I have written about the Weather Gnome before: the little watercolor mascot who sits on your Home Screen and tells you if you need a coat. What I did not expect, when I started, is that he would end up living in three different places at once.
But over the last few weeks he picked up two more jobs.
The Coloring Book
The first is a coloring book. Forty plates of the same gnome, drawn in the same classic storybook style as the app’s characters in the first place, now sitting on paper instead of a screen. It shipped on Amazon this month.
Dawn to night, four of the forty plates inside.
The Record
The second is a record. Under the name “The Weather Gnome,” the single “Rain on the Window” went live on Spotify last week, and a full fourteen-track album follows on September 4th.
None of this was the plan when I shipped the app. It is what happens when a character is good enough to keep finding new rooms to stand in. If the app tells you rain is coming, that is your cue: play the album while you color a page.
He is still on your phone. That part has not changed: five stars, four reviews, still free, still no ads, still no accounts. If you have not met him yet, here is where to start:
Weather Gnome: Cozy Forecast, free on the App Store.
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