Rain Therapy: Rest, Relax, Unwind

by Pixel Delight Studios LLC

Product Details

• ASIN: B008245WE0
• Original Release Date: May 10, 2012
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2012
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (607 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #556 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)
  • #4 in Appstore for Android > Health & Fitness

Product Features

• Rain falls and splatters onto screen
• Clouds gently drift by
• 4 types of rain sounds
• Set timer: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2hours, 3hours, non-stop
• Ability to pause and play the rain
• Rain intensity control
• Rain droplet size control
• Sky speed and direction control
• Current time and date display
• Gorgeous minimalist style interface

Technical Details

• Size: 6.6MB
• Version: 1.3
• Developed By: Pixel Delight Studios LLC
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Open network sockets
  • Access information about networks
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

590 of 618 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning - Just a screen saver that requires permissions, bombards you with ads, and begs for 5 star reviews. WASTE of the FAOTD! August 11, 2012

By Samuel Mitchell TOP 500 REVIEWER

Amazon Verified Purchase

How can something like this over-glorified screensaver get so many five star reviews? Oh wait, I know - because it actually begs you to give it a five star rating!

Upon opening the application you are often presented with a random advertisement for a paid game, OR this line: "5 stars pretty please? =)". But don't fret if you don't see either; the RATE (yes, it's in all caps) button is also prominently displayed on your screen while the app runs!
The developers should be ashamed of themselves for selling this ad-infested screensaver for $.99 cents. Things like this have been available on the PC for years (free of charge), and my phone came with a few that actually look better (and have more options) than this joke.

Seriously, the only thing that you get here is rain falling and splashing against your screen while clouds roll by. You have control over the cloud speed, rain intensity and droplet size. That's it - that's the ONLY input you have in this application. You can also set the amount of time this thing runs for... Yeah...
Now I realize that this is supposed to be an interactive white noise application but the actual sound of the "rain" seems like it was poorly recorded during someone's shower, and has frequent issues on top of that!

For some reason this screensaver also requires the following permissions: read only access to phone state, open network sockets, and access information about networks.
While the read only access to the phone state is not a big deal, the other two are as they allow for some serious data mining. I honestly see no reason for this app to have the latter two permissions, or any permissions for that matter.

If you are looking for an Android screensaver (or white noise app), just download one for free.... There are plenty of them on the marketplace - and even the free ones will most likely require less permissions, have less ads, give you more options, AND sound better. I can't in my right mind recommend this spyware atrocity for the $.99 cents that Pixel Delight Studios wants to charge for it. It also saddens me that the current top helpful reviews are held by people with only one review under their belt (for this Rain App), while rating this horrid monstrosity as a five star application.

This is the absolute worst "A Great Paid App for Free" selection that Amazon has had on for the past few weeks. Unless you really want a rain screensaver with poor sound (that sometimes actually gets distorted), data mining, and ads - go get something else.

Side note: I know I will most likely get downvoted into oblivion (it's obvious the dev's have a lot of dummy voting accounts), but I feel it's my duty to inform you of how terrible and pointless the "Rain App" is. If my reviewer rank has to suffer for it, so be it. Read more ›

228 of 245 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Amazed! (but for the *wrong* reasons) August 11, 2012

By Nikos

Amazon Verified Purchase

I rarely write reviews and when I do it is almost exclusively for apps I really like. I don't see the point of going into the trouble to write a negative review, particularly for a FAOTD as I can just ignore it. This time I just could not help it though. I downloaded the app seeing that it has on the whole favorable reviews and was AMAZED by how sub par it is. I am amazed that it is #1 in Amazon Health (seriously!) and amazed by how it has so many good reviews.

It suggests that it is a window simulation with rain. I imagined rain falling at different angles and strengths against the window, dropplets merging together and running down, clouds morphing in the background.. Instead, the 'simulation' is as if you were lying on your back with a glass pane above you. The rain drops fall squarely on the glass (at least the drops are not square and not quite round) and then simply disappear!
The clouds in the background are a static image that scrolls from left to right with no change in the clouds' shapes.
The sound (which presumably is meant to be the highlight of the app) is terrible. It stutters, especially initially, on my HTC Skyrocket and, as others have pointed out, has a very heavy component of white noise rather than complex rain sounds.
I'm not sure why it needs the network permissions but presumably it is for the annoying ads and rating requests that seem to pop up every other time you open the application.

Most importantly, I can not think of a situation where this app might come to its own. If you are trying to fall asleep and need some nice background sounds you don't need to look at the screen.... (if you are trying to fall asleep with your eyes open that may be the problem right there ;-)
There are many apps out there (some with free lite versions) that provide much higher quality sound boards with full control on the sound content (Sleepy time lite has already been mentioned by another reviewer; Lightning Bug is my favorite but more expensive at 2.99).
Lightning Bug - Sleep Clock

If you want something chilled and interactive to meddle with and help you relax I would highly recommend the multi-award winning Osmos HD.

Maybe this really is a niche app for people with reverse seasonal affective disorder (as one of the reviewers claims to have) but other than that I would certainly suggest avoiding it. Read more ›

172 of 197 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Does the Job But Annoying Popup Ads August 11, 2012

By Michael Gallagher HALL OF FAMETOP 10 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Amazon Verified Purchase

I purchased this app at the end of June while I was traveling, as I was having a heck of a time going to sleep in a random hotel room. It installed easily on my Motorola RAZR phone and I had it up and running in no time and was able to quickly fall to sleep. I kept the phone hooked up to the charger as I didn't want the app to drain the battery and leave me stranded after I woke up the next morning.

I liked it so much I installed it to my Kindle Fire, also.

This app, while having a few bells and whistles, has the basic tasks down - a soothing rain noise (not a thunderstorm) that I can speed up or slow down to make the storm effects different, easy volume control, and you can either let the rain run a set period of time or in a continuous loop.

You can see the raindrops dropping on your screen and you can speed up or slow down that effect, also, but I didn't really see the point as I'm certainly not looking at the screen when I am trying to sleep.

You do get a lot of requests to review the app when you turn it on, which is quite annoying. I guess it worked in my case and due to the annoyance factor I'm taking away a star - it becomes tiresome to continually end the popup each and every time you turn on or activate the app!

Overall, if you're looking for a good rain background noise app and can live with the annoying popups when you turn the app on, I recommend this one.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Screensaver with bacon? August 11, 2012

By Neithermor

Amazon Verified Purchase

I installed this because of the 4 star review overall (with almost 300 reviewers). The best screensaver is sleep or stand by. There are much better ways to drain the battery.

This app shows a cloudy day with rain falling onto a glass surface as if were a sky light. The sound effect is similar to bacon frying.

This is pretty awful.