Anthesis

Where two ripples cross, a bud blooms.

Anthesis is a game for the worst ten minutes. Tap the water and a ring spreads across the pond. One ring only makes a bud stir. Tap from the other side at the same moment and the two rings meet on it: it opens, bursts into petals, and sends out a bright ring of its own that opens every bud nearby. Clusters go off like dominoes, the chain count climbs, and every tap plays a note in key with the music.

It was made for riding out urges. Before a round you rate how strong the urge is, from one to ten. After, you rate it again. Over time the app shows how much it drops while you play, in your own numbers. It works for whatever you are trying to leave behind, and it never asks what that is.

A GARDEN THAT GROWS
Set your start date and every clean day plants a flower. New kinds arrive at milestones: poppies at three days, water lilies at two weeks, dandelions at a month, moonflowers at a year. If you slip, the count starts again from today. Nothing in your garden is taken away.

FORTY PUZZLE PONDS
Each pond is a fixed arrangement of buds and a handful of ripples to clear it with. Find where two rings would cross on the right bud, and where its bloom would reach, and the whole pond goes in one move. Three blossoms for clearing it at par. Every three ponds brings a new flower.

FIFTEEN FLOWERS
Peony, poppy, anemone, water lily, dandelion, ranunculus, camellia, dahlia, clematis, lotus, passionflower, hellebore, magnolia, spider chrysanthemum and moonflower, each with its own bud, bloom and petals.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE
No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your ratings, your clean days and your garden are stored on your phone and nowhere else. It works fully offline.

Playing the pond, rating the urge and counting clean days are free. Full bloom, a single purchase, grows your days into the garden and opens all forty puzzle ponds.

Anthesis is a distraction for a few hard minutes, not a treatment. If you are struggling, please reach out to someone.