Lifeprint Printers vs SI Smartphone Printer
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.
SI Smartphone Printer
Print photos directly from your smartphone or tablet. Capture, edit, and instantly print your cherished memories with this portable photo printer.
- Print photos from smartphones
- Edit pictures on smartphones
- Instant photo printing
- Portable design
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Sharper Image Smartphone Printer Easily print amazing photos with Sharper Image Smartphone Printer Instant Printer. The Sharper Image Smartphone Printer photo printer can be used to print images from smartphones . You can take and edit pictures on smartphones or tablets. This Sharper Image Smartphone Printer Instant Printer will instantly print your precious moments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SI Smartphone Printer at 2.8 against Lifeprint Printers's 1.9. SI Smartphone Printer also leads on review sentiment (26% vs 12%) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 15.6). Lifeprint Printers's advantage is ratings volume (606 vs 116). 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.
SI Smartphone Printer holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lifeprint Printers has 606 ratings behind it against 116, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of Lifeprint Printers's written reviews are positive against 26% of SI Smartphone Printer's.
Lifeprint Printers ships an update every 3 months, SI Smartphone Printer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lifeprint Printers | SI Smartphone Printer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (606 ratings) | 2.8 (116 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.4% of reviews | 25.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 606 — better | 116 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 728 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C&A Marketing, Inc. | Prinics Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Lifeprint Printers
SI Smartphone Printer
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
SI Smartphone Printer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lifeprint Printers
No in-app purchases
SI Smartphone Printer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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