Bloom 4+
Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers
Opal Limited
Designed for iPad
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- $5.99
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Description
Updated for M1 Macs
Developed by ambient pioneer Brian Eno and musician / software designer Peter Chilvers, Bloom explores uncharted territory in the realm of applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Part instrument, part composition and part artwork, Bloom's innovative controls allow anyone to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies by simply tapping the screen. A generative music player takes over when Bloom is left idle, creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying visualisations.
"Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself." - Brian Eno
Features
- 12 different mood settings
- Random mood shuffle
- Adjustable delay
- Shake to clear
- Evolve when idle
- Sleep Timer
Recommended for headphones or external speakers.
“Bloom Raises the Bar for Musical iPhone Apps… if you're a fan of ambient music or music in general, you'll be wanting to get it right now” - Gizmodo
“A relaxing alternative to just about anything else you can do with an iPhone” Wired
“Hypnotic and ludicrously addictive” - Guardian
What’s New
Version 3.2
Maintenance update with improved support for recent devices.
Runs full screen on M1 Macs.
Ratings and Reviews
Wonderful, compelling, hypnotic
I intially delayed getting this because I am not really into "whale music"/ambient music and I wasn't sure how much use I would get out of it. However curiosity luckily got the better of me and I bought it. It gets more addictive the more you play with it - I was worried the novelty would wear off, like it does with a lot of apps, but in this case you love it more and more. It is soothing, fascinating, hypnotic.
I give it four stars not five because there are some features that could be improved/added. I thought one would be able to choose different kinds of instruments/tones, but you can't, just different pitches. The tone it uses is very beautiful though. As others have mentioned, you can't hear the low notes through the iPhone speakers so do try headphones. Adding a record function would also be great.
I also wondered if there would be some musical significance to the different "moods", but they currently seem to be just different, though very pretty, colour schemes.
All in all this is a wonderful app, fully functional and brilliant as it is, but as you play with it you kind of think of more things it could perhaps be doing. You also start thinking of hardware that could allow you to project its patterns on a wall while music comes out of decent proper-size speakers.
Magical
This magical app is a simple way to relax, go to sleep or get creative. I’ve had it for years and have never tired of it.
Highly recommended for insomnia and stress. Set the timer and drift off. It has an interactive mode or you can set it to self play.
Still no save??
Bought this years ago....still no save option, export ....?
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Opal Limited
- Size
- 18.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2008 Opal Limited
- Price
- $5.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.