HYPERBLOOM
a garden of light that grows where you touch — and forgets you, slowly
1.2 · mirror + keepsakes
$1.99 · iPhone · one time
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a garden of light that grows where you touch — and forgets you, slowly
$1.99 · iPhone · one time
// the toy
Hyperbloom is a generative light garden for iPhone. Touch the dark and a seed unfurls: tendrils of neon branching, drifting, tangling into constellations.
There is no score, no goal, no winning. You tend it, you watch it breathe, and it slowly forgets you. A toy made for the spaces between things.
// how it grows
Everything comes from your touch. No menus to learn, just your fingertip and the dark.
Drop a point of light. Each one sprouts and branches on its own.
Pull a current through the garden and steer how the vines flow.
Press and wait. Light gathers, then bursts into a bloom of spores.
New in 1.2. One press records the garden as it happens, with its sound.
// new in 1.2
Turn on two, four, or six fold symmetry and every stroke you draw is echoed around the center of the screen.
A single careless drag becomes a rosette. A nova becomes a bloom with six hearts. You do not have to aim, or plan, or have a steady hand: the symmetry does the composing, and you just supply the movement. It lives in the mood menu, and it is remembered between visits.
Press the keep button once. Hyperbloom records the next twenty seconds of your garden, with its sound, and hands you the film when it is done.
The recording is made as it happens, so there is no waiting afterward and nothing to render. Press and hold that same button instead and you keep the single moment: a still at full resolution with no interface in it, which makes a very good wallpaper.
All of it stays on your phone. The film is passed straight to the share sheet, so it goes only where you send it.
// seven moods
Every mood re-tunes the garden at once: a musical scale and a palette of light, chosen together.
The same touches grow something entirely different. Pastels that ring in Lydian, embers that brood in Locrian, deep sea blues that drift in Phrygian. Your mood is remembered next time you return, and switching mid-garden erases nothing: the old light simply dissolves while the new mood grows through it.
// in bloom
// privacy
Hyperbloom is a toy, not a data business. It runs entirely on your iPhone and has no idea who you are, which is exactly how it should be.
// questions
A few things people ask. If yours is not here, write to us. A real person reads every message.
A generative art toy: a light garden you grow with your fingertips. There is no goal and no score. You touch the screen, light blooms and branches, and you tend it however you like. Something to play with while your mind wanders, not a game to beat.
Tap the four pointed star button. A ring fills around it while it records the next twenty seconds of your garden, exactly as it happens, with its sound. When the ring completes, the share sheet appears with the finished film. Tap the button again at any point to stop early and keep what you have.
Press and hold that same button instead and you get a still image of the moment, at full resolution, with none of the on screen controls in it.
Yes. Choose Save Video or Save Image from the share sheet and iOS will ask your permission the moment you do. Hyperbloom never writes to your photo library on its own, and it cannot read anything already in it.
Two, four, or six fold symmetry, switched on from the mood menu. Every stroke you draw is echoed around the center of the screen, so an ordinary drag turns into a mandala. It is purely visual, it does not change the sound, and your choice is remembered between visits.
Moods re-tune the whole garden at once: the musical scale the touches play in and the colors the light grows in. There are seven, from pastel Lydian to ember dark Locrian. Hyperbloom remembers your mood between visits, and switching never erases a garden. The old light fades on its own while new growth takes the new mood.
Yes. Hyperbloom generates a soft, responsive soundscape as the garden grows, and it pairs beautifully with headphones. Audio only starts after your first touch, never on its own, and there is a mute toggle if you would rather grow in silence. Your phone's silent switch is respected too.
Keepsakes carry their sound with them, even if you were playing muted.
An iPhone running a current version of iOS. Hyperbloom draws with Metal in real time, so a recent device gives the smoothest, brightest bloom. The exact requirement is listed on the App Store page.
Close and reopen the app, and make sure iOS is up to date. Very dense gardens with thousands of tendrils ask a lot of the GPU, and clearing the screen thins things out and restores the frame rate. Mirror at six fold is the most demanding setting, so try a lower fold or off if a huge garden starts to stutter.
If something still seems wrong, email us with your iPhone model and iOS version and we will dig in.
Still need a hand?
GenshiMediaGroup@gmail.com
// what has changed
Two, four, or six fold symmetry turns any stroke into a mandala. The keep button records twenty seconds of your garden, with its sound, as a film you can share or save. Press and hold it instead for a full resolution still. A new app icon, too.
Seven moods, each re-tuning the musical scale and the color palette together: Original, Bright, Somber, Dream, Dawn, Abyss, and Voltage. Your choice is remembered between visits, and switching mid-garden dissolves the old light rather than erasing it.
The garden itself. Tap to plant a seed, drag to bend the light, hold to charge a nova, with a generative score that plays along as it grows.