TheGaits vs The Color Tree
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TheGaits
This app transforms your footsteps into unique musical sounds as you walk through designated outdoor spaces. Explore different areas to trigger various sound families and become a part of the music.
- Footsteps create musical chords
- Explore sound families in different areas
- Interactive musical experience
- Location-based soundscapes
- Transforms walking into music
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The Gaits turns footsteps into electric guitar chords, zen gongs, and more...the user becomes a musical instrument as he or she strolls down the High Line in New York City. The user moves through a series of composed spaces, with various families of sounds tied to each area. Created by Cameron Britt, Lainie Fefferman, Daniel Iglesia, and Jascha Narveson. Produced by Friends of the High Line and Make Music New York, in association with MATA. Presented as part of Make Music Winter on December 21, 2011. For more information, visit makemusicny.org/thegaits Please note, this app only functions within the geographic bounds of the High Line in downtown New York City. Your device will require location services (i.e. GPS) in order to detect your location.
The Color Tree
Explore a novel musical object derived from the circle of fifths, revealing relationships between 67 sounds arranged by complexity and brightness. Hear and visualize any sound, with a scale visualizer and offline functionality.
- Circle of fifths organization
- Sound visualization
- Customizable audio playback
- Instrument-specific scale visualizer
- Offline functionality
- Links to music encyclopedia
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Take any set of notes that sit side by side on the circle of fifths. Collect every one of those sets, and they self-organize into a 12-row object - 67 sounds, arranged from simple to complex and from dark to bright. That's The Color Tree, discovered by Andrew Sheron in 2021. Many common scales and chords you already know appear here, along with many you might not recognize. Tap any sound to hear it and visualize it. Key Features: • Completely free - no ads, no account • Listen - customizable playback for every sound on the object • Scale visualizer - see the notes laid out on your instrument of choice • Fully offline - no connection required • Deep links to The Color Encyclopedia - jump to the full entry for any sound For composers, improvisers, music theorists, and anyone else with curious ears. The Color Tree maps the 12 special cases. The Color Encyclopedia contains the entire space - all 351 families of notes in twelve-tone music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Color Tree at every 2 days against TheGaits's every 6 months. The Color Tree also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). TheGaits's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TheGaits against 5.0 for The Color Tree. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Color Tree has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TheGaits ships an update every 6 months, The Color Tree every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TheGaits | The Color Tree |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Iglesia Intermedia | ANDREW SHERON |
In-app purchases
TheGaits
No in-app purchases
The Color Tree
No in-app purchases
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