New baby season: the firehose weeks, kept

The first weeks produce hundreds of photos and a memory blur — parents shoot everything and remember almost nothing clearly.

The idea

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.

Add ten from the firehose to the rotation now; they'll mean exponentially more floating up at month six, year two, year ten.

In practice

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.

Grandparents' phones want the same ten. Five-minute setup, months of arrivals.

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.