QuickPic vs. Dayframe

I've always used QuickPic as my default photo gallery. It's small, fast, free, and doesn't come with ads. With a recent update, it now supports online albums from Picasa, Google Drive, Dropbox, Flickr, OneDrive, etc. And its slideshow feature works pretty well, too.

However, if you're trying to repurpose an old Android tablet (or a Kobo) as a digital photo frame, then QuickPic is not what you want to use. For one, QuickPic pans and zooms into a small part of the picture, so you don't see the whole picture. It also uses transitions between photos. Not good if you're using an E-Ink screen, as the final picture ends up blurry.

This is where Dayframe comes in. Like QuickPic, it can pull photos from the cloud, but it can handle more online sources, like Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, etc. You can group different photostreams into playlists. It supports Chromecast photos and slideshows. The slideshow can even display current weather and photo details. You can set up Dayframe to run as a screensaver to run at specific times of the day. Unlike QuickPic, you can disable the zoom feature and slideshow transition.

The only downside I can see compared to QuickPic is the app size. Dayframe is around 20MB, while QuickPic weighs in at less than 500kB.