Travelear vs The Elements Channel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Travelear
Experience virtual wellness travel with immersive 3D soundscapes. Explore diverse destinations and environments from your home, feeling like you are truly there. Enjoy nature, cityscapes, and more with high-definition binaural audio.
- 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)
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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
The Elements Channel
Stream live, cinematic, and immersive nature-oriented experiences across multiple devices. Enjoy a variety of content, including music, in a visually stunning platform.
- Multi-device streaming
- Live nature experiences
- Cinematic nature documentaries
- Immersive nature content
- Music experiences
- Nature-oriented content
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The Elements Channel is a multi-device streaming platform offering extraordinary nature-oriented live, cinematic, immersive and music experiences. Terms of Service: https://theelementschannel.vhx.tv/tos Privacy Policy: https://theelementschannel.vhx.tv/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Elements Channel at none against Travelear's 2. The Elements Channel also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Travelear's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (66 vs 1). On price, device support 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
Both are free to download. Travelear sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. The Elements Channel asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Elements Channel holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Travelear has 66 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Travelear ships an update every 2 weeks, The Elements Channel every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Travelear | The Elements Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (66 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kaimo, LLC | The Elements Group L L C |
Customer experience
Travelear
The Elements Channel
Bugs and requests
Travelear
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes after a few minutes
- Screen turns completely black
- App is incompatible with iPhone 6s
Requested features
18 requests- Longer track durations
- More real-life/urban tracks
- Sleep timer
- Playlist creation
- Lock screen controls (skip/back song)
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- 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
The Elements Channel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Travelear
- Scout$4.991 Month
- Trailblazer$39.991 Year
The Elements Channel
No in-app purchases
Questions
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