Comparison

Environments vs foodious

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

Head to head
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

About

foodious

Discover recipes tailored to your lifestyle, dietary needs, and nutritional goals. This app offers detailed ingredient classifications for allergens, diets, and nutritional content, helping you find or adapt meals to fit your specific requirements.

Highlights
  • Lifestyle-aligned recipe discovery
  • Allergen and diet filtering
  • Detailed nutritional information per ingredient
  • Related recipe suggestions
  • Recipe variation options
  • Dynamic and normalized data
Features
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foodious is a unique and powerful recipe and nutrition application that allows you to discovery recipes that best fit your lifestyle. whether you're trying to avoid allergens, have specific nutritional goals, or are following a specific diet, foodious has rich ingredient classification data that allows for very specific discovery of the recipes that meet your goals. each ingredient is classified as to whether it's one of the major allergens (gluten, dairy, soy, etc), as well as whether it's paleo, vegan, vegetarian (etc). this ingredient data is rolled up into recipes to determine the overall characteristics of the recipe itself. each ingredient is also linked to it's nutritional data, so foodious can display which ingredient is contributing to the nutrition of the recipe (calories, carbohydrates, fiber, protein, sodium, etc) and how much. foodious will also suggest related recipes, which are discovered by comparing each ingredient in the recipe (and the diets it conforms to) to the ingredients in other recipes and thereby discovering recipes that share similar ingredients as well as diets. foodious will also present recipe variations when possible, which can be used to modify a given recipe and make it gluten-free, or low-sodium, or shellfish free (etc). what makes foodious different is that the recipe and ingredient data is both rich, dynamic, and highly normalized, so foodious treats recipes and ingredients as data, all of which makes foodious a very powerful recipe and nutrition discovery application. this app is designed to work with the foodious website (https://www.foodious.com), which is the data provider for the the app itself.

Screenshots

Environments4 screens
foodious4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: foodious at Free against Environments's $2.99. foodious also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). Environments's advantage is ratings volume (229 vs 9) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On ads, in-app purchases 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

foodious is free to download; Environments costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Environments holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Environments has 229 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Environments ships an update every 2 months, foodious every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Environments versus foodious: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEnvironmentsfoodious
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (229 ratings) — better4.6 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings229 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size579 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Numero GroupTom Laramee

Customer experience

Environments

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

foodious

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

Bugs and requests

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

foodious

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Environments

No in-app purchases

None

foodious

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Environments free?
Environments costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is foodious free?
foodious is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Environments or foodious?
Environments is rated higher. Environments averages 4.8 out of 5 from 229 ratings, while foodious averages 4.6 from 9 ratings.
Do Environments or foodious have ads?
Neither Environments nor foodious shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Environments or foodious?
Environments ships an update every 2 months, and foodious every 8 days. Most recently, Environments was updated on October 26, 2026 and foodious on October 24, 2026.

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