Hills & Coast15 March 2025

Ente memories

Layout and motion reference for the photos app memory viewer, built off Apple Photos Memories. Stock photos, no real library. Tap the right side to skip, left to go back, middle to show controls, hold to pause. Arrow keys and space work too.

On screen now

Sequence

Look

Title style

Progress

Rules that make it feel like Apple

No black bars, ever. A landscape photo on a portrait screen sits in a band. The space around it is the same photo, blurred, and the photo's edges fade into it.
The zoom knows where people are. Each photo drifts toward its face or subject and ends with it in the upper middle (50% across, 42% down). Today the pan is random.
Motion never stops at a cut. The zoom runs linear and keeps going through the crossfade, so the outgoing photo is still moving while it fades.
Mix the layouts. Single, band, stacked, one big plus two small. Pick by photo shape: two landscapes stack. Never two vertical strips side by side.
Chapters pull out. A new day pulls back into a wall of the memory's photos, glides to the next one and pushes in.
Holds are 3 to 4.6 s, measured off Apple. With music, snap them to the beat.

Every number for each layout and transition is in SPEC.md.