Comparison

Cheetah Gym vs Environments

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • State-of-the-art equipment
  • Expert training professionals
  • Numerous amenities and services
  • Focus on personal wellness
  • Contemporary and warm environment
Features
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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!

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

Cheetah Gym4 screens
Environments4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Cheetah Gym versus Environments: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCheetah GymEnvironments
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating2.6 (13 ratings)4.8 (229 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.9% of reviews81.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13229 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#198 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.1 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB579 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApps That Fit, LLCThe Numero Group

Customer experience

Cheetah Gym

All ratings13 ratings
Positive30.8%
Neutral15.4%
Negative53.8%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral4.8%
Negative33.3%

Environments

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

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

None

Cheetah Gym

No in-app purchases

None

Environments

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cheetah Gym free?
Cheetah Gym is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Environments free?
Environments costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cheetah Gym or Environments?
Environments is rated higher. Cheetah Gym averages 2.6 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Environments averages 4.8 from 229 ratings.
Do Cheetah Gym or Environments have ads?
Neither Cheetah Gym nor Environments shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cheetah Gym or Environments?
Cheetah Gym ships an update every 3 months, and Environments every 2 months. Most recently, Cheetah Gym was updated on November 1, 2026 and Environments on November 11, 2026.

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