Ambient Album
Digital Photo Frame
$4.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now with Immich Support!
Bring old devices back to life instead of leaving them in a drawer!
Ambient Album turns your iPhone or iPad into a clean, customizable digital picture frame for your home, desk, kitchen, bedside table, or office.
Ambient Album is specifically designed for older iPhones and iPads that still have a great screen but no longer serve as your everyday device.
Choose photos from your Apple Photos or Immich Server libraries, select specific albums, or show all photos. Then set your device on a stand and enjoy a fullscreen slideshow designed to feel calm, personal, and always present.
Features include:
• Fullscreen photo slideshow
• Select all photos or specific albums
• Newest first, oldest first, or random photo order
• Adjustable slide duration
• Ken Burns, dissolve, and fade-to-black transitions
• Crop, letterbox, or blurred background display modes
• Side-by-side portrait photos on landscape displays
• Optional clock, date, weather*, and device location overlays
• Optional photo metadata including file name, album, and photo location
• Custom overlay position, size, and bold text options
• Disable iOS auto-lock for continuous display
• Auto-dim support with adjustable delay and brightness
• Motion-based wake from dimmed display
• Overlay drift to help reduce OLED burn-in risk
Ambient Album is built for the simple joy of seeing your memories more often. Set it up once, place your device where you will see it, and let your photos become part of the room.
Minimum Supported Devices (iOS/iPadOS 15 required):
• iPhone 6s (2015)
• iPad 5th Generation (2017)
• iPad Air 2 (2014)
• iPad Pro 9.7-inch (2016)
• iPad Pro 12.9-inch 1st Generation - 2015
*Local weather information provided by Open Weather Map API.
Privacy Policy: https://ambientalbum.nerdypup.com/privacy.html
Open Weather Map Privacy Policy: https://openweather.co.uk/privacy-policy
Immich Privacy Policy: https://immich.app/privacy-policy
EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Ambient Album 2.0 adds Immich support alongside Apple Photos. Connect to an Immich server with an API key, choose Immich albums or All Immich Images, and include those photos in the Ambient Album slideshow with familiar metadata and display options.
New in this update:
- Immich photo source support alongside Apple Photos
- Immich sign-in from Settings with server URL and API key
- Secure Immich API-key storage
- Immich album picker with album thumbnails and photo counts
- All Immich Images selection
- Capture Date metadata overlay for Apple Photos and Immich photos
- Side-by-side metadata for paired slideshow photos
Fixes in this update:
- Improved empty Apple Photos album preview handling by trying multiple recent image assets.
- Improved Apple Photos album counts and thumbnails by filtering album previews to image assets.
- Fixed random slideshow ordering so Random reshuffles the loaded photo list.
- Improved Immich loading performance for large albums and All Immich Images.
- Improved Immich image counts by using asset statistics when available.
- Improved Immich loading cancellation so stale album, image, and photo-load tasks do not update the slideshow after settings change.
- Improved slideshow loading feedback when progress is known but total count is still unavailable.
- Fixed side-by-side metadata so the right pane tracks and updates the right-side photo.
- Fixed delayed screen dimming so stale brightness updates are ignored if the display state changes.
- Improved mixed-source selection handling so Apple Photos and Immich choices do not unintentionally replace each other except for each source's All option.
The developer, Derek Klein, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Derek Klein
- Size
- 15.4 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Derek Klein
