Glideophone vs Campfire, From Below

Glideophone is a singing bowl you play by drawing. Trace a loop on the screen and a bowl rings, then holds, so you can build a warm, breathing sound bath one line at a time. It is sound healing you make yourself, with no notes to read and no knobs to learn. Every tone is synthesized live from the inharmonic partials of a real bowl, the shimmer that gives Tibetan singing bowls their voice. Nothing is pre-recorded. If you can draw a circle, you can fill the room with sound. HOW IT WORKS - Draw a loop and the bowl rings; close it and the drone sustains - Stack up to 5 bowls into a slow, living chord - Drag a bowl across the canvas to morph its shimmer and timbre - Double-tap a bowl to mute it - Tuned to Asian pentatonic and meditative modes: Hirajoshi, Kumoi, Sakura, Iwato, Insen and Malkauns, with a smooth glide between them - Gentle haptics as you cross each note A LIVING SOUND BATH Every scene keeps evolving. Bowls shimmer, breathe and drift, so no two moments sound the same. Lay down a calm backdrop for meditation, relaxation, yoga or winding down, or simply draw and listen. WHAT IT IS (AND ISN'T) Glideophone is an instrument you play, not a library of pre-recorded tracks. There are no guided sessions, no voice-overs and no stock audio. It is not a sleep-sounds player, and it is not a set of physical crystal bowls. It is a singing-bowl instrument you play with one finger, and every sound is one you draw and shape yourself. Do I need any music experience? No. Draw a line and it sings. There are no notes to read and nothing to set up. Can I use it for meditation or sound healing? Yes. Many people draw a slow sound bath to relax, focus or meditate. Just remember it is an instrument you play, not a guided session that plays for you. What is a sound bath here? The wash of overlapping bowl tones you build by stacking a few drones. Drag them to color the sound and it keeps evolving on its own. How is this like a real singing bowl? Your finger circles the rim and the bowl rings, much like running a mallet around a real one, but you can hold, stack and reshape each tone. Does it work offline? Yes. Glideophone runs entirely on your device. No microphone, no account, no ads, no network, and nothing you make ever leaves your iPhone.

Lie on the ground by a campfire and look up. The stars above you are the real ones, for where you are and the minute it is. The fire is at your feet. Look down and it fills the view: flames, glowing logs, a ring of stones. Look up and its sparks drift into the sky, and the heat above the flames makes the stars over it shimmer. Past the fire, the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, the moon in its actual phase, all seven planets and the meteor showers are all where and when they really are. 5,044 stars, down to magnitude 6, plus the best clusters, nebulae and galaxies. The land is real too. The hills and ranges on the horizon are worked out from open elevation data for about 130 km around, with the curve of the earth, so the moon comes up over the actual ridge. Tap the skyline and it tells you how far away it is and how high, and at the built-in places, the name of the hill or mountain. The sound is made as you listen: the low lapping of the flames, crackle, hiss and snaps, a log settling, wind in the gums, crickets and a boobook owl somewhere off in the dark. Nothing here is a recording. The flames, sparks, smoke, gum trees and every sound are generated on your device as it runs, and it works offline. WHAT YOU CAN DO Start with Sleep tonight (eight hours, fades out), Stargaze (three hours with the sky guide) or Just watch (no timer) Three modes: Sleep, Stargaze and Fireside Point your phone at the sky and the stars on screen follow it Find any named star, all 88 constellations, the planets and the best clusters, nebulae and galaxies, while you're lying back See through the ground to the stars on the other side of the world (ten free goes) Tonight: what's up where you are, the next meteor shower and when the planets meet A note on the nights a good meteor shower peaks Tap a star, a planet, the moon, the fire or the skyline to find out what it is Constellation lines and names when you want them The real sky in Brisbane or from where you are, now or tonight A sleep timer with a slow fade at the end Keeps going with the screen locked, with play and pause on the lock screen Text up to twice the size, Reduce Motion, higher contrast and VoiceOver labels No account, no ads, no tracking Made for falling asleep, stargazing and sitting by the fire. Made in Brisbane. PRO Pro adds nineteen more places under their own skies, any night you choose, the open plain, a fire that burns down through the night, light pollution and moon settings, more meteors, the sound mixer, saved setups, stills, the sky numbers, unlimited see-through ground, a note when the moon comes up over the ridge, and links that share a night with a friend. It is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription (A$2.99 a month or A$19.99 a year in Australia; prices differ by country), or a one-off lifetime unlock (A$39.99). Subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://frombelowstudios.netlify.app/privacy.html