Your friends' photos, on your home screen.
Frame is a private photo-sharing app for close friends. Snap a photo or a short video and it lands on your friends' home-screen widget. Your group's photos live on a server you or a friend run, not on ours.
Frame for iPhone is waiting for App Store approval. Once it's approved, you'll find it as Frame – Photos with Friends at apps.apple.com/app/id6832514449. Until then that link may not open. Frame for Android is coming to Google Play soon.
- Price
- Free · no ads
- Requires
- iOS 17 or later
- Server
- Open source (AGPL-3.0)
- Tracking
- None
How it works
One server for your group. Photos straight to the home screen.
- 1
Pick a server
Join the server a friend runs with their invite, or host your own in a few minutes.
- 2
Invite your friends
Share your invite link or code. When they join, you're friends straight away.
- 3
Send a moment
Take a photo or a short video. It lands on your friends' home-screen widget.
Everyone in a group uses the same server. Friends on different servers can't see each other's photos, so pick one server per group of friends.
Features
Made for the few friends you'd want on your home screen.
Camera first
Frame opens on the camera. Tap for a photo, hold for a short video, flip, zoom, use the flash, or pick from your library.
Home-screen widgets
Small, medium and large widgets, plus Lock Screen ones. Show everyone's latest, or pick one friend.
React and reply
Swipe through your friends' moments, react with an emoji, or reply. Replies open a private chat.
Just your people
Send to all your friends, to a few, or keep a moment just for you. No built-in friend limit.
Notifications you control
Turn new moments, messages, reactions and friend requests on or off one by one.
Captions and history
Add a caption in one of five styles. Look back through everything you and your friends shared.
Private by design
Your server, your photos
The app talks to the server you choose, run by you or a friend. Crow Tech doesn't run a hosted Frame service, so your photos and messages aren't sent to us.
Encrypted notifications
Notification content is end-to-end encrypted between your server and your phone. Our push relay only passes on sealed messages it can't read, and keeps no logs of them.
No ads, no tracking
No ads, no analytics, no tracking and no AI scanning of your photos. Whoever runs a server can see what's stored on it, so join servers run by people you trust.
Run your own server
The server is open source.
The Frame server is open source under AGPL-3.0. It's one small program with one data folder. A cheap virtual server or a Raspberry Pi is plenty for a group of friends.
Pick a recipe: Docker with automatic HTTPS, a Cloudflare Tunnel with no open ports, or a one-line installer with systemd.
curl -fsSLO https://github.com/Crow-Tech-Pte-Ltd/frame/releases/latest/download/install.shless install.sh # read it firstsudo sh install.shFrame
Free · no ads · iOS 17 or later
The Frame server is open source under AGPL-3.0. The app has no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no AI scanning. Crow Tech runs only the push relay and invite page at frame.crow.sg.
