Photo Frame Slideshow

Photo Frame Slideshow plays photos and videos as a full-screen slideshow on an Android phone or tablet.

Frames
Make a frame from photos and videos on this device. Each frame has its own photos and settings. Rename a frame, choose its cover photo, add photos or remove them.

Albums on this device
Choose one or more albums on the device, and the frame plays the photos in them. With access to all photos, photos saved to those albums later join the frame. Turn on Include videos to play album videos. Album photos are read on the device and are not sent anywhere.

Album photo cache
By default, the album photo cache uses up to 1 GB or 10% of free space, whichever is smaller. Change the limit in Settings.

Google Photos
Select photos and videos in the Google Photos picker and add them to a frame. They are downloaded to the device once and play offline. To add newer photos, pick them again; items already added are skipped. A frame playing a slideshow can also show a QR code. Scan it with your phone, pick photos in Google Photos and tap Done. The photos are added to the frame. The phone must use the Google account the frame is connected to. Disconnecting Google Photos in Settings deletes the app's copies of the photos and videos that came from it and asks Google to remove the app's access.

Paintings
Choose artists and add their paintings to a frame. The paintings are public domain or openly licensed images from museum collections. They are downloaded once and play offline. About once a day, new paintings by the chosen artists are added and paintings taken off the list are deleted.
Artists: Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Kim Hong-do, Shin Yun-bok and Jeong Seon.

Full-screen slideshow
The slideshow plays full screen with the controls hidden. Tap to show previous, pause, next, settings and exit. Swipe left or right to change photo.

Display modes
Smart chooses Fill or Fit for each photo. Fill covers the screen. Fit shows the whole photo on a blurred copy of itself. Original shows the whole photo on black.

Portrait photos
On a landscape screen, two portrait photos taken close together in time are shown side by side.

Transitions and timing
Crossfade, fade, slide, zoom, Ken Burns or none. Each photo stays on screen for 5 seconds to 5 minutes, or a time you set.

Order
Smart shuffle, shuffle, oldest first or newest first. Smart shuffle keeps recently shown photos from coming back too soon.

Clock and date
Show the time in a small or large size, today's date, and the date each photo was taken. The clock can also fill the screen for 30 seconds every 10 minutes. Text on screen changes position slightly over time.

Night schedule
The screen turns black during the hours you set, and the frame starts again in the morning. Brightness can follow the system or be set for the frame. Auto dim lowers it over the 30 minutes before the night schedule starts.

Videos
Videos play muted by default, up to a length you set, and then the slideshow continues.

Start when charging
Set the frame as the Android screen saver and it starts when the screen would turn off while charging. The app can also start the last frame when it opens.

Offline playback
Photos are saved on the device at a size that suits the screen, so frames play without an internet connection. Settings shows the space each frame uses, and photo quality has three settings.

Privacy
The system photo picker gives the app only the items you select. Photos stay on the device and are not sent to us, and they are excluded from cloud backup. No account and no ads. Usage statistics and crash reports are sent only if you allow them.

Android 7.0 and later, phones and tablets.

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Recent changes:
Google Photos: pick photos and videos in the Google Photos picker and add them to a frame. They are downloaded to the device once and play offline.
While a slideshow plays, a frame can show a QR code. Scan it with your phone, pick photos in Google Photos with the Google account the frame is connected to and tap Done.
Disconnecting Google Photos in Settings deletes the app's copies of photos and videos from Google Photos and asks Google to remove the app's access.