Pexar by Lexar WiFi Digital Picture Frame 11″ | Yahoo Tech Best Tested Frame 2026 | 2K Resolution Ultimate Clarity, Anti-Glare Touch Stunning Screen for Gifting, Share Photos/Videos via APP, Sand

This review is for the Pexar Starlight 15.5” digital frame. Shipping was fast and the product packaging is excellent. It came with two different types of plugs so those who are not in the USA can still use it. A stand is provided if needed and holes to hang in landscape or portrait mode. The matting is textured and is a mat finish. The frame is faux wood grain in a pretty goldish tan (see pic). The frame is clear and bright with vivid colors. You can have the backlight on or off and adjust the brightness. The size is perfect for me. Large enough to be able to tell what the picture is from across the room, yet small enough you don’t feel silly having a goofy picture of your husband up on the wall that is life size! Lol. I LOVE that you can adjust the photo as it is being displayed if needed. My old frame I would have to go the the library and search thousands of photos for it then delete it and correct the issue on my phone and then resend it (such as how it fills the screen up). I have had no issue with the app and am just using the free level. The photos send quickly and the app is easy to use. I have had this frame since November 3 2025 with no issues and I would definitely buy again.

I really enjoy this digital picture frame. Every time someone visits, they comment on how nice it looks and how the pictures almost seem like real printed photos. The screen is sharp, the colors are vibrant, and the anti-glare finish makes it look premium in any lighting. It feels like a high-end piece of decor, not just another tech gadget. One thing I recommend is taking a little extra time to prepare your photos before adding them. Use software to crop them to the right aspect ratio and get them as high resolution as possible. With AI photo editing tools available now, it is easy to upscale and adjust your pictures so they look perfect on the frame. Doing that really makes a huge difference in making the digital pictures look like "real" photos. It was simple to set up, sharing photos through the app is seamless, and the build quality is excellent. It looks and feels premium, and I would buy another one without hesitation. If you are thinking about getting a digital picture frame, this one is a fantastic choice.

So far so good, very happy that I finally found a picture frame that doesn't force the use of cloud storage. Easy to set up, good picture quality, and allows local storage. I just wish that the frame has motion detection so it's not on all the time, conserve energy and display life. I may just purchase another Pexar frame as back up just in case this one dies. My previous digital frame had motion detection which was nice but unfortunately I had to get rid of it due to Nixplays greed with the subscription business model.

Update: Customer support did get back to me. The trick is to disable notifications, and the nagging message goes away. I have raised the review to 4 stars. Original review: I purchased this to display photos of my recently deceased cat. The product itself is quite nice. The screen is a good resolution, the anti-glare finish is very nice, and photos look fantastic on it. One of the reasons I purchased this frame is that Lexar was very clear in their FAQ and marketing literature on Amazon and the Lexar site say that it will work just fine without WiFi. I don't want to have yet another security risk on my network, nor do I want yet another device which demands an ongoing subscription fee to use it. Unfortunately, every morning I am greeted with an annoying error message that "Your frame is currently offline." I don't want it online, ever, and I am disappointed that I have to dismiss this message regularly in order to just appreciate photos of my deceased cat. There is no way that I have found to turn this message off in the product, and Lexar customer support has not yet responded to my inquiry about this.

Excellent product overall! Great picture quality, and the Frameo app is super easy to use and customize your frame(s) settings. We got a couple of these as gifts for grandparents and they're LOVING it! The onboard storage is plenty for hundreds (maybe even a couple thousand) of photos, and you can expand it even more with a Micro SD card, as needed. The anti-glare screen is great. Can't recommend this enough. Wish we had gotten these sooner. We'll probably get a couple more for our home and offices too.

THIS is the answer to "What am I going to do with all those photos and movies?" "Is my photo collection just a hoarding vanity project never to be seen?" THIS IS YOUR SOLUTION! PROs: Top quality 1080p (really "2K" or 1200p vertical pixel density - which is even better! IPS type display panel) TOUCHscreen (you can finger swipe back and forth at any time). Good color depth, color and grayscale fidelity Good viewing angles, anti-glare coating. Plays back still photos and/or MPEG (.MP4) movies (with audio on or muted if you want). No hiccups or flakiness. Shuffle or timeline play. Shows tile title date - IF you want it. Shows current time of day in upper right corner (12 or 24 hr) IF you want it. Shows current temperature and sunny/cloudy/rain symbols - IF you want that. You don't have to buy the upgraded Frameo app if you don't want to. It works just fine (and I'm pretty happy) with the standard app. It's not too big and not too small. Two or three people could stand next to each other and enjoy the picture from a few feet away, yet the frame doesn't "take over". You can find a spot for it. The frame "matte" built into the black frame outline does a decent job of mimicking a real photo frame matte. You can use BOTH the internal storage and any docked external storage (USB or SD card) at the same time. Picture quality is GREAT out of the box. No need to fuss but you can control cropping and brightness if you want to. CONS: Must be powered by AC wall adapter. The darn thing works so well, I want to use it like a tablet, makes me wish it had an internal battery that would function for an hour or two when frame unplugged. Oh well, it's still a heck of a unit. I loaded my files with a tiny Samsung USB drive. You have to use either FAT32 or XFAT file system (NTFS file system pen drives will not be recognized). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BOTTOM LINE: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! We are very pleased. UPDATE 10/05/2024 IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING YOUR MOVIES TRANSFERRED and "RECOGNIZED" by the PEXAR. Technical tip to owners of Sony and Panasonic digital cameras as far as movies are concerned, something that might help your movie files get "recognized" by this Pexar device: If you have any 1080p (i.e. High Definition pixel density) MOVIE files created by your camera that have an .MTS file format (file extension), YOU'LL WANT TO RENAME THAT FILE EXTENSION TO BE: .MP4 (stands for Motion Picture Expert Group 4) file extension. You'll want to do this before transfering the files if you are using external storage (like USB-pen flash drive, SD ("Secure Digtal") card, etc. Once you do what is mentioned above, the PEXAR can then recognize these renamed movie files and play them just fine For the geeks or curious, MTS (aka MPEG Transport Stream) is a container wrapper of sorts for an MP4 file. Internet search will tell you how / why these variances of video formats came about. It doesn't matter, once you rename the file extension to .MP4, the movie will play just fine in the PEXAR frame. You want to "swim with the biggest school of fish" in the technical world of video (if you want the least hassle) and the .MP4 format is exactly that in the world of High Definition (HD) video. P.P.S. I also owned some ANCIENT home movies from a 12 year old Fuji digital camera taken in .AVI format (Audio Video Interleave). I had to do a file conversion of them to .MP4 format so the PEXAR could successfully play them. . I used a simple movie editing software (Windows Movie Maker - no longer made, but there are other conversion software utilities running around that can do the job). Once I did that, the movies shot in this old format play just fine in the Pexar frame. ABOUT VIDEO LENGTH: Some users have stated a 15 second video length limit. That has not been my personal experience. I successfully have this frame playing videos of 2 minutes long of my kitty cat wallering in the driveway. This is 24 fps (frames per second) .MP4 files. HOWEVER, you ** will ** get a warning that importing that large video will eat into your 32GB of internal memory. Such is life. NOTE: I am ** not ** relying on the paid subscription Frameo app. I just use a USB pen drive. Even with importing probably quantity: 6 X 2 or 3 minute length HD .MP4 videos, I still have somewhere around 8 or 10 GB of internal memory left at this point. P.P.S. WHAT FOLLOWS IS BORING, IT MAY HELP A FEW OF YOU WHO ARE NEW: Those of you with mega fancy cameras (full frame or APS-C Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc cams) that produce 20MB+ files: There is no need to fill up the internal memory in this frame with 20MB per photo file sizes, that is overkill and ridiculous. (My opinion). JPEG (or .JPG) is what you want as a file format type/medium for still photos with this frame. An 850KB to 1MB per picture JPEG file at 200 Pixels per inch ("pixel density") will do fine for 1080p viewing resolution and, if you want it a bit nicer (i.e. 1200dpi vertical , roughly "2K" viewing resolution) then bump up your saved file size to say 1.2MB per photo size. There are a lot of photo editing programs out there that will do "interpolation" to reduce / downsize your monster sized pure-overkill source file size to work with this 11" frame size display. (i.e. Photo software that will keep aspect ratio/proportion while reducing pixel density). You will gain some file "compression" when you downsize the file. So what? Few people can tell a difference on a frame of this size. Your goal should be to get things done while delivering a decent quality experience...right? You could, in a pinch, use one of those screen snipping software tools that comes native with your operating system and just select, snip, and capture a full screen display of the original photo/file AND THEN save that screen capture output (which will likely be 72 dots per inch (dpi) from the "clipboard" into a paint program as a JPEG. Very crude but it would get you by till you purchase a true photo editing program. Most beginners will be fine (or probably better served maybe) by a "lite" version photo editor. Again it's just my opinion. YMMV.

I absolutely love this digital picture frame. I've had some from other manufacturers and I realize the technology is evolving, but this Pexar frame has so many bells and whistles. I'm a proponent of being able to utilize a SD card as well as a USB and this frame has both. This frame will work if your internet goes down and it will not use for bandwith if you live somewhere where internet isn't that great. It also has an app that lets you download directly to the internal memory on the frame. I do not like putting everything in the cloud and then being charged a monthly fee down the road as your cloud account gets full; hence, a SD or usb is a great way to reduce subscriptions as well as a way to have photos backed up in your home. Again, I absolutely love it for its size and image quality.... I could go on and on, but this is a busy time of the year. I've given two as wedding gifts already! This is by far the best digital frame out there now!

NOT as advertised!!!!! Bought this for about $139, at 20% off...when I opened it, and turned it on, it said "Frameo" and had the same menu structure and screen size as a Frameo I bought for about $60 and returned because it locked up on first use. The device frame is cosmetically different than the Frameo but it appears to be not just the splash screen that says it is Frameo, the menu structure is the same also. See photos. I bought the Pexar - Lexar based on brand name recognition, apparently this no longer makes sense when it comes to Lexar. (This will be remembered.) This seems to be a Frameo sold by "Pexar - Lexar". The Frameo I bought at around $60 died immediately and was returned, so this Frameo in Pexar-Lexar wrapping its being returned also. I will not buy another Lexar product, not will I buy another Frameo product.

Great picture quality, like that the viewer has the ability to “like” photos and I can see that remotely through the app.

Infelizmente el software Frameo no es confiable, pues incluso con fotografías de formatos compatibles JPG, PNG, etc. El marco no reconoce y no baja las fotografías. Se hace mucho esfuerzo para seleccionar las imágenes y el software no las reconoce. Las soluciones ofrecidas en la página de soporte, no resuelven el problema

Great photo frame. Good resolution. Easy to use. App is not the most friendly to use but we upload by connecting it to our computer. Looks beautiful on our room and everyone stops to look at our photos

The best by far! Glare free, easy to use, great results. Clear images, touch screen means less fussing. Please note: buy the memory stick suggested as it fits properly into frame at rear. This company thinks of literally everything. Eco packaging, to multi plugs for power!

Really great frame. It's Matt so it looks like real photos and the viewing angles are great! I transferred thousands of photos via usb and I can send ten photos at a time with the app, otherwise you have to pay ! I think that's fair. It's like a an iPad that's specialized in photo displaying