Aurora.
The Aurora app icon — a luminous aurora curtain sweeping across a starlit night sky above dark mountains. Aurora iPhone & iPad · Requires iOS 17

A living canvas that paints with you.

Light, slow gestures grow skies, clouds, cities, forests, water, and aurora — then the scene keeps breathing on its own. No menus, no scores, no wrong moves. A place to exhale.

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Watch it move

Five of Aurora's moods. Every scene is grown live on your device — seeded by your gestures, then left to breathe — so no two are ever quite the same.

A teal aurora curtain and a bright moon over a starlit sky, above bare trees standing in moonlit water.
Aurora Coast — the signature curtain, over still water
A low golden sun behind hazy mountains, lavender clouds overhead, and bare trees mirrored in calm dawn water.
Dawn Drift — first light through lavender clouds
A golden-hour city skyline dissolving into its own reflection, under soft violet clouds and drifting sparks.
Dusk Harbor — a city melting into golden water
A violet night city in the rain, its lit windows shimmering across dark rippling water.
Rain City — lit windows in a violet downpour
Snow falling through moonlight over a dark forest, every flake catching the glow like a star.
Silver Forest — snowfall under a patient moon

How it moves

Tap
Seed a sparkle burst, a building on the horizon, or a tree in the foreground.
Slow drag
Set a wind that particles, clouds, aurora, and water keep following.
Press & hold
Gather light — thicken the clouds, brighten the aurora.
Two-finger twist
Scrub the time of day, from dusk to deep night.
Two-finger tap
Reveal moods, focus timers, breathwork, brightness, mute, and capture.

Two fingers away

Tap two fingers anywhere and a frosted panel rises out of the scene: moods to drift between, focus timers, breathing patterns, brightness, capture. A quiet calendar counts your focus sessions — each one grows the scene's forest a little further. Let the panel fade, and it's just you and the sky again.

Aurora's frosted control panel floating over a snowy daylight scene: a June calendar of completed focus sessions, mood choices like Dusk Harbor and Aurora Coast, focus lengths, breathing patterns, and a brightness slider.
The control panel, over a Silver Forest noon

It keeps you company

Begin a focus session and set the phone down. Aurora follows along from the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island — a small horizon drifting toward golden hour while your minutes fill, and a gentle note when you arrive.

An iPhone Lock Screen with an Aurora Live Activity: a sunset-gradient panel reading 'toward golden hour' above a soft progress bar.
On the Lock Screen
An iPhone Home Screen with Aurora's focus session held in the Dynamic Island — a tiny sun on one side, a progress ring on the other.
In the Dynamic Island, quietly counting

Aurora has no accounts and no ads, and nothing you make ever leaves your iPhone or iPad. To help us improve the app, it shares anonymous usage analytics — you can turn that off in the app at any time. The Privacy Policy has the full picture.