Whimbrel
Shape a living world with your hands, then walk through it.
Shape with your hands
Drag in hills, springs, rain clouds, and the sun itself. Watch water carve its natural path downhill and settle into hollows. Living creatures arrive when their needs are met: a spring brings a pond, fish bring a heron, reeds bring starlings at dusk.
Walk the world you made
Pinch in and glide down from the sky directly into the grass. Wander along endless procedural stretches with your companion whimbrel, sit by a warm campfire, or set a gentle sleep walk that softly dims the light and sound into sleep.
Three living biomes
Sculpt three distinct ecological zones in one world: lush temperate meadows with weeping willows and deer, high snow-capped alpine peaks where golden eagles soar over ibex, and sun-baked desert oases with date palms and camels.
The landscape is the soundscape
No canned music loops. Every sound is synthesized live from the scene you built: gentle wind through pines, water tumbling over waterfalls, frogs calling after rain, and crickets humming under summer night stars, panned in stereo as you walk.
A quiet, timeless place
Whimbrel is designed to be calm and respectful of your attention:
- Universal purchase ($2.99 once): Play across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad with one purchase. Android edition included.
- Zero monetization: No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no ads, and no locked content.
- 100% Offline & Private: No accounts, no network access, and zero analytics. Your worlds stay on your device.
- Live Mac Desktop scene: Run your living valley as a peaceful, battery-friendly live wallpaper right behind your Mac windows.
- Field Journal: Discover 79 natural history moments — from alpenglow on frozen tarns to mirages and murmuration flights.
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