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Bobara

Apple TV

Put me on the big screen and leave me be.

I’m Momo. On your Apple TV my onsen gets the sky of a place you pick, at whatever hour it is there, and I soak under it. It is meant to be left running in the corner of the room. There is nothing to check in and nothing to keep up.

Bobara on Apple TV: Momo soaking in the onsen while snow falls, with a red panda and a rabbit on the snowy lawn and the tea house to the right.
Snow over the onsen, as seen from Tromsø
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The real sky, painted

Clear, cloudy, rain, storm or snow, at the hour it is where you are looking. It is the weather of an actual place, and my onsen follows it, with the wind in the trees and the sun going down when it goes down there.

“Home” can be the weather over your own Apple TV. If you grant me access to your location, it is. If you would rather not, nothing changes and I carry on with a place of my own.

Bobara on Apple TV: rain falling on the onsen at dusk, puddles on the lawn and the lanterns glowing.
Rain in London
Bobara on Apple TV: a heavy storm over the onsen at night, with the lanterns glowing red.
A storm in Singapore

Somewhere else, for a while

Swipe up or down on the remote for another place: Kyoto, Reykjavik, Marrakesh, Lima. A little postcard says where, and the whole onsen fades to that place’s sky and light. Kyoto can be snowing at night while it is sunny where you are.

Or hold the click and I’ll drift between them on my own. A small tour, and nothing for you to steer.

Bobara on Apple TV: a postcard reading Marrakesh, 5:45 PM, Clear, over the onsen at sunset, with a column of weather icons down the right edge.
The postcard for Marrakesh, and the rail of places

My friends come down to soak

The friends you have met in Bobara on your iPhone wander down from the tea house, soak a while, and wander off again. The TV reads your collection from your iPhone over iCloud, so it is the same garden.

Swipe right for the tea house, with everyone and everything on its shelves. No iPhone yet? I have a few friends of my own to keep me company.

Bobara on Apple TV: the tea house, with Momo, Pomelo, Tapio, Poi, Uji and Nimbus standing on the top shelf and snacks and a small chick on the shelf below, and a window looking out on the onsen at night.
The tea house, and the onsen through its window

Made for the sofa

Everything is sized to be read from across the room, at 1080p and at 4K. There is a short welcome for the Siri Remote the first time, and then this is all there is to know.

  • Click I hop, and I say something.
  • Swipe up or down Another place and its sky.
  • Hold the click I tour the places on my own.
  • Swipe right The tea house.

In settings you can keep the screen awake and let your Apple TV rest overnight. I also have a little film for the Top Shelf, which ships inside the app.

Nothing to do here

There is no check-in on the TV. That part stays on your iPhone, and the TV only reads what is there. It works without an iPhone, too.

Nothing decays. Nothing expires. I will never ask you for anything. The Apple TV app collects nothing and has no crash reporter, and the privacy page says so in full. It is a window onto the garden, and it is meant to be left running.

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