Rain Étude
Rain Étude app icon

Rain plays.
You conduct.

Rain Étude listens to real rain and turns every drop into a note — live, on your iPhone. Heavier rain quickens the tempo, thunder rolls through the bass, and the screen writes the score in gold.

Coming to the App Store Free · iPhone · No account, no ads, no tracking
Live score: raindrops land on a staff as golden notes A finished étude with its generative spiral cover Archive of études, each with its own cover Six ensembles to choose from Étude player replaying the score

A concert where the rain is the soloist

Not rain sounds for sleep and not a music editor — a live show you conduct.

Live Rain Orchestra

Real drops become music in real time. Detection runs entirely on your iPhone, with no noticeable delay.

The rain writes the score

Drops fall onto a dark staff and bloom into golden notes. In a minute the screen fills with a pattern no one else will ever see.

You are the conductor

Hold to sustain the harmony, swipe to change key, switch ensembles mid-storm.

Every rain becomes an étude

Sessions are saved as “Étude No. N” with a generative spiral cover, the city, the weather and the number of drops.

Play it again, differently

Re-orchestrate any étude with another ensemble: the same drops, the same rhythm, new music.

Share as a Stories video

Export a vertical video of the score with the music, automatically cut to the most eventful moment.

Six ensembles, one rain

Each has its own instruments, musical mode and mood.

Nocturnesoft piano & strings Kalimba Gardenkalimba & warm bass Cathedralcelesta & organ Tokyo MidnightRhodes, sub bass & vinyl Harp of Cloudsharp & choir Koto Rainkoto & shakuhachi

No rain today?

The concert doesn’t have to wait for the weather.

  1. Studio Rain. Six rain scenes — a tin roof, leaves, a window, an umbrella, a thunderstorm, drizzle — played through the same live detector.
  2. Finger Rain. Tap the screen to make drops; hold for a downpour.
  3. Any drops. A dripping tap, a shower or fingers drumming on a table — the microphone hears them all.

Your rain stays yours

Sound is analyzed on your iPhone and never sent anywhere. Location is optional, approximate, and used only to ask Apple Weather whether it’s raining nearby. No sign-in, no ads, no analytics. Read the privacy policy.