Synced Photo Frame by Re-Frame 4+
Digital Synced Album Slideshow
Florian Vates
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
iPad Screenshots
Description
Re-Frame finally offers a good use case for your old iPad that is collecting dust in your drawer.
It offers a great alternative to ready made digital photo frames:
- Easy to use shared iCloud or local albums. No need to sign up for any 3rd party service where you have to upload your photos which involves a privacy risk and is cumbersome. If you already have shared iCloud albums, you're already good to go with no extra effort. New photos to one of the selected albums will automatically show up on the slideshow
- Better energy consumption. Most picture frames have very poor energy management. The iPad already comes with a well developed battery management and with the battery saving settings inside the app, you can improve the consumption even further. Set a time, for example over night, where the screen should shut down and turn back on and make use of automatic dimming based on the time of day. You can also choose to run it battery powered or always plugged in
- Still usable as an iPad. Getting a FaceTime call? Your digital photo frame is still an iPad so you can still use it as one.
- Price. Chances are, you already have one lying around and if not, they are super cheap to get used so they end up being very affordable compared to common digital photo frames.
Your photos stay where they belong, in your iCloud. There is no data sent out from the app and the photos are solely used to be displayed within the app.
What’s New
Version 1.1.0
Big update for Re-Frame
- Added Passepartout mode to make it easy to put into a frame with a passepartout (i.e. this DIY tutorial: https://youtube.com/shorts/GsNJcDMOzlU)
- Fix crash when image was removed from an album
- Fix auto lock sometimes not being activated
- Improve contact handling if no email client is installed
- Improve permissions flow
- Show settings before slideshow starts
- Added DIY tutorial link to the "Buy Frames" Section
Ratings and Reviews
Re-Frame
Very very slow. No apparent directions for how to use. Can’t get this thing to work, except to send money to remove banner which I never could see. What photos I did see were ridiculously blurry. Going to delete the app today.
Developer Response ,
Can you please send a support email to reframe@florianvates.com? I'll happily help you sort out your issues.
Is it possible that you have quite a large amount of photos in your iCloud library?
If you keep seeing blurry pictures, it might help to choose the option to save iCloud photos on your device.
I'm currently working on a fix for this but it seems like in some cases Apples Photo SDK just can't load some images, especially if it's a large set of images.
Just what I was looking for.
I was looking for a simple, non-subscription, doesn’t require an account, non-privacy invasive app to turn an old iPad into a digital picture frame. This one checked off all the boxes. When the app is first launched it is a bit confusing what you’re supposed to do. Once you understand how it works it is simple to use. In my case I needed to create an album in the Photos app. This app needs to be connected to an album to work properly.
I reached out to the developer with some comments and he responded right away. With how well everything worked (and the responsive developer) I was happy to pay to access the full (non-demo) version of the app. Money well spent.
Confusing order of pictures
I tried listing several albums, but the app randomly shows pictures from different albums instead of showing them in order from first one folder and then the next in line. VERY DISAPPOINTING!
I’ve taken grandkids on many trips. My trip photos are in different folders. If I list the various folders, I want the program to show ALL of the pictures in a folder before moving on to the next folder.
Fix this major FLAW and you’ve got a really great piece of software! As is the program is a major disappointment. Who can understand jumbled pictures!
AND, I don’t want to have to build a master folder with all of the pictures I want to use — too much work. I’d rather work with separate trip folders.
Developer Response ,
Hi, thanks for your feedback! I just released an update where you can change the order to creation date instead of random. You’ll find it in the slideshow settings.
Hope that helps :)
App Privacy
The developer, Florian Vates, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Florian Vates
- Size
- 30.4 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Florian Vates
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro for Life $9.99