Re: screensaver slideshow app

Op 29/05/2025 om 17:35 schreef Marion:

On Thu, 29 May 2025 04:55:29 +0200, sobriquet wrote :
 

Is there any free app that does a slideshow with a folder or album of
pictures, where it shuffles the images indefinitely while displaying
multiple images simultaneously (like in a 2 by 2 grid)?
Preferably with a variety of transitional effects (like fading), but
that would just be a lovely bonus feature.

 Hi sobriquet,
 I hoped someone else would step in as I waited a day for a team member who
knows what he's doing to help you answer your screensaver app question.
 I don't know anything about screensavers, as I have never used them, even
when they were all the rage on Windows long ago when they first came out.
 But I ran a search for you and it came up with potential free apps to try.
 Dayframe one possible free app for turning your phone into a digital photo
frame. Dayframe can pull photos from local folders, and social media, and
is designed for continuous display. It has transition settings but I don't
know if it has layout options, though specifically a "2x2 grid" for
simultaneous multiple images might be more of a "collage" feature.
 It might not explicitly offer a "2x2 live grid shuffle" where images are
constantly changing in all four spots independently. It's more likely to
show one or a few images at a time, possibly with collages created as
transitions.
 The problem is I found Dayframe in this shill, which makes me suspicious.
  <https://www.movavi.com/learning-portal/best-slideshow-apps-android-ios.html>
 The way these shills work is they all follow the same pattern:
a. They purport to solve a common problem.
b. So they shill their own solution
c. But to appear reliable (and to generate hits) they also
    provide real solutions - but you never know about those solutions.

Also, reading the description of Dayframe, it says:
"With the Dayframe Prime upgrade, additional features like custom playlists, shuffle mode,..."
So it seems they put even the most basic features like shuffle mode behind the paywall. Which means I won't even bother to try the app.

 Anyway, they have more suggestions in that shill but I'll leave it
up to others who actually use screensavers to help you out further.
 If DayFrame doesn't work out, there's also PicPlayPost or PhotoGrid.
  <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flambestudios.picplaypost>
  <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.photogrid.collage.videomaker>
 Good luck. Let us know how it works out so I can record the result
for the next person who asks for a free screensaver app.

Well, the problem is that there are tons of apps in the playstore, but the vast majority are garbage and an additional problem is that many
are aimed at making a slideshow, so producing some sort of static video
of a slideshow, rather than a kind of dynamic photo frame that simply keeps shuffling pics indefinitely.
It's a nice way to enjoy art, because if you have a ton of abstract art images, it's great to shuffle them in random combinations where different works are shown side by side every time.