Which is better Nixplay or Aura? Aura does not offer any physical storage but it offers unlimited cloud storage. Nixplay comes with 8GB of built-in storage. Nixplay has motion sensor which is very useful to save power consumption costs. Aura’s ambient light sensor automatically adjusts display brightness, and will automatically turn off the display when the room goes completely dark. Which is cheaper – Nixplay vs Aura frame?
Pros & Cons – Nixplay vs Aura frame
Nixplay 10.1 inch smart digital photo frame
Pros
- High-quality, vibrant display
- Can be wall-mounted or sit on a tabletop
- Good online/social media image access via apps
- Alexa integration
- Magnetic remote attachment
- Full suite of cloud features.
- Nice HD touchscreen
- Easy-to-use app
- Portrait/Landscape compatibility
Cons
- Requires subscription for all features
Aura Mason
Pros
- Distinctive minimalist design
- Landscape or portrait orientation
- Gorgeous high-resolution screen
- App controls image posting and other features
- Compatible with Apple’s Live Photos
- Integrates with Google Photos and iCloud
- Streamlined and seamless interface
Cons
- WiFi network required
- Small touch bar
- No ports or internal storage
- Ambient light sensor can be finicky
- Does not play videos
- Limited settings to adjust
Aura Carver Luxe
Pros
- Great size, and resolution (crystal clear images)
- Ease of use/simplicity
- You can give this to family and then add pictures to it.
- You can adjust the speed that it changes the images.
- The app!
Cons
- Adding photos take time
Aura Carver Smart frame
Pros
- Bright, vivid display with very good off-axis viewing
- Free and unlimited cloud storage
- Excellent app, software and user interface
- Can be set-up for gifting
- Solid, sturdy design
- Very detailed screen
- Simple streamlined set-up
- Intelligently pairs portrait photos
Cons
- Brightness can’t be manually adjusted
- Landscape orientation only
- No user-accessible local storage
- Touch strip interface can be finicky
- WiFi network required
Nixplay vs Aura frame Specs comparison
Nixplay 10.1 inch smart digital photo frame with WiFi (W10f)
- Screen Resolution: 1280X800 HD
- Aspect Ratio: 16:10
- Brightness: 400 cd/m2
- Width: 7.36 inch (187mm)
- Height: 10.55 inch (267.97mm)
- Depth: 1.22 inch (31mm)
- Weight: 20.8oz (590g)
- Supported Photo Format: JPEG / JPG
- 8GB memory
- 512MB RAM
- Sensors: Infrared, Hu-Motion Sensor with 98-inch 2.5m range, G-Sensor for orientation.
- 2 x (2 W) Mono Speakers
- Operating system: NixplayOS 7
- 11 b/g/n
- CE, ROHS, and UL certified
Aura Mason smart digital picture frame 9 inch
- Large 9″ screen
- Overall size 9.7″ x 7.6″ x 2″
- Plastic, metal and glass
- Interactive touch bars
- Weight: 1kg
- Resolution: 1600×800 pixels (1.2-megapixels)
- Screen size: 8.75-inch touchscreen
- Dot pitch: 224 pixels-per-inch (PPI)
- Unlimited free photo storage
- Rotates 90° for landscape or portrait display
- 5′ custom braided fabric power cord
- Wi-Fi: Yes
- Touch screen: No
- Remote: No
- Built-in storage: No
- Motion sensor: No
- Music player: No
- Video: No
- USB/SD slots: No/No
- Cloud Services: iCloud, Google Photos
- Invite unlimited people to contribute photos to frame using Aura Frames app
- Vertical or horizontal tabletop display
Aura Carver Luxe digital picture frame
- SeaSalt White Finish
- Large 10.1″ screen
- Overall size 10.52″ x 7.33″ x 2.13″
- Crystal-clear 1920×1200 224 PPI pixel resolution
- Unlimited free photo storage
- Instant photo and short video sharing
- Landscape only
- 6.5′ custom braided fabric power cord
- Gravel
- Integrated speaker
- Compatible With Apple & Android Devices
- Works With Google Assistant & Alexa
Aura Carver smart digital picture frame 10.1 inch HD WiFi cloud digital frame
- Large 10.1″ landscape orientation screen with 1920×1200, 224 PPI pixel resolution
- Dimensions: 10.63 x 2.6 x 7.45 inches / 270 x 66 x 188 mm
- Touch screen: No
- Wi-Fi: Yes
- 5′ custom braided fabric power cord
- Select the favorite photos with a double tap on the touch bar
- Presence sensor helps pick the right photo at the right time
- Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch running iOS 11 or later or Android 5.0 or later.
- Remote: No
- Built-in storage: No
- Ambient light sensor automatically adjusts display brightness
- Change photos with the touch-sensitive bar on the top of the frame
- Motion sensor: Yes
- Video: No
- USB/SD slots: No/No
- Cloud services: Google Photos
Price – Nixplay vs Aura frame
The Nixplay Smart Photo Frame costs £269.99/$279.99 for the 9.7in model in black and £319.99/$329.99 in metal, £169.99/$179.99 for the 10.1in variant, £219.99/$229.99 for the 13.3in, and £269.99/$279.99 for the largest 15.6in model.
The Aura Mason Frame, at $199, comes in two neutral colors on a free-standing base design – Graphite or White Quartz, paired with a high quality braided cord, which together form a beautiful and artistic addition to any room. The $199 Aura Carver is an attractive digital frame with unlimited cloud storage.
Top 5 Reasons To Choose NixPlay Over Aura
NixPlay is a fun and creative way to hang pictures on your walls. The company has created a unique way to display photos that will look good for years to come.
You Can Easily Add Photos From Anywhere.
With NixPlay, you can easily add photos from anywhere. Just upload them to your account, choose where you want them displayed, and then start hanging them on your wall.
The Wall Is Easy To Clean And Maintain
You can even remove individual photos with ease. Simply click on the photo you want to remove, and it will disappear from the wall.
There Are No Bulky Frames Or Hinges.
With Aura, you need to buy bulky frames and hinges to hang your pictures. With NixPlay, there are no bulky frames or hinges. Just place your picture where you want it, and it will stay put.
The Wall Looks Great In Any Room Of Your Home.
You can use NixPlay anywhere in your home. It’s not just limited to walls. You can also use it as a photo frame, shelf, or even a table top.
The Wall Is Lightweight So It’s Easy To Move Around.
With NixPlay, you can easily move your photos around. This means you can place them where you want them without having to worry about damaging your walls. Plus, you can take them with you when you move.
What is the difference between Nixplay vs Aura frame?
Build
The Nixplay frame is black ABS plastic, with a matte finish that won’t collect fingerprints and is easy to keep clean. There’s no border or fake matting around the screen. It runs right up to the edge of the frame, without any extra decorations.
The Aura Mason’s sculpted back and wide edge give it a solid footing on a table or shelf in either portrait or landscape orientation.
The Aur Carver Luxe frame is modern looking, high quality, sturdy and well made,. It looks like a nicely crafted regular frame. It has an understated elegance, as it is more a matte dark graphite, rather than a flat or glossy black. Overall, solid construction.
The Carver Smart digital frame has a minimalist design, available in black or white, with flat, angular bezels that match a near-pyramid extension on the back that serves as a stand. An antidote to displaying single portrait photos with big black borders in a landscape-oriented frame
Design
The Nixplay 10.1” Smart Photo Frame has a slick, modern design. From the front, it’s relatively spartan, with a flat, angular frame. the frame measures 10.55 inches tall, 7.36 inches wide, and 1.22 inches thick in portrait orientation. And at only 1.3 pounds, it’s easy to hang without the need for special hardware.
Aura Mason smart digital picture frame measures at 9.7 x 2 x 7.6 inches, and weighs around 3.5 pounds. It’s small enough to be subtle yet still offers plenty of space for photos to really shine. Aura frame, which is 9 inches with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Colors are vivid but realistic.
Aura Carver Luxe digital picture frame measures at 12.4 x 9.25 x 3.5 inches and weighs only 3.67 pounds. The cord is wrapped in a nice and tight fabric which makes it very pretty. The stand is built in, too.
It measures 7.5 by 10.6 by 2.6 inches (HWD), with a 10.1-inch, 1,920-by-1,200 LCD. A small, touch-sensitive control strip sits on the top edge, marking the only physical controls.
Display
The Nixplay 10.1” Smart Photo Frame sports an IPS display, which is better than older LCD technology. This type of display allows for a 178-degree viewing angle. In other words, your picture will look right from just about any angle. It’s almost like you’re looking at a physical print instead of a digital display. The resolution is 1,280 x 800 pixels, or between 720p and 1080p.
The Aura Mason’s 1600×1200–resolution, 8.57-inch screen (which Aura sometimes rounds up to 9 inches in spec sheets) looks sharp, has excellent contrast, and displays colors well. Its automatic light sensor worked surprisingly well in our trial runs, cranking up the screen’s brightness to combat sunlight.
The frame’s ambient light sensor automatically adjusts display brightness, and will automatically turn off the display when the room goes completely dark.
The Carver’s 10.1-inch IPS display has a 1920 x 1200 resolution, which comes out to 224 pixels per inch. The frame’s picture quality is excellent and bright.
Sensor
Nixplay
By default, the built-in motion sensor will turn your frame on or off automatically. When you enter the room, it will turn on, and it will stay on until there’s no motion for 30 minutes. You can control your Nixplay Smart Photo Frame with a voice assistant such as Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. The voice control allows you the same options as the controller.
Aura
At any time a left or right swipe of the Mason’s Touch Bar calls up the previous or next photo. They then stay on screen for the default time you’ve selected. That Touch Bar also switches Mason on and off, which thanks to an ambient light sensor it also does automatically when you switch off the lights in the room it’s positioned it. That ambient light sensor also adjusts the image’s brightness to suit the room. With the touch bar, you can move on to the next image, move back, display available information about an image like the location and the date, and by whom it was added.
Storage – Nixplay vs Aura frame
The Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch features built-in storage at 8GB and has two sensors to allow it to adjust to its surroundings.
This optional subscription plan gives you expands the storage capacity from 10GB to 50GB and allows you to play 60-second video uploads instead of 15-seconds.
In Aura frames, you can manually add photos from your camera roll, picking out the highlights for the Mason to gradually scroll through, or set it to random. You can then use it either in landscape or portrait orientation; the photo changes as you physically rotate the Mason. You can also set slideshow timing and sleep schedules.
What are the similarities – Nixplay vs Aura frame
Privacy
All your images are stored on Aura’s cloud server, which is powered by Amazon Web Services and protected by AES-256 encryption. In its privacy policy, Aura promises that only you and those you choose to share the frame with will have access to your photos, although Aura says it will analyze your snapshots in order to do a better job of grouping them together (more about that in a moment) while skipping duplicates and fuzzy images.
Setup
The Mason is all about simplicity, and never more so in its set-up. Plug it in and within a few seconds, the Mason generates a four-digit code. Then you need to download the app, create an account, associate it with the Mason via Bluetooth, then attach it to a WiFi home network.
App
Aura frames app
Download the Aura Frames app on a compatible smart device, connect the frame to your Wi-Fi network and you’ll be ready to add your photos. Select images from your device’s camera roll, iCloud or Google Photos library and, within a few seconds, they’ll appear as part of the Mason’s slideshow.
Nixplay app
The next step is to install the Nixplay app on your smartphone. It’s available for free on iOS and Android, and takes only minutes to install. With the app installed, you’ll be able to pair your phone with the frame. Once that’s done, you can start using the app to “text” your photos to the Nixplay frame. Of course, you might want to connect multiple users to the same frame.
