Locket's idea, unpinned from the widget
Locket sends photos to a friend's home-screen widget. Bubbles In Time floats your own memories over every app — the related idea, aimed at your archive.
Locket Widget vs Bubbles In Time — the short version
- Direction: Locket is friends sending you new photos; BIT is your own history resurfacing. Complementary jobs — one is social presence, the other is personal memory.
- Placement: a widget lives on one home-screen panel; bubbles follow you into every app, where screen time actually happens.
- Infrastructure: Locket routes photos through its servers by design (that's the product). BIT has no servers — memories never leave the device.
- Cost: Locket monetizes with a premium tier; BIT is $2.99 once, everything included.
The honest bottom line
Every option here has a legitimate job. Bubbles In Time's job is specific: your chosen memories, floating over your whole day, on-device, for one $2.99 purchase. Where that's the job you're hiring for, the choice gets simple.
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.
$2.99 — once
No subscription · no ads · no account · nothing leaves your phone
Get Bubbles In Time on Google PlayQuick answers
Should I replace Locket Widget with Bubbles In Time?
They often coexist — Locket Widget does its own job; Bubbles In Time adds the floating on-device memory layer neither cloud services nor widgets provide.
Is Bubbles In Time really a one-time purchase?
Yes — $2.99 once on Google Play. No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases.
What can become a memory?
Photos, videos, and saved message threads — plus a Mystery Photo option for surprise.