Every memorial has a built-in slideshow that plays the collected photos and memories full-screen — perfect for a TV or projector at the gathering. There's nothing to build or export; it's ready whenever you are.

Choosing what plays

The slideshow is made of the memories you've featured. To add a memory to the slideshow, feature it from your management page — "feature" and "add to slideshow" are the same action. Feature the ones with the strongest photos and stories, and un-feature anything you'd rather not show.

If you haven't featured anything yet, the slideshow will still play from the memorial's photos, so it's never empty when the moment comes.

Starting the slideshow

Open the memorial and choose Play the slideshow. It fills the screen and begins on its own — a gentle, looping sequence of photos and memory snippets with slow pans and soft cross-fades, in the memorial's colors.

Controls are simple and appear when you move the mouse or tap:

  • Play / pause
  • Previous / next
  • A progress bar and dot navigation
  • Keyboard shortcuts: arrow keys to move, spacebar to pause, Esc to exit

Each slide holds for about eight seconds by default. The slideshow remembers where it left off, so you can pause, talk, and pick up where you were.

Showing it on a TV or projector

For the gathering, you'll usually want it on the biggest screen in the room:

  • HDMI — connect a laptop to the TV or projector with an HDMI cable, open the slideshow, and go full-screen. This is the most reliable option.
  • Casting — you can also cast the browser tab to a smart TV or streaming stick.

Two tips that save the day: test it on the actual screen before guests arrive (input and cable surprises cause more trouble than anything else), and if the venue's Wi-Fi is shaky, keep a device signed in and the page loaded ahead of time.

It updates as memories arrive

Because the slideshow is drawn from the live memorial, memories that people add — even during the gathering — can appear in the loop. And the closing slide gently invites anyone watching to add a memory of their own, so the collection keeps growing while the room remembers together.

After the day

The same photos and memories that made the slideshow are the raw material for a printed keepsake book. When the screen goes dark, the stories don't have to — download everything or turn the collection into a book to keep.