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Big bubbles drifting across a sky that follows the real clock from dawn to stars. Each film is shaded with true interference physics, so it is born pearly, blooms into colour, goes black at the crown and pops.
Soap Bubble Sky is free, forever. No account, no time limit.
Soap Bubble Sky fills the New Tab page with soap bubbles drifting over a sky that runs on your clock, from dawn through midday blue and sunset to a starry night. New bubbles float in from all four edges toward the middle, wobbling as they go, and each lives 30 to 60 seconds.
Their colour comes from the film itself: a new bubble is pale and pearly, then magenta, green and gold bands swirl across it as the soap drains, the top goes dark, and it pops.
One shader paints the sky, clouds, sun, moon and stars. A second treats each bubble as a flat square and works out, pixel by pixel, a curved sphere, its film thickness and the light it reflects.
Soap Bubble Sky is one of the five free themes, with Constellation, Marble, Synthwave and Paper Drop, and it stays free. The clock, date and search box are free too. Pro is $5.99 a month or $39.99 a year, cancel anytime, or $59 once for Pro Forever, and adds every Pro theme, music sync, and every new theme as we release it.
Soap Bubble Sky follows the sun where you live and turns to night after sunset. You can also pin day or night in the Themes panel.
Yes, within a simple model. For every pixel the shader takes the film thickness and viewing angle, bends the angle into the film as water does, and works out how strongly nine wavelengths reflect, three per colour channel. So the bands come in a real bubble's order and the thin crown turns black first.
Yes. Soap Bubble Sky is one of five free themes, with Constellation, Marble, Synthwave and Paper Drop, and it stays free. No account, no time limit.
About eighty at 1920 by 1080: roughly 35 small ones far off, 38 in the middle and 10 big ones up close. Smaller screens get somewhat fewer and larger ones more. When a bubble pops or drifts away, a new one floats in from beyond an edge.
The sky runs on your computer's clock but uses sunrise and sunset calculated for New York, so it can be out of step with your window if you live far away. The extension also dims the page after sunset; the Day/Night button in the Themes panel changes only that dimming, not the sky.
No. It's a desktop browser extension for Chrome on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. If you're reading this on a phone, send yourself the link.