Aether: Private StandBy Field
Slow generative art, offline
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Tap a goal or a person you are carrying, and rings of light draw themselves. Thirty seconds, no typing. Ignore one for a week and its light visibly dims.
Your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy show up to three things you are carrying, a goal, a project, a person, as a private field of light that keeps moving through the day.
Setup takes about thirty seconds and requires no typing. You tap what matters, weigh it, tap how your day is going, and the field forms: a slow luminous density over a fine substrate of concentric orbital rings.
IT CHANGES WITHOUT YOU FEEDING IT
A center of gravity you have not touched in a week visibly decays. The field advances along a pre-computed timeline through the day and settles overnight on StandBy. You come back to re-tune something you already see a hundred times a day, not to file an entry. There are no charts, no trends, no weekly summary and no list of anything you typed.
STRUCTURE FIRST, LIGHT SECOND
The field is not a colour wash. Under the light sits an almost technical drawing of rings, filaments and markers, the substrate that survives where colour cannot. Lock Screen accessories render in system monochrome, so what you see there is the structure of your field: legible, not a shrunken blur. On a tinted Home Screen the linework tints and your wallpaper shows through it.
MADE ON YOUR IPHONE
The field is drawn by a renderer we wrote, running in Metal on every iPhone that runs iOS 26. Apple's on-device Foundation Models are used only to read optional short text into rendering parameters, on the hardware that has them; where they are absent, a deterministic mapping does the same job and the experience is identical. There is no Private Cloud Compute and no cloud model of any kind. Turn on airplane mode and use the whole app, please check.
Aether is a visual instrument, not a health or therapy tool. It does not measure, interpret or diagnose anything about you.
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
- No account, no sign-in, no server, no sync. Nothing you name leaves the device.
- No ads, ever. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDK. App Privacy is Data Not Collected.
- No watermark on any widget, at any tier.
- Written reflections are consumed into the field and discarded, never stored, never read back to you.
- The only way anything leaves your phone is the system share sheet, by your hand.
FREE AND PREMIUM
Free is complete in kind and limited in rate: a real field, a real widget on every family you place, a real share card. One settling a day, three centers of gravity, two styles, fourteen days of history.
Aether Premium adds unlimited settlings, unlimited centers of gravity, every style plus natural-language style direction, every widget family with per-widget configuration, your complete history, and removal of the wordmark from share cards.
Save the field to Photos at device resolution and set it as your wallpaper by hand. iOS gives no app a way to do that for you.
SUBSCRIPTION TERMS
Aether Premium offers three ways to unlock:
- Aether Monthly, $4.99/month. Auto-renewing subscription, no free trial.
- Aether Annual, $39.99/year. Auto-renewing subscription, 7-day free trial for new subscribers only.
- Aether Lifetime, $79.99. One-time non-consumable purchase, no subscription, family-shareable.
Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew at any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited if you purchase a subscription.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://hadgerapps.github.io/aether/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://hadgerapps.github.io/aether/privacy/
From Hadger studio: privacy-first, on-device-only. We make calm utilities.
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The developer, Vassiliy Shmigirilov, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Vassiliy Shmigirilov
- Size
- 3.8 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Aether Annual $39.99
- Aether Monthly $4.99
- Aether Lifetime $79.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Hadger
