Material Photo Widget

A home screen widget to display your favorite photos

Material Photo Widget: Customize Your Home Screen

"Material Photo Widget" is a free, open-source Android app designed to personalize your home screen by displaying a single photo or a collection of photos. It allows users to add widgets easily, customize tap actions, aspect ratios, and transition intervals, all while ensuring data privacy with no storage permissions or network tracking.

App stats

Version: 1.19 (Last updated: 2024-11-23)
Creation date: 2023-11-15
Permissions
Other: run at startup, install shortcuts

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App summary

Material Photo Widget is as simple as it can be: a home screen widget to display a photo or collection of photos. It is a free, no-ads, open source alternative for people who want to customize their home screen with their favorite photos.

It's easy and simple to add a new widget with your photos. Start from the app or directly from the home screen widget browser on your preferred launcher.

FEATURES

* Choose each photo or sync a widget with device folders
* Set an interval or schedule to switch photos automatically
* Customize the tap action of each widget: view in full screen, view in gallery, shortcut to open other apps
* Customize the aspect ratio: square, tall, wide, original (same as photo) and fill widget area
* Customize square widgets with 10 different shapes
* Customize the rounded corners of tall, wide or original widgets
* Customize the opacity, offset and padding to align your home screen elements perfectly

PERMISSIONS

* RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED — Used to ensure that widgets function correctly after the device is rebooted
* SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM (optional) — Used to ensure that widgets are updated precisely at the selected interval or schedule

The app does not require any storage permissions. Photos and directories are selected using the native pickers and stored within the app to keep data
private and secure. There's no tracking or network communication.

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Material Photo Widget is an open-source project, find the code and submit feedback at https://github.com/fibelatti/photo-widget

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Simple and easy to use
  • No ads and free to use
  • Highly customizable with different shapes and transparency
  • Open source with good functionality
  • Supports multiple pictures and transitions
Cons
  • Issues with widget stacking and alignment
  • Problems with flipping intervals and updating photos
  • Some features like backup and restore are requested but not implemented
  • Crashes when adding too many images at once
  • Limited to square widgets with round edges customization
Most mentioned
  • Easy to use
  • No ads
  • Customization options
  • Open source
  • Need for additional features like history and backup
User reviews
This app is brilliant!🤩 You can choose from different shapes and turn any pic into the cutest widget! It's easy to use, it's free and it doesn't seem to have any ads! I recommend it for everyone 🥰
by Ágnes Lakatos, 2024-11-23

This app is really nice, and please bring back the feature of tap to change photos and option to take backup Edit: that's really great please also add option to take backup and restore as I edit my home screen many times to try different launchers so it will be a. Great to have feature
by Abdul Hannan, 2024-11-14

Widgets don't stack right now, and actively repel each other like I'm trying to push two opposing magnets together. Incredibly frustrating, my home screen is primarily stacked widgets made with this app and now I can't edit it. Edit: Oh, so it's Samsung's fault lol. Well, my home screen becomes increasingly unusable with each change I need to make to it... but man I love this app, I really hope they un-cripple it in a future update, whatever they did 🙄
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