Window Box

Your browser window with a view.

Open up at windowbox.vercel.app

Some apps demand your attention, but Window Box just sits in a corner, keeping you company.

It simulates a flower planter box on a high-rise window sill, with a blurred city view behind it — the way your eyes naturally see when focusing on something close. The plants are procedurally generated, so no two are exactly alike. The weather is real. When it rains in Singapore, rain runs down the glass. When the sun sets in Honolulu, the light shifts warm and the city outside drops into shadow while the flowers stay lit from inside.

It is designed to live in your browser across a long work day, maybe on a second screen — something to glance at between tasks, the way you might look out an actual window if you had a great view. Because most people like to work to a little music on the radio, a tuner with curated stations including Apple Music Radio and Monocle Radio is built in. For fuller immersion, turn up the audio generator for wind and rain sounds that match what’s happening on screen. It’s inadvertently a fantastic rainy mood machine.

Two locations are available: Singapore and Honolulu. Each brings its own botanical palette and skyline. If you live in one of these cities, it functions as a virtual window. If you don’t, it’s a portal into a part of the world where it’s always warm.