Physarum Ambient
Living, audio-reactive art
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A mesmerizing stigmergy simulation you can shape and play — audio-reactive, endlessly evolving, beautiful on iPhone, iPad, and the big screen via Apple TV.
Physarum turns the emergent behaviour of slime mold into living, breathing art. Thousands of agents lay down and follow trails, and from those simple rules intricate, ever-shifting patterns emerge. Shape them with a full parameter editor, let them react to music through your microphone, and capture stills, videos, or Live Photos. On Apple TV, Physarum becomes a lean-back ambient display you steer from the couch or mirror live from your phone.
- Full authoring editor: tune agents, sensing, deposition, decay, colour, post-FX
- Audio-reactive: the visuals pulse and bloom to sound
- Capture: high-res stills, video clips, Live Photos
- Apple TV ambient mode with phone control
- Curated presets to start from; save your own
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Information
- Seller
- Johannes Kaindl
- Size
- 9.9 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. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Johannes Kaindl