Max Random vs Chronosophe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Max Random
This utility app generates random numbers for diverse applications, including dice rolls, lottery number selection, and decision-making. It offers a simple interface with optional spoken results.
- Dice rolling
- Lotto number selection
- Decision making
- Random permutations
- Spoken results
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Max Random generates random numbers for various use cases such as: - Roll one or more dice - Select lotto numbers (e.g. 6 out 49) - Select lotto numbers + lucky number (e.g. 6 out of 42 and one out of 6) with one click - Decide among alternatives (e.g. Small, Medium, Large) - Create a random permutation of names (e.g. for a seat order) All with one simple to use interface. The result is spoken to you if you wish.
Chronosophe
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Some clocks just tell the time. Chronosophe celebrates it. Chronosophe is a clock that celebrates the day's prettiest times instead of just telling them. It started with my son, who loved catching the clock at 11:11. So we made an app that watches for those moments: it finds the nearest beautiful time (12:34, 4:04, a palindrome, a square, a little run of digits) and colours the display by the pattern it matched. A glance at the clock becomes a small celebration. That's the idea across the whole ·sophe family: adding a little wisdom, sophía, to everyday moments. Chronosophe does it for the hours of your day. The same app runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac (tucked into the menu bar) and Apple Watch, with Home-Screen widgets and watch complications that show the next pretty time at a glance. Choose the patterns you care about, add personal times of your own (the minute you were born, a wedding hour), set a chime for the ones you love, and decide how far ahead to look. No account, no ads, no tracking, and nothing leaves your device. Buy it once: no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Max Random at Free against Chronosophe's $0.99. Chronosophe's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 62 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Max Random is free to download; Chronosophe costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Max Random ships an update every 62 months, Chronosophe every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 27, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Max Random | Chronosophe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 62 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Schorn | THOMAS MAURICE LEWINER |
In-app purchases
Max Random
No in-app purchases
Chronosophe
No in-app purchases
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