Portal - Escape Into Nature 4+
Focus, Sleep, Relax, Sounds
Portal Labs Ltd
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Portal transports your mind into the world’s most beautiful natural surroundings to help you relieve stress, enhance focus and spark creativity.
Through immersive nature sounds, window-like visuals, smart lighting and award-winning design, it guides you into natural environments perfectly suited to deliver life-changing improvements in focus, creativity, productivity, relaxation and more.
Combining 40 years of robust scientific evidence with groundbreaking new research, Portal taps into the transformative powers of the natural world, and puts into practice the latest evidence for how our minds and bodies respond to our surroundings.
Say goodbye to unproductive days, sleepless nights and a cluttered mind, and join millions of people escaping noise, stress and distraction in the world’s most beautiful natural environments.
*****
Apple - Mac App of the Year (finalist)
Apple - Editor’s Pick.
1m+ downloads.
POPULAR USE CASES
Focus, creativity, ADHD, relaxation, stress & anxiety relief, mindfulness & meditation, tinnitus, pain relief, PTSD relief, SAD relief, noise masking.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING
"It has not only made me more productive, but more importantly, it has brought a sense of joy to my work day." Andrew (US)
“An instant ‘on switch’ for being able to focus.” Lifepakpaul (US)
“Nothing so profoundly affects my daily routine as Portal does.” Victor Fury (Malaysia)
"The kind of app you wish you could install on the device of everyone you care about." Alex (France)
"Life changing. There is nothing like this on your Mac." Gabriel (Canada)
"Mind-blowingly awesome! I've long dreamed of an app like this." Dexter (US)
“A beautifully integrated experience that makes focusing on work so natural. Simply perfection.” danand725 (UK)
“It is like a window in my office to beautiful places.” ShaneDE1 (US)
KEY FEATURES:
- 100+ portals to the most beautiful & peaceful corners of our planet, including Costa Rica, Iceland, St Lucia, Scotland, England & Slovenia
- Immersive true-to-life Spatial Audio recordings
- Stunning retina-quality ultra high definition motion visuals
- Philips Hue, HomeKit & Nanoleaf smart lighting integration
- Webby award winning design for beautiful aesthetics & experience
- Offline usage
- Support for shortcuts allowing automations for power users
- Built to be CPU, GPU & battery efficient
- Absolute Privacy: no 3rd party tracking, targeted ads, or collection of personal data
- Custom built for Apple devices
MEMBERSHIP PRICING & TERMS
Portal Free - access to 3 portals (Mac) which rotate monthly. No subscription or trial required.
Portal Premium - unlimited access to a regularly updated library of 100+ portals, smart lighting integration, dynamic spatial audio. Monthly subscription, Annual subscription (with free 7 day trial), or Lifetime (one-0ff) purchase required. Subscriptions include access to our iOS app.
OTHER NOTES
Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off in your App Store account at least 24 hours before your trial end or membership period.
Dynamic (head-tracked) Spatial Audio requires compatible headphones that support head-tracking (AirPods (3rd/4th Gen), Airpods Pro, AirPods Max, Beats Fit Pro)
FROM A PASSIONATE INDIE TEAM
We’re based in the UK, with a mission to reconnect the world with nature.
Terms of Use: portal.app/terms
Privacy Policy: portal.app/privacy
What’s New
Version 1.4.1
Autumn is upon us - the leaves are changing, the birdsong is shifting as flocks migrate to warmer climes, and a new macOS has just arrived! To celebrate, our recent Portal for Mac v1.4 release brought new features, improvements, and fixes to help you enjoy the magic of this season of change.
Changes in v1.4.1
This minor update builds on our v1.4 release with a few additional tweaks and fixes:
- Nanoleaf Blocks Support: You can now enjoy full compatibility with Nanoleaf’s latest Blocks lights.
- Audio Fixes: We’ve addressed some rare crashes when switching default output devices.
- Settings Window Fix: Fixed a visual glitch with the scroll background appearance in the Settings window on macOS Sequoia.
- Cache Cleaning Improvement: The “Clear Cache” button is now disabled while the cache is being cleaned to prevent interruptions.
New Features in v1.4
- Offline Playback: Following popular demand, you can now download your favourite portals and enjoy them wherever you are, even when you've migrated off-grid! Tap the three dots on a portal screen and select "Make Available Offline." Easily manage your downloads in Settings > Storage.
- Start Playback on Launch: Want Portal to start playing as soon as you log in? Now you can! Combine this with the ‘Launch at login’ option, and Portal will be there to greet you every time you start your Mac. Settings > General > Start playback on launch.
Improvements in v1.4
- macOS Sequoia Support: Optimised for the newest macOS, with enhancements to security, performance, usability, and animations ensuring Portal runs as smoothly as ever.
- Offline Indicator: A handy new tick icon shows which portals have been downloaded and are available offline.
- Enhanced Search Integration: Portals now appear in Spotlight and Siri search results (macOS Sequoia only).
- Shortcuts Support: Portal images are now accessible when setting up portals in the Shortcuts app along with a new “Open a Portal” action.
- Library Enhancements: Enjoy the new scroll parallax effect on library tiles, clearer author attribution in articles, and links to external sites now underlined for easy identification.
Fixes in v1.4
- An issue where Nanoleaf lights didn’t correctly transition brightness when un-synced has now been fixed.
- Fixed a stall that could occur when playing previously cached videos.
- Addressed several edge case bugs that caused the Library layout to look a little skew-whiff.
- Removed excessive padding at the top of Library articles that begin with a heading.
Compatibility
Please note that Portal v1.4 does not support macOS Ventura. This will allow us to focus on delivering the very best experience possible with the latest features and functionality available on the most recent macOS versions. However, if you're unable to upgrade, please don’t worry - Portal v1.3 will continue to work on macOS Ventura for the foreseeable future.
As always, we’re incredibly grateful to the Portal community for sharing your feedback and helping guide us on which features you’re most excited about as well as the things that are bugging you out. A special shout out goes to Renzo from Italy, whose sheer enthusiasm for having Portal play on launch meant we just had to sneak it into this release!
If there’s a feature you’d love to see or a bug that needs squashing, please don’t hesitate to reach out at [hello@portal.app](mailto:hello@portal.app) - we’d love to hear from you :)
Many thanks,
Andy, Alex, Nick, Stu & Tim - Team Portal.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors’ Choice
How can an app about sound look this gorgeous? Portal is part immersive audio experience and part travel companion, a way to lose yourself in lush audio environments from all corners of the globe, all through a cool minimalist UI and stunning HD visuals. Focus, study, or snooze to downpours in the Amazon, lapping waves from the lochs of Scotland, whale song from the deep blue waters of Tahiti, or thunder on the Great Plains. Tap a sound and the app transforms into an aesthetically pleasing clock; set a timer to drift off to sleep to winds on the Isle of Skye or wake to a springtime chorus in London. Bonus: Pair compatible AirPods to experience it all in spatial audio.
Brilliant
Absolutely amazing app! Would recommend to everyone and use it every night as a screen saver on both my phone and my iPad. Love having the gentle sound of a fire or waves in my room during the day and the beautiful live videos are brilliant for screensavers when not working with the device. I instantly purchased the upgrade for the rest of the portals because I NEEDED the others because the base ones were incredible. My only additions I'd make to the app is that I'd love a feature where the clock is the only UI piece on the screen as would love to wake up to see time and not the bottom UI, i would love to see more features added to the connectivity such as google home support and also maybe a way to choose a playlist of portals to play for different durations I would also love to see in the future a way to have this on my windows PC although this is an IOS app it would be superb on PC too! But that's just me with my ideas lol this app is a must download and I yesss it all the time! I can't get enough of this app! I can't wait to see what portals will be coming soon! Keep up the incredible work!!
Developer Response ,
Hi Sith--Lord66, thanks for taking the time to share your very kind feedback! It's great to hear you're loving using Portal :) You've made some terrific suggestions for future developments that we're very keen to explore. However, please continue to watch this space as in the meantime we've got some exciting new features and content in the pipeline that we can't wait to release! We hope you enjoy them when they come. Many thanks for your support and encouragement, Nick.
Beautiful!
Awesome app, been using since version 1 and it just keeps getting better and better. Such effortless functionality coupled with beautiful design, making it a real pleasure to actually use. It’s excellent at creating immersive experiences that instantly provide headspace, calm, and simply just moments of wild otherness to a day, even if I’ve only got 10 minutes to spare. The combination of listening and focusing on the visuals at the same time seems to create a powerful synergy, resetting the body’s nervous system, so relieving any immediate stress. Adding a breathing exercise hyper charges for an instant and serious reboot when needed! Sounds to fall asleep to, sounds to sharpen focus, or sounds & visuals to escape and chill, that’s how I use it and it’s basically one really versatile app.
Clearly a lot of thought, care and passion is going into the making of this very cool app. Recently contacted the team behind it, and they couldn’t have been more helpful. Really lovely.
This is my first and only review of an any app, I can’t think of a higher recommendation.
Developer Response ,
Wow K-aWalkingupaTree, we're floored and incredibly humbled by your extremely kind words!
You're spot on too - we've put our heart and soul into Portal, but I can honestly say that it makes it well worth it knowing that people like yourself are enjoying and benefitting from using Portal and hopefully it's making a positive difference in people's lives.
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and for supporting us from V1 to now, rest assured we've got lots more planned for the future which we hope you'll love - we can't wait to share it with you!
You've made our day and put a massive smile on each of our faces :) Many thanks, Nick.
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Information
- Provider
- Portal Labs Ltd
- Size
- 18.6 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Portal Labs Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Annual Membership £39.99
- Monthly Membership £7.99
- V2 (No Longer Available) £5.99
- Upgrade (No Longer Available) £9.99
- Portal Membership (Lifetime) £249.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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