App Store metadata — Physarum (draft)¶
- Name: Physarum (if taken in ASC, try "Physarum — Living Ink" / "Physarum Ambient")
- Subtitle (≤30): Living, audio-reactive art
- Category: Entertainment (Primary). Secondary: Graphics & Design (optional)
- Age rating: 4+
- Price: Free
- Promotional text (≤170): A mesmerizing slime-mold simulation you can shape and play — audio-reactive, endlessly evolving, beautiful on iPhone, iPad, and the big screen via Apple TV.
- Keywords (≤100, comma-separated): generative,art,slime mold,physarum,audio reactive,visualizer,ambient,simulation,relaxing,wallpaper (98 chars — dropped "creative"/"apple tv" from the earlier draft, which was 116 and over the 100 limit)
- Description:
Physarum turns the emergent behaviour of slime mold into living, breathing art. Thousands of agents lay down and follow trails, and from those simple rules intricate, ever-shifting patterns emerge. Shape them with a full parameter editor, let them react to music through your microphone, and capture stills, videos, or Live Photos. On Apple TV, Physarum becomes a lean-back ambient display you steer from the couch or mirror live from your phone.
- Full authoring editor: tune agents, sensing, deposition, decay, colour, post-FX
- Audio-reactive: the visuals pulse and bloom to sound
- Capture: high-res stills, video clips, Live Photos
- Apple TV ambient mode with phone control
- Curated presets to start from; save your own
tvOS listing (same app record, separate platform metadata)¶
In App Store Connect iOS and tvOS are separate platform listings under the one app record — each has its own description, keywords, promotional text and screenshots. Simplest: reuse the iOS texts (the description already mentions Apple TV). Stronger: lead the tvOS description with the big-screen/ambient angle. Keywords + promo text: reuse iOS.
- Promotional text (tvOS): reuse the iOS one (it already names Apple TV).
- Keywords (tvOS): reuse the iOS set (tvOS search weighs keywords less).
- Description (tvOS, big-screen-led):
Physarum turns your TV into living, breathing ambient art. Thousands of slime-mold agents lay down and follow trails, and from those simple rules intricate, ever-shifting patterns emerge — a calm, hypnotic display for your living room. Let it run as a lean-back ambient screen, steer it from the couch, or mirror and edit it live from your iPhone.
- Lean-back ambient display — endlessly evolving, never repeating
- Curated presets, each a distinct palette and mood
- Audio-reactive visuals that pulse and bloom to sound
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Steer from the couch, or mirror live from your iPhone
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Support URL: https://git.jkaindl.de/jkaindl/physarum (or a dedicated support page)
- Marketing URL: https://jkaindl.de/uplink/ (optional)
- Copyright: © 2026 Johannes Kaindl