FrameSense

Intelligent Framing. Keeping you in the picture.

Turn your iPhone or iPad into an intelligent digital photo frame. Create rich, customisable slideshows from your Apple Photos library with smart on-device framing, mosaics, metadata overlays, customisable presets and local remote control. Use FrameSense to control HomeKit scenes and accessories.

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FrameSense slideshow displayed on an iPad

Why FrameSense

Your photos, your devices, no subscription.

FrameSense works with your Apple Photos library and processes intelligent framing on your device. There are no accounts, advertisements, subscriptions or third-party tracking.

Designed for your own photo library

More than a slideshow. A digital photo frame that understands the picture.

FrameSense combines flexible playback with on-device processing and customisable overlays, without accounts, advertisements or tracking. Apply customisable image effects, including a smart vignette that uses on-device Vision processing to focus attention on the subject.

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Smart Fill and Reframe

On-device Vision processing helps keep important visual regions on screen when a photo is fitted to the display.

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Single and mosaic layouts

Show one photo at a time or build multi-image mosaic displays, with support for selected photos, albums, collections and videos.

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Photo overlays

Optionally display capture dates, place names and map previews using metadata already embedded in your photos.

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Custom presets

Save favourite playback, effects and overlay combinations, then export or import presets between your devices.

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Nearby remote control

Discover and control FrameSense devices on your local network, with optional six-digit PIN protection for new connections.

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Home controls

Keep selected HomeKit scenes and accessories close at hand while a slideshow is running.

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Built for large libraries

Buffering, source resolution and a configurable local Vision cache help FrameSense work with extensive personal photo collections.

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Photo actions while viewing

Favourite, rotate, add to Review Later or reject an item from the running slideshow without leaving the display.

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One-off purchase

No subscription, no advertising and no account required.

Remote dashboard

Control nearby frames from iPhone or iPad.

The remote dashboard can discover multiple FrameSense devices on the same local network. Get status information from each connected frame including battery level and processing values. Control playback, switch presets, adjust overlays and perform current photo actions without disturbing the display device.

Frames can be named to reflect their location or role.

Remote sessions remain on the local network and can require a six-digit PIN before a new device is allowed to connect.

FrameSense remote dashboard on iPad
FrameSense remote dashboard on iPhone

Privacy at a glance

Your photos stay yours.

FrameSense does not use ads, accounts, third-party analytics or tracking. Photos, videos and Vision analysis are not uploaded to a server operated by the developer.

On-device photo access

Media is accessed through Apple's Photos framework and processed on your device.

Local-network remote control

Optional remote control data is exchanged between nearby devices on your own local network.

No tracking

FrameSense contains no advertising SDKs, analytics SDKs or App Tracking Transparency prompts.