A digital photo frame without a subscription
Plenty of Wi-Fi photo frames now come with a second price tag: a monthly plan for the cloud storage, the extra albums, or the app that loads the photos. The frame you paid for gets quieter unless you keep paying. There is a simpler shape for this product - one where nobody stores your photos, so nobody needs to bill you for storing them.
Why photo frames charge subscriptions
Most subscription frames copy your photos to the maker's cloud and stream them back to the frame. Storage and bandwidth cost real money every month, so the maker passes that on - and your family photos end up living on a photo-frame company's servers.
MyFrames takes the opposite approach. Your photos stay where they already live - Google Photos or a public iCloud shared album - and are cached only on the device that plays the slideshow. Our servers never store your photo files, which is both the privacy promise and the reason there is no subscription: there is nothing to charge for.
No new hardware either
The other half of the price is the frame itself. MyFrames skips it: any screen with a browser becomes the frame. Good candidates you may already own:
- An old iPad or Android tablet in a drawer.
- A Meta Portal or another smart display with a web browser.
- The kitchen or living-room TV, if its browser works.
- A spare monitor plugged into any computer.
Set it up once, then leave it alone
- On the screen's browser, go to myframes.app and sign in with Google.
- Pick the photos with Google's own photo picker - MyFrames can only ever see the photos you explicitly choose - or paste an iCloud shared album link.
- Start the frame: a full-screen slideshow with a clock overlay, shuffle, and per-device slide timing, built to run unattended for weeks.
Common questions
Is there really no subscription?
There is no subscription. MyFrames never stores your photo files on its servers, so it doesn't carry the storage and traffic costs that subscriptions usually pay for.
Do I have to buy a frame?
No. MyFrames runs in the browser of a screen you already own: a smart display, an old tablet, a TV with a browser, or a spare monitor attached to any computer.
How does it show photos without storing them?
Photos are relayed from Google Photos or iCloud to your display while the slideshow plays, and cached only on that device. The MyFrames database holds photo IDs and frame settings, not photos.
What happens to my photos if I stop using MyFrames?
Nothing - they were never moved. Your photos stay in Google Photos or iCloud the whole time, and you can revoke MyFrames's access from your Google Account permissions in one click.
No new hardware to buy. Works with Google Photos and iCloud shared albums.