Ethereal: Ambient Visuals

Ethereal is a calm, interactive art toy: a whole gallery of living worlds of light that answer your touch. And when the day is done, it becomes something new, a glowing bedside clock that keeps you gentle company all night. It plays on the biggest screen in the house too, with a native Google TV app.

Open a world, reach out with a finger, and watch it respond. Stir a river of stars into a slow vortex. Fling a planet around a burning sun. Gather a swarm of fireflies to your fingertip like a lantern. Set paper lanterns adrift on a midnight river. Strum luminous strings into singing waves. Every world is generative and endlessly re-playable: no levels, no score, no way to lose. Just light, motion, and you.

Every world sounds like itself, too. A warm, steady rain-wash soundscape rests under everything, and each world speaks the moment you see it: balloons pop, thunder cracks with the bolt, fireworks boom on the burst, candles light and snuff under your finger, the lava lamp glorps. Sounds pitch with where and what you touch, so nothing ever feels stamped out, with soft haptics and tilt-gravity for the worlds that obey your hands.

NIGHTSTAND

Turn any charging phone, or the old one in a drawer, into a living bedside clock.

• An elegant clock floats over the world of your choice, tinted to match its light

• It breathes softly and drifts, or fades and reappears somewhere new each minute, designed to protect your screen from burn-in

• Dim the whole scene with a two-finger drag, right down to almost-dark

• The screen stays awake while you charge; brightness and sound are one tap away

• The calmest worlds keep the night: fireflies blink, candles breathe, rain runs down the glass, lanterns drift downriver, and Fireworks stages its own lazy show while you sleep

ON YOUR TV

Ethereal installs on Android TV and Google TV.

• A remote-first gallery for the living room: pure black by default, made for OLED

• Or cast from your phone, switching worlds, placing the clock and changing the sound from the couch

• Worlds that live and move on their own appear on TV; the touch-painting worlds stay on your phone, where your fingers are

• Pro unlocked on your phone unlocks the TV too: same Google account, nothing to buy twice

Made for quiet moments: winding down, finding focus, letting your mind wander somewhere beautiful, and watching over you until morning.

FREE, FOREVER

• Ripples: send rings rippling across a still pool

• Solar: fling planets from a living solar system; hold the sun to charge a flare

• Nebula: a flowing river of silken star-trails; stir it into a vortex

• Starlines: trace your own constellations between the stars

• Trails: draw with a glowing, colour-shifting ribbon

• Bloom: grow unfolding mandalas of light

• Frost: grow branching crystals of frost

Nightstand is free too, with Ripples, Solar and Nebula keeping the night.

THE FULL GALLERY, WITH PRO

Bounce a festival of Balloons. Pop rising Bubbles. Wipe Rain from night glass. Light a row of Candles. Send lanterns down a midnight River, or release sky Lanterns into the stars. Warm a neon Lava lamp. Startle a Reef of glowing fish. Bend the Aurora. Gather Fireflies. Hatch Jellyfish from the deep. Call down Starfall. Stage Fireworks. Pop drifting Orbs. Pump the Spectrum equaliser. Paint in Kaleido symmetry. Fork Tempest lightning. Stir molten Plasma. Weave points of light into Orbit. Strum the Harp. Drop Ink into water. Reshape Ferro's magnetic field. Ethereal Pro is a single one-time purchase, every future world included, one unlock across phone, tablet and TV. Pay once, own it forever.

CALM BY DESIGN

• No ads. No accounts. No subscriptions.

• Works offline: every world ships inside the app.

Ethereal uses the network for the store's billing for the one-time purchase, and for casting to your TV if you use it.

Best with the sound on and the lights low, and when you close your eyes, let the light keep watch.