The Best Digital Picture Frames for 2024 (2024)

The Aura Mason is a top digital picture frame if you don't want all of the extra features and privacy concerns of a smart display, or you 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 it 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 of the 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.

With an 8-inch screen, the Amazon Echo Show 8 strikes a good balance in size and power between the cheaper and slower Echo Show 5 ($49.99) and the more expensive and specialized Echo Show 10 and Echo Show 15 ($249.99 each). This mid-sized screen has a 1,280-by-800-pixel resolution, which means pictures look sharp. It also has a set of solid stereo speakers and all of the standard Echo functions, including video chat.

The Nest Hub is Google's version of Amazon's Echo Show 8. It costs about the same but has a slightly smaller 7-inch screen and no camera along with a few interesting extras. It uses Google Assistant instead of Alexa and supports Google Cast, which means you can stream music and videos straight from your Android phone. It also has a sensor that can help analyze your sleep. As a photo frame, it taps into your Google Photos account and works just as well as the aforementioned Amazon equivalent.

The Nest Hub Max is a larger version of the Nest Hub, like the Echo Show 10 is to the Echo Show 5 or the Echo Show 8. It features a 10-inch screen with a higher 1,280-by-800-pixel resolution than the Nest Hub, plus a camera for video calls. The camera also doubles as a security device when you're out of the house.

The Echo Show 15 is one of the biggest smart displays you can buy and is meant to hang on the wall. When it isn't cycling through art or your pictures, it can serve as a home messaging hub with information dashboards for different members of the family. It features the Fire TV smart TV platform thanks to a recent update, so you can easily stream your favorite content to it as well.

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 works of art from a collection of over 1,200 pieces or your photo library and requires less power than the TV mode. A modular bezel design lets you customize its look with a variety of frames to suit your decor. As a 4K TV, The Frame is also the highest-resolution display on this list, with a resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels.