Updates
What’s new
Everdust ships on several devices, each on its own schedule. Every release that reaches a store gets a line here: what’s new, what we fixed, and where to get it.
Night Sky on iPhone and iPad (iPhone and iPad 1.1)
- Night Sky: hold your phone up and see the real sky where you are, right now: stars, planets, the Moon and the Milky Way where they really are, lined up with true north. Drag to look around, pinch to zoom, slide through tonight's hours.
- Fly into the wonders: tap the Orion Nebula, the Pillars of Creation, Andromeda, the Crab Nebula, the Magellanic Clouds and more, and fly into real photographs from Hubble, Webb and other observatories, given depth. Each world downloads the first time you visit it.
- Find it from Tonight's Sky, or in Tools, where you can pin it.
- Our Solar System's planets now wear their real maps: Hubble's Jupiter and Saturn, NASA's Earth, Mars and Mercury.
- Fixes a crash on launch on older iPads, a tighter first chapter of The Story of Everything, steadier AirPlay from a Mac, and a more reliable Create.
- Still no ads and no account.
Night Sky on Android (Android 1.0.8)
- Night Sky: hold up your phone to see the real sky over you, with stars, planets and what's up tonight.
- Fly into 69 nebulae, galaxies, star clusters and black holes, made from real telescope photographs. Each downloads the first time you visit.
- Eclipses and transits, star cards and a passport of the wonders you've visited.
- The Laser Show, Laser Cathedral and five more pendulums.
- Fixes black screens on older phones. If a scene stays dark, Everdust offers Simple graphics.
Released in stages from November 6; out to everyone since November 7.
Night Sky, a new home and a rebuilt Laser Show (Apple Vision Pro 1.1)
- Night Sky: the real night sky all around you, from home or from the darkest places on Earth. Look at a planet, the Sun or a distant wonder and pinch to fly there. Run time faster or backward, leave star trails, find a constellation or see the aurora.
- Deep-sky wonders: real photographs from Webb, Hubble, ESO and other observatories, given depth so you can fly into them, from the Pillars of Creation to the Crab Nebula. Each wonder's Learn card says when it's up tonight from where you are, and credits its photographs.
- Hold a nebula in your hands and turn it while the sky stays still, or grab Saturn, Jupiter or another planet. A new Sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, and a new Betelgeuse.
- Solar System to Scale: walk out from the Sun to Neptune with every size and distance true.
- A new home: every world behind doors for Night Sky, Play, Stories, Music Visualizers and more, with Start here on your first visit. Prefer the old layout? Classic home and Classic controls are in the ⋯ menu.
- The Laser Show, rebuilt: lasers all around and above you play to your music, and nothing strobes.
- Calm tools: guided rest (NSDR), now also as a slow drift down a glowing river, plus breathing, a sleep timer and a focus timer.
- Also new: a small ? in every world shows what your hands can do, A Handful is free all the way to its end, and pendulums come in 3D with ribbons of light. Fixed: the Black Hole Golf pinch holds, and Play from your phone comes back after you leave the app.
Everdust is on iPhone and iPad (iPhone and iPad 1.0.1)
First release on the App Store.
- Space games you play with your fingers, built on real physics, with levels, stars to earn and a free daily level: Feed the Black Hole, Lightfold, Comet Rider, Black Hole Golf and more. Black Hole Hockey, Jet Versus and Murmuration Duet are for two players, on one screen or across two phones laid end to end.
- Narrated science stories, from the first light after the Big Bang to a giant star going supernova. Every chapter is a live simulation you can play with. All of The Story of Everything is free.
- Tonight's Sky: the Moon, the planets, meteor showers, the space station passing over, the aurora forecast and the clouds, in plain words.
- Calm: a sleep timer, breathing guides, a focus timer with a Live Activity on your Lock Screen, and guided NSDR (non-sleep deep rest).
- A universe simulator in your hands: a galaxy collision of up to about a million stars, and black holes that bend light. Touch toys too, such as Black Hole in Your Palm, Stir the Stars and Lightning in a Jar.
- Every scene can move with music: a song from Files, the room, or music played to it from another iPhone, iPad or Mac. The sound is analyzed on your device and never recorded or sent.
- Create: step into the universe as particles with the selfie camera on iPhone, turn a photo into a field of particles, walk into famous paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai and others, or describe a scene and let AI design it (uses Create credits).
- Free to download, with no ads. Everdust Plus unlocks every Story chapter, every game level and every Calm session.
Everdust is now on Meta Quest (Meta Quest 1.0.2)
First release on the Meta Horizon Store.
- Over 150 living worlds you can touch, play and step into, from colliding galaxies and black holes to murmurations and the deep sea. Every one is a live simulation, not a video.
- Hand tracking or Touch controllers, seated, standing or roomscale; in your room with passthrough, or fully immersed.
- Headset games: Galaxy Billiards, Black Hole Golf, Fireworks, Lightfold and Orb Popper are free in full. Smoke-Ring Archery, Lantern Temple, Rain Piano, Marble Machine and A Handful start free.
- Narrated science stories: all nine chapters of The Story of Everything are free, and every other Story starts with free chapters.
- Calm (a sleep timer, a focus timer, guided breathing and a 10-minute NSDR session), and music your way: free Mixes, songs on your headset, the room, or play from your phone on the same Wi-Fi.
- Free to download, with no ads and no account. Night Sky and its deep-sky wonders aren't on Quest yet: they come in a later update.
Fixes for black screens and a Samsung crash (Android 1.0.4)
- Fixes black screens on some phones.
- Fixes a crash on some Samsung phones.
- If a scene can't run on your phone's graphics chip, Everdust now says so instead of showing a black screen.
It reached some phones only (its staged rollout stopped at 10%); 1.0.8 has these fixes for everyone.
Everdust is on Apple TV (Apple TV 1.0.1)
First release on the App Store.
- Ambient mode: choose Play all and Everdust takes a slow, shuffled lap through the worlds, hands off, like a screen saver.
- Narrated science stories, from the first light after the Big Bang to the last stars. All of The Story of Everything is free.
- Space games for the Siri Remote: Feed the Black Hole, Fireworks on the Beat, Black Hole Golf and Orb Popper, each with levels and a free daily level.
- Music for the living room: stream free Mixes from independent artists, play music to your Apple TV from your iPhone, or let the scenes move on their own.
- Walk into famous paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai and others.
- Free to download, with no ads.
Hand tracking from the start, and Everdust Plus (Apple Vision Pro 1.0.2)
- Hand tracking now works from your first immersion, so you can reach in and stir the stars straight away.
- Everdust Plus is now on sale in the app. It unlocks the rest of every Story and every game level; everything that was free stays free.
- Fixes and improvements.
A calmer No sync and a clearer first chapter (Android 1.0.3)
- No sync is now calm: with no music playing, scenes drift on their own, with no hidden beat.
- The Story of Everything has a shorter, clearer first chapter that points ahead to the next.
- Fixes.
Guided tips and gentler haptics (Android 1.0.2)
- Guided tips for anyone new to Everdust.
- Haptics: choose Off, Gentle or Full. They're calmer by default.
- Fixes.
A faster first look (Android 1.0.1)
- New here? Everdust now opens straight into a live galaxy collision. Touch it, then try a narrated story or a game.
- The Story of Everything is marked Start here until you've seen it.
- Several scenes now look the way they should, such as the dark storm sky in Inside the Storm.
Everdust is on Google Play (Android 1.0)
First release on Google Play.
- Space and science games, each with free levels and a free daily level.
- Narrated science stories: The Story of Everything is free in full, and every other story starts with free chapters.
- Tonight's Sky: the Moon, Space Station passes, aurora chances and a cloud forecast.
- Calm: sleep and focus timers, guided breathing and NSDR.
- A particle universe simulator and relaxing touch toys.
- No ads, no account.
Everdust is on Apple Vision Pro (Apple Vision Pro 1.0.1)
First release on the App Store.
- Reach in: particles flow around your fingers and swirl closed behind them. Galaxies collide with up to about a million stars, and black holes bend the light.
- Watch a world in Full immersion, or In your room, where it rests on your real table.
- Narrated science stories you step inside. All of The Story of Everything is free.
- Games you play with your hands, from Fireworks and Black Hole Golf to Galaxy Billiards and Lightfold.
- Walk into famous paintings by Van Gogh, Monet, Hokusai and others, every brush stroke at its own depth.
- Your music moves the worlds: stream free Mixes from independent artists, play your own songs or music from your iPhone, or let Everdust listen to the room.
- Free to download, with no ads.