The Best Digital Picture Frames for 2025

The Aura Mason is a top digital picture frame if you don’t want all the extra features (and privacy concerns) of a smart display or simply want to show photos in portrait (vertical) orientation. You can preload it with pictures and a message before you give it to a loved one, and it offers unlimited cloud storage so you can fill it with as many photos as you want. Note that it lacks onboard storage, so it needs a Wi-Fi connection to work. Despite this limitation, the Aura Mason is our top pick thanks to its gorgeous display and simple setup process. With 1,600 by 1,200 pixels across a 9-inch screen, it’s very sharp and offers vivid colors with little glare. Most importantly, it makes it feel like you’re looking at an actual photo rather than an image on a screen.

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.

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. Unless you want an even bigger screen, in which case the Echo Show 21 is the better option.

This is the bigger version of the Echo Show 15, with a 21-inch 1080p screen. It’s otherwise identical, down to the camera and speakers. It’s every bit as good, just larger and more expensive. This is the smart display to get if the Echo 15 is just a bit too small for where you want to install it.

Samsung’s The Frame TV looks just as good when you aren’t watching television as it does when you are. Its Art mode shows off artworks from a collection of over 2,000 pieces (with a $4.99 monthly or $49.90 yearly subscription) or your photo library and requires less power than the TV mode. Its matte screen reduces glare and adds to the painting effect, while its modular bezel design lets you customize the look with various frames to suit your decor. As a 4K TV, The Frame boasts a high-resolution display with 3,840 by 2,160 pixels, offering a sharp picture only matched by the TCL NXTFRAME.

Like Samsung’s The Frame, TCL’s NXTFRAME is 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. Unlike Samsung’s Art Store on The Frame, it doesn’t require a subscription or any sort of additional purchase to access what’s available. You can also load your own photos by either plugging in a USB drive or through the TCL Home mobile app.