AirChord vs Open Frame
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AirChord
Stream audio wirelessly to AirPlay and Bluetooth speakers. This app also introduces internet streaming, allowing you to save and replay audio sessions on demand, creating a personal audio station.
- Wireless audio streaming
- AirPlay and Bluetooth speaker support
- Internet streaming
- Save and replay audio sessions
- Personal audio station
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Everything's new in AirChord 3. The app has been rebuilt to be faster, smoother, and more powerful. Stream to AirPlay and Bluetooth speakers like before, plus a brand new feature: Internet streaming. Now you can save your turntable sessions and replay them on-demand. It's your personal vinyl radio station.
Open Frame
Transform your TV into a personal art display. This app sends your photos directly to compatible TVs over your local Wi-Fi, ensuring privacy. Customize the display with various matte styles and colors.
- Send photos from iPhone to TV
- Automatic cropping and resizing for 4K
- Customizable matte styles and colors
- Photo preview before sending
- Rotate and adjust photos
- Browse and manage sent images
- Supports HEIC, JPEG, PNG
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Turn your TV into a personal art gallery. Open Frame is an independent app that sends your own photos to your TV's art gallery over your home Wi-Fi — no cloud account, and nothing ever leaving your local network. If you have an art-mode TV on your wall and you've been looking for a simple, private way to get your personal photos onto it, this is for you. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Send photos from your iPhone straight to a compatible TV on your Wi-Fi • Crop and resize automatically to match the TV's 4K display • Choose from your TV's built-in matte styles and colors (modern, shadowbox, flexible, panoramic, triptych, and more) • Preview how your photo will look with each matte before you send it • Rotate and adjust portrait or landscape photos for the best fit • Browse and manage what you've already sent — select or remove images • HEIC, JPEG, and PNG photos all supported (HEIC is converted automatically) WHY PEOPLE USE OPEN FRAME • Private — your photos travel only between your iPhone and your own TV on your local Wi-Fi; they are never sent to any server • No account required — just open the app and connect • No tracking, no analytics — your photo library is your business • Works with the art-mode TV you already own HOW IT WORKS Open Frame scans your home Wi-Fi to find a compatible TV on first launch. From there, pick a photo, pick a matte, and send it to the TV's art gallery. It's that simple. SUPPORTING THE APP Open Frame is free to install and free to use — uploads are never gated or interrupted. A small banner ad appears on a few screens, and a one-time $1.99 purchase removes it forever. Either way, your photos go directly from your iPhone to your own TV; ads are served separately and never see your photos. WORKS WITH • Samsung The Frame TV, 2019 models and newer, with Art Mode switched on • Same Wi-Fi network as your iPhone, and Local Network permission so the app can find the TV Not every art-mode television is supported. If Open Frame cannot reach yours, your television manufacturer's own companion app remains the supported way to transfer images. HAVE FEEDBACK? Open Frame is actively developed. Use the built-in "Report a Bug" option to send suggestions or issues directly to the developer. --- Open Frame is an independent app developed and published by Raylytics. Samsung, The Frame and Art Mode are trademarks of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Open Frame is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or certified by Samsung, and uses these names only to describe compatibility.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Open Frame at none against AirChord's 2. Open Frame also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). AirChord's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (99 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. AirChord sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Open Frame asks for nothing beyond the download.
Open Frame holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AirChord has 99 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of AirChord's written reviews are positive against 100% of Open Frame's.
AirChord ships an update every 5 months, Open Frame every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AirChord | Open Frame |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (99 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Kelly | Raylytics |
Customer experience
AirChord
Open Frame
Bugs and requests
AirChord
Reported bugs
24 issues- Sound drops since last update
- App crashes frequently
- Audio connection sometimes fails
- Does not work with Sonos USB-C adapter
- No input selection available
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- Only picks up microphone audio
- Limited to Airplay 1
- Can only select one HomePod
- Voiceover audio is passed through to output
- Does not work on multiple Airplay speakers
- Lowest volume setting is still loud
- Only streams a single channel of audio
- 3 to 4 seconds delay between sound and image
- Requires additional adapters
- Stereo not supported unless using tricks
- Missing Airplay 2 support
- Not good for watching TV or playing video games
- Setup can be tricky
- Requires external ADC
- No input select
- Doesn't switch from mic to 1/8” Jack automatically
- Seems this no longer works with a turntable that has USB B
- Stuttering sound since last update
- Sound drops
Requested features
10 requests- Expand album art to full screen
- Album art visualiser
- Improve Siri integration for output selection
- Support for multi-speaker Airplay 2
- Add Airplay 2 support for stereo pairs
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- Add input meter
- Large portrait volume control with output levels
- Support stereo pairs for HomePods
- Full Airplay 2 support
- Update for stereo pairs
Open Frame
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AirChord
- $0.99 tip$0.99
- $9.99 tip$9.99
Open Frame
No in-app purchases
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