Cheetah Gym vs Environments
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cheetah Gym
This app provides a contemporary and warm environment for personal wellness, featuring state-of-the-art equipment and expert trainers. It aims to cater to your lifestyle with numerous amenities and services.
- State-of-the-art equipment
- Expert training professionals
- Numerous amenities and services
- Focus on personal wellness
- Contemporary and warm environment
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Nestled in the heart of Chicago's historic neighborhoods, we offer a contemporary and warm environment in which you can focus on your personal wellness. Cheetah Gym provides state of the art equipment, the best training professionals in the industry, and numerous amenities and services to cater to you, your wellness, and your lifestyle. Thanks for downloading Cheetah Gyms Mobile!
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.
- Long-form analog recordings
- No internet connection required
- Ad-free experience
- Playlist creation
- Focus and stress reduction
- Historic nature sounds
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cheetah Gym at Free against Environments's $2.99. Cheetah Gym also leads on iOS requirement (9.1 vs 12.0). Environments's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 2.6) and review sentiment (82% vs 62%). On update cadence, 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
Cheetah Gym is free to download; Environments costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Environments holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Environments has 229 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Cheetah Gym's written reviews are positive against 82% of Environments's.
Cheetah Gym ships an update every 3 months, Environments every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cheetah Gym | Environments |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.6 (13 ratings) | 4.8 (229 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.9% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 229 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #198 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 579 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apps That Fit, LLC | The Numero Group |
Customer experience
Cheetah Gym
Environments
Bugs and requests
Cheetah Gym
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
Cheetah Gym
No in-app purchases
Environments
No in-app purchases
Questions
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