Turnglass
A kaleidoscope you can hold, make, and give.
Download on the App StoreFree to download, with a one-time Workbench Key for unlimited making. Requires iOS 17 or later, iPhone.
A kaleidoscope you can hold, make, and give.
Download on the App StoreFree to download, with a one-time Workbench Key for unlimited making. Requires iOS 17 or later, iPhone.
The app opens on a small wrapped parcel with a tag that reads "For you." Tap it, the paper falls away, and your first scope is in your hands.
Tilt your phone and the glass slides and settles. Turn the barrel with two fingers. Press and hold to bring the glass to a stop, then keep that moment as a plate you can save or share. Choose how the glass moves: Fast, Medium, Slow, or Sleepy.
Your scopes stand on a shelf, each one its own object in brass, cherrywood, paper, or hammered tin. Read a scope’s tag to see who gave it, when, and what they wrote.
Make your own. Start from a tray of glass, or pull the colors out of one of your own photos. Add art glass, choose tumbled glass, beads, or shards, pick three, four, or six mirrors, and a look: Cathedral glass, Frosted glass, or Cut jewel. The scope changes live as you build.
Wrap a scope in paper, write the tag in your own words, and send it by Messages, Mail, or AirDrop. When it is opened in the app, the gift lands wrapped on their shelf, waiting to be unwrapped.
No account, no sign-in, no ads, and no tracking. Your scopes live on your iPhone. A photo you choose for glass is read on your phone and never uploaded.
Write to turnglass@canyonskyrain.com and a person will answer.