Endelig et ægte locket for android – LockLove

Olalla used Locket on her iPhone 11. She loved it: Pau lived in a small widget on her home screen, a photo a day, and that was enough. But the iPhone 11's battery was already stretched thin, and this winter she moved to a Pixel. The first thing she missed wasn't Apple's ecosystem: it was having Pau in some visual corner of her phone. She tried LockLove on a Friday at 20:12. She set it up in five minutes. She was surprised not to find the widget format she was used to, but when she saw the first photo of Pau filling her entire lock screen, she stayed looking at it for a long while. 'It's like going from a fridge magnet to a painting in the hallway,' she told her sister. Different choice, same affection.

Quim and Raisa never got around to trying Locket because neither of them ever owned an iPhone. They lived with a vague, slightly silly feeling that loving little apps were a thing for couples with apples on their phones. When they found LockLove on an ordinary Sunday at 11:39, they laughed: 'finally, something built for us.' What hooked them wasn't the full screen — it was the silence. Not having to clear a notification, not having to open anything. Quim now sends Raisa a photo every morning before heading to class, and Raisa finds it when she wakes up without a single buzz.

Saleta and Telmo both work in television. Privacy matters more to them than to most: an accidental screenshot, a widget visible on a newsroom desk, can turn into a story. They tried Locket a while back and felt a little uneasy having a photo of each other in plain sight on the home screen, where anyone could see it over their shoulder. When they found LockLove, what won them over wasn't just the full screen, but the fact that the wallpaper disappears automatically when you lock the phone. One person's face, a moment on the other's phone, and then silence. On a Tuesday at 22:34, Saleta sent Telmo a photo of the Mediterranean from Alicante. He saw it in Mahón, without anybody else ever seeing it.