tracker. Explore deeper comparisons, thirty-day summaries, full calendar history, and CSV export with Pro. CONNECTED TO APPLE HEALTH Connect compatible data for steps, active calories, exercise minutes, stand hours, walking distance, flights climbed, sleep, water, and time in daylight. Available data depends on your devices and permissions. Raw Health samples are processed on your device. IPHONE, WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Keep goals visible with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Use Quick Track to log progress, or check in from Apple Watch. The Three Rings complication lets you choose a different daily ring for each position in a large rectangular Watch face slot, with totals, percentages, or progress remaining. MORE WAYS TO MAKE IT YOURS Create session counters for goals that should not reset at midnight, such as workout sets or game scores. Use scheduled rings and reminders to fit your routine. Export a local backup of your rings and history, preview a backup before importing, and keep a recovery copy when restoring. OPTIONAL SHARING Sign in with Apple to add friends and share only the rings you choose. Pro adds more social features, including challenges, recurring seasons, and nudges. No account is required to track your own rings. START FREE • One group with up to five rings • Seven-day Progress overview and daily tracker • Up to three friends • Apple Health auto-tracking types • Scheduled rings and session counters • Reminders, widgets, Siri, and Watch complications PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Unlimited groups • Deeper insights and thirty-day summaries • Full calendar history and CSV export • Unlimited friends • Challenges, recurring seasons, and nudges No subscription. No ads. Your rings, your goals, your pace. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Rainfall
This app offers personalized daily mindfulness practices based on your iPhone's sensor data. It provides short guided meditations, soundscapes, and a weekly weather record for your mental state. Unlock longer sessions and more soundscapes with an optional subscription.
- Daily personalized mindfulness practices
- On-device sensor data analysis
- Guided meditations with multiple voices
- Ambient soundscapes
- Weekly mental weather record
- Customizable app icons
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Some days ask more of you than others. Rainfall notices — and meets you with one quiet, well-chosen practice, before you have to ask. A forecast, not a feed Open the app and Rainfall has already sensed the weather of your day — partly cloudy, building pressure, gentle rain — from signals already on your iPhone. No check-ins to remember. No streak to keep. No library to search. If the read doesn't fit, tap "not quite" and tell it what does. It remembers. One practice, chosen for you Each read offers a single short session from a library of original meditations — guided by one of seven distinct voices, set over original ambient beds. Three minutes when that's what fits. Twenty when the day calls for it. Nothing to scroll through unless you want to. Soundscapes to settle into When words aren't what you need, drift off to an endless soundscape — gentle rain, wind, and more — that plays on as long as you like. Your sky, your settings Choose one of five living-sky app icons — Sky, Dusk, Night, Mist, Dawn — so Rainfall sits on your home screen the way you'd like. The Climate tab keeps a quiet weekly record of your weather. The You tab holds your subscription and notifications. Built around one promise: this stays on your iPhone Rainfall reads your day's signals — heart-rate variability, sleep, calendar density — on-device. The raw signals never leave your phone. The Mind Weather inference happens locally. Your weather history syncs only through your own iCloud, never our servers. Mindful minutes are written to Apple Health, where you already trust them. Rainfall is suggestive — never diagnostic. It is not a medical device, a therapy, or a substitute for either. Rainfall Extended A subscription unlocks the longer sessions — 10 or 20 minutes — and every soundscape. The free tier stays free, always: the daily Read, the three- and five-minute sessions, and a soundscape to drift off to. No time limit, no pressure. Feelings are weather. Weather passes. We'll meet you on the other side. Terms of Use (EULA): https://rainfallmeditation.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://rainfallmeditation.com/privacy Rainfall Extended is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly). The price is shown in the app before purchase and charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. It renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rainfall at 5.0 against Custom Rings's 4.4. Rainfall also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Custom Rings's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Custom Rings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rainfall sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Rainfall holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custom Rings has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Custom Rings's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rainfall's.
| Parameter | Custom Rings | Rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Christopher DAdamo | Alan Wizemann |
Customer experience
Custom Rings
Rainfall
In-app purchases
Custom Rings
- Custom Rings Pro$2.99
Rainfall
- Rainfall Extended Monthly$4.991 Month
- Rainfall Extended Yearly$49.991 Year









