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The cycle follows the place’s time zone, not yours. Sunrises and sunsets colour the sky and the water, shop signs light up with the city, then the real stars turn through the night.
Ambient worlds
A living window to Thailand.
This street is alive right now, with Bangkok’s real time and weather. Pixel Ambience brings places in Thailand to life in pixel art: open a scene, let it run, and spend a few minutes somewhere else.
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Preview Bangkok 22:00 · City night
The idea
A scene that follows the real world
Every scene belongs to a real place. It is not a loop: it receives that place’s time and conditions, and everything adapts — the light, the sky, the traffic and the people.
Real weather
Several public forecasts are checked against observations from nearby airports. When it rains in Bangkok, it rains in the scene: drizzle, downpour or thunderstorm, as measured.
Today’s sky
Cirrus, banks of cloud, grey rain skies or towering storm clouds: the clouds follow the measurements. Lightning lights up the landscape, and mist veils it according to the visibility.
Air quality
Measured pollution becomes a lighter or denser haze on the horizon. You can also show its value on screen.
Offline? The scene keeps going. Pixel Ambience remembers the latest conditions, then uses an estimate for the time and season. An unavailable reading is never replaced by an invented value.
The sky as it is
Phenomena that only appear when the sky allows
Nothing is drawn at random: each phenomenon appears only when the measured conditions allow it. Sometimes you have to wait days to see one.
Thailand, right now
Five destinations, on their own time
Each card shows the place as it is now: day or night, temperature and current sky. Every scene is drawn pixel by pixel and populated with its own residents, vehicles, sounds and daily rituals.
Free
Bangkok — Sukhumvit
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A busy street under the elevated railway: shops, buses, taxis, motorbikes, passers-by and, now and then, an emergency vehicle with sirens blaring.
Premium
Bangkok — Chao Phraya
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A river view with Wat Arun, neighbouring temples and boats coming and going.
Premium
Ban Chi Thuan — Wat Thung Si Wilai
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Isan rice fields in the wet season, village houses and a country temple.
Premium
Koh Samet — Hat Sai Kaew
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White sand, turquoise sea, swimmers, boats and the mermaid monument.
Premium
Chiang Mai — Wat Phra Singh
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A Lanna temple courtyard, red songthaews and the Sunday Walking Street.
More countries are on the way, starting with Japan.
Travel souvenirs
Bring home a magnet from every trip
As you watch, the scenes give you souvenir magnets in relief, drawn pixel by pixel like the places themselves. Sukhumvit, the free scene, already hides ten of them, and Thai fruits can be earned in any scene.
Earned by watching
A boat going by, a thunderstorm, a sunset: each magnet marks a real moment in the scene. The rarest need the real conditions; weather magnets also turn up if you stay long enough.
From postcard to ultra rare
Postcards in relief, moulded fruit, golden plaques, iridescent magnets and a lenticular print that turns from dawn to night.
On your fridge
Arrange them on a fridge or a board, tilt them to see their relief, and share a picture of your collection.
Getting started
Ready in seconds
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Pick a scene
Sukhumvit is free; the other places are in the collection.
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Go fullscreen
Double-click the scene or use the menu, then let it live.
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Adjust the sound
Music and the place’s ambient sounds each have their own volume.
Focus
Work to the rhythm of the scene
The ⏱ Timers panel, next to the sound, turns the scene into a work companion.
- Pomodoro. Alternate focus and breaks in 25/5 or 50/10 minute cycles, or set your own durations.
- Session goals. Write down what you want to get done and estimate each task in 🍅. When it is done, compare the estimate with the tomatoes it really took.
- Your day at a glance. The day’s tomatoes and focus time add up from one session to the next.
- Sleep timer. Music and sounds fade out after 30, 60 or 90 minutes.
- Mini scene. Keep the scene in a small window on top of the others while you work (Chrome and Edge on a computer).
Favourites ☆
Your favourite ambience, in one click
A scene, its view, the ambience, the volumes, the music and your timers: save it all, then bring it back in a single tap.
- All in one. “Rainy night in Sukhumvit, smooth jazz, Pomodoro 50/10”: each favourite remembers the scene, the framing, the ambience, the sound and the timers.
- No account needed. Your favourites stay in your browser, up to eight at a time. Opening a favourite never starts the timers for you.
- On all your devices. Signed in to your account, your favourites follow you on every device.
Settings
Your ambience, your way
Simple by default, adjustable down to the details.
- Ready-made ambiences. Rainy night, Calm dawn, Thunderstorm, Sunny afternoon or Sunset at the day’s real time, in one click with an instant preview.
- Custom ambience. Freeze the time, rain, thunder, pollution, traffic or number of pedestrians. Everything else keeps following reality, without restarting the scene.
- Music and ambient sounds. Choose your genres or your own tracks, skip between tracks and set each volume. Stream mode keeps only tracks checked for live streaming.
- Sound in the background. Keep the music and ambience playing while another tab or window is in front.
- Weather bar. Temperature in °C or °F and air quality; drag the bar wherever you like, or hide it with one gesture.
- Scene rotation. With at least two unlocked scenes, move from one to the next automatically.
- Rendering quality. Eco, Balanced or High, adaptive resolution and a battery saver mode for laptops.
- Ten languages. English, French, Thai, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German and Indonesian.
Ideas
A calm presence wherever you have a screen
Work or study
A gently living street, soothing background music and Pomodoro timers, full screen or in a mini scene.
Living room
On the TV, a window to Bangkok instead of a black screen.
Unwind
Watch the rain fall on the rice fields, or boats pass in front of Wat Arun.
Stay connected
See at a glance whether it is day, raining or hazy over there.
Pricing
Free to start, no subscription
Every feature is included in the free version. Extra scenes are bought once and stay yours.
Free
€0
- Bangkok — Sukhumvit scene
- Real time, weather, sky and air quality
- Music, sounds, timers, favourites and every setting
- No account, no ads
Single scene
€1.49 / scene
- Chao Phraya, Ban Chi Thuan, Koh Samet or Chiang Mai
- One-time purchase, instant access
- Kept in your account
Thailand pack
€3.99 / 4 scenes
- All four premium Thailand scenes
- Already own some? You only pay for the remaining scenes
- One-time purchase, no subscription
Purchases are made from Settings → Account with a Pixel Ambience account (e-mail code or Google, no password). Pay by card or PayPal through Stripe; Pixel Ambience never receives your card details. The exact price is shown before you order. See the terms of sale.
Platforms
The web today, more screens soon
Web
In any recent browser, on a computer, tablet, phone (foldables too) or smart TV. Mini scene on top in Chrome and Edge on a computer.
Android and Android TV
App, weather widget, low-power live wallpaper and screensaver.
Windows and Linux
Desktop version with a floating mini-scene and an animated wallpaper on Windows.
Privacy
Privacy choices
- No location. Weather is requested for the scene’s fixed coordinates, never yours.
- No advertising. No account is needed. The website has anonymous daily counters and optional journey measurement with your consent. Accounts keep email, purchases, magnets and favourites. Manage measurement with Privacy choices.
- Optional account. It keeps your purchases, magnets and favourites across devices, and can be deleted at any time.
Details in the privacy policy.
Light by design
Rendering sleeps between frames instead of keeping your device busy, and stops when the tab is hidden. Eco mode is chosen automatically on modest devices, with data saver on, or when reduced motion is requested.
FAQ
Good to know
Do I need to install anything?
No. Pixel Ambience runs directly in your browser at pixelambience.com. Just bookmark it.
Are the places and shops real?
The scenes are inspired by real places and their landmarks, but remain original artwork: storefronts and signs are fictional.
Why is it night in the scene when it is day where I live?
The scene follows the time of the place it shows. Bangkok is on UTC+7. To keep daylight all the time, freeze the time in the custom ambience.
Where does the weather data come from?
Our server combines public sources for each scene: forecasts from the German weather service (DWD) and the Norwegian institute MET Norway, corrected by observations from the nearest airports (METAR), weighted by their distance to the scene. Sources are credited in the app, and outdated data is discarded in favour of an estimate.
Are the halos, lightning and stars real?
They follow the real conditions, never a random draw: clouds, visibility, storms and the phase of the Moon decide what appears. Stars and planets stand in their true places in the local sky.
Does it use a lot of power?
No. The Balanced profile suits most devices; Eco mode and battery saver reduce the load further on laptops.
Are my purchases tied to one device?
No, they belong to your Pixel Ambience account: sign in on another device to find your scenes on the web.
How can I contact the publisher?
Write to contact@pixelambience.com.