Skiplash

One tap. Perfect timing. A stone across still water.

Skiplash is a minimalist skipping-stone game about rhythm, restraint, and waiting for your moment. Each tap sends your stone arcing toward the surface. Time it right and it skims. Time it perfectly and it flies.

HOW TO PLAY

Tap just as the stone grazes the water. Too early, it drops. Too late, it sinks. Land the sweet spot for a perfect skip — and a streak of perfects builds a multiplier worth up to 5×. The further you fly, the rougher the sea becomes.

A WORLD THAT TURNS

The sky moves through a full day as you play — noon glare, golden hour, dusk, starlight, dawn — and the water, your stone, and every word on screen carry the hour's light. Shooting stars cross the night, and the moon rises in its true phase, waxing and waning through the month as the real one does. Gulls glide by from sunrise to sunset. Schools of fish drift below, and if you watch the deep, a turtle or a shark may cruise past.

Time itself persists: it carries between runs, keeps turning while you sit on the menu, and is waiting where you left it tomorrow. Or let the sea keep your hours instead — one setting anchors the whole cycle to your own clock, so opening Skiplash at dusk finds the water at dusk.

THE SOUND OF THE WATER

Skiplash has no soundtrack. It has a sea — a soft bed of lapping that thickens into wind-blown chop as the waves build, and quiets after dark. Every sound here, the water included, is generated as you play rather than recorded, so calm water and a storm genuinely sound different, not just louder. It steps aside if you're already listening to something, and anything you'd rather not hear can be switched off.

WHEN THE DEEP TAKES YOUR STONE

A sunk run can be rescued. A little lifebuoy floats your stone back up, a slingshot rises from the ring, waits for a level moment on the swell, and flings you back in — score, skips, and speed intact. Saves come five for $0.99, sync across your devices through iCloud, and work up to three times per run. Entirely optional, never pushed.

FEATURES

• One-tap control, scales with your precision
• Streak multiplier system — 2×, 3×, 4×, and 5×
• Up to 25 points on a single flawless skip
• Super-skip every 20 skips — a soaring launch with a perfect-landing bonus
• A full day-night cycle that persists between sessions — or follows your own clock
• A moon in tonight's true phase
• An ambient sea that rises and falls with the waves and the hour
• A living scene: gulls, fish schools, sea turtles, sharks, shooting stars
• Game Center leaderboards — score, distance, and skips
• Pause with a countdown resume and a moment of shield after
• Auto-pauses for calls and interruptions
• Settings for sound effects, the ambient sea, haptics, and the real-time sky
• 120 Hz ProMotion on capable iPhones and iPads
• Haptics tuned to each skip quality
• Automatic light, dark, and tinted icon variants
• Remembers your best score, best distance, and most skips
• Full iPhone and iPad support

CALM, BY DESIGN

No ads. No tracking. No sign-ups. Works offline. Easy on battery. Every sound and vibration can be switched off. One optional purchase — saves — and nothing else for sale.

Cast. Skip. Settle.