How do I see photos from years ago today?

Cloud services auto-generate anniversaries; for an on-device version, pull your favorites from past years into Bubbles In Time and they float back year-round — including, sometimes, on the exact anniversary.

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.

Anniversary resurfacing is sweet; out-of-season resurfacing is sweeter. Best rotation includes both.

How Bubbles In Time handles it

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.

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.