Slide-In, Enclosure or Picture Frame: Which Mount Suits You?

Slide-in: for daily switching

With the slide-in mount, you slide your tablet into the mount from the side and take it out at any time within seconds, without tools. That suits places where the tablet regularly ends up in your hand:

• Kitchen: read a recipe on the wall, take the tablet along for shopping.
• Living room: on the couch in the evening, on the wall during the day.
• Home office: dashboard in the morning, video call at the desk in the afternoon.

Enclosure: for a fixed installation

With the enclosure mount, you insert your tablet and screw on the cover at the sides; it is opened with a screwdriver. In the frame, the side buttons and the top button are covered (on iPads with a Home button, the Home button remains uncovered), which can reduce accidental inputs. That suits places where the tablet stays on the wall permanently:

• Smart home: control panel for lights, heating and cameras, for example with Home Assistant or ioBroker.
• Practices and reception areas: check-in, appointment display or feedback terminal.
• Retail: product catalog or checkout display.

Picture frame: for living spaces

The third line is the mount in picture frame design: your tablet sits behind a passe-partout and frame and looks like a framed picture on the wall. Display and front camera remain uncovered and usable, the side buttons and the top button are covered (on iPads with a Home button, the Home button remains uncovered). That suits places where the tablet should be part of the interior:

• Gallery wall: photo slideshow or digital art between real picture frames.
• Living room and hallway: a smart home dashboard that does not look like technology.
• Reception: info display in a discreet frame look.

Decide in short

Do you take your tablet with you every day? Then slide-in. Does it stay on the wall? Then enclosure. Should it look like a framed picture there? Then picture frame. With all of them, the charging cable runs concealed inside, display and front camera remain uncovered and usable, and you can install in portrait or landscape orientation. All three lines are available, for example, as a slide-in mount for your iPad or as an enclosure mount for your iPad or as a picture frame design mount for your iPad. Slide-in and enclosure are likewise available for Samsung, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Fire and Honor; the picture frame design for selected series from Apple, Samsung, Lenovo, Xiaomi and Fire.

To the configurator: find the mount for your model →

You will find all models of all variants under tablet wall mounts, and the selection for Apple devices collected under wall mounts for iPad.

How to set up your tablet as a digital photo frame, from the photos and the slideshow to the mount, is shown in the guide Tablet as a digital photo frame on the wall.

Which design suits a family calendar in the hallway or kitchen is described in the guide Digital family calendar on the wall.

All brand and product names mentioned belong to their respective owners. They are used solely to describe which devices our mounts are intended for and with which software a tablet can be used on the wall. This guide was neither commissioned nor reviewed by the companies and projects mentioned.