Skylit turns a wall-mounted Android photo frame into the place your household checks every day: family photos, the weather, everyone's calendars and a small animated robot named Momo.
Actual Skylit screens at the frame's resolution, shown with sample data.
Large type, generous touch targets and soft colours, readable from across the room on a 1280×720 frame.
The time, the forecast, recent photos and today's plans share one screen. Start from Balanced, Photos first or Plans first, then arrange it however your household likes.
Grandparents, friends and family can add pictures without an app: share a Google Photos album, or email them to the frame's own inbox. Everything plays as a gentle slideshow when the frame is idle.
A month view and agenda that combine up to six Google calendars, each with its own label and colour. Keep adding events on your phone; the frame refreshes every 15 minutes.
Live Open-Meteo forecasts with hourly and five-day outlooks, illustrated in nine scenes with day and night variants.
Pictures are decoded before their turn, so each one gets its full viewing time. Touch brings the controls back; they fade again after four seconds.
Scan the QR code on the frame, check that the number matches, then browse, hide, collect and crop pictures from the sofa. The connection is encrypted, stays on your Wi-Fi and closes itself after 15 minutes.
Choose a clock, arrange the dashboard and pick colours that suit the room.
Drag widgets from the gallery onto a live canvas. Drop one on another to swap their places, drag a corner to resize, and pick a style for each. Widgets adapt from a small tile to the full screen.
Automatic mode switches at sunrise and sunset in your city, calculated on the frame. High contrast is there when you need it.
Every frame comes with a tiny robot, drawn entirely in code. Tap him for one of thirteen reactions. He follows your touch with his eyes, notices the rain, new pictures and bedtime, and can pick new clothes every day. This is the real Momo, running right here.
A frame runs all day, in a shared room, for people of every age. Skylit is designed around that.
Large type, generous touch targets and a larger-text option. Clear labels instead of clever ones.
When the frame sits idle it plays your pictures; the first touch brings the dashboard back.
A quiet schedule and a privacy pause for evenings, guests or a good night's sleep.
The dashboard is bundled with the app, so it starts offline and keeps the last forecast, events and pictures.
Layouts adapt to landscape 16:9 and 16:10 screens, from compact panels to large displays.
A three-step guide on the frame covers your city, photos and calendars, and reopens from Settings any time.
There is no Skylit account or hosted service. The frame talks directly to the services you choose.
Skylit checks the project's published GitHub releases, verifies the package and signer, then downloads or installs only when you allow it.
You need a wall-mounted Android photo frame on Wi-Fi. Private details are always entered on the frame itself.
Download the signed APK from GitHub releases and install it on your frame.
Wireless setup guide →Weather, time and automatic light and dark mode follow the city you pick.
Paste a shared Google Photos album link, or connect a dedicated Gmail inbox with an app password.
Photo setup →Copy each calendar's secret iCal address on your computer and enter it on the frame.
Calendar setup →Skylit is an Android app for wall-mounted photo frames with a landscape 16:9 or 16:10 screen. It is developed and verified on an Android 12 frame with WebView 95.
No. Skylit is free and has no hosted backend, so there is no Skylit account or subscription. It needs no Google API key, developer project or Google Play services.
Use a shared Google Photos album, or email pictures to a dedicated Gmail account whose app password you enter on the frame. You can also curate pictures from your phone over local Wi-Fi after pairing with a QR code.
Copy each Google Calendar's secret address in iCal format on your computer and enter it on the frame. Skylit shows up to six calendars read-only and refreshes them every 15 minutes. You keep adding events on your phone as usual.
On the frame. Calendar addresses, mail credentials and cached pictures stay in the app's private Android storage.
The dashboard is bundled with the app, so it starts offline. The last forecast, calendar events and saved pictures stay available until the connection returns.
From version 2.16, Skylit checks published GitHub releases, verifies the signed APK and can download or install it during an idle window you choose. Automatic download and installation are opt-in.
No. Skylit is an independent project inspired by Wes Bos's photo-frame-dashboard. It is not an official Wes Bos or Skylight product.
Free to download. Read the source and documentation on GitHub.