Bloom: 10 Worlds App Reviews

We transfer money over €4 billion every month. We enable individual and business accounts to save 4 million Euros on bank transfer fees. Want to send free money abroad or transfer money abroad for free? Free international money transfer!

Great ambience. It would be an amazing app if you included google’s chromecast support!!!

A bit harsh. I found the tones to be harsh and not very tranquil. Interactivity with the screen and it’s artwork were a bit dull as well. I thought Trope was a much better platform.

AirPlay?. Not only does this not work in the background, it won’t play via AirPlay either, so unless you physically plug it in you’ll have the settle with listening through your iPad speakers.

Thank you for the background audio.. The next thing on my wish list would be to be able to control the “density” (how close together the notes are sounded). Air had this functionality. In that way, the sounds could be more “sparse” - for meditative purposes. Oh, and to those that want it to be like Scape - well it’s called Bloom 10 - Scape 10 is three years away! But seriously, perhaps in the meantime, the developers could make a “combination mode” where a person picks a sound from one of the ten Bloom worlds, places it on the screen, then chooses the next sound, places it, etc. That would certainly introduce considerably more variety. Then again, perhaps that is just not what Eno/Chilvers intended this app to be. Peace.

Amazing Sonic future now here. Having so much fun with this. Lots of screen shot videos. Would love to also have background audio and have a freestyle mode like on bloom where we could play with more options to make this a full fledged sonic visual instrument . Maybe even support for a daw like aum or even garageband. Thank you 🙏🏽💗♾

Excellent but.... Definitely needs plays in background! Please fix this soon. Sound and graphics are superb though.

Meh. There isn’t much todo and the worlds are essentially the same. Save your cash.

Fantastic. After several months enjoying this app I must pay my respect to the creators Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. I’ve been using this app for various reasons: to get inspiration for a new song, to explore all the possibilities (many), to relax and meditate, to calm my pets. At times I will hit the play button and let AI play for me for hours at length. Of all the 10 Worlds my favorite are Petri, Karabekian and Mull. Some of the sounds are a bit harsh, while others remind me of Tibetan bells and such. Definitely an app to have whether you’re a musician or not.

Update: No background audio FIXED. Update: it now plays in the background. Thank you very much, developers! It now feels like a nice little ambient audio experiment while I do other things on my iPhone, which is lovely. Thank you. It makes some nice tranquil sounds I would like to listen to without staring at the screen, but the playback halts immediately when app goes to background. Including when in autoplay and timer mode, no background audio possible! The developer’s website states that all heir apps support background play but not finding it to be the case with Bloom 10, what a shame...

BG Audio update. Wow, going into their code and checking a box for adding background play only took 2.5 months. Review improved to 3 stars as a result. A nice revisit of Bloom, but absolutely pales next to the scope and ambition of Scape, which I honestly thing may be Brian Eno's most impressive work of all.

Does not play in background. Also, where are the settings to send it to stream over WiFi?

Excellent update. I love the different tonalities. As others have mentioned, background audio would be nice. Although I certainly wouldn’t want this to turn into some multi featured complex app, a simple record feature, which could easily integrate into the few menu options, would make this perfect, as, sometimes i make a sequence that is so nice, I’d like to be able to listen to it again in its entirety. Audiobus and such isn’t really needed, but a simple record would be great.

Buyer beware: no background audio. The previous Eno apps allowed the music to continue in the background. This one does not. I love the music but if this is how it’s going to be, I’ll be requesting a refund. As it is, this app is almost useless. I *never* just sit and stare at my iPhone like this app requires. Hopefully the dev will act quickly and fix this massive misstep very quickly. 5 star review awaits the background function.

Nice app .... ... It now plays in the background! Yaah! My only other very minor criticism is that some of the sounds on some of the worlds come in abruptly and harsh at times. I found this app a nice complement to the entire series of apps by Brian Eno. For instance, tap the screen with some good spacing between the notes in the “Mull” #5 World and you get something vaguely that reminds me of the “Music for Airports“ algorithm. Using the same world, if you tap rapidly with several fingers (densely) across the whole screen, you get something like a cascading harp effect ... somewhat reminiscent like that on the “Ambient 3: Day of Radiance” album. Out of all Eno’s apps, I still like the “Scape“ app the best. It is even more interactive whereby you can build your own other worldly sound scapes. If I were to suggest anything to the developers, I would say look at making a Scapes 2 type app that was different and would complement the first one. (BTW, I am STILL trying to figure out what heck the question mark slider does! Care to tell me or is it just a Red Herring?)

1000% better now it plays in background:). I put on my headphones start a cool tune then enjoy reading stuff on my device with awesome meditation sounds in the back ... Totally recommend getting this app... Thank you for the great update.

Background?. I’d like to run this in the background, which is I believe how it’s supposed to work, at least as I understand the ambient concept, but the app doesn’t seem to work that way. Otherwise I love it. Figure that flaw out and I’ll rate it 5 stars.

my first app, now revised. a decade ago, i bought bloom for my ipod touch, turned a lot of people on to it. the new bloom is amazing, a lovely update to a great app. ive only just begun to explore it, but it’s beautiful. a few days later, and am loving this; a great app to get lost in, & some great sound & visuals. glad to see this updated, reinvented.

No Background Play Capability. While I love the app musically and visually, I too am very surprised there’s no background play feature. It definitely needs it, and deserves it.

Love it. I love this app. The added richness over the original Bloom app really makes for great listening and playing. I enjoy that each “world” is revealed only after you’ve experienced the prior ones. It’s a nice touch that encourages listening over “world surfing”. The app is not for everyone but for folks who enjoy pleasant background sounds -not to mention the ability to create your own music - it’s quite worthwhile.

Lovely!. You have outdone yourselves with the visuals on this app! I also like rotating to landscape view for when I want to choose where sounds fall in the stereo field. I only wish I could watch this app on my AppleTV like I’ve done with Reflection, because this one is so aesthetically appealing (I recognize that’s a big ask, as AppleTV maybe doesn’t lend itself to the interactivity that iPhone or iPad offer).

Missing background support. I am a bit disappointed that the new Bloom can’t run in the background and also that there is not any settings menu either. The new scenes and sounds are great though.

Needs more base tones. Would be nice to have a bass world

Great improvement over the previous version. Digging it. I wish it had an option where the initial composition can evolve throughout all of the worlds (ex: I start in world 1, 5 minutes later the same composition automatically passes into world 2, 5 minutes later the same composition passes into world 3, etc.).

Did you know that you can earn 25 USD from our site just by registering? Get $25 for free by joining Payoneer!

Imagine you at your best. All the time. Picture yourself at your sharpest and most productive. Your most alert and focused. Your most lucid, creative and confident. At work. At play. In every area of your life. Add Mind Lab Pro® v4.0 to your daily routine and uncap your true potential. Buy Now!

Lovely - AirPlay?. AirPlay support would be great

Good, but.... Can’t run it in the background? Limits its usefulness tremendously.

Great app to vibe after a doobie. Bloom goes ohmmmmmm

Endless variations. I am only a few hours into using Bloom but it’s a fascinating app. If you have any interest at all into Eno’s ambient music, I urge you to give Bloom a try. The sound choices are vast and the visuals perfectly complement the music. Essentially you are generating a note by touching the screen. Said note decays and repeats for a period of time. Choose one or two notes, add to those, use two three or four fingers to get chords almost. Different areas of the screen give you different note choices. It’s endless. 10 different screens to choose as well. All with different musics. It’s gorgeous and addictive !!!

Stunning update. I’ve always loved the original Bloom app, and it was the driving force behind me getting an iPad in the first place. But this update is miles ahead, and looks amazingly good when put through an Apple TV.. what we have here is a super creative music app that has few rivals… Congrats on an astoundingly good piece of software!

Exquisite. Each new app that the Eno/Chilvers team develops is more ‘beautiful ‘ than the last. This second generation of ‘Bloom’ is probably the nicest pieces of ‘art’ on my iPad. Outstanding work!

Adsterra is the most preferred ad network for those looking for an alternative to AdSense. Adsterra is the ideal choice for new sites with low daily traffic. In order to advertise on the site in Adsterra, like other ad networks, a certain traffic limit, domain age, etc. is required. There are no strict rules. Sign up!