Why to use a Digital Picture Frame?
Digital picture frames are a fantastic way to display your favorite photos on a never-ending rotation, making the most out of your most sentimental snaps. It’s true that we all love the analog appeal of traditional photo frames, but digital photo frames have become so clever that once you have one, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Traditionally, the best digital picture frames simply allowed you to insert a USB memory stick or SD card of your favorite snaps. However, there are now digital photo frames that will directly draw photos from Cloud storage or even your social media accounts as well. No matter how you load the images onto your digital picture frame, the color LCD screen will then display your pictures. Some people choose to have a continuous slideshow, whereas others like to have a single image that they can change depending on their mood. Read on for more details and a selection of our recommendations for the best digital photo frames you can buy in 2020.
List of Best Digital Picture Frames with Wi-Fi
Pix-Star Wi-Fi Cloud Digital Photo Frame
The best thing is its stunning photo quality, along with the 4:3 aspect ratio on a 1024 x 768-pixel screen, images look bright, crisp, and clear. You can make adjustments to the LED-backlit screen for brightness, hue, and contrast depending on ambient lighting.
The Pix-Star digital picture frame has many smart extras. You can stream broadcasts from a number of international radio stations to play music over a slideshow, and there are many transitions available to customize image presentation. You can also set reminders, use the built-in calculator, and play simple puzzles, Sudoku, and other games.
This gadget lets you link up to 25 frames from a single account, where you can send and receive images and audio messages directly to and from connected frames. You can also view pictures from web albums, including Google Photos and Facebook. The digital picture frame has 4GB of onboard memory and supports USB thumb drives and SDHC/SDXC camera cards.
Pix-Star 15 Inch Wi-Fi Cloud Digital Photo Frame w/ Memory Card
Features
- Pix-Star 15 Inch Wi-Fi Cloud Digital Photo Frame FotoConnect XD with Email, Online Providers, iPhone & Android app, DLNA and Motion Sensor (Black)
- Lexar Professional 633x 16GB SDHC UHS-I Card w/Image Rescue 5 Software
- SD Memory Card provides extra storage to view and share photos in addition to Wi-Fi connectivity and internal 4GB memory
Aura Mason Frame
Many digital picture frames promise clear and bright images, but there is a profound difference when seeing your photos on the Aura digital picture frame, which is 9 inches with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Colors are vivid but realistic, and the 224 ppi resolution screen displays the depth of color as well as exquisite detail.
This wifi photo frame depends on its iOS and Android app more than most other digital picture frames. That’s because the frame accepts only cloud input – no SD cards or thumb drives. along with a Smart Suggestions feature that helps choose images from your gallery.
An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness and an auto function turns off the frame when it’s dark in the room. There’s no touch screen – and thus no finger smudges to mar the view. Instead, the frame operates via two touch bars: one on top and the other on the side of the unit.
The Aura Mason Frame comes in two colors – Graphite and White Quartz – and it sits on your table in either landscape or portrait orientation. The frame is a work of art from the outside in.
Aura Mason Smart Digital Picture Frame 9 Inch Free Unlimited Storage HD WiFi Frame The Best Way to Share Photos Feel Together from Away
Features
- BEST IN CLASS DIGITAL FRAMES: Instantly share photos with ease from your phone to an Aura digital photo frame through our easy-to-use app; Invite unlimited friends and family to share pictures to your frame or send photos to their frames all via WiFi; Alexa Compatible; A beautiful gift to keep you connected to loved ones
- INTELLIGENT PHOTO CURATION SOFTWARE The Mason Digital Frame automatically crops and positions photos so that every image fits perfectly; Intelligent Photo Pairing displays related photos side-by-side to create unexpected moments of delight
- ENHANCE YOUR DÉCOR Aura leads in digital frame design with premium materials exquisite craftsmanship and elegant styles that suit any home
- UNPARALLELED IMAGE QUALITY Eye-catching FHD resolution is the highest in the industry and ensures your digital photos display in true color Rotate for vertical or horizontal orientation For optimal display quality automatically crops and positions photos to fit the digital framemounting type Tabletop
Nix Advance 8-inch Digital Photo Frame
As a compact digital picture frame for a desk or end table, the Nix Advance 8-inch Digital Photo Frame is a bright, colorful choice among the best digital picture frames. Its traditional 4:3 aspect ratio, LED backlit display shows photos in realistic and appropriately saturated colors with crisp details. Skin tones look natural, and the frame shows deep blacks for black-and-white shots.
The motion sensor helps the Nix Advance 8-inch Digital Photo Frame conserve energy so that you don’t have to switch the unit off if the room is empty. It accepts both USB and SD/SDHC cards for displaying a single photo, rotating a slideshow, or 720p video.
We also like its handy date and time display. It’s a subtle feature, but having this information available at a glance is always useful.
NIX Advance 8 Inch USB Digital Photo Frame Widescreen - HD IPS Display, Auto-rotate, Motion Sensor, Remote Control - Mix Photos and Videos in the Same Slideshow
Features
- THE SUPERIOR NON-WIFI DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME: Enjoy crisp, vivid photos (JPEG) and videos (MJPEG-4) with the NIX Advance Widescreen's 8 inch 1280x800 HD IPS display with 16:10 aspect ratio and built in stereo speakers
- DISPLAY THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS AND VIDEOS: Enjoy all your favorite memories on the NIX Advance Digital Photo Frame; Choose from different slideshow transitions: Play them according to their file name, or shuffle them
- EASY PLUG AND PLAY: Set up your Frame in minutes; Just insert a USB stick or a memory card (SD/SDHC) to instantly display your favourite photos and videos on the NIX Advance Widescreen Digital Picture Frame; does not connect to WiFi
- PACKED WITH FEATURES: Never miss an important date again with the NIX Advance Widescreen Digital Picture Frame's Clock and Calendar functions; Use the remote control to manage how your photos are displayed.
- SUPPORT WHEN YOU NEED IT: Our Customer Service team is here to help you with your NIX Digital Frame; We want to do everything we can to make you happy with your frame
Facebook Portal
The Facebook Portal digital picture frame displays your photos from Facebook and Instagram on a 10-inch touchscreen that’s easy to use. But you can also use this digital photo frame to make video calls using Facebook or WhatsApp. The Portal’s smart camera is smart enough to follow you around (by panning and zooming) as you move. Plus, you can apply fun filters to add some personality to your chats.
The Portal also has Alexa built in, so you can can ask the assistant anything you would ask one of Amazon’s smart speakers or use the Portal to check who’s at the front door. When you’re not viewing photos, making calls or chatting with Alexa, the Portal can stream music from several services, including Pandora and Spotify.
To help protect your privacy, the Portal comes with a switch to shut off the camera, and you can delete any recordings the Portal has heard. Or you can just have the portal not save any of your recordings. Overall, the Portal is a pretty good deal given everything this device can do.
Portal from Facebook. Smart, Hands-Free Video Calling with Alexa Built-in (Gen 1)
1 used from $189.99
Features
- Move and talk freely with Smart Camera: With Smart Camera, you don’t have to worry about being out of frame. Whether you’re moving around the kitchen, prepping dinner or chasing the kids through the living room, Smart Camera adjusts to follow the action. And as more people enter a room, Smart Camera automatically widens to keep everyone in view, so you don’t miss a moment
- Private by design: Facebook doesn't listen to, view or keep the contents of your Portal video calls. Calls on Portal are encrypted, so conversations stay between you and those you're calling. You can also completely disable the camera and microphone with a single tap, or block the camera lens with the camera cover provided
- Connect with friends, even if they don't have Portal: Easily call friends and family on Messenger — calls can be made seamlessly to and from smartphones and tablets. And you can bring up to six other people into a group call
- Alexa built-in: Portal has Alexa built-in, so you can ask a question, set a timer, add items to your shopping list, control your smart home or more. Just ask
- Experience more together: With Portal, story time will never be the same. With music, animation and augmented reality effects, Portal lets you become some of your children’s favorite characters as you read along to well-loved stories. And if friends or family also have Portal, you can listen to your favorite music together as if you were in the same room, without delays or feedback
Aura Carver
Aura’s Carver Digital Picture Frame is, in many respects, similar to the superlative Aura Mason Frame. It has many of the same characteristics, such as the 224 ppi screen resolution and an exterior that exudes minimalist chic – available in either Charcoal or White Chalk. There are a couple of differences, though. The Carver is designed as a landscape-only frame measuring 10.1 inches diagonally, offering a larger, more cinematic HD image presentation.
The Carver Digital Picture Frame delivers outstanding rendering of both colors and photo detail — and is bound to be the best image you will see of your photos. It accepts only cloud input from iCloud, Google Photos and your Camera Roll, meaning there’s no storage limits and all uploads to your frame cycle through the Aura app for iOS or Android. You, friends and family can, via the app, contribute photos to the frame from anywhere.
While the digital photo frame is limited to landscape orientation, because of its widescreen display, it can pair two vertical photos side by side, and does so automatically. There are no physical inputs on the frame, so to change which photo to view at will, you can use the touch bar at the top of the digital picture frame. This is an elegant solution, because it keeps the glass pristine, as opposed to other touch screen frames marred by icky fingerprints. An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness and an auto function switches the frame off after dark.
For the best quality widescreen frame to complement any home décor, the Aura Carver is a fine choice.
Aura Carver Smart Digital Picture Frame 10.1 Inch HD WiFi Cloud Digital Frame Free Unlimited Storage Easy Setup to Send Photos Remotely Via App More Secure Than Email
Features
- Best in Class Digital Frames: Instantly share photos with ease from your phone to an Aura digital photo frame through our easy-to-use app. Invite unlimited friends and family to share pictures to your frame or send photos to their frames all via WiFi. Alexa Compatible. A beautiful gift to keep you connected to loved ones.
- Unparelleled Image Quality: Experience our largest display screen yet at 10.1" with a Stunning WUXGA 1920x1200 resolution that is the highest in the industry, providing you with clear and crisp photos of loved ones. Ensure your digital photos are displayed in true color with The Carver Digital Photo Frame that automatically displays your photos at the perfect brightness for the room and will go dark when you turn off the lights.
- Enhance Your Decor: The Carver Digital Picture Frame boasts a sleek, minimalist design focused on clean lines and geometric shapes. Wirecutter’s Best Digital Photo Frame May 2020 and Oprah’s Favorite Thing 2016 & 2018. With a product lineup exquisitely crafted from premium materials built for any home, Aura is the leader in digital frame design.
- Unlimited Free Digital Storage: Easily Send 10,000+ photos from your phone to any digital picture frame in your Aura network with unlimited cloud storage. Seamlessly transfer pictures with higher safety than traditional email. Mobile app compatible with Apple (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch running iOS 11 or later) and Android (running Android 5.0 or later) to allow anyone in your family to share photos via WiFi.
- Intelligent Photo Pairing Software: Experience the Aura proprietary AI software that instantly groups together similar photos creating unexpected moments of surprise and delight. The Carver Intuitive software dramatically presents landscape photos full-screen or intellegently pairs two related portrait photos side-by-side. In addition, The Carver Digital Picture Frame automatically crops and positions photos upon upload, so that every image fits perfectly.
Nix Advance Digital Photo Frame 8-inch Widescreen
The Nix Advance 8-inch Digital Photo Frame Widescreen, with its 1280 x 800 16:10 display, is for those who seek a desk or table frame that delivers the ultimate widescreen viewing. The image quality is superb — colors are natural but fully saturated for viewing both photos and videos from a USB stick or SD/SDHC camera cards, with a variety of creative slideshow transitions. Skin tones look natural, and the frame shows deep blacks for black and white shots, making this one of the best digital photo frames around.
A motion sensor shuts down the autoplay when the room is empty, and you can set the timer to turn the unit on or off at designated intervals. A remote control gives you access to all navigation through the menus for timing, slideshow details, and screen adjustments. Nice extras like a clock and calendar make the frame more useful. Video playback is limited to 15 seconds and is optimal at 720p.
NIX Advance 10 Inch Digital Picture Frame
Features
- THE SUPERIOR NON-WIFI DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME: Enjoy crisp, vivid photos (JPEG) and videos (MJPEG-4) with the NIX Advance Widescreen's 10 inch 1280x800 HD IPS display with 16:10 aspect ratio and built in stereo speakers
- DISPLAY THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS AND VIDEOS: Enjoy all your favorite memories on the NIX Advance Digital Photo Frame; Choose from different slideshow transitions: Play them according to their date or their file name, or shuffle them
- EASY PLUG AND PLAY: Set up your Frame in minutes; Just insert a USB stick or a memory card (SD/SDHC) to instantly display your favourite photos and videos on the NIX Advance Widescreen Digital Picture Frame; does not connect to WiFi
- PACKED WITH FEATURES: Built-in Clock and Calendar functions; Energy saving Hu-Motion Sensor automatically turns the frame on and off; intuitive remote control included
- SUPPORT WHEN YOU NEED IT: Our Customer Service team is here to help you with your NIX Digital Frame; We want to do everything we can to make you happy with your frame
Dragon Touch Classic 10 Digital Picture Frame
The Dragon Touch Digital Picture Frame’s 10.1-inch, 16:10 touch screen lets you view everything from static images and slideshows with special effects transitions to 30-second video clips complete with a headphone jack for audio. There are also multiple ways to input images into the frame, including an SD card, USB thumb drive, and Wi-Fi uploading.
The OurPhoto app is the easiest way to upload photos to the frame. You can also add remote users to the frame to let friends and family upload images via the app.
Image quality is top-notch with bright detail and vivid colors. The Dragon Touch has some cool goodies, including a video with sound, an alarm, a calendar, and local weather. While there is no motion sensor to power down the frame when there’s no one in the room to view it, you can set a schedule.
The digital photo frame casing does not seem especially durable, as the paint started to chip on our model. And many frames shipped to addresses in the U.S. arrive with European or Asian power connections that do not fit into wall sockets.
Dragon Touch Digital Picture Frame WiFi 10 inch IPS Touch Screen HD Display, 16GB Storage, Auto-Rotate, Share Photos via App, Email, Cloud - Classic 10
9 used from $34.24
Features
- STAY TOGETHER WITH FAMILIY: This Wi-Fi cloud photo frame can quickly update your life moments with your loved ones wherever you are. It helps to stay close to your family members, it is a perfect gift for the elder to feel connected with the young generation.
- INSTANT WIRELESS SHARING: Other than traditional digital photo frame, Classic 10 can instantly receive photos and videos via Wi-Fi network (NOTE: Only works with 2.4 GHz). You, your families and friends can share the moments to the frame with multi convenient methods, such as phone App, sending email, or turning the frame to be a local ftp server.
- WONDERFUL PICTURE DISPLAY: A high-quality 10.1'' touch screen display with 1280*800 resolution and 16: 10 aspect ratio recalls your precious memories. Customized sleep mode and auto-rotate setting support your better viewing experience, you can place this frame in either portrait or landscape mode, or even mount it on the wall.
- EASY SETUP & USE: User-friendly interface design makes it easy-to-use for all ages. Only a few steps to complete the setup and intuitive touch screen makes the usage much easier than ever.
- OVER 80,000 PHOTOS STORED: This frame offers you a huge storage capacity with built-in 32GB memory (around 80,000 photos). It also supports the SD card and USB drive connectivity to enable you to read the files and export the received photos and videos for better album management (note: please remove all your external devices when you reset the photo frame)
Nixplay Seed WiFi 10.1-inch Widescreen Digital Picture Frame
Nixplay Seed’s 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 display, with its wide 16:10 aspect ratio, is a pleasure to behold. Images show up beautifully saturated with many ways to create slideshows. It’s small enough to fit on a desk or an end table and its stiff cord is adjustable so you can place it in a comfortable position anywhere. An attractive matte-rubber frame looks great in any room where its built-in motion sensor automatically switches on when you’re in the room.
It lets you manage all your photos and multiple digital picture frames from a single account. Upload photos from your computer or mobile device or access photos from Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, and Flickr or Google Photos. You can create specific photo playlists for each frame, or connect iOS or Android mobile apps with the frame.
The Seed also works with some of the best Alexa compatible devices for displaying playlists and checking connectivity.
Nixplay Seed 10 Inch WiFi Digital Picture Frame Wood - Share Moments Instantly via App or E-Mail
Like any frame, digital picture frames with wifi come in a range of different styles, sizes, and picture aspect ratios. There’s also a variety of different specifications on offer here, including the latest must-haves: wire-free connectivity and high-definition screens so you can view the shots with the utmost clarity. Inevitably, higher-speed devices come with a bigger price tag. That said, we’re confident there will be a digital photo frame option here to suit your particular budget, as well as whatever you’re seeking to display on it.
Other considerations include how easy the device is to operate – particularly important if you’re buying a frame for an elderly relative or general family use. You might also want to assess whether you’re looking for a digital photo frame simply for the desktop or mantelpiece, or a device you might hang on the wall and so will want to resemble a more conventional picture frame, as opposed to the black slabs that typically pass for digital devices.
That’s all for the our extensive list of best digital picture frames with Wi-Fi. You can check out our list of best wireless mouse in 2020 if you’re looking for best daily driver for your work from home needs.
