Great App
Lovely and so relaxing too, I use + lightbox
Needed a bit of fiddling with the settings to get how I wanted it - landscape mode is easier, and I found you can use your own photos if you want to add them in and take away the ones you don’t like.
You can also have whatever music you like playing in the background if you use Spotify or similar, just mute the app sounds.
Great way to deal with anxiety as just a couple of mins of this and the tension in my solar plexus dissolved and I was feeling fine.
Thank you for developing this!💜👍🏻🙏🏼
Blows up on boot.
Given that the developer last updated it nine months ago, it appears to be abandoned, so I spose it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t run, though if I were the developer, I’d delete it so as not to give people the idea that the developer creates broken apps. Better to delete it from the store unless the developer isn’t writing apps these days, in which case a broken app isn’t hurting his reputation.
Crashes immediately
Won't load
Not working
New version
Like it, but...
Crashes on opening
Nice-by👑👩🏻♿️
WTH IS this?!?!?! Cartoony images that r bright but look like a 2yr old drew! VERY hard 2 tell what the images r. Truly AWFUL. Deleting... NOW.
Total waste of money
Total waste of money and I don’t normally buy that many apps.
Does Nothing
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EDIT: The developer is comparing this app to Apple’s blue-light reduction night-shift mode. True, blue light from your phone may effect your ability to sleep in a dark room, but there is ZERO evidence to suggest that the iPhone screen can improve a user’s mood. Helping someone sleep versus improving depression IS NOT the same thing. AND there is not very much evidence to suggest that Apple’s night-shift really does a whole lot to improve sleep anyways compared to simply turning your screen brightness down. It’s more about reducing eye-strain...
Furthermore, he argues that his app makes people “feel happy” because being in a beautiful environment makes people feel happy, and since his app has pretty pictures of pretty places, you will then feel happy by staring at the pictures. So he’s basically admitting that this app is a screen saver/photo carousel.
I stand by my original review, even more so now. Please avoid this app.
Response from developer
Thank you Adam. I invite you to consider a single fact - in 2016 Apple introduced the "Night Shift" feature to turn iOS device screens orange at night. I was blogging about this issue back in 2012 - full 4 years before this change. The information about the effects of blue light at night on sleep came out in 2010-2011. Thus the mainstream understanding of the effects of light on cognition is severely lagging behind the medical research fields which I follow. The latest advances in evolutionary psychology suggest that human brain has specialized neural networks which detect environmental advantages to survival and reproduction. A bright meadow on a hill with blue sky near a river offers such advantages, and we can recognize it. Which is why a house on such hill costs millions of dollars - we "like" it. While a light box, no matter the amount of LUX does not.Few people really "like" anything about their light box, it's a chore to stare at it for 30 minutes. The neural networks simply filter out the light and we are left with the same approach as the modern psychiatry - just push harder with more LUX hoping that something in the brain gets triggered. It certainly works for some people, but it's a crude technology, we can build better tools now. I've had the privilege to observe the euphoric effect which blue sky and tropical greenery has on visitors of a tropical island in the winter. The pictures in the app are taken on that island. Instead of drab browns and grays, visitors see green jungle and blue sea and sky. All their neural networks overwhelmingly suggest they found a good place to be - they "like" it. This app takes a part of this experience and offers it to the users, in many cases for free. I understand it won't replace a tropical vacation, but it is certainly worth trying!
Good progress
Will Not Load. Period.
Went to load App. Immediately it crashes.
Please fix.
Using IOS 11.0.3 on iPad mini
0 stars.
No feeling
Blue Light Therapy
Response from developer
Thank you Woodrow, there's a "loop" feature in settings which can make the app play forever!
Wow! Not blue at all!
What I got was one screen with a "blue-tinted" beach scene for waking up, and a orange-tinted fire scene to help me wind down at night.
I didn't buy this to be entertained and yet someone decided that was what was needed.
The description in the app sales area should be more clear and should include screen shots. This was (to me) a real waste of money!
