Comparison

Scenes vs MindFloat Ambience Timer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Scenes

Escape digital stress with interactive ambient worlds designed for mindful breathing. Explore calming scenes that respond to your touch, offering guided exercises and generative audio. It's a free, ad-free sanctuary for finding peace anytime.

Highlights
  • Guided breathing exercises
  • Interactive ambient scenes
  • Generative audio
  • Deep per-scene settings
  • Haptic feedback
  • Sleep timer
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Your phone doesn't have to stress you out. Scenes is a collection of handcrafted ambient worlds with built-in breathing exercises — designed to help you put down the scroll and pick up some calm. Each scene is a living, interactive artwork. Touch the screen and watch the world respond. Start a breathing session and let the scene guide you. Or just set your phone down and let it breathe on its own. Six scenes to explore: DRIFT — Luminous particles floating through space, reacting to your touch. Choose from color palettes, instruments, gravity modes, and particle shapes. Every session is different. RAIN — A storm on the windowpane. Adjust thunder, lightning, fog, and intensity. A rainy night, whenever you need one. FROST — Tap the glass and watch ice crystals spread from your fingertip. Delicate, meditative, and oddly satisfying. RADIANCE — Born from an original painting. Hundreds of brushstrokes flow inward toward a central point. Drag your finger across them and strum the scene like a harp — each stroke plays a note on a pentatonic scale. Grab the center and move it anywhere. CORAL REEF — An underwater world. Synthesized whale songs drift through cathedral reverb. Tap coral and watch bioluminescence pulse outward. Fish swim toward your touch. Swipe to create currents. NYC AT NIGHT — The Empire State and Chrysler buildings in art deco detail. Tap the sky for fireworks. Swipe for aurora borealis. Long press for a city-wide blackout with a cascading floor-by-floor restore. Live water reflections mirror every lit window. Breathe together: Every breathing session you complete adds to our community counter — a shared total of mindful minutes created by Scenes users everywhere. Anonymous — we never know who you are. But there's something powerful about knowing you're not breathing alone. Features: • Guided breathing exercises in every scene (4-7-8, box breathing, and more) • Interactive — every scene responds to touch, swipe, and long press • Generative audio that evolves and never loops • Deep per-scene settings (colors, intensity, weather, palettes, and more) • Haptic feedback tuned to each interaction • Sleep timer with gentle fade-out • Screenshot capture to save your favorite moments • No accounts, no ads, no data collection beyond anonymous session duration • Works offline • Designed for OLED displays More scenes coming soon. Free forever. No catch. Just breathe.

About

MindFloat Ambience Timer

Features
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Open it. Let your eyes and brain rest. MindFloat is a calm, generative visual that drifts gently and never stops, never repeats, and never resets — like white noise, but for your eyes. There's nothing to learn and nothing to manage. The screen is calm by default — one tap reveals a gentle clock, and that's it. THREE MOMENTS TO REACH FOR IT • To focus — leave it on beside your work when you keep reaching for your phone • To settle — watch it drift for a few minutes when your thoughts won't slow down • To drift off — let the slow motion carry you toward sleep at the end of the day SEVEN AMBIENT SCENES • Sora — a soft blue sky with drifting clouds • Candle — a slow, smoky plume • Creek — shimmering water and points of gold • Embers — a warm, glowing hearth • Ink — soft blooms spreading on paper • Gem — a slow amethyst crystal field • Mono — a quiet monochrome drift Browse them like a small gallery and pick the one that suits your mood. A QUIET TIMER, IF YOU WANT ONE Reveal a soft clock in the middle of the screen. Choose: • Clock — just the time, calmly • Count up — open-ended, for when you simply want to drift • Count down — a focus session (25-minute default, or set any length), ending in a gentle fade — never an alarm BUILT TO BE CALM • Slow, continuous motion — no flashing, strobing, or sudden movement • Nothing pops or grows abruptly; the timer ends with a soft fade, never a sound • Designed to sit quietly in the corner of your vision PRIVATE AND HONEST • No account, no sign-up • No ads • No data collected — nothing leaves your device MindFloat is for anyone who wants a moment of quiet: to decompress, to focus with something soothing at the edge of vision, or to drift off at the end of the day. ``` **What's New** (v1.0) ``` Welcome to MindFloat. • Seven calming generative scenes • A quiet clock with count-up and count-down (Pomodoro) modes • A gentle completion fade — no alarms • Designed to be calm: slow, continuous, never jarring Leave it on and let your eyes rest.

Screenshots

Scenes4 screens
MindFloat Ambience Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Scenes at 17.0 against MindFloat Ambience Timer's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scenes ships an update every 4 days, MindFloat Ambience Timer every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Scenes versus MindFloat Ambience Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScenesMindFloat Ambience Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBryan TUNICK丽辉 朱

In-app purchases

None

Scenes

No in-app purchases

None

MindFloat Ambience Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scenes free?
Scenes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MindFloat Ambience Timer free?
MindFloat Ambience Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scenes or MindFloat Ambience Timer have ads?
Neither Scenes nor MindFloat Ambience Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scenes or MindFloat Ambience Timer?
Scenes ships an update every 4 days, and MindFloat Ambience Timer every 3 days. Most recently, Scenes was updated on October 2, 2026 and MindFloat Ambience Timer on October 1, 2026.

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