# Iara: River of Lanterns — Guide a light up the Amazon

> Guide a light up the Amazon (iPhone/iPad app by Gustavo Felhberg.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/iara-river-of-lanterns/id6814858718 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Gustavo Felhberg](https://appshunter.io/developer/6814858720)
- Category: Games, Adventure, Casual
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 152 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-16
- Data updated: 2026-10-31

## What is Iara?

A lantern, a river, and a long way home.

Light a lantern and let the river carry it. Tap the water to steer it past lily pads, round the caimans and through the one gap in a waterfall, and bring it home to Iara, the keeper of the waters in Brazilian folklore.

THE RIVERS OF THE AMAZON
The journey begins in the Amazon, where each river has its own colour, its own banks and its own animals:
• the Várzea, the forest the river floods every year
• the Rio Negro, the river the colour of tea
• the Tapajós, clear water and white sand
• the Igapó, where the trees stand in the river
• the Encontro das Águas, two rivers that won't mix

Every animal is on the river where it lives. The map names its rivers, and each river has a card: who lives there, what the river does, and the curiosities you have read so far.

PLAY WITH ONE THUMB
One tap pushes the lantern. Frogs, water snakes, caimans and the jaguar turn to the lantern when they strike, and the boto's shadow follows it. Lose a lantern and it comes back at the last light post.

OR JUST DRIFT
Zen has no traps and no score, and music of its own. The river is dark, and your lanterns' light wakes what lives there.

LEARN AS YOU GO
More than a hundred short curiosities about the Amazon, its animals and Iara herself, all fact-checked before they went in.

FREE TO START, WITH MORE RIVERS IN THE GAME
The first 25 rivers are free. More rivers are bought once inside the game:
• six expansions of 25 rivers each: Amazônia II, Pantanal, Waters of Brazil, The Orinoco and the Guianas, The Andes, The South
• or All rivers: all 150 rivers at once
The first river of each can be tried free, and you can see pictures of the rivers before you buy. No ads. No subscription. No account.

This game offers in-app purchases.

In English, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish.
The paintings are AI-assisted, and so is the music in Zen.
The jaguar's call: a recording by About Zoos (CC BY 3.0). The forest: recordings by Felix Blume (CC0).

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| All rivers | $9.99 | one-time |
| Amazônia II | $2.99 | one-time |
| Pantanal | $2.99 | one-time |
| Waters of Brazil | $2.99 | one-time |
| The Orinoco and the Guianas | $2.99 | one-time |
| The Andes | $2.99 | one-time |
| The South | $2.99 | one-time |


## Is Iara safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Iara.

## Is Iara legit?

Iara: River of Lanterns has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Iara is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3.2 — 2026-10-30

Every animal card is now a hand-painted illustration, with the right species for each river: 39 paintings in all, including the howler monkey, hawk, pumas, otters and more. Fixes to card names and texts, and to stones falling from the banks.

### 2.3.1 — 2026-10-27

The rivers now lie on a map of South America. Each place is a lantern where it really is: the Amazon first, and the expansions as regions you can light up, from the Pantanal to the Andes to the glaciers of the south. Lanterns light as you reach them, and the lantern flies on to the next place, with Iara waiting where it lands. Pinch and drag to explore; the globe pulls the camera out to the whole continent. The count at the top now shows rivers finished. The expansions are in a new order that follows the land. River 2 now shows you the first snake. Tap any of a place's five levels to play it again, and the chosen one is ringed. The jaguars' fallen trees are redrawn from photographs, in three kinds, and jaguars no longer crowd one bank. Leaves and blossoms float on the dark rivers. The giant otter, the black-collared hawk and the capybaras are redrawn, grazers keep well away from caimans and jaguars, and the expansions start harder and run longer. Jaguars, caimans, hawks, capybaras and tapirs now move like real animals, every expansion river has its predators (pumas, otters, caimans), and the lakes drift: reed islands, flamingos and ice push your lantern aside. Every expansion river now brings its animals one at a time, each with its own card (pumas, otters, caimans, hawks, flamingos), and the forest rivers have monkeys that throw fruit at your lantern while stones and ice fall from the banks where you steer; watch where the water darkens and steer away. The animals have new art and new voices, and only species that really live in each place. The game now pauses completely, and while the camera looks ahead.

### 2.3 — 2026-10-22

The rivers now lie on a map of South America. Each place is a lantern where it really is: the Amazon first, and the expansions as regions you can light up, from the Pantanal to the Andes to the glaciers of the south. Lanterns light as you reach them, and the lantern flies on to the next place, with Iara waiting where it lands. Pinch and drag to explore; the globe pulls the camera out to the whole continent. The count at the top now shows rivers finished. The expansions are in a new order that follows the land. River 2 now shows you the first snake. Tap any of a place's five levels to play it again, and the chosen one is ringed. The jaguars' fallen trees are redrawn from photographs, in three kinds, and jaguars no longer crowd one bank. Leaves and blossoms float on the dark rivers.

### 2.2 — 2026-10-21

• The map counts the stars of its own rivers, and its last lantern always leads to the expansions, also when they are yours.
• The expansions are six journeys of 25 rivers each; All rivers holds all 150.
• Clearer words on the Expansions screen, and small fixes.
Your stars and best scores are kept.

### 2.1 — 2026-10-17

• New: a pace button under the score. Choose a calmer or swifter current for your lantern; the game remembers your choice.
• Animals along the banks and fallen trees along the rivers look more natural, and the night animals glow from river 36.
• A black-collared hawk now hunts on the Pantanal's quiet waters.
• The back button in Play statistics works again, and sound returns the moment you switch it back on.
Your stars and best scores are kept.

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