Twenty-nine living worlds of light at your fingertips — and at night, a glowing bedside clock. Touch, and watch the universe answer.
New in v7: Nightstand mode turns any charging phone — or the old one in a drawer — into a living clock over a world of light. Free with the app.
New in v8: Ethereal is a native Google TV app. The same app puts twenty-two worlds on your television — living ambience for the whole room, with an optional clock resting at the side.
Each world responds to your fingers in its own way — calm, generative, and endlessly replayable. And as of v9, every world sounds as alive as it looks: balloons pop, thunder cracks with the bolt, fireworks boom on the burst, jellyfish pulse — each sound landing on the exact moment you see it. Seven are free to enjoy; the other twenty-two unlock together with Ethereal Pro. The TV badge marks worlds that play on Google TV; ☾ marks the eighteen night worlds.
Send rings rippling and interfering across a still pool.
A living solar system — fling the planets, hold the sun to charge a flare.
A flowing river of silken star-trails — stir it into a vortex.
Trace glowing lines between the stars.
Draw with a glowing, colour-shifting ribbon of light.
Tap to grow unfolding mandalas of light.
Nucleate branching crystals of frost with a touch.
A neon lava lamp — warm the wax and watch it rise.
Schools of neon fish drift through a twilight lagoon.
Bend curtains of northern light — hold still and they gather to you.
Gather a blinking meadow swarm to your finger like a lantern.
Bioluminescent jellies that pulse, reach for your touch — and hatch.
Touch the sky and send stars streaking down.
Launch shells that arc up and burst in the night.
Pop drifting orbs into showers of shards.
Pump a luminous equaliser with your touch.
Paint in living radial symmetry.
Tap the sky to call down forks of branching lightning.
Stir a morphing field of molten, glowing colour.
Fling points of light into weaving, looping orbits.
Strum luminous strings into singing standing waves.
Drop ink into still water and watch it bloom.
Reshape a magnetic field of glowing iron-filing lines.
Bounce a festival of drifting balloons — one in four pops.
Pop rising bubbles, or hold to blow a shimmering stream.
Rain on night glass — wipe it clear and watch the bokeh bloom.
Light a quiet row of candles — swipe across a flame to snuff it.
Set paper lanterns adrift on a slow midnight river.
Release glowing sky lanterns into a starlit night.
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Ethereal is on Google Play in early access. Request an invite with the Gmail you use on your phone — we'll add you to the testing group within 24 hours — then install straight from Google Play. Every world, Nightstand, and Ethereal Pro are free while early access lasts; all we ask is about a minute of feedback. Ethereal runs on Android phones and tablets — and on Google TV, where the native app lights up the biggest screen in the house and takes casting from your phone.