Paid Bloom

Your desktop is a garden.

Paid Bloom is a small garden that lives on your screen and grows while you work. You don't tend it and you don't water it. You sit down, you type, and by the end of the week something has quietly bloomed behind your windows.

They grow while you work

Every word you type drips water into the garden - ten keystrokes, one drop - and that water feeds everything you've planted at once. The hours you spend working are the hours your garden spends growing. Then one afternoon you look up, tired, and the screen has filled with flowers.

No two flowers are the same

Plant the same seed twice and you get two different plants. Shape, petal count, colour, the way each one leans toward the light - every flower grows into its own individual. Ten tulips are ten tulips, not one tulip printed ten times.

Rare colours are hiding in there

Fifty-five species, and in each one a few colours you can't plan for. Keep growing a flower and the rare variants start to appear - a paler petal, a doubled bloom, a shade you haven't seen before. The album keeps every one you find, and quietly tells you what's still missing.

Nothing here is urgent

Nothing withers. Nothing dies. Close the game for a week and your garden is exactly where you left it. No streaks to break, no timers to miss, no daily chores. It's meant to be the opposite of whatever you're taking a break from.

One desktop, as many gardens as you like

A windowsill, a balcony, a greenhouse, a garden at night. Start a few and move between them, or pour everything into one and watch it fill up. Each has its own light, its own weather, its own mood.

Made to sit behind your work

Run it as your wallpaper and forget it's running. Paid Bloom is built to live quietly behind everything else - not asking for your attention, just giving you something to find when you finally look up.