Mother's Day photos: one Sunday a year, floating all year

The brunch photo gets posted, the day ends, the photo sinks — Mother's Day has a 24-hour photographic half-life.

The idea

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.

A rotation of mom across years — young mom, grandma era, the four-generation shot — makes Mother's Day a recurring event instead of an annual one.

In practice

Bubbles In Time works offline. There is no server, no account and no sign-up — your photos never leave your phone.

For those whose mothers are gone, the same rotation at whatever frequency feels right, with the pause switch always one tap away.

Setting it up

Ten minutes, once: install Bubbles In Time ($2.99, one-time), pull the relevant photos from your gallery into the rotation, set a frequency that feels right, and let the floating layer do the rest. Everything stays on your device — no account, no uploads, no ads between the memories — and the pause switch is always one tap away.