JointFrame vs Brizlabs Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JointFrame
Easily share photos and videos with loved ones by sending them directly to a Digital WiFi Frame. You can add frames using their ID and send media to multiple frames simultaneously. Friends and family can also send you memories to display.
- Send photos and videos to Digital WiFi Frames
- Add frames by Frame ID
- Receive photos from others
- Send to multiple frames
- Share memories wirelessly
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Share all your favorite memories you capture by sending photos directly to a Digital WiFi Frame • Add a Digital WiFi Frame by its Frame ID • Simply send photos and videos to your frame • Receive photos from friends and family to display in your frame or theirs • Send multiple photos and videos to up to 10 Digital WiFi Frame at once
Brizlabs Life
Control and personalize your smart lighting system to enhance any occasion. Create custom automations, adjust colors and brightness remotely, and even use voice commands for hands-free operation. Transform your home's ambiance for holidays, parties, or everyday life.
- Personalize lighting effects
- Organize smart lights by room/zone
- Remote control of brightness, color temperature, and color
- Customizable automations for daily routines
- Hands-free voice control with Alexa/Google Assistant
- Control multiple lights simultaneously
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BrizLabs goes beyond traditional holiday lights and lighting products to deliver products that entertain and connect people's lives. At BrizLabs, we combine the latest innovations with our products, to enable consumers an easy way to experience the connected home. We feature a smart design that gives you the ability to personalize your lighting effects and lives for an even greater experience. The BrizLabs app, the smart light decoration and lighting system make your Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Wedding, Party and more events unforgettable. Organize your smart lights your way Whether you use just a few lights or have completely outfitted your home in BrizLabs app, you can organize your smart lights with ease. Easily control your lights - from anywhere Adjust your lights' brightness, color temperature, color and control multiple lights across Rooms or Zones all from the BrizLabs app. Personalize with automations Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customisable automations in the BrizLabs app is effortless and fun! Hands-free voice control Use Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with just your voice. Simple voice commands let you turn lights on and off, dim and brighten or even change colors without you ever lifting a finger. Find out more about the official BrizLabs app: www.brizlabs.com/app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: JointFrame at every 2 weeks against Brizlabs Life's every 14 months. JointFrame also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Brizlabs Life's advantage is rating (1.9 vs 1.5). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brizlabs Life holds the better App Store score, 1.9 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 55 and 57 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of JointFrame's written reviews are positive against 17% of Brizlabs Life's.
JointFrame ships an update every 2 weeks, Brizlabs Life every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JointFrame | Brizlabs Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (55 ratings) | 1.9 (57 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.6% of reviews | 17.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 | 57 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 201 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xi'an Shenju Zhilian Network Technology Co., Ltd | Shenzhen LinkTop Iot Co.,Ltd |
Customer experience
JointFrame
Brizlabs Life
User reviews
JointFrame
From 55 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use (when working)
- 🚀 Sends photos quickly (when working)
Room to improve
- 💰 Unexpected subscription fees
- 👎 Bait and switch tactics
- 🚫 No mention of charges
- 😠 Feeling held to ransom
- 📉 Frames become unusable
Brizlabs Life
From 57 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User friendly (one review)
- ✨ Beautiful and fancy lights
- 🚀 Works as designed with recommendations
- 💡 Great fit for needs
- 🌟 Awesome app, has everything wanted
Room to improve
- 🐛 App doesn't connect to lights
- 🐛 Cannot set color patterns
- 🐛 Missing advertised functions (Scenes, personal colors)
- 🐛 Lights won't connect to WiFi
- 🐛 App looks nothing like preview
Bugs and requests
JointFrame
Reported bugs
15 issues- Photos not downloading to frame
- Frames stop allowing email sent photos
- Frames stop working
- App stops working
- Application download doesn't work
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- Cannot create account (name validation errors)
- Cannot create account (abnormal service)
- Cannot create account (password errors)
- App not listed in settings for photo access
- Cannot set up password
- Poor connectivity to frame device
- App freezes when entering frame ID
- App closes when loading photos
- App crashes
- App closes when selecting portrait photos
Requested features
5 requests- Allow deletion/editing of photos
- Improve photo grouping/ordering
- Clarify app usage before purchase
- Increase photo size for viewing
- Fix portrait mode photo selection
Brizlabs Life
Reported bugs
45 issues- App doesn't let user connect to lights
- Cannot set color patterns for some lights
- Lights won't connect to WiFi
- Failed to connect to router error
- Incorrect password error
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- Cannot get app to find lights
- Music sync won't work
- Device stopped working
- App rarely works correctly
- Color changes every couple days
- On/off timer is not correct
- Takes a while to turn lights off
- Won't send verification code
- Cannot find out how to do 90% of pictures
- App falls apart at times
- Failing to send commands
- Cannot choose exact colors of patterns
- Cannot save custom colors
- Lights default back to a color when app is re-entered
- App does not look like preview
- Connecting to lights can be tricky
- Dimmer doesn't work until slider is released
- Dimmer bar disappears on certain color combinations
- Unable to choose custom bi- and tri-color schema
- Lights don't turn on
- Cannot change created scenes
- Scene always reverts to the first created holiday
- Says not connected to WiFi when user is connected
- Won't connect to router
- Strand reprogrammed to a random setting after WiFi outage
- Another strand is unresponsive and changed to a different setting
- App will not pair
- Each time app is opened, it says not able to pair, no device found
- App is nothing like what is described on download page
- App is very limited
- Cannot play one customized scheme after the other
- App doesn't work
- Step-by-step process does not work
- App thinks user isn't connected to Wi-Fi when they are
- Lights could be decent but app is terrible
- Lights will not connect to this app
- Prompted to download an update immediately after installing
- Way too buggy
- App keeps crashing after simplest commands
- App has selectable scenes, but scenes with options other than speed are limited to 6 basic colors
Requested features
19 requests- Ability to pick personal choice color in motion
- Add Scenes (e.g., Christmas)
- Improve app to match App Store preview
- Fix music sync
- Allow saving custom color presets
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- Add ability to fade colors instead of blink
- Allow custom bi- and tri-color schemas
- Real-time dimmer adjustment
- Dimmer to work on all color combinations
- Allow saving more than 7 custom settings
- Allow playing customized schemes sequentially
- Allow choosing own colors for patterns
- Improve app interface
- Fix timer function
- Fix ability to turn lights off easily
- Allow choosing exact colors for patterns
- Allow saving custom presets
- Allow custom color selection for patterns
- Improve app features to match preview
In-app purchases
JointFrame
No in-app purchases
Brizlabs Life
No in-app purchases
