iBigBen vs Real Chimes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iBigBen
Simulate striking various bells, including Big Ben, by swinging your iPhone. Amaze your friends with magical bell sounds and animations.
- Simulate Big Ben chimes
- Play jingle bells
- Tubular bell sounds
- Retro hotel bell sounds
- Motion-based interaction
- Amaze friends with animations
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Strike the chimes of Big Ben and other kinds of bells with your iPhone! Just swing your iPhone like you would with a normal bell and voila! The magical notes of Big Ben, jingle bells, a tubular bell or a retro style hotel bell appear in the air to amaze your friends!! Even more bells and whistles coming up in future versions!
Real Chimes
Create personalized ambient soundscapes for meditation, relaxation, or sleep. Customize chimes with various scales, keys, and octaves, and select from immersive environments. Save your favorite settings as presets for quick access.
- Physically simulated chimes
- Customizable scales, keys, and octaves
- Ambient environment selection
- Saveable presets
- Dynamic note generation
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These physically simulated chimes will serve you well, whether you need to meditate, relax and unwind, or sleep! You can pick virtually any scale, key, and octave and the chimes will dynamically assume the proper notes, giving you a huge number of possibilities that are tailored exactly to your liking! You can also select one of several ambient environments to enhance and deepen your immersion, or help you sleep! After you finish tailoring the chimes and their environment to your liking, you can save your settings as a preset for easy recall whenever you need, at a moment's notice! More updates with even cooler features to come in the future, if you like this product and want to help improve it, please purchase it so I can continue to improve your experience!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Real Chimes at 100% against iBigBen's 0%. Real Chimes also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.4 vs 1.0). iBigBen's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On device support there is nothing between them.
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Real Chimes is free to download; iBigBen costs $0.99 up front. Real Chimes sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. iBigBen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Real Chimes holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Real Chimes has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of iBigBen's written reviews are positive against 100% of Real Chimes's.
iBigBen ships an update every 8 months, Real Chimes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iBigBen | Real Chimes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alkis Hadjinicolaou | Riley Leal |
Customer experience
iBigBen
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In-app purchases
iBigBen
No in-app purchases
Real Chimes
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Remove ads - $5$4.99
- Remove ads - $15$14.99
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- Remove ads - $25$24.99
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