Lifeprint Printers vs MiniPrint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lifeprint Printers
Print photos and videos from your phone, including animated GIFs and Live Photos. Embed secret videos within photos that come to life using augmented reality. Share prints directly to friends' printers worldwide.
- Augmented Reality Hyperphotos
- Print photos and videos from camera roll
- Print animated GIFs and Live Photos
- Direct social media integration (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter)
- Remote printing to friends' printers
- Embed secret videos in photos
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Lifeprint is an Augmented Reality photo & video printing and sharing platform with its own social network. Our unique sharing system allows you to print photos and videos, directly to your friend’s or family’s Lifeprint printer, anywhere in the world… You can literally send prints to other people’s printers! (with their permission of course). Lifeprint’s Augmented Reality “Hyperphotos” allows you to embed a secret video inside any photo and then watch it come to life like magic in your hands with the App. Lifeprint can print any photo or video from your camera roll, including Saved Snaps, animated GIFs, and Apple Live Photos. Moreover, Lifeprint directly integrates with Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so you can easily print your photos and videos directly from those platforms as well. Lifeprint printers are available in 4 models: Standard 2x3, Ultra Slim 2x3, WiFi 3x4.5, and (now!) Instant Print Camera 2x3.
MiniPrint
This application allows you to print photos wirelessly from your smartphone or tablet using a compatible portable photo printer. You can select images from your gallery or take new ones, edit them with personal preferences, and then print them instantly.
- Wireless photo printing
- Edit photos before printing
- Print from gallery or camera
- Wi-Fi Direct and Wi-Fi printing
- NFC tag scanning for printing (NFC devices only)
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Note: - A genuine XSories MiniPrint printer is required to print using this application. - Default Wi-Fi password is "12345678" Easily print amazing photos with the XSories MiniPrint printer via WiFi-Direct or WiFi using this application. The "XSories MiniPrint" photo printer can be used to print images from smartphones by NFC tag scanning (*NFC enabled device ONLY). For non-NFC featured smartphones, simply print via Wi-Fi. You can take and edit pictures on smartphones or tablets. This portable PICKIT printer will instantly print your precious moments. 1. Turn on the printer. 2. Find the WiFi (DIRECT-Cube-xxxx) from WiFi network list in Settings 3. Select an image from the Gallery or take a photo with your smartphone. 4. Once image has been selected, edit the image with your personal preference. 5. Now press print when editting is completed. 6. When you print for the first time, it may need to update the firmware. Please follow the instruction shown on the screen of your smartphone. 7. I will take about a minute to fully print. Please do not pull the photo until it is completely printed. Thank you for purchasing XSories MiniPrint photo printer
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lifeprint Printers at 2.0 against MiniPrint's 1.0. Lifeprint Printers also leads on ratings volume (611 vs 1). MiniPrint's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 13%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lifeprint Printers holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lifeprint Printers has 611 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 13% of Lifeprint Printers's written reviews are positive against 33% of MiniPrint's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lifeprint Printers ships an update every 3 months, MiniPrint every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lifeprint Printers | MiniPrint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (611 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.7% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 611 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 728 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C&A Marketing, Inc. | Prinics Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Lifeprint Printers
MiniPrint
Bugs and requests
Lifeprint Printers
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Printing queue issues
- Firmware update problems
- Connectivity issues
- Photos not printing properly
Requested features
5 requests- Allow collage printing
- Integrate with Google Photos
- Improve video playback
- Add more editing tools
- Provide better customer support
MiniPrint
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lifeprint Printers
No in-app purchases
MiniPrint
No in-app purchases
Questions
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