Comparison

Digital Frame Lite vs DigiFrame

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Digital Frame Lite

Features
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Do you want to recycle an old iPad as a Digital Photo Frame? Digital Frame Lite gives a new life to your old iPad or iPhone. A very easy to use app to show randomly all the photos in an album from your Photo Library. Simply select the shared album from the list and slideshow will start. The only thing you must configure are the presentation time of each photo and the start and end times of the presentation. To exit the slideshow, do a swipe (up or down) gesture. To load next or previous photo, do a swipe (left or right) gesture. In the main window you can select the album to show. You must have at least one album created fo that. This free version is limited to 50 photos and not allow to change presentation time and don't have auto off feature.

About

DigiFrame

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Give an old iPad a second life. DigiFrame turns the iPad or iPhone you stopped carrying into a digital photo frame that also shows the time, the weather and what is next on your calendar, arranged the way you want them. Stand it on a shelf, plug it in, and let your photos play. The screen stays awake while the frame is showing. WHY A FRAME APP INSTEAD OF A FRAME • No hardware to buy. The device in the drawer is the frame. • No account to create and nothing to upload. Your photos stay in your Photos library, on your device. • Works on the iPhone too, standing on a nightstand or a desk. BUILD THE SCREEN YOU WANT Standby mode lets you design what the frame shows. Choose a layout — Full Screen, Split, or Full Screen with Sidebar — then fill each pane with widgets. Build as many screens as you like and swipe between them. Swipe up and down inside a pane to move through the widgets stacked there. Free widgets: • Photo — your album, edge to edge • Minimal Clock • Date • Greeting With PRO: • Digital, Analog and Flip clocks, in four themes • Weather — current conditions and the days ahead • Calendar — what's next, from the calendars you choose PHOTOS ON YOUR TERMS Every album keeps its own playback settings: • Order — drag photos into any order, sort by the date each was taken, or shuffle • Fit — fill the screen, or show the whole photo without cropping • Zoom — a slow drift across each photo: subtle, standard, or off • Transition — crossfade, slide, or none • Speed — how long each photo holds When a photo is cropped to fill the screen, DigiFrame crops around the people in it rather than the centre, so faces near an edge stay in frame. LOCAL AND CLOUD ALBUMS Keep albums on the device, or make them cloud albums and they sync across your devices through iCloud: set up the frame once, then add photos from the phone in your pocket. Cloud albums stay readable even when iCloud is briefly unreachable. IN TWELVE LANGUAGES English, Arabic, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese and Spanish. Choose one in Settings, whatever your device is set to. DIGIFRAME PRO PRO unlocks the Digital, Analog and Flip clocks, the Weather and Calendar widgets, the grid photo layout, and photo overlays that put the clock, date and your next event over your pictures. DigiFrame PRO is an auto-renewing subscription, available monthly or annually. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://digiframe.netlify.app/privacy-policy Weather data provided by Apple Weather.

Screenshots

Digital Frame Lite2 screens
DigiFrame4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DigiFrame at none against Digital Frame Lite's 1. Digital Frame Lite's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 23 months) and iOS requirement (12 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Digital Frame Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DigiFrame asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Digital Frame Lite ships an update every 4 weeks, DigiFrame every 23 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Digital Frame Lite versus DigiFrame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigital Frame LiteDigiFrame
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 23 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTheCoolBytesMarc Aupont

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Digital Frame Lite

One-time1
  • Unlock Pro$2.99
None

DigiFrame

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Digital Frame Lite free?
Digital Frame Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DigiFrame free?
DigiFrame is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Digital Frame Lite or DigiFrame have ads?
Neither Digital Frame Lite nor DigiFrame shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Digital Frame Lite or DigiFrame?
Digital Frame Lite ships an update every 4 weeks, and DigiFrame every 23 months. Most recently, Digital Frame Lite was updated on October 7, 2026 and DigiFrame on October 4, 2026.

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