Pocket Zen WorldA cozy 3D diorama for iPhone
A living 3D zen garden in your pocket
A tiny island that keeps your time. Touch the pond, rake the sand, look after plants and fish, and watch quiet visitors come and go. No goals, no timers — just a calm place to come back to.
For iPhone · iOS 17 or later
Touch
Every touch brings a ripple, a sound and a gentle tap of haptics. There is nothing to win — only things to try.
Tap for ripples, drag for a trail of them and a few little splashes. Rest a finger on the water and curious fish gather.
Rake slowly for deep, wide grooves, quickly for a lighter line. Your pattern is still there the next time you open the app.
Water a plant for dew and a small growth boost — forgetting never hurts. Feed the fish often, and one becomes a companion that follows your finger.
Alive
The sky follows the clock on your iPhone, from dawn through day and dusk to night, when the lanterns glow. Clear, cloudy, rainy or misty — through all four seasons.
Plants grow and bloom, the weather turns and visitors drop by — for up to seven days. When you come back, a short note tells you what changed.
Cloud shadows drift, petals and leaves fall, a koi leaps from the water, and on clear summer nights fireflies rise over the pond.
Visitors
Visitors keep their own hours. A decoration they like, the weather, the time of day and the season decide who comes by. Greet one with a tap and it stays a little longer.
A lantern, from day into night
A ceramic bowl or a bamboo water feature, early in the day
Flowers in bloom on a clear day
Reeds or a floating lily, in rain or mist
A floating lily in summer and autumn
Stepping stones or pond pebbles, by day and at dusk
Pond reeds or a bridge, at dawn and by day
Reeds or a floating lily, at dawn or dusk
A planter or a short fence, at dawn or dusk
A fence or a bench, from dusk into the night
A flat stone or a mossy step, in rain or mist
A tall stone, a paper lantern or a wind bell, at night
A bench, a clay planter or a fully grown plant, by day
And six more who only visit the Pass gardens: a white egret and a kingfisher in Vietnam, a magpie and a Jindo dog in Korea, a red-crowned crane and a golden pheasant in China.
Every visitor you meet is added to your journal.
Walk
Tap the little walking figure and you become the gardener. Stroll around the pond with the thumbstick, drag to swing the camera, pinch to come closer — and tap to wave. Walk up to a plant, the pond or a visitor and the gardener waters, feeds the fish, rakes the sand or says hello.
Pick a hat and a jacket colour. The change happens right there in the garden.
Included with the Pocket Zen Pass
Turn the island with one finger, pinch to zoom, double-tap a plant, a fish or a visitor to look closer — or jump to a ready-made view.
Gardens
Japan, Vietnam, Korea and China — each one a garden of your own, with its own plants, landmark, visitors and sounds. Switch whenever you like: the garden you leave waits for you and keeps growing while you are away. Your journal comes with you.
Each country follows its own climate: Vietnam has a drizzly spring of peach blossoms and a cool winter without snow, Japan has its tsuyu rains, Korea its blazing maples, China plum blossoms in the snow. Let the seasons follow the calendar, or keep your favourite all year.
Cherry blossoms, bamboo and stone
A wooden gate by the sand garden
Festivals: Hanami, Tsukimi
Lotus, bamboo and lush greens
A bamboo pavilion
Festivals: Tết, Mid-Autumn lanterns
Only here: white egret, kingfisher · Sound: Lotus pond rain
Pine, maple and quiet stone
A pavilion on a stone terrace
Festivals: Seollal, Chuseok
Only here: magpie, Jindo dog · Sound: Mountain temple
Bamboo, lotus and garden paths
A red moon gate
Festivals: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn
Only here: red-crowned crane, golden pheasant · Sound: Moon courtyard
Journal
85 entries are waiting to be found — plants, animals, fish, weather, events, festivals, interactions and seasonal moments. The ones you haven't found yet show a silhouette and a gentle hint.
Hide every control for a clean frame of your garden — even while you're out walking.
Keep your favourite photos in the journal, with the date, the weather and who was visiting.
Share with a small caption strip: the logo, your garden, the season and the date. Switch it off for a plain photo.
Pocket Zen World
🇯🇵 Japan · 🍁 Autumn · Oct 1, 2026
Calm
Open it for thirty seconds, or stay for a whole breathing session. The leaf button holds four quiet ways to rest, and everything is tuned to be gentle.
Calm breathing, box breathing or 4-7-8, for one to ten minutes. The pond swells and settles with you, a warm light rises and the fish gather.
A quiet timer from 15 to 60 minutes with the garden alive behind it, ending with the soft sound of a singing bowl.
Soft rain, a bamboo stream, evening crickets… Pick a timer and lock your phone: the sound plays on, then slowly fades away.
“Breathe with Pocket Zen World”, sleep sounds from Control Center, and a widget button that waters your garden.
The controls fade away, the screen can stay awake and the camera breathes slowly. Nothing pops up.
Soundscapes are generated on your iPhone and follow the weather, the hour and the season, with soft Core Haptics under every touch. Silent mode is respected — except for sleep sounds you start yourself.
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your garden's weather, season, visitor and blooms at a glance.
English, Tiếng Việt, 日本語, 한국어 and 简体中文 — switch inside the app, whichever garden you choose.
No pressure
Pocket Zen World never punishes you for leaving and never asks for your attention.
No banners, no videos, no interruptions.
Come back tomorrow or next month — nothing is lost while you're gone.
No lives, no loot boxes, nothing to grind.
No account and no tracking. Your garden stays on your iPhone.
No connection needed. Open it anywhere.
VoiceOver labels and actions, Reduce Motion and high contrast are built in.
Pricing
The whole calm experience is free. If you'd like more places and more ways to make it yours, the Pocket Zen Pass is a single purchase — no subscription.
Free
Download and keep
Everything you need to settle into the calm.
On iOS
One-time in-app purchase
Three more gardens of your own, with visitors and sounds found only there.
Bought inside the app, in Settings or from any item marked with the Pass. You can try outfits on and preview decorations before you buy.
Pocket Zen World is made by one person. If you'd like to say thanks, there are three optional tips. They change nothing in the garden — they only say thank you.
Purchases are handled by the App Store, which shows the price for your country or region.
FAQ
Yes. The download is free, and so is the whole core experience: the Japan garden, every interaction, all thirteen visitors, the journal, walking, Zen Mode, breathing, focus and sleep sounds. The optional Pocket Zen Pass adds three gardens and a few extras.
No. It's a one-time in-app purchase on iOS. It supports Family Sharing and can be restored on your other iPhones.
You never need an account. The garden works offline; you only need a connection to buy or restore the Pass through the App Store.
Any iPhone running iOS 17 or later.
Nothing is lost. The garden keeps living for up to seven days of time away, and a short note tells you what happened when you return. There are no streaks to break.
None. There's no account, no tracking and no analytics server. The details are in our privacy policy.
Pocket Zen World is coming soon to the App Store. This page will link to it on launch day.
A small island, a pond, and a cat who may or may not come by. Pocket Zen World is coming soon to iPhone.
For iPhone · iOS 17 or later