# Ethereal — Watch the universe come alive

> Watch the universe come alive (iPhone/iPad app by Zone7 Studios.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ethereal/id6801491442 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Zone7 Studios](https://appshunter.io/developer/6800701331)
- Category: Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 49 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-13
- Data updated: 2026-09-20
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ethereal/id6801491442/reviews.md

## What is Ethereal?

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, cast from your phone.

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 THE BIG SCREEN
Cast Ethereal to the TV and take the couch.
• Switch worlds, place the clock and change the sound from your phone: it stays the remote
• Worlds that live and move on their own play on the TV; the touch-painting worlds stay in your hands, where your fingers are
• Pure black by default, made for OLED

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, yours for good, every future world included, one unlock across iPhone and iPad.

CALM BY DESIGN
• No ads · No accounts · No subscriptions
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.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ethereal Pro | $2.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 1 release)

### 9.4 — 2026-09-14

No release notes.

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