Motecraft 2.0, and Motecraft Pro

The gallery grows, Moments gets sharper, and there is now a premium collection — Motecraft Pro. Here is what changed, and what stayed exactly the same.

Motecraft 2.0 is rolling out on iOS and Android. The short version: the gallery grew, Moments got sharper, and there is now an optional premium collection — Motecraft Pro. The important version is what didn't change, so let me start there.

What stayed exactly the same

The free gallery stays free. Everything you could already open, you can still open — nothing moved behind a paywall, nothing was taken away. There are still no ads, no third-party tracking, no streaks, no leaderboards, and no timer counting your session. Open the app, tap something, breathe, close it again.

That was the whole point of Motecraft, and it is still the whole point.

What's new: the premium collection

Motecraft Pro unlocks a premium collection — the richest, most detailed worlds in the app. Deeper colour, more light, more motion. These are the pieces that took the longest to get right.

Geode — facets catch the light and scatter it.

Caustics Pool — sunlight dancing across a pool floor.

You can unlock the whole collection once, or subscribe — whichever suits you. Pricing shows in the app, in your local currency, so I'm not going to quote numbers here that would be wrong for half the people reading.

Moments, upgraded

Moments — the feature that records the canvas instead of the screen — gains higher-quality recording presets with Pro, and drops the watermark from your saved clips. The recording still captures only the renderer: no status bar, no chrome, no app UI bleeding into the frame. Files still stay on your device. There is still no Motecraft server to upload them to.

About that "no accounts" line

Motecraft never required an account, and browsing still doesn't. The one new thing: if you buy Pro, an optional sign-in lets you restore it across your devices. That's the only place an identifier is involved, it's tied to nothing about you, and you never need it just to look around.

The stance hasn't moved

Adding a paid tier to a calm-tech app is easy to get wrong — countdowns, fake discounts, nagging. I wrote separately about how we tried to avoid all of that. The rule was simple: Pro only ever adds.

Motecraft 2.0 is on the App Store and Google Play now.