E InkPhoto Frames

Every color e-ink photo frame, side by side

We cover 8 frames and 16 models, from $149.99 for the SwitchBot AI Art Frame 7.3" to $4,200 for the InkPoster Tela 40.5". Nearly all of them use the same six-ink E Ink Spectra 6 screen, and 8 of the 16 models are 13.3 inches, so the real differences are sharpness, battery, software and price. Some makers, Bloomin8 among them, spell it eink; we write e-ink, and it is the same screen.

Updated October 10, 2026. We compare frames from the makers’ specs and published reviews. We haven’t tested them, and no maker pays to be listed. How we work

  1. Red, blue, yellow and green blocks in hard sunlight, a scene we rendered, dithered to six inks

    1 SwitchBot AI Art Frame

    7.3 in, 800 × 480

    Battery up to 2 years

    $149.99

    Also 13.3 and 31.5 in

  2. Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypresses, dithered to six inks

    2 Reflection Frame

    10 in, 1600 × 1200

    Battery 2 years

    $199, list $249.99

    Also 13.3 in

  3. Our rendered still life of lemons, a blue jug, an apple and a pear, dithered to six inks

    3 Ugreen Gallery

    13.3 in, 1600 × 1200

    Battery up to 6 months

    $299, list $439

    Pre-order, sold out

  4. A detail of Wheat Field with Cypresses, the dark cypress against blue hills, dithered to six inks

    4 Aluratek ePaper Wi-Fi Frame

    13.3 in, 1600 × 1200

    Battery up to 2 years

    $349.99

  5. Your photo

    13.3 in, 1600 × 1200

    JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF, or drop it on the frame

    Choose a photo to start.

    Your photo never leaves your device. It is read, resized and dithered in this browser tab; nothing is uploaded or stored.

  6. A detail of our rendered blocks, the yellow ball and the green pyramid, dithered to six inks

    5 Fraimic Smart Canvas

    13.3 in, 1600 × 1200

    Battery multi-year

    $399, list $499

    Also 31.5 in

  7. A sunset over a calm sea with dark rocks, a scene we rendered, dithered to six inks

    6 Aura Ink

    13.3 in, 1200 × 1600, hung portrait

    Battery up to 3 months

    $499

  8. A detail of our still life, lemons in a white bowl, dithered to six inks

    7 Bloomin8 E-Ink Canvas

    13.3 in, 1600 × 1200

    Battery 1-3 years

    $499

    Also 28.5 in

  9. A detail of Wheat Field with Cypresses, the swirling clouds, dithered to six inks

    8 InkPoster Affresco and Tela

    13.3 in, 1600 × 1200

    Battery up to 12 months

    $499

    Also 28.5, 31.5 and 40.5 in

One foot. The screens are drawn to scale with each other; the frames and mats around them are ours.

A red dot, as in a gallery, means the maker’s store showed it sold out (October 10, 2026).

On the screens, Wheat Field with Cypresses (Vincent van Gogh, 1889, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain) and scenes we rendered, each dithered to the six inks by our converter and shown in its pure colors. A real screen looks softer.

What a 13.3-inch frame costs

8 frames share the 13.3-inch, 1600 × 1200 screen, so the price gap is about software, build and extras. Today they run from $299 to $499. The cheapest, the Ugreen Gallery, is a pre-order, sold out on October 10, 2026 (ships from January 2027). Of the ones you can buy now, Reflection Frame cost least, at $299.99.

The longest battery claim with a schedule behind it is 3 years, for the Bloomin8 E-Ink Canvas at one refresh a day. Every claim as photo changes per charge

Prices are the makers’ own, in US dollars (and pounds where a UK store sells the frame), as listed on October 10, 2026. They move often, most of all around Black Friday, so check the shop before you buy.

The full comparison table, every model

Price list13.3-inch screens, cheapest first, as listed on October 10, 2026

  1. 3Ugreen Gallery$299

    list $439, pre-order, sold out

    People who already keep their photos on a Ugreen NAS and don’t mind waiting until 2027.

  2. 2Reflection Frame$299.99

    list $349.99

    The sharpest picture for the money, and anyone who wants no cloud or subscription at all.

  3. 4Aluratek ePaper Wi-Fi Frame$349.99

    A simple US-market frame that’s often discounted at big retailers.

  4. 1SwitchBot AI Art Frame$349.99

    Best value 13.3-inch frame, and the only small (7.3-inch) option under $150.

  5. 5Fraimic Smart Canvas$399

    list $499

    Art lovers who want new, generated art on the wall without paying monthly.

  6. 6Aura Ink$499

    Families who want the simplest way for everyone to send photos to one frame.

  7. 7Bloomin8 E-Ink Canvas$499

    Tinkerers and privacy-minded buyers who want local control and their own framing.

  8. 8InkPoster Affresco and Tela$499

    Art on the wall rather than family photos, and anyone who wants a very large canvas.

Numbers as on the wall above.

A slim black frame with a white mat on a pale wall in window light, showing a wheat field under a swirling sky with a tall cypress, in the soft grain of six-color e-paper

From across a room. Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889. Vincent van Gogh, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (public domain). Dithered to the six inks by our converter at 1600 × 1200, the pixels of a 13.3-inch frame, and shown on an unbranded frame we rendered.

Six inks make every picture

A Spectra 6 screen has black, white, yellow, red, blue and green, and nothing else. Every other color is made by dithering, scattering dots of those six the way a newspaper prints a photo. From across a room the dots blend; up close they look like film grain.

The painting uses all six. 23% white, 21% black and 18% blue are the biggest shares, and even red, the rarest, makes up 10% of the dots.

  • Black21%
  • White23%
  • Yellow13%
  • Red10%
  • Blue18%
  • Green15%

How color e-ink works

Wheat Field with Cypresses dithered to six inks, with a magnifier over the spot where the blue hills meet the cypress The patch enlarged: separate dots of navy, gray, black, green and ochre
Up close. The small square is a 120 × 90 pixel patch where the blue hills meet the dark cypress; the lens shows it enlarged, in the inks’ real colors, mostly black, blue and white. On a 13.3-inch frame the patch is about 0.8 × 0.6 inches.

Four of them come much bigger

Bloomin8, Fraimic, InkPoster and SwitchBot make canvases from 28.5 to 40.5 inches, at $1,299 to $4,200. Cut out as paper templates, the way a picture hanger plans a wall, and drawn to one scale with the usual 13.3-inch screen and a sheet of Letter paper.

Giving one as a present

An e-ink frame suits a grandparent well: no cord to trip over, months between charges, and with some models the family can send new photos from their phones. The Ugreen Gallery is a pre-order and won’t arrive in time (it sold out on October 10, 2026). Our gift guide sorts the rest by budget and says which you can buy in the UK.

Further reading

  1. Color e-ink photo frames

    What the screen is, how it differs from LCD and black and white, and which frames have it.

  2. How color e-ink works

    Microcups, four pigments, six colors and why a refresh takes seconds.

  3. Photos that suit e-ink

    The same still life in daylight and at dusk, before and after.

  4. How long the battery lasts

    Each maker’s claim turned into photo changes per charge.

  5. E-ink or LCD

    Print-like and cordless, or bright and quick.

  6. Build your own

    The same Spectra 6 panels, sold to makers.

  7. Questions and answers

    Subscriptions, dark rooms, UK stores and more.

Every spec and price here links to the maker or a published review, such as Creative Bloq’s round-up of e-ink art frames (September 1, 2026). Each page shows when we last updated it.