The Best Digital Picture Frames for 2025

The 12-inch Aspen is Aura’s latest digital picture frame and one of its thinnest. It features a black or tan frame, an off-white paper mat, and a 12-inch screen with wide, accurate color and an anti-glare finish that makes digital images look like prints. It comes with unlimited cloud storage and is easy to set up for yourself or to give as a gift. Better still, multiple people can send their photos right to the frame.

If you’re looking for a smaller frame, the 9-inch Mason has all of the benefits of Aura’s other models. In particular, it has a beautiful anti-glare screen that shows accurate colors and can make the art and photos it shows look almost like prints under the right conditions. It, too, is easy to set up, gift, and load with pictures.

The Skylight Frame offers one big advantage over many other frames and smart displays we’ve tested: 8GB of local storage. You need a Wi-Fi connection to load it with pictures, but once that’s done, it can show photos when offline, so it’s ideal as a gift for loved ones who aren’t always connected. And if they do have Wi-Fi, you can add new photos simply by sending them to an email address for the frame. However, its screen doesn’t particularly amaze.

Any smart display can work as a digital picture frame, but the Echo Show 15 is one of only two that looks the part. It’s designed for hanging on the wall, with a framed picture-like design around a sharp, bright 15.6-inch 1080p screen. It’s loaded with features, too, including support for Alexa voice commands, a touch-friendly interface filled with widgets, a 13MP camera for auto-framing video calls and keeping an eye on your home when you’re away, and a remote for using the built-in Fire TV smart TV platform for streaming media.

This is one of the most feature-packed digital photo frame-slash-smart displays available and one of the bigger screens that isn’t an outright TV. If you have a bare spot of wall where you want to show off art and photos, and you also want the versatility of an Alexa speaker, this is the device to get.

If you want a bigger wall-mountable smart display, the Echo Show 21 has a 21-inch 1080p screen, along with all of the same smart display features as other Echo Show models plus a remote and the Fire TV interface.

Samsung’s The Frame TV is designed to serve as an eye-catching, and huge, digital picture frame. It’s excellent in that role, with customizable bezels and a matte screen that really makes any art you show on it look almost like a hanging canvas. The Samsung even lets you load it directly with any of several thousand works of art (with a $4.99 monthly or $49.90 yearly subscription) or you can fill a USB drive with your photo library or any number of museums’ free high-resolution art archives. Even with its native 4K resolution, it’s not the best for watching TV and movies since its panel is relatively dim and has poor contrast.

We have not yet tested the latest version of this TV, the LS03FA (2025), but the LS03D model we reviewed in 2022 is still available and for much cheaper than its very expensive launch price. We look forward to testing the LS03FA in the near future, so check back soon for more on that model.

TCL’s NXTFRAME is also a TV designed to look like a framed picture, with a removable magnetic bezel and a glare-reducing matte finish. The screen’s accurate color performance, modest brightness, and anti-glare screen all work very well together to make artwork pop. The NXTFRAME has a built-in ambient art mode with a few hundred pieces to choose from, along with a few dozen animated scenes and clocks. Its art library doesn’t require a subscription or any sort of additional purchase to access what’s available, and you can also load your own photos by either plugging in a USB drive or through the TCL Home mobile app. Just be aware that it isn’t a very good TV due to a dim panel and poor contrast.

The Frame Pro uses a Wireless One Connect Box to stream pictures and video to the screen from up to 30 feet away. It has a colorful, accurate screen with a matte finish and customizable magnetic bezels. We checked out a preproduction version of The Frame Pro at Samsung’s lab, so we can’t give it a formal score until we look at the retail version. However, our initial tests also show that it’s much brighter than the 2022 Frame, though its contrast still seems mediocre due to its edge-lit LED system. We’re eager to get the final version in the PC Lab, so stay tuned for more on this model.