Aura Frames

Name: Aura Frames
Rating: 4.8 (20930 reviews)
Author: Aura Home, Inc.

Smart Photo Frame

Free

21K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Photo & Video
Developer

Aura Home, Inc.
Language

EN
+ 3 More
Size

256.5
MB

Aura is a smart photo frame that makes displaying and sharing photos delightfully simple. Get the free Aura app to view and share your photos, get your frame set up, and more: - Preload photos or write a message before giving Aura as a gift - Connect your frame to WiFi - in less than 5 minutes! - Invite family members to share their photos to your frame - Share unlimited photos and videos to an Aura frame - See what your family has added, and relive memories together - Scan prints and artwork with your phone or tablet's camera With Aura, you can share those meaningful moments and memories that are only meant to be shared with the people closest to you.

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

21K Ratings

Easy to Gift & Easy to Use
12/30/2023

Mamamac255
I can share pictures from my phone AT ANY TIME!!! My dad lives 40 minutes away and it would be a pain to have to manually go over there and update the SD card with new pictures. My dad and I are both in IT and highly value efficiency. I also love that there is no monthly fee, and no limit to how many people we can add to our frame (no extra cost per person)! The only things I wish I could add would be quotes. There are times where I have a small story or quote someone said that I’d like to share. It would totally would be hard to read if the text was long. Maybe having the option to show a small watermark that displays live on the frame: the location and date of each picture. Another thing: captions or tags. “Omaha Zoo Trip 2019” for example. With option to display live on frame per picture.
Easy to Gift & Easy to Use
12/30/2023

Mamamac255

I can share pictures from my phone AT ANY TIME!!! My dad lives 40 minutes away and it would be a pain to have to manually go over there and update the SD card with new pictures. My dad and I are both in IT and highly value efficiency. I also love that there is no monthly fee, and no limit to how many people we can add to our frame (no extra cost per person)! The only things I wish I could add would be quotes. There are times where I have a small story or quote someone said that I’d like to share. It would totally would be hard to read if the text was long. Maybe having the option to show a small watermark that displays live on the frame: the location and date of each picture. Another thing: captions or tags. “Omaha Zoo Trip 2019” for example. With option to display live on frame per picture.
Love the frame, despise the app
Apr 15

C.Walls
I used to think the app was so easy and then some update happened and now it infuriates me. I always edit my photos in LR and then I export them to my photos. Not sure if it was the new Apple update but now in the aura app, those recently edited photos no longer show up at the end of my album but instead mixed into the unedited photos so instead of selecting the most recent 30 edits.. I have to scroll through 100s of photos and decipher which ones are edited. On top of that, when I’m trying to add from the aura app and import the photos from the Lightroom folder, it automatically starts in my collection from like 4 years ago and every single time I have to scroll through like 4 years of photos just to get to my latest. Once again, it used to not be this way. I have no idea if it’s just aura not being super compatible with the latest Apple update but it is MADDENING. Like.. to the point that I barely add photos to the 4 frames that we have purchased for ourselves and family members… and I used to add almost daily. Pleeeeeeaaasee I’m begging you to fix this because I’m obsessed with the frame… but HATE the process of adding photos now.
Love the frame, despise the app
Apr 15

C.Walls

I used to think the app was so easy and then some update happened and now it infuriates me. I always edit my photos in LR and then I export them to my photos. Not sure if it was the new Apple update but now in the aura app, those recently edited photos no longer show up at the end of my album but instead mixed into the unedited photos so instead of selecting the most recent 30 edits.. I have to scroll through 100s of photos and decipher which ones are edited. On top of that, when I’m trying to add from the aura app and import the photos from the Lightroom folder, it automatically starts in my collection from like 4 years ago and every single time I have to scroll through like 4 years of photos just to get to my latest. Once again, it used to not be this way. I have no idea if it’s just aura not being super compatible with the latest Apple update but it is MADDENING. Like.. to the point that I barely add photos to the 4 frames that we have purchased for ourselves and family members… and I used to add almost daily. Pleeeeeeaaasee I’m begging you to fix this because I’m obsessed with the frame… but HATE the process of adding photos now.
could be better
Jan 10

MoreDonutsPlease
I just got my first Aura frame. I’m happy with the product but wish I could have gotten one of the smaller frames with wall mount option. And I wish I could have gotten the larger frames without the mat. Anyway, as for the app, there are two big annoyances. First off, choosing from my iPhone photo library, the album order is completely random. It does not match the order in Photos. 99% of apps do this the right way. Aura is in the 1% that does it wrong because they are using a custom photo picker. This is super annoying. It took me 4 tries to find the album I wanted — the album is the first album in Photos, but was in completely random place about 3/4 down. There are also no sort abilities at all, so I couldn’t sort by name. This needs to be fixed. The other problem is they only provide two options for how to display photos, shuffle or chronological. There is no option for a manual sort order. This is a huge oversight. What’s the point of being able to do a slideshow when you can’t even put them in the order you want them presented?
could be better
Jan 10

MoreDonutsPlease

I just got my first Aura frame. I’m happy with the product but wish I could have gotten one of the smaller frames with wall mount option. And I wish I could have gotten the larger frames without the mat. Anyway, as for the app, there are two big annoyances. First off, choosing from my iPhone photo library, the album order is completely random. It does not match the order in Photos. 99% of apps do this the right way. Aura is in the 1% that does it wrong because they are using a custom photo picker. This is super annoying. It took me 4 tries to find the album I wanted — the album is the first album in Photos, but was in completely random place about 3/4 down. There are also no sort abilities at all, so I couldn’t sort by name. This needs to be fixed. The other problem is they only provide two options for how to display photos, shuffle or chronological. There is no option for a manual sort order. This is a huge oversight. What’s the point of being able to do a slideshow when you can’t even put them in the order you want them presented?
Where are all my pictures?
01/09/2024

R@ndom girl
I have three aura frames with thousands of pictures on each but I see the same pictures and many never pop up. Once the slide show starts it should rotate through them all before showing again. I don’t want it set to chronological because I like the randomness of what picture is next instead of a group of pictures from the same event all in a row. But I never see most of the pictures that are on the frame. Another issue when you have multiple people invited to share pictures- sometimes they share the same ones. The app should recognize when there is a picture that is the same or similar and ask whether you want to delete one or not. My father tends to add the same pictures over and over then I have to go through the thousands of pictures to see if it is already there. Finally if the frame is horizontal and you add a vertical picture, the frame sometimes cuts off the tops. It takes too much time to go through and reposition all the pictures to fit the frame.

Developer Response
Hi, Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you are not happy with our latest app update and I wanted to share this article since it provides an overview of the new layout:https://help.auraframes.com/hc/articles/360053532493 We hope that after some time you will get used to - and like - the new layout since we spent a lot of thought on making it more intuitive. If you have any further questions or want to tell us a bit more about what you don't like about the new app, please simply contact us via our Help Center (auraframes.com/help)Thanks and kind regards, DorianAura Customer Care
Where are all my pictures?
01/09/2024

R@ndom girl

I have three aura frames with thousands of pictures on each but I see the same pictures and many never pop up. Once the slide show starts it should rotate through them all before showing again. I don’t want it set to chronological because I like the randomness of what picture is next instead of a group of pictures from the same event all in a row. But I never see most of the pictures that are on the frame. Another issue when you have multiple people invited to share pictures- sometimes they share the same ones. The app should recognize when there is a picture that is the same or similar and ask whether you want to delete one or not. My father tends to add the same pictures over and over then I have to go through the thousands of pictures to see if it is already there. Finally if the frame is horizontal and you add a vertical picture, the frame sometimes cuts off the tops. It takes too much time to go through and reposition all the pictures to fit the frame.
Developer Response 09/07/2020
Hi, Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you are not happy with our latest app update and I wanted to share this article since it provides an overview of the new layout:https://help.auraframes.com/hc/articles/360053532493 We hope that after some time you will get used to - and like - the new layout since we spent a lot of thought on making it more intuitive. If you have any further questions or want to tell us a bit more about what you don't like about the new app, please simply contact us via our Help Center (auraframes.com/help)Thanks and kind regards, DorianAura Customer Care

Thanks for using Aura! This release contains a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. As always, thanks for being a loyal Aura customer. We love to hear from you and your family, so drop us a line at help@auraframes.com.

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