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iZen Garden

** Selected as one of the "100 Best Apps and Games on iPhone" by iLounge.com!! **

iZen Garden is a portable Zen Garden in your pocket.

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 75 different types of stones, shells and fossils 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 7 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 it's first week in the App Store. Listen to what others have said:

"The best by far." - 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 75 different stones, seashells and fossils professionally photographed from real stones and beautifully rendered to place in your garden.
* Rotate, scale, and move the objects to place them.
* Four different colors of sand, from beach white, to volcanic black.
* Seven 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.
* Tested with iPhone OS 2.2. Works great!


In keeping with our company mission, 5% of our pre-tax net profits from iZen Garden will be donated to charity. The chosen charity for iZen Garden is The Tibet Fund.

What's new

* Fixed a compatibility problem with iPhone OS 2.2 and sleeping the phone.
* Added Japanese Maple leaves
* Fixed a problem with the looping of the Bells ambient sounds.

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Last changed:

Nov 27, 2008

Category:

Lifestyle

Developer:

Random Ideas, LLC

Version:

1.6.2

Average Rating:

3.00 (70)

Size:

47.0 MB