# Aurora Live — Generative light you can feel

> Generative light you can feel (iPhone/iPad app by Robert Corbin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aurora-live/id6775510420 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Robert Corbin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Entertainment
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 3 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-04
- Data updated: 2026-08-15
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aurora-live/id6775510420/reviews.md

## What is Aurora Live?

Aurora Live is a generative visual studio for flowing light art. Open the app and a Metal-rendered field of aurora, nebula, plasma, and ink-like motion fills the screen. Tilt the device, paint with touch, react to live audio level when you choose Sound mode, and capture a high-resolution still or short loop when the composition lands.

Version 2.1 adds Composition Lab, a pro control room for intentional looks. The Lab scores the current composition, explains what is working, suggests improvements, and provides one-tap recipes for real aurora-inspired green glow, shareable still captures, desk-focus backgrounds, dim night glow, and lively fullscreen loops. Recipes tune palette, intensity, speed, calm motion, warmth, palette cycling, and wander drift together, so users can shape a purpose-built visual instead of guessing at sliders.

Core features:
- Full-screen Metal generative art renderer
- Tilt-driven flow with Core Motion
- Touch painting and luminous tap bursts
- Optional Sound mode that reacts to live audio level
- Capture high-resolution still images
- Record short looping video clips
- Six curated palettes plus custom palette builder
- Saved Moments with thumbnails, rename, reorder, and restore
- Ambient Display with optional clock overlay
- Ambient Slideshow for saved Moments
- Wander Mode for slow variation during longer sessions
- Guided Breath Sync visual pacing
- Sleep timer fade-out
- Composition Lab with current-look audit and pro recipes
- Local settings and no account requirement

Aurora Live is built for fast creative use: open it, tune the look, save a Moment, capture the frame, or let the field run as a living display. The app runs on device and does not send generated art, microphone audio, palette settings, or saved Moments to the developer.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.2 — 2026-07-03

Turn any photo into a palette: the new Palette from Photo tool in the Palette Builder pulls five color stops from a picture you choose — a sunset, a painting, a plant — shapes them for the living field, and lets you fine-tune and save. Meet Today's Aurora in Scenes: a fresh signature look every day, the same all day and new at midnight. Also fixed: Palette Builder and My Moments no longer close unexpectedly from Settings, and Composition Lab labels no longer truncate.

### 2.1 — 2026-07-01

Version 2.1 adds Composition Lab, a pro control room for intentional Aurora looks. It scores the current setup, explains strengths and tuning ideas, and applies one-tap recipes for field green, photo punch, desk focus, night glow, and stage loop compositions.

### 2.0.1 — 2026-06-23

This update sharpens the interface: the iPad layout now uses a centered, comfortable reading width instead of stretching edge to edge, so every screen reads as a clean column. iPhone is unchanged; still fully on-device.

### 2.0 — 2026-06-21

Aurora Live 2.0 — a pro upgrade for your living-light canvas, still 100% offline.

• Breath Sync: the light paces to a guided breathing pattern (4-7-8, Box, Coherent 5.5, Gentle) with an on-screen guide ring.
• Sleep Timer: a smooth fade-to-black after 5–60 minutes, then it idles.
• Surprise Me: a tasteful, random new look in one tap.
• Scenes: six curated one-tap moods — Deep Calm, Nightlight, Focus, Energetic, Dreamy, Minimal.
• Warmth grade: a cool ↔ warm color-temperature slider.
• Palette Cycle: a slow cross-fade through your palettes.

No account, no network — every pixel is generated on your device.

### 1.2 — 2026-06-15

Aurora 1.1 — What's New

Ambient Slideshow — Let Aurora cycle through your saved Moments automatically while in Ambient Display. Pick an interval of 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 5 minutes and Aurora quietly transitions from one look to the next without you touching anything. Requires at least 2 saved Moments. Configure in Settings → Ambient Display → Slideshow.

Wander Mode — A new optional behavior that gently drifts intensity and speed over time using two slow, independent LFOs. The field subtly brightens and darkens, quickens and slows on its own rhythm — keeping long sessions interesting without any input. Toggle it in the control drawer or in Settings → Interaction → Wander.

## More apps by Robert Corbin

- [Daily Word Journey](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-word-journey/id6761548266)
- [Hush Secret Text](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hush-secret-text/id6761658175)
- [Renew Guard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/renew-guard/id6761755447)
- [Receipt to PDF](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/receipt-to-pdf/id6761782025)
- [Route Your Pay](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/route-your-pay/id6761783719)
- [Tip Arbiter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tip-arbiter/id6761786879)

All apps by Robert Corbin: https://appshunter.io/developer/1890247992

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