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Chaos
Studies

Most apps want your attention.
This one wants your presence.

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App Store

Open it, and you're greeted with a living form. Something that moves, loops, and unfolds. You can touch it, rotate it, zoom in close. It responds immediately, but never quite behaves.

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Touching Motion

Something Alive

With a swipe, the structure turns in space. With a pinch, it opens up or collapses inward. Thousands of particles trace paths through an invisible shape, leaving glowing trails that fade slowly over time. The whole thing feels alive—less like an object and more like weather.

Sound

Music That Responds

Sound is woven directly into the motion. Low tones respond to speed. Higher harmonics appear as movement becomes more complex. Layers of sound are positioned around you—above, behind, below. Rotate the form and the sound rotates with it. It's not a soundtrack playing over the visuals. It's part of the same system.

Chaos Studies on Mac
Chaos Studies on iPhone
Presence

Something to Return To

Open it for thirty seconds between meetings. Or lose ten quiet minutes watching motion unfold. It works as a momentary reset, a visual fidget, or a way to slow your breathing without being told to. In a world full of feeds optimized to keep you scrolling, this is software that doesn't ask anything from you.

Playdate

Pocket Meditation

On Panic's tiny yellow handheld, the crank becomes your connection to the form. Turn it slowly and watch the structure rotate in response. Pure black and white rendering strips everything back to essentials. Sometimes constraints reveal more than freedom.

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Screenshots

Dark and light modes across devices

Nine Forms to Explore

Strange attractors are shapes that exist only in motion. They come from chaos theory—mathematical systems that never repeat, but never fall apart.

Lorenz

Lorenz

Rössler

Rössler

Aizawa

Aizawa

Burke-Shaw

Burke-Shaw

Halvorsen

Halvorsen

Chen

Chen

Nose-Hoover

Nose-Hoover

Sprott B

Sprott B

Dadras

Dadras

Some feel calm and meditative. Others feel restless, almost anxious. Switching between them changes the mood instantly.

That's why this is called Chaos Studies: a way to watch chaos behave.

Put on headphones. Touch the screen. Let it move.

Use it to relax, to focus, to zone out, or just to look at something beautiful.

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App Store

It won't ask for anything. It's just there when you need it.