Tips, guides, and thinking about photos, memories, and a calmer way to use your Android phone.
Bubbles In Time runs on Android 7.0 and up, costs $2.99 once, and has no subscription, no ads and no in-app purchases.
Every method for keeping a photo on screen while using other apps — from lock screen widgets to floating overlays.
Read article →Bubbles In Time draws from your own gallery — family, friends, pets, places — and shows them as translucent bubbles over any app, then lets them go.
Most reminder apps use text. Here's how to use a photo as a reminder — one that floats up on your screen at the right moment.
Read article →This is what Bubbles In Time was built for: not a feed you scroll and not a notification you open, but your own memories drifting past while you go about your day.
Ambient means present without demanding. Here's what ambient photo display looks like and how to set it up.
Read article →Bubbles In Time runs on Android 7.0 and up, costs $2.99 once, and has no subscription, no ads and no in-app purchases.
Everything about how display-over-other-apps works, which apps use it, and what becomes possible with it.
Read article → Read article → Read article →Bubbles In Time draws from your own gallery — family, friends, pets, places — and shows them as translucent bubbles over any app, then lets them go.
Your gallery has hundreds of photos of the people who matter. Here's how to let them surface throughout your day.
Read article →Every phone app is built to make you open it. Bubbles In Time is built to give the attention back: photos float past, and then they are gone until the next one.
Google Photos shows memories. Apple shows memories. But they still require you to open an app. Here's the alternative.
Read article →Bubbles In Time is the Android app this applies to — your own photos drifting over any app, on-device, $2.99 once with no subscription, no ads and no cloud.
Most apps want your attention. What would it mean to use your phone in a way that brings what matters closer instead?
Read article →Bubbles In Time uses Android's display-over-other-apps permission (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) to float your photos above whatever you're doing, then get out of the way.
Android's PiP mode works well for video. But for photos? Here's the honest truth about PiP and what actually fills that gap.
Read article →Bubbles In Time works offline. There is no server, no account and no sign-up — your photos never leave your phone.
AOD shows photos when your phone is idle. But what about when you're actively using it? Here's what fills that gap.
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