For macOS · System audio
Your music, as a living sea.
TideGlass turns whatever's playing on your Mac into slowly evolving natural worlds: oceans, forests, deep space, eighty-eight in all. Set it on a second screen, and forget the controls.
Why a second screen
Built for focus, not for feeds.
Most ways to fill a second screen end up competing for your attention, always nudging you toward the next thing. TideGlass does the opposite: it moves with the music you already chose, and asks for nothing in return.
Made for deep work
Calm motion at the edge of your vision keeps you in flow, and asks for none of your attention. It stays light on the CPU while you work.
Nothing to fall into
It is not a place you browse. Nothing to scroll, nothing queued up next. Just the audio you chose, made visible.
Calm on tap, day or night
Reading after dark, or hosting on the big screen. The room turns to soft, glassy light that never breaks the vibe.
Watch the app breathe.
Short screen recordings of TideGlass in everyday use, from first launch to picking a mood. Real captures arrive with launch; the scenes behind them are already live.
From zero to calm
Grant system audio, pick a first mood, and you're running a full scene in under a minute.
Felt, not metered
Play something with a pulse and watch the sea answer. The reaction is smoothed, never strobing.
Worlds, not presets
Choose "Night Shoal," not "FFT bin gain." Crossfade between worlds, or let them rotate to match the music.
Eighty-eight worlds.
Every one is a living simulation with its own rules, never a loop and never a preset. Weather moves through them, creatures hunt in them, light travels across them, and whatever you are playing stirs the whole thing. Here are eight.
- Oceans & Rain
- Forests & Fields
- Night Lights
- Deep Space
- Skies & Peaks
Bait Ball · Stillwater · Goldfields · Rainveil · Gargantua · Flat Calm · Sunglade · Fireflies, and seventy-two others, sorted into five families and laid out by colour.
On the same screen
Two companions in the corner.
A second monitor can earn its place twice over. Both of these sit in a corner, fade out when you stop moving the mouse, and never cover the world.
What is playing, right there
Cover art, title and artist for the track you have on, with skip and pause under your cursor. You can put it in any corner, size it, or have it show only when you reach for the mouse.
Works with Apple Music Spotify
A focus timer that fits the room
Work and break intervals you set once, a soft bell at each turn, and a row of dots for the sessions behind you. It lives in the same calm as the world it sits on, so a finished session never yanks you out of one.
Set it once. Let it breathe.
How it works
Built to be felt, not watched.
No bars, no equalizers, no kaleidoscopes. Sound maps to nature, and the design gets out of your way.
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Nature, never knobs
Low sounds swell the tide and breathe through the dunes. Bright ones scatter starlight. You never see a parameter.
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Slow inertia
The motion breathes with the music instead of twitching at it. Nothing strobes, nothing snaps, nothing demands a glance while you work.
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Dark by default
A second monitor sits at the edge of your vision all day. Palettes stay deep and low-glare, as easy on your eyes at noon as at midnight.
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Set and forget
Beautiful in under a minute, then invisible. Send it to a second display and leave it running.
Coming soon
Bring the tide home.
An ambient companion for your Mac, reacting to whatever's playing right now.
Ten worlds are free, for as long as you like. One payment opens all eighty-eight for good. No subscription, no renewal, and no trial to run out.