Good Hardware Awful Software
I spent $80 bucks on this from Amazon and cannot register for app. The verification is never sent to my email and you need it to log in. Unfortunately I will have to return. If they fix the bugs it will be an awesome use of an old iPad. But as it stands now it’s just a fancy frame
Ambient Light Issues
Ambient light is permanently stuck on after the last update. Binding and unbinding hasn’t helped.
Today’s release broke the app - MQTT problem
Today’s release broke the ability to control the ambient lighting - have to unplug to turn it off now. Tried all the tricks suggested. Error says “iCharguard MQTT topic is
unavailable. Please refresh device information”
unavailable. Please refresh device information”
They broke what was working!
Finally after years you could get the app to work without crashing all the time with older iPad versions! That was stable and reliable. The app got updated automatically I believe to a version 2.29 that again crashes on older iOS. Fire your developer! They don’t know what they are doing! I cannot delete phones from the controller app - only on device - but you forgot that the point of the product is to bring old iPad to life! So the controller on a phone will always be the powerful one that can manage all settings - when you make the management be on the devices, it will crash on older devices that doesn’t have the resources to photo management. Now I can’t use the frames again because of such poor software management! And this was working! What stupid move from this app updates! What a shame!!
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Lite not Pro
The older Non-Pro iFramix has more features, like slowing the slideshow down and dimming it at a certain time.
It has been dumbed down and the old one won't let me upload new photos there, or I'd keep using that. Why'd you take away features? I can at least connect to the charguard on this version and change the led lights. Couldn't do those before, so it wouldn't charge. It's like both of the apps do part of their promised features.
It also only lets me upload 9 at a time and usually a couple of them fail and said they're bigger than 15 MB (they aren't at only about 5MB, but assume it's converting images on the fly and those conversions aren't very efficient).
Please fix all the issues and add the calendar feature as promised. No one wants a giant flip clock. That should just be removed.
It has been dumbed down and the old one won't let me upload new photos there, or I'd keep using that. Why'd you take away features? I can at least connect to the charguard on this version and change the led lights. Couldn't do those before, so it wouldn't charge. It's like both of the apps do part of their promised features.
It also only lets me upload 9 at a time and usually a couple of them fail and said they're bigger than 15 MB (they aren't at only about 5MB, but assume it's converting images on the fly and those conversions aren't very efficient).
Please fix all the issues and add the calendar feature as promised. No one wants a giant flip clock. That should just be removed.
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Would love to love this but it needs more work
The limited choices of what you can display, being unable to integrate the available options and not being able to reduce the screen brightness of your device while using this app in display mode really impact the usability of this app for me. This has made me really disappointed in my decision to invest in your kickstarter.
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Disappointed
Bought the frames off kickstarter. They are good enough. But the app is so bad. I worry about the security. It sucks you have to download it on the old device.
App shows password on sign up screen. Password managers do not recognize any of the fields.
Could have and should have been just a simple, secure web app. Can’t manage photos or anything useful from my current phone. And this is all on day one. I don’t know if it’s even stable. I could vibe code a better version in 24 hours.
I can’t recommend it. The setup was way more complicated than it had to be.
App shows password on sign up screen. Password managers do not recognize any of the fields.
Could have and should have been just a simple, secure web app. Can’t manage photos or anything useful from my current phone. And this is all on day one. I don’t know if it’s even stable. I could vibe code a better version in 24 hours.
I can’t recommend it. The setup was way more complicated than it had to be.
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No update in 2 months
Not working anymore and no undated for 2 months
Can’t register for account!
Unable to create an account, CAPTCHA not showing up to input. Network error shows but it’s really at their backend. Garbage!
Stopped Working 12 March 2026
Stopped working 12 March 2026: won’t log on. Uninstalled and reinstalled, still will not log on. Even companion phone app will not log on.
Cannot Create Login
App asks for verification code and no captcha is given in order to enter one in the field.
POS DO NOT BUY
Absolute garbage app makes this a worthless POS .
DO NOT BUY
DO NOT BUY
ALWAYS FULL BRIGHTNESS
The flip clock always goes into full brightness regardless of the settings. And the power saving mode dims the screen way too dark that you can’t even read the time in a dark room. Without the ability to adjust screen brightness, the app is very harmful to an old iPad and becomes useless. PLEASE PLEASE put the brightness control back into the app.
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Could be really good
This idea has a lot of promise. The price is high enough that the app portion should be way better than it is. The frame is actually quite good and holds my older iPad in place well. Unfortunately the app is very poorly implemented. No instructions on how to use the individual apps (cal, weather, photos, etc.) were send with the frame. The photos app on my phone to display/upload the photos to the display is extremely poorly implemented and doesn’t allow me to sort through my 1000’s of photos using the Apple structure (albums, date, etc.) which makes it extremely cumbersome to find and load the photos I want. Also, once uploaded the app can’t delete a photo. You’re forced to delete from the iPads directly. Anyway, would love to see some updates that make the experience much better.
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New update is working
With the new update, calendar is working on my iPad Air, could be better, I am sure that they will figure it out with more updates.
So much potential
The picture frame that is supported by this app is quite nice. I love the charging protection feature of it, as well as the back lighting.
The app isn’t very polished and lacks some features that I’d like to see. That said, it’s a great start and I’m excited to see where this will go.
I don’t like that I have to upload all of the photos via the app. I wish I could point it to a folder in photos and it would display those.
The brightness is fixed at 100%, and I wish I could turn the screen brightness down a bit. I turn down the brightness within iOS, and then as soon as the app is opened, it reverts to 100%.
Please keep developing this app. I want so badly to continue to use it.
If I just use the photos app from iOS and have it do a slideshow from there, it’s perfect (because it shows videos as well), but the charging protection feature didn’t operate and the iPad charges to 100% and stays there.
Again… so much potential and I’m hoping it’ll get there.
The app isn’t very polished and lacks some features that I’d like to see. That said, it’s a great start and I’m excited to see where this will go.
I don’t like that I have to upload all of the photos via the app. I wish I could point it to a folder in photos and it would display those.
The brightness is fixed at 100%, and I wish I could turn the screen brightness down a bit. I turn down the brightness within iOS, and then as soon as the app is opened, it reverts to 100%.
Please keep developing this app. I want so badly to continue to use it.
If I just use the photos app from iOS and have it do a slideshow from there, it’s perfect (because it shows videos as well), but the charging protection feature didn’t operate and the iPad charges to 100% and stays there.
Again… so much potential and I’m hoping it’ll get there.
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Can't even make an account
I can't even get to the point where everyone else is complaining about the app. I don't see a button to get a code when creating an account from the app. Whatever update happened between their review and mine probably broke the registration process.
Unable to use since last update
Unable to login or use since last update Dec 25. Everything is frozen
Garbage
I got this on kickstarter and it’s garbage. None of the features work, won’t pair with any device so I can basically only use it as a clock. The clock makes a horrible grinding sound that you can’t turn off (supposed to sound like an old timey flip clock). Avoid this garbage. I was hoping for a weather station on my office desk and maybe pair with my calendar and instead got nothing. Would rather just put my old iPad back in a drawer.
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Missing features lots of bugs
The promised features still have not been delivered. Many many many bugs and typos.
For examples the weather app often has text that is too long so it’s illegible. Today the clock app tells me it’s the 1th of December.
Overall very disappointed, would have been better throwing my old iPad in the garbage.
For examples the weather app often has text that is too long so it’s illegible. Today the clock app tells me it’s the 1th of December.
Overall very disappointed, would have been better throwing my old iPad in the garbage.
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