Curiouser: Presence & Wonder
Gentle nudges to notice more
$1.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: Awe Walk — fifteen minutes outside with gentle prompts along the way, after the UCSF awe-walk research. Phone in pocket, eyes up.
Take an awe walk: fifteen minutes outside, with a few gentle prompts dripped along the way — things to notice, wherever you happen to be. In a UCSF study (Sturm et al., Emotion, 2020), short weekly awe walks measurably lifted wellbeing. Curiouser turns that research into a one-tap ritual: phone in pocket, eyes up.
Between walks, Curiouser taps you on the shoulder a few times a day and points your attention back at the world.
No feed to scroll. No streak to keep. No account to make. Just a gentle notification, now and then, with one small invitation to notice something you'd stopped seeing.
“Look up.” · “What's the oldest thing you can see right now?” · “Notice the exact color of the light in this room.”
Each nudge is a curiosity prompt — a tiny doorway back into presence, wonder, and the ordinary astonishing world. Some point at your senses, some re-see the familiar, some zoom out to the scale of things. All of them pull attention outward, not inward.
HOW IT WORKS
• Choose how many nudges a day, and the hours you want them
• Choose the voices you'd like to hear — gentle, playful, spacious, or all three
• Read the prompt, look up, carry on — or tap “quiet for an hour / today” right from the notification
• Want more than a nudge? Take a 15-minute awe walk — prompts arrive as you go
CALM BY DESIGN
• No feed, no likes, no streaks, no gamification
• A living sky behind every prompt — the sun and moon at their real positions for your time of day, moon in its true phase
• Home-screen widget + Apple Watch glance · at home on iPhone and iPad, portrait or landscape
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
• No account, no sign-in, no tracking, no analytics — everything runs on your device
• Your location is never requested; the sky is drawn from your time zone alone
Share a prompt as a small, pretty card when one lands just right. Curiosity is a muscle — this is a gentle way to use it.
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THREE VOICES
Gentle, Playful, Spacious — keep as many as you like. Each one shows an example, so you can hear the difference before you choose. All three are on to begin with; choosing is optional.
REAL iPAD LAYOUTS
Rotate freely at last. Landscape sets the words against the hills and gives the sky room to be a sky. Split View works too.
SMALL THINGS
• “Once a day” instead of “About 1 times a day”
• The hour steppers now sit beside the hours they change
• Replay the welcome screen anytime, from Settings
The developer, Kaolin Fire, 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
- Kaolin Fire
- Size
- 7.8 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kaolin Fire
