Mathic vs Beadfall

A UIKit & CoreGraphics showcase.  This app demonstrates different techniques for drawing shapes, paths, gradients, text, and animations using CoreGraphics and UIKit. Scenes are based in mathematics and optical illusions. Source code is available through the About page.

A small handful of beads, held inside your watch. Tilt your wrist and they fall. Hold still and they settle. Flick it and they climb the wall, break against it, and rain back down. None of this is animation. Nine hundred beads are simulated sixty times a second, pulled by the gravity your wrist is actually moving through. There is nothing to achieve here. No score, no streaks, no levels, no timers, no notifications, no account, and nothing to buy. You paid once; the whole toy is yours. It is a fidget toy for the thing you already wear. Something for your hands during a long call, a slow queue, the boring middle of the day. Watching the beads pour scratches the same itch as bubble wrap, an hourglass, a snow globe. Except this one lives on your wrist and answers every movement you make. WHAT IT IS • Nine hundred beads, solved on the watch in real time. Real physics, not a looping video • Sixty frames a second • Gravity from the watch's own motion sensor, so the beads answer your wrist rather than following a script • A watch-face complication: one tap from the face, no hunting through the app grid • Entirely standalone. No iPhone app required WHAT IT ISN'T • There is no network code in this app. Not disabled, not opt-out. Absent • No analytics, no accounts, no ads, no tracking, no subscriptions • Motion readings move the beads, then vanish. Nothing is stored, nothing is sent WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who kept a fidget toy in a desk drawer, pops bubble wrap slowly, or watches bead-pouring videos on loop. If tilting a little box of beads back and forth sounds like nothing, this is not your app. If it sounds like the best thing you'll do in your next meeting, it is. Beadfall is small on purpose. It does one thing, does it honestly, and gets out of the way.