# Travelear — Travel the world in sound

> Immersive 3D soundscapes for virtual wellness travel and environmental exploration. (iPhone/iPad app by kaimo, LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/travelear/id1159408401 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [kaimo, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1539344999)
- Category: Entertainment, Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 66 App Store ratings · 66 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 41 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2016-11-21
- Data updated: 2026-09-05
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/travelear/id1159408401/reviews.md

## What is Travelear?

Explore the world through sound. Travelear brings you ambient field recordings captured in real locations across the globe — from bustling Tokyo markets and Parisian rain to tranquil Costa Rican forests and Arctic wind.

DISCOVER SOUNDS FROM EVERYWHERE
Browse hundreds of ambient recordings organized by location, category, and trending popularity. Search by place, tag, or creator to find exactly the right atmosphere. Explore Nature, Urban, and Weather categories or dive into what's trending today.

LISTEN FOR HOURS
Many recordings are designed to loop seamlessly for hours of uninterrupted ambience. Use Travelear for deep focus while working, winding down before bed, or escaping to a faraway place without leaving your room.

BUILT-IN SLEEP TIMER
Set a sleep timer with a gentle 10-second fade-out so sounds ease away naturally as you drift off. Choose any duration with hour, minute, and second precision. The dark ambient interface is designed for nighttime use.

BUILD YOUR COLLECTION
Create personal playlists and organize your favorite sounds. Drag and drop to arrange tracks in the perfect order. Follow your favorite creators and discover their new uploads in your home feed.

A GLOBAL CREATOR COMMUNITY
Travelear is powered by creators who record and share ambient sounds from their travels and everyday surroundings. Every track is captured on location and tagged with its real-world coordinates.

TRAVELEAR PRO
Subscribe to unlock unlimited listening across the full library. Free listeners get a short daily preview so you can explore before subscribing. Pro members enjoy unlimited access and directly support the creators behind every recording.

https://thetravelear.com/terms

## Key features

- 3D Soundscapes
- Organic wellness recordings
- High Definition 3D Binaural Audio
- Nature, rain, and city recordings
- Map View destination selection
- Personalized itinerary creation
- Offline listening (subscription)

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Scout | $4.99 | per month |
| Trailblazer | $39.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Travelear?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🎧 Immersive audio experience
- ✈️ Virtual travel and escapism
- 😴 Aids in sleep and relaxation
- 🌍 Unique and realistic soundscapes
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- ♿ Accessible for visually impaired users
- 💡 Innovative app concept
- 🎶 High-quality recordings
- 🆓 Free to enjoy sounds

**Cons**

- ⏳ Short track durations
- 🌳 Too many nature tracks
- 📱 Incompatible with older devices
- 📉 Infrequent updates
- 🗺️ Map feature takes up too much screen
- 🔌 Requires internet connection

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes after a few minutes
- Screen turns completely black
- App is incompatible with iPhone 6s

**Most requested features**

- Longer track durations
- More real-life/urban tracks
- Sleep timer
- Playlist creation
- Lock screen controls (skip/back song)
- Option to download tracks
- User-submitted clips/recordings
- More variations in microphone position suggestions
- Random track button
- Ability for users to add their own recordings
- More winter sounds
- Halloween-themed sounds
- Star Wars themed sounds
- Virtual walking feature
- Games for the blind
- More vacation/travel sounds
- Add more content
- Improve app monetization transparency

## Recent user reviews (10 of 66)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/travelear/id1159408401/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Great

*2026-03-09, version 2.0.1*

So good.

### 1/5 — No trial

*2026-03-03, version 2.0.0*

No try before buy. In fact you have to create an account before you can do anything at all. Pay before try is good for them, not the user.

### 5/5 — Travelear

*2024-05-17*

Good evening traveler developers my name is Ulises Gomez and I recently re-downloaded the app today. I totally love the dance party and the other great features of this app. Keep them coming.

### 3/5 — Excellent quality yet too short track duration

*2020-12-21*

I’ve been looking for an app
Like this for a long time. Binaural Audio is amazing but I fear the point has been missed a little. The track durations are way to short to allow true immersion. I tried laying back and letting myself drift off but I’m slammed back to reality by the sudden fade out after only a few minutes. 

Furthermore a little variation in the position of the microphone would be nice along with some info on the best position to be in. I.e positioning the microphone to mimic laying on the beach with your head towards the water. This way the listener knows that the track is best experienced laying down.

 I feel like the developer likes recording these but hasn’t gotten 100% serious about it. Give us an hour of sitting in a forest or on a park bench in Central Park. The point should be to give us the audio and let our minds fill in the other senses. With a little tweaks this could be a home run!

So close to being a “take my money” app.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much! We are aware of many of the issues you mentioned, especially with some of the older ones. We had some learning curves :). Interesting point about head position...something to stew over. 

Our other app Dreamear, has similar recordings but with an infinite loop you might want to check out as well.

### 5/5 — Amazing app

*2020-08-12*

I love this app. I love that you can travel virtually anywhere around the world. When I’m bored just sitting in the car I can just pop on a pair of headphones and go to New York, or LA, or anywhere that has been uploaded to the app. I also love that it’s fully accessible. There’s not a lot of fun accessible apps that are free, and so this one was a really good find.

**Developer response:** This is great to hear, thanks Jess!

### 5/5 — Dreamear

*2020-04-24, version 1.4.1*

Dreamear is awesome.  Really helps me focus while studying. Thanks!

### 5/5 — Great App for Relaxation

*2020-04-21, version 1.4.1*

This app provides the audio experience to several different locations. I turn it on to help me sleep! It works wonderfully!

### 5/5 — Careful It’s Addictive

*2020-04-19*

This app paired with my BOSE headphones... Sleep heaven!! The 3-D sounds are really cool too. The app itself is easy to use and straight forward, just click, listen and Zzzzzzzz... I live on a loud street in NYC and it helps me sleep. 5+ Zzzzzzs

**Developer response:** hey thanks!!! so happy you are enjoying it!

### 5/5 — amazing app!!!

*2020-04-13, version 1.4.1*

Ow love this app! Especially now that we're all stuck at home, I can go to a bunch of different places without even leaving my couch or bed lol. This app is amazing.  quarantine

### 5/5 — Wow :)

*2019-08-26*

Was looking for something like this. Unique and good qualities sound and they all are real/recorded I’ve used too many sound apps but stick to this one. 
This is an app where you don’t need to stick with few sound.
😍😍

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind words! We have a ton more content coming your way soon, stay tuned! :)

## Frequently asked questions about Travelear

### What does Travelear do?

Travelear offers virtual wellness travel through immersive 3D soundscapes. It allows users to experience various destinations and environments, from nature to bustling cities, using high-definition binaural audio, making you feel like you are actually there.

### What are the key features of Travelear?

Key features include exclusive 3D Soundscapes, organic recordings designed for wellness travel, high-definition 3D binaural audio, and a variety of recordings like nature, rain, and cities. Additional features include Map View for destination selection, itinerary creation, and a favorites list.

### How is Travelear monetized?

Travelear operates on a freemium model. While some soundscapes and features are available for free, a subscription unlocks additional content such as offline listening and the newest soundscapes.

### Why is Travelear best experienced with headphones?

The app's 3D Soundscapes are recorded in 3D Binaural Audio, mimicking how humans hear. Headphones allow users to fully re-live the immersive experience of the recording environment, placing them directly in the middle of the soundscape.

### What kind of environments can I explore with Travelear?

You can explore a wide range of environments, including natural settings like forests with wildlife, relaxing porch scenes with thunderstorms, and vibrant city locations such as London's Flower Market or New Orleans' jazz streets.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1.5 — 2026-09-01

Performance Improvements, Data Safety - Own your Stuff, Creator Tooling

### 2.1.4 — 2026-08-25

Service Maintenance
Creator Tools and Analytics

### 2.1.3 — 2026-08-14

Performance Improvements, Bugs to creator platform, upload review processing.

### 2.1.2 — 2026-08-09

What's new in Travelear:

ACCESSIBILITY
We completed a broad accessibility pass this release. Interactive elements throughout the app expose screen reader labels and roles, the iOS Reduced Motion setting is now honored by player crossfades, the sleep-timer fade, and modal animations, and we raised text contrast in several places for better readability. Read the full accessibility statement at thetravelear.com/accessibility.

PLAYER REFINEMENTS
Cleaner loop indicators tell you at a glance whether a track loops continuously or plays once. Smoother iOS crossfades between tracks. Better handling of play/pause on the lock screen. More reliable playback across long listening sessions.

FOLLOWED CREATORS DIGEST
The notification for creators you follow is now a weekly digest, sent Tuesday and Wednesday at noon in your local time, so you never miss a new field recording without getting pinged every time.

COMPLIMENTARY PRO GRANTS
When you receive a complimentary Travelear Pro grant — including the "forever" grant creators receive on approval — a dedicated banner appears on the subscribe screen so the benefit is easy to see, and the app tells you clearly when it's about to expire.

PROMO & DISCOUNT CODES
Promo codes are now supported on the subscribe screen so you can redeem a discount toward Travelear Pro.

CREATOR AUTHENTICITY
Every field recording now carries a creator authenticity pledge affirming it was captured on location. This is part of our commitment to keeping Travelear a genuine ambient-sound platform, not a home for generated audio.

PRIVACY & COMPLIANCE
Updated cookie disclosure, refined push notification opt-in, refreshed privacy language around subscriber communications, and a new accessibility statement — all aligned with the latest platform requirements.

BEHIND THE SCENES
Faster loading, smoother browsing, and dozens of stability fixes.

https://thetravelear.com/terms

### 2.1.1 — 2026-06-21

Admin Tools
Performance Improvements

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## More apps by kaimo, LLC

- [Dreamear: Sleep, Relax, Focus](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dreamear-sleep-relax-focus/id1473473909)

All apps by kaimo, LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/1539344999

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