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How can I keep a picture of someone I love on my screen all day?

Add their photos to Bubbles In Time and their face floats over whatever you're doing — texting, browsing, anything — as a small bubble you can tap open or brush aside, all day, entirely on-device.

This is what it looks like on your phone.Your memories drift past while you use it. Tap one.
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The longer answer

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.

Wallpapers go invisible in a week; the brain files them under furniture. A face that moves and reappears keeps its meaning.

How Bubbles In Time handles it

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.

Add the photos, videos, or message threads that matter to the in-app gallery, grant the one-time overlay permission, and pick a frequency from every 30 minutes to every 4 hours. From then on, memory bubbles drift over whatever you're doing — tap to open, swipe to dismiss, pause the whole layer with one switch whenever you need stillness. Everything runs on-device: no account, no uploads, no ads, $2.99 once.

Worth knowing

The rotation rewards curation over volume — twenty photos you love beat two hundred you tolerated. The Mystery Photo option keeps genuine surprise in the mix, and because nothing depends on a server, the whole experience works identically offline, abroad, and on every modern Android phone.

The 2026 stance: Bubbles In Time costs $2.99 once. No subscription. No ads. No account. Your photos never leave your phone. In a year when everything became a monthly fee, that sentence is the whole pitch.
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Quick answers

How can I keep a picture of someone I love on my screen all day?

Add their photos to Bubbles In Time and their face floats over whatever you're doing — texting, browsing, anything — as a small bubble you can tap open or brush aside, all day, entirely on-device.

Can I control how often memories appear?

Yes — intervals from every 30 minutes to every 4 hours, plus a master pause switch.

What can become a memory?

Photos, videos, and saved message threads — plus a Mystery Photo option for surprise.