Timix Is More Alive – Hidden Ripple Effect

One day I was using Timix and realised that tapping the countdown controller didn’t really do much. The jogwheel is nice, sure — but a tap deserves a bit of life too.

I’ve always loved that ripple effect Apple showed years ago in a Camera demo. Recently I learned about Inferno, shaders, and how much is possible today with SwiftUI + Metal. And then, by pure luck, while watching a WWDC sessions, they were demoing a ripple effect again. Perfect timing.

I grabbed the sample project, played with it, saw it working beautifully, and started weaving it into Timix. I fell in love with the result immediately.

But since the countdown view is basically a circle with text, it felt like the right moment to bring another old idea back to life: image & GIF support. It’s been sitting in my backlog for ages, waiting for “the right time.” Turns out, this was it.

Now Timix feels more alive. When you tap the controller, you get a subtle ripple, and the view switches between showing the countdown for the current timer and the full-template countdown — and back again. Small touches, but they make the controller feel like a real, living surface.

Both the ripple effect and GIF/image support are already available in TestFlight.
And for fellow developers: I’ve published the ripple effect as a Swift package so you can add it to your app if it fits your style or want to try something new:
SwiftUIRippleEffect: https://github.com/RogyMD/SwiftUIRippleEffect

Do you like the new ripple effect? Would you add the ripple effect in your app?
Let me know in the comments below.

Links:

• Timix + GIF = a Timer that Tells More Than Time
• Learn More about Timix
• Create custom visual effects in SwiftUI – WWDC24