Zen Garden Rake: Sand Patterns

Zen Garden Rake is a small sand garden in a cedar frame that fits in your hand. Drag your finger and a rake combs clean grooves through fine white sand. Low morning or evening light catches every ridge, so the same pattern looks different at each hour.

Rake the sand

- Rake with 3, 5 or 7 tines and choose narrow, medium or wide spacing.

- Grooves follow your finger smoothly. Crossing an old line replaces it cleanly, with no muddy holes.

- Line tool for single strokes, dots and writing.

- Ripple tool: tap a stone and concentric sand ripples flow around its outline. Where two stones meet, the rings part naturally.

- Pattern fill draws straight lines, gentle waves or a fan across the whole garden in one sweep, with ripples around every stone.

- Smooth brush in three sizes, plus Smooth all to start over in a second.

- Undo and redo up to 20 steps.

Stones and moss

- Eight stone shapes and two kinds of moss, each one slightly different every time.

- Drag to place, use two fingers to turn or resize, long-press to remove.

- Sand pushes up around a stone when you set it down.

- Arrange for me places a balanced group of 3, 5 or 7 stones.

Light and weather

- Morning, noon, dusk and moonlight, or Auto that follows your phone's clock. No location access.

- Four sand colors: white granite, pale grey, warm beige and charcoal.

- A light breeze drifts a few leaves onto the sand. Light rain taps on the stones but never washes your pattern away.

Finish, sit, share

- Tap Finish and the controls fade away while the light moves slowly across your garden.

- Sit mode keeps the screen on with a sleep timer.

- Share your garden as a clean image, and keep up to 30 gardens in the gallery to open again later.

Quiet by design

- Every sound is synthesized live: the hiss of the rake changes with your speed, stones land with a soft knock, wind and distant water play in the background.

- Sound stays off until you turn it on, and it stops for calls and other apps.

- A small banner sits below the garden. A full-screen ad can appear only when you leave a finished garden.

- All tools, stones, sand colors, light and weather are included. Nothing is locked. No account needed, and it works offline.