Comparison

SleepTown vs Environments

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

Head to head
About

SleepTown

Build a healthier sleep schedule by constructing virtual buildings. Achieve your bedtime and wake-up goals to grow your town and beat phone addiction. You can now build with friends and family for added motivation.

Highlights
  • Build virtual towns by meeting sleep goals
  • Social sleep challenges with friends and family
  • Track sleep statistics
  • Customizable bedtime reminders and alarms
  • Unlock and decorate unique buildings
  • Night shift mode to reduce blue light
Features
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## A fun and simple way to develop healthy sleep habits ##【New Features and Updates】Apart from building alone, you can now build with family and friends by reaching the same sleep goals together! Make it fun to build healthy sleep habits, invite your friends and family to join the SleepTown circle now! Developed by SeekrTech, the creator of Forest app which has more than 25 million users around the globe. Study hard in the morning, put down your phone and sleep well at night! SleepTown is an incredible app that helps you attain a healthy, regular sleep schedule. Construct amazing buildings just by achieving your bedtime and wake-up goals every day. Put down your smartphone before going to bed and build your own town while you sleep. Do you often stay up late scrolling on your phones? Hit the snooze button until you're late? If you have trouble putting your phone down at bedtime, or if you suffer from insomnia and want to attain a healthy, regular sleep schedule, SleepTown is the solution for you! How it works: 3 steps to a healthy sleep schedule 1) Set your own challenging bedtime and wake-up goal. 2) Open the SleepTown app before your bedtime goal and start constructing a building. 3) Wake up before your wake-up goal, shake your phone to clear your mind, and see which building you got. Every morning the building is a surprise that will motivate you to wake up! Repeat these steps every day to maintain a regular sleep cycle and create a lovely "SleepTown"! SleepTown Can Help You: • Beat your phone addiction and get more sleep • Maintain regular sleep hours between 4-10 hours a day • Construct amazing buildings by achieving your bedtime and wake-up goals • Wake up to a reward every day - your new building! • If you don't go to bed at your bedtime goal, you cannot construct a building • If you use your phone during your sleeping time, your building under construction will be destroyed • View your "SleepTown" and all your sleep statistics in the town page • Night shift mode helps reduce blue light • You can also join a circle with family and friends and set the same sleep goals. Build healthy sleep habits together and contribute energy to construct the wonders of the world! Construct Your Own Town: • Over 70 types of unique buildings available • Spend your earned coins to unlock new buildings • Earn revenue after each successful construction • Earn extra revenue from consecutive successful days • Design your own town with land, buildings, and decorations • Apply special themes on holidays to decorate your SleepTown • Elaborately designed wonders of the world make your town spectacular! Customize Your Sleeping Schedule: • Set up to two days off in a week: failing on your "day-off" won't end your streak, so relax and take a break! • Reset bedtime & wake-up time goals anytime • Set up a bedtime reminder and alarm clock • Adjust the volume and sound of your alarm • Adjust "shake your phone" challenge to wake you up easily in the morning Other features: • Earn rewards for your first successful building and for inviting a friend • Unlock achievements and earn extra rewards • Create an account to back up your data (all your sleeping stats and lovely buildings!) • Sync your sleep data to Apple's HealthKit Go to sleep on time, and start building your own "SleepTown" tonight! Notice: SleepTown is an app available for both iPhone and iPad. Once purchased it can be restored on other iOS devices. To download a non-iOS version of SleepTown, a separate purchase is required. However, by logging into the same registered account, the account data can be synchronized across different platforms and devices. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SleepTownApp Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sleeptownapp Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/sleeptownapp/ Find out more on https://sleeptown.seekrtech.com! Privacy Policy:https://sleeptown.seekrtech.com/privacy/ Sound Design:Shi Kuang Lee

About

Environments

Experience long-form nature recordings from the 1960s and 70s, remastered for modern use. This app offers a unique collection of ambient sounds designed to aid work, meditation, sleep, and focus, all without requiring an internet connection.

Highlights
  • Long-form analog recordings
  • No internet connection required
  • Ad-free experience
  • Playlist creation
  • Focus and stress reduction
  • Historic nature sounds
Features
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Environments is a historic catalog of long form field recordings created for the way you live. Whether you need to work, meditate, sleep, or any other use, Environments is the only ambient sound app based on extended recordings created in the 1960s and 70s on analog tape. Environments began as an unprecedented series of vinyl records, garnering widespread acclaim and selling millions of units. Now Environments steps into the mobile age as an invaluable and unique sonic tool for the way YOU live. • No internet connection required — all recordings are part of the app. • 23 fully remastered long-form analog recordings, most 30 minutes or more. Not short loops, not white noise — Environments live and breathe like nature itself. • Simple, intuitive navigation. Unobtrusive, ad-free look and feel evokes a simpler, better time. • Put your favorite environment on infinite loop, or build your own playlist of favorites. • Blocks distractions, increases focus and mindfulness, reduces stress, helpful with tinnitus and fussy babies. • Sounds include ocean waves, birdsongs and dawn chorus, chimes, "be-in", thunderstorms, gentle rain, heartbeat, wind in trees, wordless choir, summer cornfield, creaky sailboat, country stream, country meadow, blizzard, and many more. • Features informative biography of Environments creator Irv Teibel, along with concise informational screens on individual recordings. • The only app ever shortlisted for the best historic album Grammy award. • A co-creation of Syntonic Research, Inc and the Grammy-nominated reissue label Numero Group. • "It's intuitive, beautifully minimalist, and a perfect evolution of the original work." — Boing Boing • "A remarkably creative way to reintroduce Teibel’s work and ideas… something great and sublime." — The New Yorker • "Enjoy nature exactly the way God intended it, as an App." — Vice • "The music of the future isn't music." — Irv Teibel

Screenshots

SleepTown4 screens
Environments4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Environments at #125 against SleepTown's unranked. SleepTown's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 229). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

SleepTown costs $1.99 and Environments $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for SleepTown against 4.8 for Environments. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SleepTown has 1.5K ratings behind it against 229, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of SleepTown's written reviews are positive against 82% of Environments's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SleepTown ships an update every 3 weeks, Environments every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
SleepTown versus Environments: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleepTownEnvironments
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.6 (1.5K ratings)4.8 (229 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.4% of reviews — better81.8% of reviews
Number of ratings1.5K — better229
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#125 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB579 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSEEKRTECH CO., LTD.The Numero Group

Customer experience

SleepTown

All ratings1,466 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral4.1%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews729 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral7.0%
Negative6.6%

Environments

All ratings229 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral1.3%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral4.5%
Negative13.6%

User reviews

SleepTown

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Motivates users to sleep on time
  • 🌇 Fun and cute town-building experience
  • 🕰️ Helps establish consistent sleep schedule
  • 💤 Encourages putting down phone before bed

Room to improve

  • 🕰️ Too strict with sleep/wake time requirements
  • 🔨 Destroyed buildings demotivating
  • 🔔 Alarm issues (not going off, inconsistent)
  • 🔒 Requires account sign-up for full functionality

Environments

From 229 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎵 Authentic analog field recordings with exceptional audio quality
  • 😴 Highly effective for sleep, meditation, and relaxation
  • 🎧 Long-form tracks (30+ minutes) without repetitive looping
  • 📚 Rich historical context about Irv Teibel and the Environments series
  • 💰 Excellent value at low price point for entire collection

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App crashes on certain iOS versions (iOS 16, older versions)
  • 📐 UI not optimized for iPad or landscape mode
  • 🔊 Audio output levels set too high, difficult to play quietly
  • 🖼️ Cannot zoom in on album cover artwork
  • 📍 Navigation could be simplified and improved

Bugs and requests

SleepTown

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Buildings disappearing/going out of sync
  • Alarm not working properly
  • Strict mode not functioning when phone is locked

Requested features

5 requests
  • More flexible sleep schedule options
  • Ability to manually log sleep even if missed goal
  • Option to remove/restore destroyed buildings
  • Integration with other sleep tracking apps
  • Customization options for buildings/town layout

Environments

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App crashes immediately after pressing play on iOS 16
  • App removed from App Store after purchase, preventing re-download
  • Dynamic Island spacing issues on iPhone 14 Pro
  • Infinite loop button doesn't function properly
  • Audio doesn't resume after phone calls or text notifications
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  • Track display doesn't update when switching between selections
  • Audio clipping on thunderstorm recordings
  • Play and Information button touch sensitivity too small
  • Portrait mode lock interferes with other app orientation settings

Requested features

14 requests
  • Speed adjustment controls (16 rpm, 33 rpm, 78 rpm options)
  • Chromecast and Google Cast support
  • Alarm clock functionality using app sounds
  • Landscape mode support for iPad
  • Zoom capability for album cover artwork
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  • Ability to skip forward within tracks
  • Dedicated track list button for easier navigation
  • VoiceOver accessibility support
  • Seamless looping without audio gaps
  • Volume normalization or in-app volume control
  • Ability to offload app while keeping data
  • Higher resolution audio (hi-res audio option)
  • More tracks or future recordings
  • Improved UI/UX design and simplification

In-app purchases

None

SleepTown

No in-app purchases

None

Environments

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SleepTown free?
SleepTown costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Environments free?
Environments costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SleepTown or Environments?
Environments is rated higher. SleepTown averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Environments averages 4.8 from 229 ratings.
Do SleepTown or Environments have ads?
Neither SleepTown nor Environments shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SleepTown or Environments?
SleepTown ships an update every 3 weeks, and Environments every 2 months. Most recently, SleepTown was updated on October 26, 2026 and Environments on October 26, 2026.

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