Home Photo Widget2.6.6 - App Store

NOTE: If you find a bug, please click on the support link and send me a message with the details. This is a one man operation and I can't test on many devices...

Add the photos you want to your home screen as widgets:

1. Import the picture or pictures you want to show on the home screen as a widget to the app. You can add it/them to a folder (new or existing)
2. Create a widget, edit it and choose the photo you imported.
3. Select the photo in the app to edit its name and to choose wether you want the widget to show it or not (and its color). If the picture is wide or tall, be sure to set its center to make sure the important part is displayed on any sized widget.

You can import multiple phots and have multiple widgets with different pictures in all three sizes!

Unlock the app to also creat multi photo widgets that display each picture for your chosen amount of time or at specific times in the order you want. Also make mosaics from your pictures:

1. Choose the multi-widget tab
2. Press the + button to add a multi photo widget
3. Choose some pictures from the ones you already imported into the app
4. select the multi photo widget in the app to change its name, edit its order and select the amount of time for each photo
5. Create the widget as before and select if by its name when editing it.
6. Choose the type: Mosaic and Free Mosaic show multiple pictures in the widget. Be sure to edit the composition if you choose Free Mosaic to place the pictures, scale and rotate them to your liking.

You can also add a custom link to your photos so once pressed it will be opened. I've included an easy way to link to your own shortcuts by name.

Version History - You can now select one duration for all pictures in a gallery multi-widget. Just click on one of the duration times and select the "Apply to all" toggle button. 2.6.6 11/11/2021 - Fixed the photo viewer so you can pan and zoom the picture at the same time and also, for new photos (imported with this version of the app) you'll get a high-res version of the picture when opening through tapping on the widget
- Added an option to Gallery Multi-Widgets so if you add one to a widgets stack with auto-rotate on, you can make the widget pop-up when the picture is changed. 2.6.5 10/01/2021 - Fixed a problem with the reordering button (on multiwidgets) not working properly.
- Other small fixes 2.6.4 09/25/2021 - Recompiled using the iOS15 SDK 2.6.0 09/21/2021 Updates for both the free and full version:
- Image Cropping and Rotation
- Organise photos into folders
- Multi widgets are now listed by type 2.5.4 02/17/2021 Free form multi-widgets: Place as many photos as you want in a composition. Drag, rotate and scale them as you want to create your own layout. Links work as expected (you can tap on each photo to run shortucts, open apps or links). 2.5.0 02/08/2021 First: You can now test the full version for free. Create one multi photo widget with a maximum of four photos and with all its features

Lots of updates and features in this version:

For the FULL version:

- Last Selected Widget: Mosaic widgets can have a new widget associated that will show the photo that was last tapped on the mosaic widget. Useful for a kind of 'now playing' showcase
- Maximum number of photos shown in a mosaic: Normally a mosaic widget will adapt the number of photos shown to its size, for example a large widget will show at most 16 photos. If you want only 8 shown at a time (so they rotate in time) you can now set this limit
- Name on mosaic widgets: You can optionally show the name of the multi photo widget on the mosaic.
- Random order for galleries and mosaics: If your multi-photo widget uses a time duration for each photo (as opposed to a specific time for each photo), you can set the order to random.
- New Time mode: Weekly time: Now you can set your multi-photo widgets to show each photo at a specific time of a specific day of the week: Make a daily inspirational picture widget, album of the day, or use it for daily remainders at specific times...

For both the FREE and FULL version:

- Full Screen View: A photo with no links will now open in a special full screen view when tapped on a widget. You can pinch for zoom and drag to pan the picture
- Background color for name labels: You can now set a background color (with transparency) on the text labels for any widget
- Duplicate widgets to make variations

Bug fixes and optimizations:

- Fixed the look of the mosiac widget with margins.
- Fixed a memory issue where widgets would sometimes be displayed blank because of a problem with how WidgetKit handles images.
- Storing optimized images for each widget size: Now the app saves scaled versions of the photos for future use as a work around for a bug within WidgetKit that causes a memory issue when loading images from ram. 2.4.0 12/23/2020 Hope you're all enjoying the centering feature! This is a small update to fix some pesky bugs:
- A problem displaying one picture on a widget where sometimes the picture wouldn't load correctly
- A couple of rare crashes 2.3.4 12/08/2020 A small update to make sure people don't click on the ads by mistake. I've added some extra padding both above and under... 2.3.2 12/06/2020 Big new feature for both the free and the full version:
- Set the center of the image: Manually set a point on each photo so that no matter what the aspect ratio of the widget is, it will always show the correct part of the picture. Great for pictures where the main subject is not on the center of the image

Also some bug fixes and small updates to the interface to make it clearer and better for smaller screens 2.3.0 12/05/2020 Full version:
- Fixed a problem with the links in widgets with just one photo. If you had this problem, it should be fixed just by running this new version and then tapping on the widget. If it doesn't just change the widget to another picture and back. 2.2.4 12/03/2020 Free and full version:
- Now you can add multiple photos in one go, just select them all and they will be all imported into the app. No need to import them one by one

Full version:
- Links on widgets are better now: The app blanks its screen when you tap on a widget with an external link so it's less intrusive
- Added easy ways to create widget links to different services such as calls, sms, etc... Make your own favorite contacts widget. You can even set it up so different contacts are shown at different times of the day 2.2.3 12/02/2020 - Added photo mosaics (full version): Create a multi photo widget and choose the mosaic option. Depending on the number of pictures and the widget size you choose the layout will be different. If there are more photos than can fit on the widget the time settings will be used to rotate the photos shown.
- Added a new time setting (full version): Instead of just setting a time duration for each picture in a gallery, you can set a specific time at which each picture will be shown.
- Fixed some bugs 2.2.2 12/01/2020 New features added (unlockable through IAP):
- Create multi-photo widgets where you can set the time that each picture will be displayed
- Add links to pictures so when you tap on the widget your url will open. The app includes an easy way to compose links to your own shortcuts from the Shortcuts app
- Fixed some bugs and cleaned the code a bit. 2.1.3 11/07/2020 - Fixed the way images are saved to the app to take less space. This should fix problems of some widgets appearing grey 2.0.1 10/06/2020 - Rebuilt the app from scratch using SwiftUI (The update should work fine if you already have the app installed. It will keep your photos)
- Added the option to change the name of each widget and also wether you want to show the name or not (and its color)
- Fixed a problem where the widget would sometimes blink (reload)
- Widgets are now sorted by most recently added both in the app and when editing a widget in the home screen
- Photos are now resized when loaded on the widget so their size is optimized for your actual screen size and widget size. This means widgets take less ram.
- The app now only loads a small thumbnail preview to use less ram too. 2.0.0 10/01/2020 1.0.2 09/18/2020