What you may see and hear
The pond includes continuously moving water, reflections, and light effects. Manual weather may show rain, snow, night scenes, and lightning. Sound includes the kitten, water, weather, ambience, and music. Intensity changes with weather and quality settings.
Not everyone reacts to these effects, but individual responses vary. The app makes no promise of comfort, relaxation, or any medical benefit.
- For a first session, try a short viewing period and notice how you feel before continuing.
- Sound and visual motion can be considered separately: turn sound off if you do not want audio.
Moving visuals and lightning
If moving water, reflections, contrast changes, or lightning make you uncomfortable, look away and pause the app immediately. You may also turn off Enhanced effects or choose a more restrained visual setting; these are usage controls, not treatment or medical protection.
People with sensitivity to flashing lights or particular light-dark patterns may need to avoid those visual stimuli. Public health references note that flash frequency, brightness, contrast, viewing distance, and surroundings can affect individual responses, so one threshold cannot establish safety for everyone.
- If you know you have photosensitive epilepsy or have had symptoms triggered by flashes or patterns, follow advice from your doctor or another qualified health professional first.
- If you experience dizziness, nausea, headache, visual changes, loss of consciousness, or another concerning symptom, stop using the app and follow your personal medical or emergency plan; seek local medical help when needed.
- Do not keep staring at an effect that makes you uncomfortable in order to test your tolerance.
Sound, pausing, and breaks
You can turn off all sound in settings or pause the pond. During work or extended viewing, take regular breaks away from the screen, change position, look into the distance, and rest your eyes; these are general habits, not treatment advice.
If discomfort continues after a break, do not rely only on lowering quality and continuing. Note which visual or audio effect preceded it and consult an appropriate health professional.
- Turning sound off immediately stops the kitten, pond, weather, ambience, and music.
- Pause stops current motion and interaction; you can step away before resuming.
- In a shared space or at night, consider keeping sound off.
If you feel unwell
If you feel unwell, stop watching, turn sound off, and pause or quit the app. Do not treat the absence of symptoms as medical proof of safety, and do not use this page as a diagnostic tool.
If symptoms are severe, persistent, or recurring, or you are concerned about light sensitivity, contact local health services or a qualified professional you trust. Use local emergency channels for an emergency.
- This notice does not replace advice from a doctor, optometrist, or other qualified professional.
- A parent or caregiver may stay with a child during first use and stop the app at the first sign of discomfort.
Source and scope of this notice
For general background on flashing lights, light-dark patterns, and individual differences, this site consulted the Epilepsy Foundation’s Photosensitivity and Seizures page and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS’s Can flashing light affect my epilepsy? page. They support a general caution only; neither evaluated this app or endorses it medically. The source links and access date are recorded in the website content-sources document.
- The product does not claim to protect eyesight, prevent epilepsy, treat anxiety, or provide another medical benefit.
- This notice does not turn one flash rate, brightness, or duration into a safety guarantee for everyone.