The world in the ball
A glass ball with a whole little city inside. The cars keep driving, people keep walking, and the lights are always on.
On your computer it’s a live wallpaper. On your phone, it’s there whenever you want a look.
Get Inchy WorldFor iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac
It sits in a corner of your desk while you get on with your day. Look up and something is always going on; to see it properly, move the camera through the glass.
Tap Scenes in the app and the glass mists over; when it clears, there’s another world inside. Each one has its own weather, its own sounds and its own people.
New Kowloon · District 7
A city within a city on a near-future bay. Neon pools in the puddles, the monorail threads between the towers, and the night market stays open late. On rainy nights it keeps you quiet company while you work or fall asleep.
Chang’an · Lantern Night
Chang’an on the night of the Lantern Festival: the ward gates stay open and the whole city is lit. The lantern wheel stands like a tree of fire, a dragon circles the Wild Goose Pagoda, and river lanterns drift on the Qujiang.
Windows and Mac
One ball on every screen, below your icons and behind every window: silent, no pop-ups. It stops when a window fills the screen or the computer locks, and slows down on battery.
Basic edition
Ride something that moves, picked at random: the monorail, a flying car, a camel, a pleasure boat, or the dragon’s back. Or walk on your own, with WASD on a computer and a joystick on a phone.
Basic edition
Pick a length and start focusing. Each round you finish, your phone buzzes three times and the whole city lights up for you: every window on, fireworks overhead, then slowly back to normal.
From outside, everything sounds as if through glass. Move in, and the rain and the night market are all around you.
On a phone, drag to turn the ball and pinch to zoom, in portrait or landscape.
Works offline. No ads, no account, and no personal information collected.
The app follows your system language, or you can pick one in Settings.
The phone app is free, and every world is free to look at. To ride along, walk around and use the focus timer, unlock that world’s basic edition: buy once, keep it forever.
| Feature | Free | Basic edition |
|---|---|---|
| Overview: turn and zoom | Included | Included |
| Switch worlds | Included | Included |
| Sound | Included | Included |
| Random first person | Not included | Included |
| Free roam | Not included | Included |
| Focus timer | Not included | Included |
Free on phones. One purchase on Steam.
Requires iOS 16.4 or later
Requires Android 7.0 or later
Free to download; each scene’s basic edition is a one-time purchase in the app, paid by card through Stripe.
On Steam, as a live wallpaper