Comparison

Framelo vs Beacon

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

Head to head
About

Framelo

Features
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Your favorite photo might still be inside a video. Framelo helps you find it — and the moments around it. Turn travel clips, family videos, pet antics and performances into photos you can keep, edit and share. FIND THE RIGHT MOMENT Scrub through your video or move one frame at a time. Pinch to enlarge the preview across the screen, pan to inspect details, and double-tap to restore the view. COLLECT YOUR FAVORITES Collect frames as you browse, or extract a sequence from a selected time range. Review your selection and save multiple photos together. Export frames at the source video's resolution. MAKE EACH PHOTO YOURS Crop, change the aspect ratio and adjust the look. Add arrows, numbered markers, text or privacy masks to explain an idea or prepare a clear visual guide. A dedicated edit tool lets you adjust existing annotations without interrupting new ones. TELL A STORY IN A COLLAGE Arrange your chosen photos in a single image. Adjust the layout, spacing, background and image placement for a composition that feels like yours. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Return to recent video projects and continue your selection. Open videos from Photos or Files and work without creating an account. Videos stored in iCloud may need to download before you can use them. From a fleeting expression to a sequence worth sharing: find the photos in your videos with Framelo. FREE & FRAMELO PRO Hand-pick frames and save video-frame photos at up to 1024 pixels on each side for free. Single-photo editing and basic collage remain available. Framelo Pro is an optional one-time purchase for full-resolution video-frame saves, edited photo sets, photo book PDFs, numbered step-story images and reusable group styles. Three successful full-resolution or artwork export trials are included per installation; a complete batch counts once. Previewing, failed exports and cancellations do not consume trials. You can view the purchase and restore options immediately from Home > Pro or Settings > Framelo Pro.

About

Beacon

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Beacon is a fast, opinionated Wi-Fi analyzer for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Lock Screen. It scans your local network, lists every device, runs the tools network people actually use, and translates the jargon for you in plain English using AI. It is built around three rules: 1. Stay on the phone. Scans, ports, latencies, MAC addresses — none of it ever leaves your device. There are no analytics, no telemetry, no accounts. 2. Show, don't gate. Every tool, every screen, every device is one tap away. No "Pro" tier. No subscription. No locked features. 3. Translate the jargon. The on-device AI explainer (Apple Foundation Models) tells you what an open port is, why a hop is slow, or whether a new device is something to worry about. In one or two sentences. No emojis. WHAT'S INSIDE • Home — live speed, signal, latency, and device count, with an AI summary that reads your network the way a friend who knows networks would. • Devices — every device on your LAN, grouped by role. Fingerprint chips show the device kind plus a manufacturer initial. Pull-to-rescan; new devices show up as a top group, not a badge. • Device detail — identity, response-time graph, open ports with descriptions. The AI calls out which ports are normal for that device kind and which are worth a second look. • Speed test — single-purpose, animated 270° gauge. Result quartet of download, upload, latency, jitter. AI verdict instead of a raw percentile. • Tools — Ping, Traceroute, Port scanner, DNS lookup, Whois, DNS leak test, TLS / cert inspector, Public IP info. Each is its own screen, never a tab inside a tab. • Traceroute — geo-mapped hops with ASN and country. AI summary calls out the slow link by hop number. • History — a timeline of every scan, day-grouped. New and departed devices flagged inline. Compare any two scans side by side. • Apple Watch — devices count is the hero. Network identity, signal, current speed. Tap to open the iPhone app. • Lock Screen widgets — inline, circular, and rectangular. Add one or all three. Tap-through opens the relevant tab. • Home Screen widget — the full hero stat with a coral background. • Privacy — read the actual privacy statement, not a link to legalese, the first time you open Settings. WHAT'S NOT INSIDE No accounts. No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking SDKs. No "free trial". No ML model trained on your data. No background uploads. No share-with-friends nag. Pay once - use forever. REQUIREMENTS iOS 26 or later. Apple Intelligence is required for on-device AI explainers; Beacon falls back to plainspoken static text if it's off. Location permission is required by iOS to read your Wi-Fi network name (SSID); Beacon never records or shares your location.

Screenshots

Framelo4 screens
Beacon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beacon at none against Framelo's 1. Framelo's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). 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. Framelo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beacon asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Framelo versus Beacon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFrameloBeacon
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWeiRong YuDavid Weisz

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Framelo

One-time1
  • Framelo Pro Lifetime$9.99
None

Beacon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Framelo free?
Framelo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beacon free?
Beacon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Framelo or Beacon have ads?
Neither Framelo nor Beacon shows ads.

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