iZen Garden 3 vs CalAdvent

For less than the price of a latte, iZen Garden™ gives you all the peace and tranquility of a beautiful Zen Garden without the sandy mess! Choose from 100s of objects, plants and creatures to place in your garden, then rake the sand. Now Universal. iZen Garden is available for iPhone and iPad in a single app bundle. One price gets you both platforms. New audio track, "Merced River" featuring the sounds of the Yosemite valley. ** Selected as one of the "500 Best Apps in the World" by the Sunday Times of London. ** ** TOP PICK! Featured in O'Reilly's "Best iPhone Apps" ** ** As Featured on iPhones in Apple store displays! ** ** Editor's Choice by ItaliaMac ** ** Selected as one of the Best 100 Apps by iLounge.com 2 years running! ** The tradition of the Zen Garden goes back nearly a thousand years in Japanese and asian culture. iZen Garden brings this beautiful artform to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Choose from over 100 different types of stones, shells, fossils and plants to place in your garden and then use your finger to “rake” the sand into intricate abstract patterns. All while listening to the soothing sounds of one of our 9 built-in meditation soundtracks. iZen Garden™ is perfect for long meetings, train rides, or meditation practice. It helps you to center your mind, relax your psyche and relieve your stress. iZen Garden™ was chosen as a staff favorite it's first week in the App Store. Listen to what others have said: "The best by far... a true rarity: it’s an app that we continue to enjoy many months after the initial purchase." - iLounge "Out of all the Zen Garden applications, this is clearly the most thorough and precise, and the system is clear-cut." - iPhone Alley Features: * 100 different stones, seashells, fossils and plants, all professionally photographed from real objects and beautifully rendered to place in your garden. * Add fluttering and resting butterflies to your garden which will fly around from place to place. * Rotate, scale, and move the objects to place them using a pinch gesture with your fingers. * Four different colors of sand, from beach white, to volcanic black. * Nine different soothing ambient soundtracks to help still your mind while you tend your garden. Relax to the gentle lapping of ocean waves at your feet, the quiet solitude of a forest, or the soft twinkling of bells and wind chimes. * Completely customizable rake with variable width and depth settings. * "Daily Zen" a daily Zen saying or Koan is presented when you enter your garden. * Save your design to your camera roll by holding the Home button and pressing the lock button. * Built-in documentation and help system makes using the app a breeze. * To access the Information Screen double tap anywhere on the sand, or touch the "i" button. * Meditation Timer. Create your garden and then sit in quiet contemplation until the timer finishes and brings you back with a gentle ringing of a bell. * Sleep Timer. Puts your phone to sleep after a set period of time so you can listen to the relaxation sounds to fall asleep without worrying about your battery dying. * Share your garden and your Daily Zen on Twitter, Email, or through your film roll. Includes beautiful themes that frame your garden artfully with different trays and handmade papers. * Save multiple gardens and recall them at any time to continue to tend and change them. And now, with the re-release of iZen Garden, we're offering on-going updates with new objects, new ambiance, and more! See what everyone is talking about, buy iZen Garden™ today!! A monthly subscription to iZen Garden is a doorway to daily zen, and greater peace and happiness. End user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Countdown to Christmas or any other date you want with this app. By default the app is configured for your Advent Calendar needs, but the end date, number of days and themes can be changed to match your countdown needs. For up to 31 days before the target date, one ornament will be unlocked a day allowing it to be placed on the tree/display. You can admire or rearrange the ornaments at anytime. You can even shake the device to trigger a celebration that can change the countdown scene into a snow globe. This application can use custom themes created with “CalAdvent Plus” (which is only available in the U.S.) and comes with the built-in Theme Packs: Grandma, Nativity Scene, 8-bit Christmas, Easter, Emoji, Halloween; and the Display Theme: 16-bit Tree.