While Waiting vs Glide Oracle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
While Waiting
A calming experience where you guide a bunny to catch drifting cherry blossom petals. Turn waiting into a beautiful moment with gentle visuals, haptic feedback, and a calming breathing exercise. Share your collected petals as a gift or release them with a kind wish.
- Guide bunny with tilt or tap
- Catch sakura petals with haptic feedback
- Breathe with a calming circle
- Watch missed petals grow into a garden
- Share collected petals as a gift
- Release petals with a kind wish
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While we wait, life still blooms. What we catch becomes a gift. What we miss becomes the garden. Nothing is ever lost. Turn waiting into a tiny moment of beauty. While Waiting is a calming little experience where you guide a cute bunny under a cherry blossom tree and catch the soft drifting petals. Breathe with the calming circle. Let your waiting become a quiet visual poem. When you meet again, share what you gathered. "Look what I collected while waiting for you." But not every petal needs to be caught. Some petals are yours for a moment. Some drift away with the wind. Some return to the earth and nourish what may bloom later. FEATURES + Tilt or tap to guide your bunny + Catch sakura petals with soft haptic feedback + Breathe with a gentle calming circle + Watch missed petals grow into a slow garden + See how long you waited and how many you caught + Turn your bouquet into a visual gift to share + Release a petal with a kind wish for someone else + Calming music · cherry blossom visuals THE LETTING-GO RITUAL Release a petal back to the wind with a kind wish for someone else. One small act of kindness, a reminder: releasing can feel as beautiful as collecting. OMNIA MUTANTUR, NIHIL INTERIT "All things change. Nothing perishes." Ovid, Metamorphoses XV.165 Time, beauty, energy, the petals we missed: none of it ever disappears. It only becomes something else. Apart, we still gather. Together, we share. http://twitter.com/tiw http://lucium.com Write a review. Tell us what would make your wait softer. \("v")/
Glide Oracle
Explore an ancient divination system with dynamic, transforming symbols that offer translations. This app presents a unique language and its interpretation, inspired by concepts of co-evolving language and consciousness.
- Dynamic, transforming symbols
- User interaction with symbols
- Symbol translations
- Inspired by I Ching tradition
- Xenolinguistics interpretation
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The Glide Oracle is an oracle whose roots are in the tradition of the I Ching, and whose symbols announced themselves as an alien language called Glide, transmitted in an altered state of consciousness. Glide symbols dynamically transform under the touch of the user, and deliver a translation. These translations of 729 Glide hexagrams were completed by Dr. Diana Slattery of the Department of Xenolinguistics at the Institute for the Encouragement of Outrageous Ideas. Slattery speculates that language and consciousness are co-evolving in the human species, catalyzed in the culture by psychedelic experience, an idea addressed by psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna. She sees the morphing symbols of Glide as a model of a new way of making meaning that can potentially rewire the brain with a bias toward perception of transforming rather than static states, increasing the fluidity and flexibility of thought forms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: While Waiting at 4.6 against Glide Oracle's 4.0. While Waiting also leads on ratings volume (28 vs 1) and review sentiment (90% vs 75%). Glide Oracle's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
While Waiting holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: While Waiting has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of While Waiting's written reviews are positive against 75% of Glide Oracle's.
While Waiting ships an update every 2 months, Glide Oracle every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | While Waiting | Glide Oracle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (28 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.5% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Lucium | Mark Buchanan |
Customer experience
While Waiting
Glide Oracle
In-app purchases
While Waiting
No in-app purchases
Glide Oracle
No in-app purchases









