Sandpainting: Zen Sand Art
The play of light and color
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Push sand around with a fingertip and watch ridges catch the light. Set the hour and swing the sun; the shadows follow. A small quiet place that lives in your pocket.
Sandpainting is a small, quiet drawing toy: a tray of sand and a sun you can move.
Drag a finger and the sand parts under it — slow strokes carve fine lines, fast strokes sweep wide. Real-time light rakes across everything you draw: ridges catch the sun, grooves fall into shadow. Set the hour and swing the sun where you like — midday overhead, warm at sunset, pale at moonlight — and the shadows swing with it.
There is no score, no timer, and nothing to finish. Draw something, move the light across it, shake it flat, begin again.
• Sand that behaves — strokes carve real relief, steep edges slump like dry sand, a shake settles everything back toward smooth
• A sky you set — it opens near the hour you're actually in, then the time and direction dials put the sun exactly where you want it
• Ten ways for sand to look — from plain sand to water pooling in what you dug, ink on paper, a putting green you mow with your finger, an aurora, and light on a pool floor. Sand and Flood come with the app; the other eight are one unlock — and you can try any of them right in the tray before deciding
• Draw from a photo — bring in any picture and its depth becomes relief you can carve into (Portrait-mode depth used when available; everything runs on-device)
• Tilt and shake move the sand, not the light — unlock the hand and sand drifts downhill as you tilt, and levels when you shake; locked, which is the default, your drawing holds still
• Share — save a picture of your drawing, or send it on
Free, with one small optional unlock. No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. Just sand.
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Information
- Seller
- Kaolin Fire
- Size
- 58.4 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- All the Colors $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kaolin Fire