Environments
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health & Fitness | $2.99 | The Numero Group L L C | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
• 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
Reviews
Pocket meditation
Shoes Tied
I sleep with a white noise machine. I might as well leave a vacuum running. Environments taps into something deeper. Imagine your device reducing your stress for once.
THE app for relaxation and sleep assistance
The John is John
If you’re like me, silence is deafening. I can’t fall asleep at night without some sort of white noise/sfx type thing playing. During the day, i need the same sorts of thing to quiet my mind. This is the best app of its kind, hands down. Besides having hours and hours of beautiful, natural sounding audio recordings of unique and varied environments (hence the name of the app), as well as a few new age and proto ambient pieces, the interface is dead simple to use. Make playlists of your favorite sound recordings (each one over 30 minutes long), play any one recording on a loop, and get the background behind this unique collection of recordings (all made on analog equipment back in the ‘70s). All that and more for one low price, paid one time, and then you have an ad-free app to enjoy for as long as you’d like. I cannot recommend this app enough!
?Don’t fall for the hype...
sumowondertoad
This showed up on some website as the most amazing environmental sound app ever. I thought it would be worth the three bucks. It isn’t. The recordings are long, that’s about all. They lack any kind of clarity, stereo separation, interest. You can hear audio levels go up and down, especially on the tracks of thunder when the audio is obviously clipped on the thunderclaps. And some of the recordings are just confusing (e.g. blizzard sounds like it was recorded inside with the house interior falling apart). This was an instant regretted purchase - no wonder they don’t have an in app purchase that lets you preview it first. Don’t waste your money on this one.
Heard
BlackFrancisFan
I had no idea who Irv Treibel was until I saw his name on a Numero Group Instagram post. Turns out Irv is exactly who I need in my life. I spend hundreds of hours per year on airplanes trying to ignore/drown out/avoid the din of travel - and this app is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for. Often I’m working and music can get distracting, or sleeping and it’s the same thing. Coupled with my Bose noise cancelling headphones - this app has made me super happy.
I sleep like a baby now
Future Mimi
Some night I sleep to a summer rain storm; other nights I let the sounds of the ocean waves caress me to sleep. This app has provided me with the best nights of sleep that I have had in years.
Another hit from the Numero Group
EdCorcoran
Numero Group have constantly been innovators in the reissue game. Innovators both in the work that they reissue but also in the form in which they release it. From records with hardback books of photography to LP/DVD sets celebrating short live dance TV shows, they’ve done it all. And they’ve carefully matched the form to the content. Reissuing these historically important field recordings as an app continues that trend. This will allow new generations of people to fall asleep or meditate to these masterpieces. And it’s a well made app, too.
Stunning & useful
sewswan
Perfect! Great for yoga, easing the mind during illness or pain, calming a fussy baby, quieting or focusing the mind. Beautifully designed and easy to use!
Great app, I'd personally like a few minor tweaks
JonBoulay
I really love the concept of the app! I had been starting to collect the LPs although rarely played them but use the app most every night. A few improvements would be great. First a dedicated button to the track list would be helpful rather than swiping through. Also since many of these field recordings feature chirping birds they don't make the best sleep sounds, however they would be perfect in the morning if the app could be developed to include an alarm function.
