Sensory Magma

Does very little. Thank god you don’t have to pay for it.

I downloaded this because I have sensory processing disorder and wanted to see if it would be helpful. Sadly, it really doesn’t do what’s needed and has some very annoying features - like the sound effects on every change to the blobs. If you are marketing this for people with autism, you need to allow for neutral colours - not primary and secondary colours - such as pale gold to rich gold, and colours in the neutral and calming range. You also need to make the changes smooth, not sudden. Ideally the magma would be played with using fingers on the screen, so perhaps it would follow the touch input or you’d be able to nudge it and change the shape of the blob. Haptic feedback would be a lovely addition here, too. The thing that clinched it for me was the sound effects, though. They are painful to listen to and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change the settings or turn them off. I would pay for an app like this if it did what it said on the tin. You need to do more research on what is actually calming for people with autism.

I got diagnosed when I was 15 or 16, i can’t remember. But I don’t know anything more because I didn’t delve into learning about it. I still struggle with all the same things. This app weirdly made my head feel really nice after getting very upset, I can watch for hours. It helped me calm down and sleep. I don’t have a good coping strategy for meltdowns, but this is a nice app. I think I need more like it.

Amazing app I’m autistic and it really helps me calm down

I love this app it really helps with my anxiety! All there apps are great 👍🏻 If you are playing on this app then you will feel relaxed and calm My school told me I would like this app and I do!!! This is a 5 star 🌟 app🌸🌸🌸🌼

This is a great little thing in my large phone. My mind goes whoosh. So so cooourful! Can anybody even yab on the toddies?

It's hard to keep your phone away from baby, so this app lets your little one have a wee short play instead of being told NO all the time! Simple, effective, lights and sounds.

No adverts or settings or anything else cluttering the screen at all but the colours themselves. Controls are easy to change: movement(tap), colour(tap&hold) or blob-size(pinch). Altering the size changes the colour intensity and brightness the larger the blobs are. Nice slow movement. Fills a dark room with relaxing colour exactly as you'd want an old school lava lamp to. Only criticism is there's a little too much white on some colours getting in the way of the colour and the effect would better if it was pure colour with no white light but some colours have no white in the screen at all and others have white and colour mixed together so you can choose what you want easily.

It's just exactly what you want free, works beautifully, nice colour choice and no adverts what more can you ask for

Really brilliant effects that you can play on your TV. I've tried other lava style apps but this is the best.