Comparison

Travelear vs Ancestry Test

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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)
Features
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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

About

Ancestry Test

Analyze your selfie with AI to reveal your ethnic heritage region by region. Get a precise percentage breakdown of your ancestry across global regions and share your unique heritage story. This entertainment app is for personal exploration and fun.

Highlights
  • AI selfie analysis
  • Ethnic heritage breakdown
  • Percentage ancestry results
  • Compare ancestry with others
  • Shareable ancestry cards
  • Explore global regions
Features
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Your face carries thousands of years of history. One photo reveals the regions, peoples and ancient civilizations behind your heritage — then turns them into a story you keep coming back to. Now with the culture, the archetype and the traits behind every percentage, in five languages. — — — YOUR ETHNICITY, IN NUMBERS Upload a selfie and get a precise breakdown across 15+ global regions. No vague results: 34% English/Welsh, 21% Western European, 12% Nordic — the exact composition of your roots, in seconds. — — — YOUR HERITAGE ARCHETYPE Every region carries one of twelve archetypes — the Weaver, the Navigator, the Highlander, the Scholar — each with the history that earned it. Find out which one your strongest root belongs to, and why. — — — CRAFT, TRADITION, TABLE Three pieces of real cultural history for every one of 86 regions: the craft it was known for, the tradition it kept alive, the food it gave the world. 258 original entries, written for this app, that tell you what your percentages actually mean. — — — POPULATION TRAITS Seven well-documented human traits — earwax type, lactase persistence, caffeine metabolism and more — with published frequencies for the populations tied to your heritage, and the gene behind each one. Presented for curiosity, with sources. — — — A 7-DAY JOURNEY THAT UNFOLDS Your heritage doesn't arrive all at once. Each day opens a new chapter — your ancient trail, the civilizations before you, your cultural signature, the lands that shaped your line, and the peoples who share your roots. — — — YOUR HERITAGE PASSPORT Every report earns a seal. Collect them in a passport that grows with you — turn the pages, unlock new entries, and watch your family's story fill in over time. — — — MEET YOUR ANCESTRAL SELF Turn your face and your strongest heritage connection into a timeless archive portrait. Choose an era, and our AI develops a photograph that looks like it came out of your family's own album. Saved privately, only for you. — — — BUILD YOUR FAMILY TREE Add parents, grandparents, siblings and children. Link their reports to reveal exactly which roots you share — and which ones you don't. Partners stay in the story while keeping genetic lines clear. — — — MAP YOUR ORIGINS ACROSS GENERATIONS Add birthplaces and watch a family atlas take shape: maternal and paternal paths, kilometers traced, generations connected across the map. — — — ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS IN YOUR LINEAGE Rome, the Celtic kingdoms, the Norse world, Gaul. Discover the historical cultures tied to your regions — their era, their greatest achievement, what they left behind. — — — COMPARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE Put two reports side by side and find the overlap. Siblings, partners, parents, friends — see the roots you have in common and the surprises you don't. — — — SHARE YOUR STORY Create heritage cards worth posting. Every face carries a story; this one is yours. — — — IN FIVE LANGUAGES The whole app — every report, every story, every trait — is fully available in English, German, French, Spanish and Turkish. — — — HOW IT WORKS 1. Take or upload a clear front-facing photo 2. Our AI reads ancestry markers in your facial features 3. Get your full ethnicity breakdown across world regions 4. Explore, collect, compare and share — day by day — — — Whether you're curious about your roots, preserving your family's history, or simply want to know where you really come from, Face Origin turns one photo into a heritage story that keeps growing. Note: Face Origin is an AI-powered entertainment app. Results are based on facial feature analysis and are for personal exploration and entertainment only. This is not a genetic or DNA test and is not a substitute for one. Population trait information is educational and is not medical advice. Terms of Use (EULA): https://horusstudios.com/products/face-origin/terms Privacy Policy: https://horusstudios.com/products/face-origin/privacy

Screenshots

Travelear4 screens
Ancestry Test4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Travelear at none against Ancestry Test's shown. Travelear also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (66 vs 10). Ancestry Test's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Travelear sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Ancestry Test sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Travelear holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Travelear has 66 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Travelear's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ancestry Test's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Travelear ships an update every 2 weeks, Ancestry Test weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Travelear versus Ancestry Test: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTravelearAncestry Test
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (66 ratings) — better4.2 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews87.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings66 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkaimo, LLCHorus Studios

Customer experience

Travelear

All ratings66 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral6.1%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative9.1%

Ancestry Test

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Ancestry Test

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Travelear

Subscriptions2
  • Scout$4.991 Month
  • Trailblazer$39.991 Year
6 purchases

Ancestry Test

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • 3 Portrait Credits$1.99
  • Unlock 1 Report$3.99
  • 10 Portrait Credits$3.99
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  • 25 Portrait Credits$6.99

Questions

Is Travelear free?
Travelear is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ancestry Test free?
Ancestry Test is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Travelear or Ancestry Test?
Travelear is rated higher. Travelear averages 4.6 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Ancestry Test averages 4.2 from 10 ratings.
Do Travelear or Ancestry Test have ads?
Ancestry Test shows ads; Travelear does not.
Which is updated more often, Travelear or Ancestry Test?
Travelear ships an update every 2 weeks, and Ancestry Test weekly. Most recently, Travelear was updated on October 19, 2026 and Ancestry Test on October 18, 2026.

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