Mantel – Photo Widget
Rotating Frame & Slideshow
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Put your own photos on your Home Screen — a photo widget that rotates. No ads, no subscription, and only the photos you pick leave the Photos app.
Put your own photos on your Home Screen. Mantel is a photo widget with no subscription: pick a few photos, and they rotate in a widget — your dog, your friends, last summer — right where you already look. No ads, no account, and nothing leaves your phone — except that Pro syncs your sets through your own iCloud (you can turn it off).
Use it as a vision board, too: pick the photos of what you're working toward — the trip, the house, the finish line — and keep them on your Home Screen.
■ What it does (free)
・Pick photos with the system picker — Mantel never asks for access to your whole library
・One set of up to 12 photos
・A Small widget on your Home Screen that changes photo every hour
・Choose whether each photo fills the frame or fits inside it
・Add and remove photos any time
■ Mantel Pro (a one-time purchase, not a subscription)
・Medium, Large, and Extra Large widgets, as many as you like
・Unlimited sets — family, travel, pets — one set per widget
・Unlimited photos per set
・Rotation interval: every 15 minutes, hourly, every 6 hours, or daily
・Shuffle
Reaching a limit never removes anything you already added. Only adding more stops.
■ Privacy
Only the photos you pick are copied into the app. Your originals in Photos are untouched, and your photos are never uploaded anywhere.
To improve the app, only anonymous usage (the app was opened, a widget was displayed) is sent — never your photos, and never your name, email or advertising ID. You can turn it off under Privacy in Settings.
No ads. No subscription. No account.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Small improvements, and wide photos no longer overlap inside a set.
The developer, Minari Taniguchi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Minari Taniguchi
- Size
- 3.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 17 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Mantel Pro $6.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Minari Taniguchi