Cloudless Engine apps

What started as a passionate dream to connect technology with a beauty of nature, turned into my master’s thesis and took a final shape of unique iOS & Mac apps — released under the Cloudless Studio brand and met with great user acclaim on the AppStore.

It took me 2 years full-time to take the product of my master’s thesis, acquire funding and start a company in order to design, develop, release and market iOS apps for global audience.

The result was two distinct apps — Sky Blue and Moonlight — accompanied by a dedicated multilingual self-developed website, providing landing pages for all platforms and facilitating news & tech support.

Sky Blue was a weather app capable of rendering atmosphere, celestial bodies, sunbeams, volumetric clouds, water reflections and aurora borealis — all smooth on iPhone 3GS, the very first shader-enabled iPhone.

Both apps shared the same proprietory 3D engine, demos of which are still available on YouTube: Atmospheres and Passages.

Moonlight mixed several features — moonphase calendar, weather forecast, quotes and internet radio — into a mesmerizing conceptual experience available on iPhone, iPad as an AppStore app and on Mac as a menu bar widget.

AppStore reception was way beyond my expectations — Moonlight, the de facto opus magnum of this effort, has gathered around 100 favorable reviews from customers across the globe.

“This is a wonderful fusion of technology and art. It’s like the creator was using this technology as an art medium. It’s mesmerizing…”

★★★★★ — Starbd4me, AppStore (US)

“In a perfect world all apps would be designed with this kind of TLC.”

★★★★★ — Gistobious, AppStore (US)

“Relaxing, soothing, contemplative, inspiring, informative, meditative, enlightening and stunningly beautiful in a comprehensive anticipatory way!”

★★★★★ — Abruna, AppStore (US)

“Very nice app with alot of good things. So much care went into it. It is mind blowing. Thank you.”

★★★★★ — nevrenuff, AppStore (US)

“Absolutely beautiful! This app takes you to a whole different place in time.”

★★★★★ — Brjw10, AppStore (US)

Although in 2013 I’ve gradually moved away from 3D mobile apps to focus on web development, this is the foundation that has shaped me as a developer and the origin of Cloudless Studio.