iZen Garden 2 - Portable Zen Garden app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 8352 ratings )
Lifestyle Health & Fitness
Developer: Random Ideas, LLC
3.99 USD
Current version: 2.5.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 23 Dec 2009
App size: 81.39 Mb

iZen Garden™ gives you all the peace and tranquility of a beautiful Zen Garden without the sandy mess! Choose from 100s of objects, plants and creatures to place in your garden, then rake the sand.

** Selected as one of the "500 Best Apps in the World" by the Sunday Times of London. **

** TOP PICK! Featured in OReillys "Best iPhone Apps" **

** As Featured on iPhones in Apple store displays! **

** Editors Choice by ItaliaMac **

** Selected as one of the Best 100 Apps by iLounge.com 2 years running! **

The tradition of the Zen Garden goes back nearly a thousand years in Japanese and asian culture. iZen Garden brings this beautiful artform to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Choose from over 100 different types of stones, shells, fossils and plants to place in your garden and then use your finger to “rake” the sand into intricate abstract patterns. All while listening to the soothing sounds of one of our 9 built-in meditation soundtracks.

iZen Garden™ is perfect for long meetings, train rides or meditation practice. It helps you to center your mind, relax your psyche and relieve your stress.

iZen Garden™ was chosen as a staff favorite its first week in the App Store. Listen to what others have said:

"The best by far... a true rarity: it’s an app that we continue to enjoy many months after the initial purchase." - iLounge

"Out of all the Zen Garden applications, this is clearly the most thorough and precise, and the system is clear-cut." - iPhone Alley

Features:

* Choose from 100 different stones, seashells, fossils and plants, all professionally photographed from real objects and beautifully rendered to place in your garden.
* Add fluttering and resting butterflies to your garden which will fly around from place to place.
* Rotate, scale, and move the objects to place them using a pinch gesture with your fingers.
* Four different colors of sand, from beach white, to volcanic black.
* Nine different soothing ambient soundtracks to help still your mind while you tend your garden. Relax to the gentle lapping of ocean waves at your feet, the quiet solitude of a forest, or the soft twinkling of bells and wind chimes.
* Completely customizable rake with variable width and depth settings.
* "Daily Zen" a daily Zen saying or Koan is presented when you enter your garden.
* Save your design to your camera roll by holding the Home button and pressing the lock button.
* Built-in documentation and help system makes using the app a breeze.
* To access the Information Screen double tap anywhere on the sand, then touch the "Hand Moving Stone" button.
* Meditation Timer. Create your garden and then sit in quiet contemplation until the timer finishes and brings you back with a gentle ringing of a bell.
* Sleep Timer. Puts your phone to sleep after a set period of time so you can listen to the relaxation sounds to fall asleep without worrying about your battery dying.
* Share your garden and your Daily Zen on Twitter, Email, or through your film roll. Includes beautiful themes that frame your garden artfully with different trays and handmade papers.
* Save multiple gardens and recall them at any time to continue to tend and change them.

See what everyone is talking about, buy iZen Garden™ today!!

Pros and cons of iZen Garden 2 - Portable Zen Garden app for iPhone and iPad

iZen Garden 2 - Portable Zen Garden app good for

For everybody who likes relaxation or meditation. For everybody who likes beautiful objects and sounds. For everybody who likes small precious moments of ones own. For everybody. Pure pleasure. I love it.
This app is really terrific. The sound quality and graphics are outstanding, and just having the app running in the background transports me from the current frosty winter wonderland to a forest filled with birds or the edges of the ocean. Theres a great variety of items to add to your personal garden, so playing with the app never gets boring. Lots of new features in 2.0.
I like it. Its relaxing. You may want to try the lite version first just to see if its for you.
This is a great app, I would recommend it to any student of the Zen arts and any student of meditation.
I love izen garden so much! Its perfect for when I need some cool down time, and I love all the options it gives you. Plus its fun to draw pictures in the sand!
Relaxing sounds and images. Provides a few moments of peace in your busy day! I have not found any issues with it crashing or anything like that.

Some bad moments

Please do not purchase this app unless it gets fixed. This app is okay if you only want a couple of pictures on the screen. It crashed on me twice. I am not impressed.
The app description says hundreds but there arent hundreds of items at all. When you click MORE it doesnt work. Wrote to the creators and they never wrote me back and that was a month ago.
Rake no longer responds until seconds after and the impression shows up in the wrong place. In addition, the link to get/purchase more elements is broken. Such a shame. I feel duped. While point of the app is broken.
It is in its simplicity that it truly gains its effectiveness. This is the perfect app to meditate / calm down to. It is fun to lay out a piece of art that is unique only to you. It helps you to internalize the world, and to see it from a fresh perspective. What else could you hope for?
Not worth the amount of money I paid for it. I loved it the first three seconds but then it lost its magic. I want my money back.
Wonderful aid to relaxation and meditation. The various elements and sounds are lovely and calming. One of the best apps I have acquired. Highly recommend this.

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