The Free Prints App Seems Too Good to Be True (But It Isn’t, from What I Can Tell)

I have a bad habit of taking tons and tons of photos and then never doing anything with them. I upload them to my computer on occasion or share them on Facebook or Instagram, but I’m terrible about actually printing out hard copies.

The Free Prints app for iPhone makes the prospect of doing that a little more appealing. The app itself is free, and you can print up to 85 4×6 pictures per month or 1000 per year for free (you pay for shipping). If you want copies of one photo or a different size, you have to pay a little extra, but free 4×6 photos? Yes, please!

I was given a coupon code that covered 20 photos and shipping. The photos I sent from my photo roll came out as clear as expected, on par with other photo printing stores and services I’ve used before. The shipping was very fast. I think they said it could take up to 13 days, but mine shipped within a day or so, and I had them within a week.

If you send more than 20 photos at a time to be printed, you may face a little bit more of a wait time. I wasn’t charged for shipping, but it’s $1.99 to $9.99.

Is it worth it? Well, it depends on what the shipping costs are for you when you use this app, as well as your proximity to say, a Walgreens, where you can send your pictures from your photo roll to the store, have them printed, and then save on shipping costs by going to pick them up yourself.

As far as I know, you can’t send Instagram, Facebook, Dropbox, or Picasa photos anywhere the same way you can send them from your photo roll, but Free Prints allows you to send those, too.

You’ll need iOS 6.0 or higher and live in the United States to use the app. It’s optimized for iPhone 5 and will work on iPhones, iPads, or iPod Touch.

I highly recommend giving this a try.

Photo credit: iTunes