Boredom Mode Press
Short facts and pictures for anyone writing about Boredom Mode. Everything here may be used in an article or review about the app.
In one line
Boredom Mode is a set of small toys for iPhone that you play with your hands: pop domes, carve sand, tilt water, draw a beat with light, play a small synthesizer and scratch a record.
Facts
| Name | Boredom Mode |
| Version | 1.1 |
| Made by | Michael Anthony Aidala |
| Device | iPhone (iOS 17 or later). It also runs on iPad in iPhone mode. |
| Price | Paid once. No in-app purchases, no subscription. |
| Ads, accounts | None |
| Internet | Not needed. The app never connects to the internet. |
| Data | None collected. Apple's App Store label reads "Data Not Collected". |
| Permissions | One, optional: the microphone, only after a grown-up turns on Recording. |
| Languages | English (the toys themselves use no words) |
The toys
- Domes: a sheet of domes to pop. It never runs out.
- Grain: a tray of sand to carve and smooth, which slides when the phone tilts.
- Water: a shallow tray to ripple, stir and slosh.
- Glow: a dark board of small glowing pegs, to zoom into and draw with light; press play and the picture becomes a song, always in tune, or a beat.
- Keys: glowing bars that play a song one tap at a time, or each its own note.
- EM8: a small synthesizer with piano keys, drum pads and a loop you record or draw.
- Decks: a record to scratch, repeat and cut, with tricks that play a sound fast, slow, backward, with an echo or like a robot.
- Mix: Glow's song or beat, EM8's loop and a row of sample steps playing together as one song.
- Prism: a color-shifting liquid, offered only at Bright, the liveliest setting.
Toys open from a home screen of small moving pictures, so nothing depends on reading. Grown-up settings choose a feel for the whole app (Calm, Everyday or Bright), hide toys, or keep the phone on one toy.
Saving and recording
A grown-up, after a grown-up check, can save an EM8 loop, a Glow song or beat, or a mix as a sound file (WAV or M4A) or a MIDI file, using the iPhone's own Save to Files screen. A grown-up can also turn on Recording, so EM8 and Decks can record a short sound of up to 10 seconds (on Decks, straight onto the record, to scratch or play back funny). Recordings stay on the phone and are kept out of backups. The app sends nothing anywhere. See the Privacy Policy.
Pictures
- App icon, 512 × 512 PNG
- Wordmark for dark backgrounds: SVG, PNG
- Wordmark for light backgrounds: SVG, PNG
- The dome mark on its own, SVG
Please keep the amber dome in the wordmark where it is, and don't recolor or stretch it. Screenshots of version 1.1 will be added here at launch.
Contact
support@boredommode.com