# Photo Album Widget — Your iCloud shared memories

> Home screen widget for displaying local and shared iCloud photos. (iPhone/iPad app by Lukas Gergel.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-album-widget/id1591614003 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Lukas Gergel](https://appshunter.io/developer/1533550676)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: $1.99
- Rating: 3.40/5 from 14 App Store ratings · 12 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 17 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Indonesian, Italian and 14 more
- Released: 2021-10-23
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-album-widget/id1591614003/reviews.md

## What is Photo Album Widget?

The best photos you own are the ones you never look at. They sit in an album you last opened months ago. Photo Album Widget brings them back out, onto the screen you check a hundred times a day, and keeps them coming with nothing left for you to do.

Choose an album once. That is the whole setup.

Point a widget at an iCloud shared album that your family and friends keep adding to, or at any album already on your device, and it starts pulling photos from it. Every time the widget refreshes there is a different one waiting.

WHAT YOU CAN SET UP
• As many widgets as you like, each one on its own album with its own settings
• Photo order: oldest first, newest first, or completely random
• How often the photo changes, anywhere from every 5 minutes to once every 24 hours
• Filters, including Noir for classic black and white
• Decorative frames around the photo
• An optional caption with the date the photo was taken, the place it was taken, or both
• What a tap does: open the photo full screen in the app, or skip straight to the next photo without leaving the Home Screen

Put one widget on your parents' shared vacation album and another on last summer's camping trip, side by side, each refreshing on its own schedule.

ON YOUR MAC, TOO
The same widget runs on macOS. Your album gets a place on your desktop and behaves exactly the way it does on your phone.

NOW IN 24 LANGUAGES
New in this version: the app and the widget's setup screen are fully translated into 24 languages, so you can set everything up in the language you already think in.

NOTHING TO SIGN UP FOR
No account. No sign-in. No ads. No tracking. Photo Album Widget reads your albums straight from the photo library on your device, and your photos never leave it.

Pick an album, and let it run.

## Key features

- Home screen photo display
- Local and iCloud album support
- Automatic photo updates
- Customizable photo order
- Photo filters and frames

## Recent user reviews (10 of 12)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-album-widget/id1591614003/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Amazing!!!

*2026-08-18*

I wanted to put all my pictures of my dachshund on a widget with a controllable interval time between photos. I also wanted to be able to point the widget at an EXISTING album from my photos app. I tried everything. Tons of free apps. The stock Apple Photos widget. The Shortcuts/Automation app. Nothing gave me what I wanted. I finally found this app. I’ve had an iPhone since 2010 and haven’t bought probably 30 apps the entire time. I paid for this one and love it! It does everything I need it to. You can even set the app to change the picture each time you touch it.

### 1/5 — Broken

*2026-04-15*

The widget just shows a white screen, never showing the photos in my album.

**Developer response:** Hi, thank you for your feedback, and I'm sorry the widget isn't working for you. I haven't been able to reproduce this issue, but a white screen is usually caused by missing photo access. Please go to Settings > Photo Album Widget > Photos and make sure access is set to "All Photos" (or that the selected album's photos are included). Then remove and re-add the widget. If that doesn't help, please contact me. I'd be happy to help you get it working.

### 4/5 — Please add MacOS support

*2025-10-27*

This app is great on iPhone and iPad, but on my MacBook, the widget becomes solid gray when you open an app and the widgets become the background. I hope I make sense. It looks normal when the desktop itself is in focus, but as soon as you open an app in tbe foreground, the widget becomes completely grayed out. It’s probably because this app doesn’t have native MacOS support. Hopefully it is added eventually.

**Developer response:** Thanks for the detailed report! macOS support is already implemented, so what you’re seeing is definitely not expected behavior. This looks like a macOS widget rendering issue when another app is in the foreground. I’m actively investigating it and a fix is planned for an upcoming update. Thanks again for pointing this out.

### 1/5 — Good idea. Needs work

*2024-11-26*

Works almost fine… unfortunately you are unable to select which album you want to display on the widget. It has the option to do so, but it will not function so you are stuck with whatever it randomly selects

**Developer response:** Hi! 👋 Thanks for sharing your experience. The widget does allow you to select a specific album—if it isn’t working, it’s usually because the app doesn’t have permission to access your photo library. Please check your device’s Settings > Privacy & Security > Photos and make sure permission is enabled for the app. Once that’s set, the album selection should work as expected. If you still have any trouble, feel free to reach out through the in-app support and we’ll be glad to assist.

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2024-07-09*

Added the widget, selected an album, all was good. With widget is just a grey square on my screen.

**Developer response:** Hi there! 👋 Thanks a lot for your feedback and for trying out the widget. The grey square issue you mentioned has already been fixed in the latest version of the app 🎉. Please update to the newest release, and it should work as expected. If you still notice any problems, feel free to reach out via the in-app support—we’d be happy to help!

### 1/5 — So promising

*2024-02-19*

I was so excited to find this because it was exactly what I was looking for. I put all the pictures I wanted in an album but then the widget wouldn’t allow me to select an album. It just simply didn’t work for me. I can adjust all the other settings, tried restarting my phone, but it just doesn’t work. So I tried it on my iPad, but got the same issue. Wondering if there’s a conflict with a recent update? Hoping it will get fixed because the design is perfect and simple and again exactly what I was looking for

**Developer response:** Hi! 👋 Thanks for sharing your experience. The widget does allow you to select a specific album—if it isn’t working, it’s usually because the app doesn’t have permission to access your photo library. Please check your device’s Settings > Privacy & Security > Photos and make sure permission is enabled for the app. Once that’s set, the album selection should work as expected. If you still have any trouble, feel free to reach out through the in-app support and we’ll be glad to assist.

### 4/5 — Pretty cool once it started working

*2023-09-26*

The Photo Album widget is not showing up on iOS 17. Unusable. 

EDIT: The widget randomly showed up several hours later. It pulls from my shared album exactly as I hoped!

The photo frame options are weird. And I wish you could click a photo and have it go directly to that photo in the Photos app, rather than in the widget app. But now I can have a shared album as a widget!

### 2/5 — No good for medium size widget

*2022-07-15*

I made a specific album to display photo on a medium size widget. On this album all image are resized with aspect ration corresponding to medium size widget but this application is doing a mess of this album : photo displayed with arbitrary aspect ratio and badly cropped (cutting face)

**Developer response:** I'm sorry the app isn't working the way you want it to. In the latest version I have improved the display of medium sized widgets.

### 4/5 — No other widget does what this one does!

*2022-07-14*

I wanted a widget that would pull images from ALL of the photos on my phone without creating an album and display them randomly. I downloaded multiple widget apps, and this was the only one that had that capability! I wish it were possible to selection an option to see the displayed image amongst all of the photos in your album, but that doesn’t seem possible here, nor were any of the other widgets capable of that which seems a little odd to me, but glad this is able to do what it does.

### 5/5 — Exactly what I was looking for

*2022-05-28*

Now I don’t have to create separate albums! I was annoyed with all the other photo widgets out there that required making an album in their app. I wanted a widget that gets pics directly from albums in the Photos app, and this is perfect! I picked this one over another one because it has configurable refresh times! (fyi, “Efect” is misspelled, it should have two f’s, “Effect”! ☺️)

## Frequently asked questions about Photo Album Widget

### What is Photo Album Widget?

Photo Album Widget is an application designed to display photos from your local or shared iCloud albums directly on your iPhone or iPad's home screen. It allows for automatic updates and customization of how your photos are presented.

### How much does Photo Album Widget cost?

Photo Album Widget is a paid application, priced at $1.99. This one-time purchase grants you access to all its features without any additional costs or subscriptions.

### Does Photo Album Widget have ads?

No, Photo Album Widget does not contain advertisements. As a paid app, it offers an ad-free experience for users.

### What devices are compatible with Photo Album Widget?

Photo Album Widget is compatible with both iPhone and iPad devices. It is designed to leverage the home screen widget functionality available on these Apple platforms.

### How often is Photo Album Widget updated?

The latest version of Photo Album Widget is 2.7, and it was last updated on December 11, 2025. This indicates a commitment to ongoing development and improvements.

### What is the age rating for Photo Album Widget?

Photo Album Widget has an age rating of 4+. This means it is suitable for children aged four and older, with no mature content.

### Can I choose the order of photos in the widget?

Yes, you can customize the presentation of your photos. Photo Album Widget supports displaying photos in descending, ascending, or random order to suit your preferences.

### Does Photo Album Widget allow for photo editing?

While Photo Album Widget focuses on displaying photos, it does offer the ability to apply various filters and frames to the images shown in the widget. This allows for some creative customization of your photo display.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.8 — 2026-08-03

Photo Album Widget now speaks your language.

• The app is fully translated into 24 languages: English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
• The widget's setup screen is translated too, so every album, order, filter, frame and refresh option reads in your own language.
• The black and white filter is now labeled Noir, the name it has always had in the app.

Thanks for using Photo Album Widget.

### 2.7 — 2025-12-11

New widget configuration options.
Support for widgets on macOS.

### 2.6 — 2025-09-23

Welcome our biggest visual update yet. The app now shines with Apple’s Liquid Glass aesthetic—a living surface of light.

### 2.5 — 2025-09-17

Updated to work on latest iOS versions.

### 2.1 — 2022-07-30

New option to customize the layout of metadata labels. Fix for poorly sized and positioned images on the medium size widget.

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