Comparison

Living Frame vs DigiFrame

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

Head to head
About

Living Frame

Features
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Living Frame: Bring Your Memories to Life Turn your old iPhones and iPads into magical, motion-activated picture frames! Living Frame uses your device’s built-in gyroscope to detect subtle vibrations — no camera required — and instantly brings your favorite Live Photos to life. Designed for older devices, Living Frame gives new purpose to hardware running iOS/iPadOS 12.0 and newer. Perfect for turning your spare devices into beautiful, interactive displays. Inspired by the wonder of animated galleries, Living Frame lets you relive the spontaneous moments captured in Live Photos. Whether it’s a smile, a wave, or a small laugh you almost forgot — Living Frame makes those memories move again, surprising and delighting you and your family. Features: • Motion-triggered playback using only the gyroscope (no camera!) • Optimized for iOS/iPadOS 12.0 and up • Revive old iPhones and iPads with a joyful new purpose • Celebrate the magic hidden in your Live Photos • Simple, elegant setup for home, gallery, or office Living Frame is about rediscovering the magic of your memories — with a spark of futuristic wonder. Thank you for taking the time to explore Living Frame. We hope it brings as much joy to your family as it has to ours!

About

DigiFrame

Transform your old iPad or iPhone into a dynamic digital photo frame. Display your photos with customizable layouts, and add widgets for time, weather, and calendar events. Keep your memories and information beautifully presented on your device.

Highlights
  • Customizable screen layouts
  • Photo slideshow with adjustable settings
  • Clock and date widgets
  • Weather forecasts
  • Calendar event display
  • Local and iCloud photo syncing
  • Face-aware photo cropping
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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

Living Frame4 screens
DigiFrame4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DigiFrame at Free against Living Frame's $0.99. DigiFrame also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). Living Frame's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

DigiFrame is free to download; Living Frame costs $0.99 up front. DigiFrame sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Living Frame asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Living Frame ships an update every 4 months, DigiFrame monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Living Frame versus DigiFrame: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiving FrameDigiFrame
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJudeWorksMarc Aupont

In-app purchases

None

Living Frame

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DigiFrame

Subscriptions2
  • DigiFrame Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • DigiFrame Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Living Frame free?
Living Frame costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DigiFrame free?
DigiFrame is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Living Frame or DigiFrame have ads?
Neither Living Frame nor DigiFrame shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Living Frame or DigiFrame?
Living Frame ships an update every 4 months, and DigiFrame monthly. Most recently, Living Frame was updated on November 8, 2026 and DigiFrame on October 30, 2026.

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