Comparison

Environments vs FALSE MEMORY

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

Head to head
About

Environments

Explore and manipulate real-world acoustic spaces with this interactive reverb. Transform your audio into a dynamic experience using expressive modulation and gesture-based resonances. Go beyond traditional reverb to shape evolving soundscapes.

Highlights
  • Interactive reverb
  • Real-world acoustic spaces
  • Expressive modulation
  • Gesture-based resonances
  • Evolving soundscapes
Features
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Environments is an interactive reverb that lets you explore and play real-world acoustic spaces. Built from unique locations and enhanced with expressive modulation and gesture-based resonances, it turns sound into a living experience. Shape, move, and transform your audio through evolving environments that go far beyond conventional reverb.

About

FALSE MEMORY

This app transforms any sound into a decaying audio effect, simulating tape degradation or digital corruption. Explore various destruction parameters to create unique sonic textures and atmospheres. It can also evolve the sound automatically over time.

Highlights
  • Real-time audio disintegration
  • Analog/Digital destruction engine
  • Pitch and timing destabilization
  • Frequency spectrum smearing
  • Past audio bleed-through
  • Automatic evolution over time
  • Randomize parameters
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FALSE MEMORY is a real-time audio disintegration effect. Feed it any sound and watch it decay. A tape left in the sun. A corrupted file half-recovered from a dead drive. A memory dissolving as you try to hold onto it. Turn up MEMORY and the destruction begins. Everything else shapes how the sound falls apart. DESTRUCTION ENGINE The Analog / Digital slider is the soul of the effect. Slide left for warm, organic decay: Cassette wobble, Reel-to-reel saturation, VHS tracking errors. Slide right for cold, precise corruption: Lo-fi aliasing, Circuit-bent glitches, Data-mosh block artifacts. Drift destabilizes pitch and timing. At low settings it breathes. Cranked up, the signal loses its grip on reality. Damage controls how aggressively the signal gets torn apart. ATMOSPHERE Fog smears the frequency spectrum into clouds. Three modes: Tonal keeps harmonic structure intact, Inharmonic scatters it, Evolving slowly morphs between the two. Ghosts lets past audio bleed through the current signal. Echoes repeat rhythmically. Imprints leave residual traces. Granular scatters fragments across time. TEXTURE Hiss adds tape noise, from subtle warmth to a roaring floor. Crackle introduces vinyl pops and surface damage. SET IT AND FORGET IT Evolve lets the destruction deepen automatically over time. Pick a duration from 1 to 64 minutes. Walk away. Come back to something completely different. The Randomize button rerolls all destruction parameters instantly. Hit it until something clicks. AUv3 plugin for iOS. Runs in AUM, GarageBand, Logic, and any AUv3 host. Standalone app for iPhone and iPad. From All The Machines.

Screenshots

Environments1 screens
FALSE MEMORY4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: FALSE MEMORY at $3.99 against Environments's $19.99. FALSE MEMORY also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 3). 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

Environments costs $19.99 and FALSE MEMORY $3.99 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 — 5.0 for Environments against 5.0 for FALSE MEMORY. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Environments versus FALSE MEMORY: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEnvironmentsFALSE MEMORY
Price$19.99$3.99 — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size242 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAudioThing Ltd.Stephan Bolch

Customer experience

Environments

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FALSE MEMORY

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Environments

No in-app purchases

None

FALSE MEMORY

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Environments free?
Environments costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is FALSE MEMORY free?
FALSE MEMORY costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Environments or FALSE MEMORY?
Environments and FALSE MEMORY are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 9 ratings respectively.
Do Environments or FALSE MEMORY have ads?
Neither Environments nor FALSE MEMORY shows ads.

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