iFramix Pro

This idea has a lot of promise. The price is high enough that the app portion should be way better than it is. The frame is actually quite good and holds my older iPad in place well. Unfortunately the app is very poorly implemented. No instructions on how to use the individual apps (cal, weather, photos, etc.) were send with the frame. The photos app on my phone to display/upload the photos to the display is extremely poorly implemented and doesn’t allow me to sort through my 1000’s of photos using the Apple structure (albums, date, etc.) which makes it extremely cumbersome to find and load the photos I want. Also, once uploaded the app can’t delete a photo. You’re forced to delete from the iPads directly. Anyway, would love to see some updates that make the experience much better.

The promised features still have not been delivered. Many many many bugs and typos. For examples the weather app often has text that is too long so it’s illegible. Today the clock app tells me it’s the 1th of December. Overall very disappointed, would have been better throwing my old iPad in the garbage.

The frame hardware is top quality, but the app to support it needs a lot of improvement. The slideshow feature has no option for shuffling, so it always shows the photos in the same order. Not a problem except that you have to manually restart the slideshow multiple times a day. No matter if you select the slideshow, screen saver, or weather view, the app will revert to the main menu after several minutes. That’s assuming the app doesn’t simply crash to the Home Screen instead. Any photos sent to the device in portrait orientation are zoomed in so faces are often cropped out. Instead, the option to show the entire image on a black background should be added. If the stability is fixed and the photo slideshow experience is improved, it’s a solid purchase and a great way to extend the life of an old iPad. But as it stands, you’re better off purchasing a cheaper digital photo frame that just works.